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Northrop Grumman Nabs $350 Million DHS Award, Unseats GD For US-CERT Support

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

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Northrop Grumman Nabs $350 Million DHS Award, Unseats GD For US-CERT Support

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Monday said it has won a potential $350 million contract to provide operational services to a unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that responds to, and shares information about, cyber threats affecting partners in the federal and private sectors. Northrop Grumman unseated incumbent General Dynamics [GD] for the contract to support the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The award is a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. “US-CERT is a franchise program…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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