Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide technical services in support of the transformation of its logistics combat support systems. The Air Force transformation goals are to improve the transmission of accurate, reliable and readily accessible logistics information to warfighters in support of combat initiatives. Northrop Grumman's Information Technology sector will share in task orders valued at up to $498 million over five years. The contract is administered by the Materiel Systems Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The scope of this contract includes software development, implementation of commercial off-the-shelf products (COTS) and enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) tools to update the Air Force's combat support system. Northrop Grumman IT will also compete to administer the transition of logistics, finance, procurement and personnel to COTS and ERP tools in an effort to reduce long-term maintenance costs and increase system performance. Northrop Grumman Information Technology, headquartered in Herndon, Va., is a trusted IT leader and premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients. The company's technological leadership spans such areas as homeland security solutions, secure wireless, cyber and physical assurance, IT and network infrastructure, managed services, knowledge management, modeling and simulation, and geospatial intelligence solutions.