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MDA Awards Northrop Grumma And Owl Cyber Defense Spots On $249 Million CDS Contract

Friday, June 3rd, 2022

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MDA Awards Northrop Grumma And Owl Cyber Defense Spots On $249 Million CDS Contract

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Owl Cyber Defense Solutions LLC spots on a potential five-year $249 million contracts for development, testing and implementation support of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) work. MDA is the implementing agency for the FMS CDS, which the contract announcement described as a means of information assurance “that will provide the ability to manually or automatically access or transfer information between two or more differing security domains.”…

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