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Northrop Grumman Wins Army Contract For Biometric Intel Gathering

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday it 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 United States 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…

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