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Northrop Grumman Wins $13.6 Million Army Cyber Contract

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

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Northrop Grumman Wins $13.6 Million Army Cyber Contract

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The U.S. Army awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $13.6 million contract modification for non-personal information technology (IT) for the Army Regional Cyber Center-Europe (RCC-E), Fifth Signal Command Theater, the Pentagon said Monday.The modification is for contract W91RUS-14-D-0002, which originally was planned to provide IT support services for the RCC-E Fifth Signal Command Theater. This includes supporting the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and various enterprise services such as directory services, storage area networking, vulnerability scanning, boundary security services, disaster recovery and…

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