Skyline Global Outsourcing Update

According to InformationWeek, Northrop Grumman has admitted that it is nine months behind schedule on revamping Virginia's information technology systems. Under the ten-year, $1.9 billion outsourcing deal, Northrop Gruman was supposed to complete the transition this past June. Now the contractor says the move won't be complete until at least March 2010.


The admission is part of a corrective action plan "the contractor submitted to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Says Tom Shelman, VP and general manager for the Civil Systems Division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems. Controversy reached a height in June when Virginia lawmakers began an investigation into the outsourcing deal. There has been at least one casualty of the deal: State CIO Lemuel Stewart, who was axed shortly after a presentation in which he claimed Northrop Grumman was not meeting its contractual obligations.


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