HERNDON, Va., July 21 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman of Herndon, Va., said Wednesday it has been awarded a contract valued at up to $498 million from the U.S. Air Force.
Northrop Grumman said the contract provides for technical services in support of the transformation of its logistics combat support systems.
The Air Force transformation goals are to improve the transmission of accurate, reliable and readily accessible logistics information to warfighters in support of combat initiatives.
The company said its information technology sector will share in task orders valued at up to $498 million over five years. The contract is administered by the Materiel Systems Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
The scope of the contract includes software development, implementation of commercial off-the-shelf products and enterprise-resource-planning tools to update the Air Force's combat support system.
