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Northrop Grumman Receives $24 Million To Build New Cyber Capabilities For Unified Platform

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, April 18th, 2019

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Northrop Grumman Receives $24 Million To Build New Cyber Capabilities For Unified Platform

Credit: Courtesy of Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has received a two-year, $24 million deal to deliver cyber enterprise capabilities for the new joint warfighting platform its currently building for U.S. Cyber Command, the company announced Thursday. The Air Force, working as the acquisition lead, selected Northrop Grumman and three other companies to develop cyber capabilities for Unified Platform, Cyber Command’s first integrated system to bring together offensive, defensive and command and control operations across its service components. “Northrop Grumman is proud to have been…

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