Northrop Grumman wins military IT contract

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced July 3 it has been chosen by the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide program management and technical support to the Navy's primary surface-to-air missile and launcher program.

The Standard Missile/Surface Launcher Systems, or SM/SLS, contract is for five years and is worth $49 million. Additional performance-based options bring the potential value of the contract to $106 million over 10 years. Work on the program will be carried out in Crystal City, Va.


"This significant contract award retains our strong Standard missile support business, while expanding our support to include the VLS component of the Aegis weapon system," said John Edwards, vice president of combat systems support for Northrop Grumman Information Technology.


Under the SM/SLS contract, the Northrop Grumman team will provide systems engineering and program management support; technical and programmatic support for Standard missile research and development activities; financial management, acquisition and logistics management support for the Standard and VLS production programs; and technical, analytical and logistics management support for the Standard missile and VLS foreign military sales programs.


Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman has assembled a team to work on the contract, including Basic Engineering Concepts & Technologies Inc., Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. and Strategic Insight Ltd., all of Arlington, Va.; Software Engineering Associates Inc., Alexandria, Va.; Technology, Management & Analysis Corp., McLean, Va.; EG&G Technical Services Inc., Gaithersburg, Md.; and DJR Associates Inc., Frederick, Md.