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Homeland Security

Northrop Grumman Wins Army Contract for Biometric Intel Gathering

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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] has received a potential $39.6 million contract from the Army to redesign and enhance an intelligence gathering and distribution system that collects biometric and other contextual data to help U.S. military forces gain identity dominance on the battlefield. The upgraded Biometric Intelligence Resource (BIR) system will take in data from multiple biometric repositories and even handheld collection devices currently being used by military forces and eventually other information streams allowing military intelligence to more quickly and effectively…

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