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Investing.com -- Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $99,128,262 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to support its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control vision.
The El Segundo, California-based company will leverage commercial technologies to provide resilient, interoperable and secure information dominance solutions that utilize higher bandwidth and low-latency data rates.
The contract includes development of initial Providence Distributed Battle Management Command and Control System Minimum Viable Products to support DoD use cases. These capabilities will be hosted in various manned and unmanned systems.
Work will be performed across multiple locations including Patuxent River, Maryland (15%); Melbourne, Florida (15%); Fallon, California (15%); Shreveport, Louisiana (10%); Guam (10%); Washington, DC (8%); and several other sites across the United States. The project is expected to be completed in March 2028.
The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, is serving as the contracting activity. At the time of award, $7,471,923 in fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds and $575,000 in fiscal 2025 Navy working capital funds will be obligated, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The order was issued against a previously established basic ordering agreement and was not competed.
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