RESTON, Va., Oct. 5, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announced today the Oct. 8 opening of its new 34,000 square foot Information Assurance Innovation Center at 8666 Veterans Highway in Millersville, Md.
The new facility will help maintain the Information Assurance (IA) team's strong growth, support current programs and provide the infrastructure for future growth.
The opening ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. with a tour and demonstrations of selected security products, followed by a formal ribbon cutting. Congressman John Sarbanes, D-Md., is expected to attend. Other attendees include: Jerry Agee, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems sector; Dan Allen, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector's Intelligence Systems Division; and Leonard Moodispaw, vice president of the company's Essex business unit.
"Northrop Grumman is pleased to continue our expansion in the great state of Maryland. We have more than 11,000 employees across the state, and our Electronic Systems sector and Essex business units both are headquartered here," Agee said. "Northrop Grumman has been expanding its information assurance business, and this new facility positions us for even greater growth in the state of Maryland."
The IA team works with cutting-edge research and development in information technology and information assurance systems for government and commercial customers. The team is currently engaged in information security engineering, development and operations for a wide range of customer requirements, including cross-domain product solutions.
"This state-of-the-art Information Assurance Innovation Center has been designed with the necessary power, computing and networking facilities, communications infrastructure, and security to meet Northrop Grumman's future expansion needs and offers us the resources to continue providing our customers with the most innovative, sophisticated and reliable products and services," Allen said. "By opening this new state-of-the-art innovation center, we are demonstrating our continuing commitment to provide Northrop Grumman customers with the best possible solutions to meet their needs today, tomorrow, and for many years to come."
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
COLUMBIA, MD - January 22, 2007 - Essex Corporation (NASDAQ: KEYW) announces the expansion of its Information Assurance (IA) offerings through the launch of its Innovation Center. Similar to other virtual environments, the Innovation Center offers industry partners and customers the unique opportunity to test drive full enterprise architectures within a complete operational network environment. These environments include domains, networks, servers, clients, and advanced information assurance products. This capability is enabled through "virtualization". Information assurance is a critical requirement for all enterprise networks and systems, typically requiring multiple security products to interoperate seamlessly with critical applications, operations, and other security and network products.
Through virtualization in the Innovation Center, the Essex IA Sector allows customers to make better buying decisions and avoid expensive disappointments and surprises that can result from errors in architecture, product selection, or configuration that either fail to provide the required security or that disrupt operations. Within the Innovation Center, Essex leverages strategic relationships with over a dozen leading IA product vendors to offer customers the opportunity to experience, evaluate, and fine tune improvements to their security architectures. The IA Innovation Center will begin expanded operations with the opening of the new Essex IA Facility in Millersville, MD. This center is particularly focused on the requirements of large enterprise customers.
"Information superiority, which is doctrine throughout the defense programs of the United States, cannot be achieved without information assurance that is both innovative and intense," commented Leonard Moodispaw, CEO and President of Essex Corporation. "The virtualizing technology and capabilities offered in Essex' IA Sector are further examples of the creativity and deep insight our team has into critical defense and intelligence customer requirements."
Essex/Windermere currently has over 100 professionals engaged in information security engineering, including development and application of advanced cyber-security technologies to a wide range of customer requirements. Projects include designing, implementing, testing and operating information system security architectures. Capabilities include software engineering, system integration, security testing. Facilities include data centers, network infrastructures, software development environments with a full compliment of modern information assurance technologies and products. Examples of current research capabilities include the new Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), virtualization, wireless architectures, among others.
Vendors and customers interested in more information about the Essex IA Center are encouraged to contact Dr. Myron L. Cramer, Vice President and General Manager of Essex' Information Assurance Sector, at 410.923.8410.
About Essex: Essex provides advanced signal, image, information processing, information assurance and cyber-security solutions, for U.S. Government intelligence and defense customers as well as for select commercial customers. We create our solutions by combining our services and expertise with hardware, software, and proprietary and patented technology to meet our customers' requirements. For more information contact Essex Corporation, 6708 Alexander Bell Drive, Columbia MD 21046-2100; Phone 301.939.7000; Fax 301.953.7880; E-mail info@essexcorp.com, or on the Web at www.essexcorp.com.
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainty and changes in circumstances, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from anticipated results, performance or achievements. All statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature are forward looking . Economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting Essex's businesses are examples of factors, among others, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are also expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in Essex's SEC filings, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its annual report on Form 10-K. Essex is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
