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Northrop Grumman Wins DHS HART Contract

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last Friday selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] as the prime contractor to create a new multimodal biometric identity management system meant ultimately designed to provide the department’s components and other federal stakeholders with greater capabilities to ferret out terrorists and criminals.Northrop Grumman beat CSRA, Inc. [CSRA] and Leidos [LDOS] for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system, which will replace the current IDENT system that DHS has used for nearly two decades but is costly to maintain and is running out…

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