LITTON LANDS $57 MILLION GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS - Defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; Litton Industries Named after inventor Charles Litton Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001. Inc. has won a $57 million contract to assist the U.S. government in its foreign intelligence gathering efforts, the company announced Thursday. Litton's TASC TASC The After School Corporation TASC The American Surrogacy Center TASC Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities TASC The Analytic Sciences Corporation TASC Transportation Administrative Service Center TASC Total Administrative Services Corporation Inc. subsidiary will provide systems engineering and technical assistance support for Trailblazer, which the company describes as ``a major foreign signals intelligence modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, initiative.'' The Litton unit is based in McLean, Va. ``Trailblazer will quite literally blaze a trail in helping this customer transform its signals intelligence collection, processing, analysis and dissemination system,'' James H. Frey, Litton senior vice president, group executive of Litton Information Systems Group, and president of TASC, said in a statement. In October, Litton TASC announced it had won a $170 million contract with another U.S. government agency for related systems engineering and technical support. About 200 Litton employees with the proper security clearance will work on the project. Woodland Hills-based Litton's TASC unit has done intelligence work for 25 years. It manages the development of extremely sophisticated information systems and architectures that help intelligence agencies meet some of the nation's most daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin technology challenges to national security. Litton is the nation's largest builder of non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy, and designs, builds and overhauls surface ships for government and commercial customers worldwide and is a leading information technology contractor to the U.S. government. Whether this is a big contract depends on who is offering the perspective. ``I would characterize it as a significant contract,'' said Litton spokesman Randy Belote. Analyst Paul H. Nesbit at JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. Research Inc. notes that Litton's annual revenues top $5 billion. On an annual basis, this contract represents two- tenths of 1 percent. Litton is in the process of being acquired by Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. in a $5 billion deal. |
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