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Northrop Grumman Awarded $124 Million Follow-On Contract for C-RAM Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it received a $124 million follow-on award to provide personnel for expanded operations of Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) sense-and-warn systems in Afghanistan and Iraq. C-RAM provides correlated air/ground pictures using existing Defense Department systems and selected commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, linking them to the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) and Joint Defense Network (JDN), the 2011 Army Posture Statement said. The system provides situational awareness and exchange of timely and accurate information to synchronize…

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