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February 19, 4:22 EST
BELCAMP, Md. -- Feb. 15, 2002 -- Officials at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington recently selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to provide enterprise messaging solutions for the Pentagon Telecommunications Service Center and other U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) agencies.
The award is intended to provide information technology-related enhancements and improvements to the Pentagon's existing Defense Messaging System (DMS). The company's California Microwave Systems (CMS) business unit in Belcamp will provide products and personnel with the expertise to design, develop, install, and maintain the DMS system. The company will also provide user systems and other computer-based training.
DMS enables the DOD and various federal agencies to effectively, efficiently, and securely communicate with one another through e-mail and other electronic messaging capabilities, Northrop Grumman officials say. California Microwave Systems is providing its messaging product called Decision Agent (DA) as a core component of DMS, which will eventually replace AUTODIN, the DOD's legacy messaging system, company officials say.
"The Decision Agent enables a fresh look at the requirements for the defense messaging system and a means by which government managers can access all of the functionality of DMS with limited resources and provide DMS to their domain users," says Marvin Owens, director of the Pentagon Telecommunications Service Center.
"Northrop Grumman has a long history of involvement in support of the DOD's defense messaging system," says William Shaver, president of California Microwave Systems. "Our Communications Gateway System is proven technology that, coupled with our multifunction interpreter and mail list agent products, serves as the basis for the U.S. Army's Tactical Messaging System. Each of these information technology systems has been through the Defense Information Systems Agency's 'Value Add Products' program."
California Microwave Systems, a component of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector in Baltimore, Md., specializes in airborne reconnaissance and surveillance systems, government ground-based satellite communications systems, communications gateway systems, and mission planning. The group's customers include the U.S. military services, other U.S. government agencies, and international defense organizations, Northrop Grumman officials say.
Northrop Grumman's DA features a communications gateway system, multifunction interpreter, multithreaded message security protocol, send and receive proxies, and a Web-based message preparation system, company officials say. These capabilities have been coupled with the Northrop Grumman Information Technology sector's LMDS MailRoom Technology and Engenium Corp.'s Semetric retrieval engine, a knowledge-based retrospective search and inference engine.
DA combines the functions of multiple systems on one platform, from small, powerful computers for the tactical arena to large, multiprocessor servers for organizations such as the Pentagon Telecommunications Service Center, Northrop Grumman officials say. These computers use the latest in Microsoft technology, which is scalable depending on message throughput and storage requirements. DA has also been selected as the enterprise solution for messaging by various intelligence organizations, company officials say.
For more information on Communications Gateway System contact Northrop Grumman on the World Wide Web at http://www.northropgrumman.com.
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