The British defense ministry yesterday awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation the second installment of a three-phase contract to study how to recover damaged data from military communications systems following an information warfare attack. Northrop Grumman's Land Combat Systems business unit received the contract from the United Kingdom's Defense Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), according to a company statement. In the first phase, the company researched methods for recovering land tactical communications and computer systems used in battle management following a cyber-attack...