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Northrop Grumman Puts Modular Approach Behind CANES Victory

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] cited its trademarked modular approach as the key reason for prevailing this week in the competition for the Navy’s next generation ship-based tactical network. Northrop Grumman beat out Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build initial Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) systems in an award announced recently by the Pentagon. CANES is designed to eliminate multiple legacy information technology (IT) systems and streamline their functions into a single platform. Northrop Grumman’s program director for CANES, Dave Wegmann,…

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