Acer Counterpoint Inc, San Jose, California reports that a team consisting of itself, TRW Information Networks Division in Torrance, California, and SSDS in Denver, has bested IBM, DEC and Sun Microsystems to win a contract to automate the US Naval Academy using 42 System 22E multiprocessor, multi-user Unix micros, linked by local-area networks designed and constructed by TRW: the value of the initial increment of the contract is $6.5m, $15m in all.