Northrop Grumman Corp Wins TRICARE Management Activity Award To Support Military Health Care

Northrop Grumman Corp announced that it has been selected to provide preliminary research and development on U.S. military health care applications to improve the way health care is delivered to military personnel. The TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) awarded five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts to seven companies including Northrop Grumman. The contract program has a ceiling of $300 million, collectively. The contract is designed to produce approaches to the Military Health System (MHS) through medical information management, information technology (IM/IT) research studies, proof of concept demonstrations, prototyping of IM/IT products and advanced concept technology demonstrations. The Northrop Grumman team will work at the Pacific Joint Information Technology Center (JITC) based in Kihei, Hawaii, the MHS center for proof of concept and prototyping of IM/IT products and services. The Pacific JITC also supports the U.S. Department of Defense's medical requirements and IT modernization needs across the medical continuum of care. Northrop Grumman will assist TMA by supporting JITC's research efforts.