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Northrop Grumman Protests $1 Billion DHS Cyber Award to Raytheon

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] has protested the award of a potential $1 billion contract that Raytheon [RTN] won in September from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for support of a network security program.The protest was filed with the Government Accountability Office and is dated Oct. 5.Raytheon won the Development, Operations and Maintenance (DOMino) services contract to provide support to the DHS National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS), which includes EINSTEIN as its operational component. General Dynamics [GD] was the original contractor…

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