TRW Opens Internet Doors to Supply Network Products and Services.SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1997--TRW (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc ) opened its Internet doors for business with the signing of the final modifications to the Unified Local Area Network Architecture II (ULANA ULANA Unified Local Area Network Architecture II) contract July 18. Government customers worldwide will now be able to order price-competitive network products and engineering services electronically from their desktop, minimizing paperwork and streamlining the procurement process. The two-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, valued at $633 million with three one-year options, was awarded to both TRW and EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. in December 1994 by the U.S. Air Force Headquarters Standard Systems Group, Montgomery, Ala. The two-and-a-half year delay in TRW's performance on the contract, caused by a protest that was subsequently denied, ended in January. Since then, the ULANA II team has brought its product offering up to date. TRW plans to refresh the technologies monthly to ensure state-of-the-art solutions are available to its customers. Under the contract, TRW serves as the systems integrator in providing network products and engineering services to government customers worldwide from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department , and other Department of Defense agencies, as well as non-defense federal agencies. TRW provides solutions by acting as a one-stop supplier of thousands of pre-selected, state-of-the-art products via a website-based catalog that includes the following vendors: Best Power, Cabletron, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , FORE Systems See Marconi. , Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Novell, 3COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. Corporation, TRW, TxPort, and Worldtalk. "The ULANA II contract was designed by the Air Force to simplify the acquisition of network hardware, software and worldwide engineering services for the federal government," said Jack Distaso, vice president of military and tactical systems and telecommunications, TRW Systems Integration Group. In addition to providing the electronic capability to purchase items online, minimizing paperwork and speeding up the procurement process, TRW also provides on-site network engineering services. These services include requirements analysis, site surveys, system design, network installation and test, and complete life cycle support, all coordinated from TRW's San Antonio network engineering offices. TRW's engineering services team comprises GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Worldwide Telecommunications Services of Needham Heights, Mass.; Five G's Construction Inc. and Trans-Tel Central Inc. of Oklahoma City; Operations Technologies Corp. of San Antonio, Tri-Cor Industries, Inc. of St. Louis; and Informax Data Systems, Inc. of Los Angeles. "Our team was constructed so that we could provide the customer with an in-place worldwide presence," said Jim Gallagher, TRW's ULANA II program manager. ULANA II was preceded by ULANA I, a similar program in the late 1980's (also awarded to both TRW and EDS) that provided commercial off-the-shelf products and network engineering services for the Air Force. TRW Inc. provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets worldwide. The company's sales in 1996 were 9.86 billion. -0- See the ULANA II website for more information at http://www.ulana2.com . CONTACT: TRW, Inc. Linda Javier, 310/812-4105 Al Frascella, 703/803-5353 |
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