The Air Force's recent award to Northrop Grumman is the "first of several" planned contracts to build out the "Unified Platform" for military cyber operations, a capability critical to eventually separating U.S. Cyber Command from the National Security Agency. The Air Force awarded Northrop a $54 million labor-hour and cost contract to serve as the Unified Platform "system coordinator," according to the Defense Department's Oct. 26 contracts announcement. Northrop's award was made as a task order under the General Services...
