
After waiting out an unsuccessful protest, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has received a 42-month, $95 million contract to develop the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) next-generation biometric identification services system.Northrop Grumman will be the systems developer and integrator for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) program, which replaces the current IDENT biometric database and system managed by the DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM).OBIM originally selected Northrop Grumman for the HART award last September but…