Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Northrop Grumman selected for Army AIT-IV

|
|
 
  
Published: Aug. 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Advertisement

RESTON, Va., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted Northrop Grumman to support the Defense Department and federal agencies with computer and engineering services.

U.S. company Northrop Grumman was selected along with four other defense contractors to compete for task orders as part of the Automatic Identification Technology-IV indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract.

Under the deal worth $418.5 million in awards for the five companies, Northrop Grumman with provide the Defense Department and federal agency logistics systems with AIT hardware, software and engineering services including mobile computers and technical engineering support among other requirements.

"Northrop Grumman has more than 20 years of experience delivering complete AIT solutions to the Defense Department and federal government integrating legacy systems with AIT, and deploying new AIT, item unique identification and radio frequency identification technologies," Ken Lehman, Northrop Grumman Information Systems vice president of Identity Management, said in a statement.

© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The 84th Academy Awards winners The breakout star of the Oscars The Daytona 500
Radiohead performs in Miami Ice and Snow Festival in China 2012 Governors Dinner
Additional Security Industry Stories
1 of 32
Marilyn Monroe Cupcake Portrait at Madame Tussauds in New York
View Caption
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
fark
After years of collegiate research, scientists conclude men looking for a one-night stand are more...
How to tell if that voice in your head is God. Is it telling you to kill people? Yep, that's God...
Podiatrist accused of begging a 15 year-old teenage babysitter to have sex with him for pay. However,...
40 of the most powerful photographs ever taken. Subby made it to #36 before it got way too dusty...
I fap, you fap, we all fap *fap fap fap*
The "Miami Zombie" case has "spread to various social media outlets and a wave of dark humor has...