LITTON LANDS COMPUTER CONTRACT SOFTWARE SYSTEM DEAL IS WORTH $100 MILLION.Byline: Jesse Jesse (jĕs`ē), in the Bible, the descendant of Rahab, the grandson of Boaz and Ruth, and the father of David. Referring to the restoration of the Davidic monarchy, the Book of Isaiah speaks of a shoot coming from the "stump of Jesse. Hiestand Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS - 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. said Thursday it has landed a 10-year contract to build a massive computer system to store medical records for the National Institutes of Health. The deal is worth $100 million and grows out of systems and software Litton has been developing for several years for the Department of Defense and Veterans Health affairs. ``One of the big issues is maintaining privacy and confidentiality of the medical records of people in the various government programs,'' said Litton spokesman Randy The name Randy generally derives from the names Randall or Randolph (meaning wolf with a shield). Randy is used as a given name primarily in the US and Canada. Men known as Randy
The work will be done by PRC Inc., a McLean, Va.-based subsidiary of Litton that won one of several contracts from the NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. under a $19.5 billion program called the National Information Technology Acquisitions and Assessment Center. The contract is designed to provide the federal agency with the latest, most cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. information technology based on Litton's track record of developing similar systems already, Belote said. ``Litton PRC welcomes the National Institutes of Health to our customer family,'' said James H. Frey, senior vice president of Litton Information Systems. The contract will not be affected by Litton's recent agreement to be acquired by Century City-based 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 $5.1 billion deal announced in late December. Both companies provide information technology for the federal government that generate a combined $4 billion in revenue each year. Technical services being provided in the NIH contract include maintenance, infrastructure protection and software development. Litton's Government Computer Patient Records program developed for the Defense Department is already on schedule, within budget and offers more functionality than originally required by the contract, the company said. Litton PRC is one of two divisions comprising Litton's Information Systems Group, which employs more than 8,000 people. Litton, before the proposed merger with Northrop Nor·throp , John Howard 1891-1987. American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins. , was the largest builder of non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and also designed and built surface ships for the government and commercial customers. |
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