TRW Wins $73 Million Fort Lee Contract.FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 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 ) began work Oct. 1 on a $72.9 million contract to provide technical support and computer programming services for the U.S. Army Information Systems Software Development Center at Fort Lee, near Richmond, Va. The contracting agency is the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command, Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth, N.J. The five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract is TRW's "first major contract in Army logistics technical and service support," said Jack Distaso, vice president of military and tactical systems and telecommunications, TRW Systems Integration Group. The contract involves supporting approximately 30 Standard Army Management Information Systems, such as supply, maintenance, and order entry. TRW brings its extensive experience in combat service support on other Army programs to this contract. As prime contractor, TRW will be responsible for program management, software development and maintenance, and systems integration. Technical support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services such as training, fielding, and testing will be provided by TRW's teammates. Virginia-based teammates include Synoptic syn·op·tic also syn·op·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or constituting a synopsis; presenting a summary of the principal parts or a general view of the whole. 2. a. Taking the same point of view. b. Systems Corporation, VGS VGS Videregående Skole (Norwegian school) VGS Virtual Game Station VGS Voodoo Glow Skulls (Ska band) VGS Video Game System VGS Volunteer Gliding School VGS Voltage Gate to Source VGS Velocity Gate Stealer Inc., Innovative Logistics Techniques, Inc., and Hampton University. Maryland-based teammates include Comarco Systems Inc., EER EER - An extended entity-relationship model. Systems Inc., and Wang I-NET, Inc. Another teammate, SAVI Technology, is based in Mountain View, Calif. The TRW team will be staffing up for this project and anticipates having more than 150 employees by January 1998. TRW Inc. provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets worldwide. The company's sales in 1996 were approximately $10 billion. CONTACT: TRW, Inc. Linda Javier, 310/812-4105 Al Frascella, 703/803-5353 |
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