Northrop nets Texas pact

Northrop Grumman Information Technology won a six-year, $33.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to manage the department's data-center operation.

The work will be performed at the West Texas Disaster Recovery and Operations Center on the campus of Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Northrop Grumman IT, a division of Northrop Grumman Corp., also manages the state's data center under a contract with the Texas Department of Information Resources.

Through the center, the company offers full data-center outsourcing, disaster recovery, applications and desktop seat management services to all state agencies, universities and local governments. The criminal justice agency is the seventh state agency to outsource its data-center operations to Northrop Grumman.