General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a follow-on contract to provide information technology (IT) support to the U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC). The total potential value
of the contract if all options are exercised is $79 million over three years.
General Dynamics will continue to provide IT support for the Enterprise Data Center, which includes operations and maintenance, consolidation and enterprise desk top management to 55,000 users at 900 sites. The Enterprise Data Center is the infrastructure on which USARC operates to deliver network centric operations. The General Dynamics-led team includes Dell, Booz-Allen Hamilton, BAE Systems, CA, EMC Corporation, Perot Systems, SRA International, TEKsystems, Digicon and CorTechs.'We are proud to continue to support the U.S. Army Reserve and the soldiers they serve. Our successful implementation allows us to take the knowledge, experience and lessons learned and continue to evolve the Enterprise Data Center into a true enterprise that serves the soldiers,' said Zannie Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Army Solutions for
General Dynamics Information Technology. 'The continued transformation of the U.S. Army Reserve is paramount to the success of our nation's force readiness initiatives.' General Dynamics Information Technology has been supporting USARC for more than four years, and won the original contract in August 2003. The contract was awarded under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (ITES-2S) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract. The U.S. Army, Department of Defense and other federal agencies can use TES-2S to meet various IT requirements and efficiently obtain enterprise-wide systems integration solutions.
|
