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home > February, 2007 issue > article
Army awards integrated biometrics contract
By Dawn S. Onley
Editor
The Army recently awarded a $75.6 million contract to Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Information Technology sector to develop an integrated DOD biometrics enterprise solution.
The General Services Administration’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center awarded the contract on Nov. 27 for the Army’s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems. Since then, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Inc. has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office. That protest will be decided by March 19.
“This biometrics system will be the DOD’s biometric repository for all identification types, linking to the intelligence community and civilian agencies, all in a focused effort to address the war on terrorism,” said Jill Kale, vice president of enterprise applications and systems integration for Northrop Grumman IT’s defense group.
Northrop Grumman will provide program management, systems engineering and support for the automated biometric identification system. Northrop will also design, develop and field an enterprise solution that will include the central biometric repository and “allow for near real-time retain, capture, or release data to be sent to the warfighter,” according to a company release.
Work on the contract will take place in West Virginia, Fort Belvoir, Va. and Iraq.
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