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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Charlottesville, Virginia, is being awarded a $21,673,279 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee and c

Thanks to the Internet of Things, just about everything that can be connected—from tanks to smartwatches—is connected. The Defense Department’s whole work force depends on thousands of devices that work off of disparate operating systems. The net result is a security risk nightmare for those who must secure government IT networks.

Warfighters and decision makers alike laud the advent of mobile command, control, communications and computers (C4). Yet in many ways, our forces are relegated to dealing with legacy systems—even newly fielded ones—that employ relatively old technology compared with today’s rapidly evolving commercial wireless capabilities.

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