The U.S. Air Force
has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation to deliver Cyber Enterprise Services
(CES) on U.S. Cyber Command’s Unified Platform, the Falls Church, VA-based
company announced April 18. Northrop Grumman is one of five companies each
awarded $24 million over two years to perform the work.
Under the CES
contract, Northrop Grumman will identify, develop and implement cyber
capabilities on Unified Platform to further enable the efficiency and
effectiveness of cyber missions. Northrop Grumman was selected last fall
to serve as the systems coordinator on Unified Platform, which is designed to
support all defensive and offensive cyber operations, as well as cyber
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber
Mission Force.
“Northrop Grumman is
proud to have been selected for the Cyber Enterprise Services contract by the
U.S. Air Force,” said Christopher Valentino, vice president, global cyber
solutions, Northrop Grumman. “We look forward to continuing our strong mission
partnership with the Air Force, Cyber Command and the joint forces to develop,
launch and operationalize the full spectrum of cyber capabilities.”
Northrop Grumman
will use continuous development, operations and maintenance of cyber platform
systems within a distributed agile development environment to support the
implementation of the Air Force’s vision to provide leading-edge technology to
the operational community at the speed of mission need.
The company will perform CES primarily in San Antonio, Texas, as well as locations in Maryland, Georgia and Ohio.
Source: Northrop Grumman
By Loren Blinde
April 23, 2019
