Northrop Grumman Awarded $124 Million Contract for Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar Systems

Northrop Grumman Corporation

has received a $124 million award to provide personnel for expanded operations of Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar sense-and-warn systems in Afghanistan and Iraq. The $124 million contract comprises two portions: the $76 million first-year option of the task order for Afghanistan operations first announced August 2010 and issued under the Encore II contract vehicle from the Defense Information Systems Agency at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.; and $48 million for increased tasking in Afghanistan and to provide personnel for C-RAM sense-and-warn operations in Iraq.