NORTHROP GRUMMAN: Northrop Grumman awarded $4.6m contract to help USPS automate mail processing.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 August 1998-NORTHROP GRUMMAN: Northrop Grumman awarded $4.6 million contract to help U.S. Postal Service automate mail processing (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:210898 Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $4.6 million contract from the U.S. Postal Service to upgrade co-processor computer systems used to help automate the processing of mail at 264 existing postal service distribution facilities nationwide.

Northrop Grumman's co-processor upgrade will automate the mail-sorting process by enabling optical character readers (OCR's) to more accurately and efficiently assign bar codes to uncoded mail. OCR's are used to either assign bar codes to uncoded mail or recognize bar-coded address information on mail as it is being...