TRW awarded Air Force ULANA II Networking Products contract.CARSON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1995--TRW Systems Integration Group has been awarded a $299 million Unified Local Area Network Architecture II (ULANA ULANA Unified Local Area Network Architecture II) contract to provide government customers with computer networking products and services. The five-year contract was awarded by the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. 38th Engineering Installation Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. ULANA II provides Department of Defense and federal agency customers with state-of-the-art, commercial off-the-shelf hardware, software and engineering and support services which local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) developers can use to acquire equipment and services to meet current and future information requirements. TRW's contract contains about 500 products from more than 40 companies including 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. Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., NOVELL Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., FORE Systems Inc., and Xyplex Inc. In addition to the core LAN building blocks, the contract provides users with advanced networking products such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. switches, desktop video-conferencing systems, network operating systems, X.400 message handling and networking services. 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 and its teammate, 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) Government Systems Corp., will also provide LAN engineering and support services including requirements analysis, site surveys, system design, installation, training, network management, maintenance and life cycle support services. In addition, TRW will provide ULANA II customers with an easy to use procurement vehicle. TRW's Systems Integration Group performs systems engineering and systems integration and develops and installs command and control systems, information processing systems and security systems for federal government agencies, industry contractors and international customers. TRW provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive, space and defense and information systems markets. CONTACT: TRW Inc., Fairfax, Va.
Al Frascella, 703/803-5353 or
Sally Koris, 310/812-4105
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