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Homeland Security

Northrop Moves On In Next-Gen BioWatch Effort While UTC Doesn’t

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a task order to advance to the field testing phase of a next-generation biological monitoring program while United Technologies Corp. [UTX], which was offering a competing solution, will not move on in the Gen-3 BioWatch effort, according to a department official. Northrop Grumman last month said it had received an $8.4 million task order to build and deliver 12 prototype units of its Next Gen Automated Detection…

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