Northrop Grumman will help African nations enhance peacekeeping capabilities under a contract from the U.S. State Department's Office of Acquisition Management.
The $8 million task orders, under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program, are each for one base year with a six-month option period.
The work to enhance peacekeeping capabilities will be performed in Rwanda, Kenya and Burundi.
"Our most recent task order wins are evidence of our customer's satisfaction and confidence in Northrop Grumman's performance supporting the ACOTA program and the tremendous benefit of the training we provide to African nations with whom we work," said Greg Schmidt, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Training Solutions Division. "In such an uncertain world of emerging threats to developing democracies, the training support we provide these African nations will contribute to advancing peace for future generations."
Northrop said the work to be performed involves consists of peace support operations training, train-the-trainer courses for peacekeeping cadre and enhancing the capacity of all three countries to participate in multinational peacekeeping operations.