NGA geospatial analysts monitoring a tropical storm (NGA photo)
WASHINGTON: General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a contract worth up to $4.5 billion by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for delivery of hybrid cloud services and advanced geospatial intelligence capabilities, the company announced today.
Under the User Facing and Data Center Services indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, GDIT “will provide hybrid cloud services, including commercial clouds and data center, and innovative IT design, engineering, implementation and operations and sustainment to NGA and its mission partners,” according to a GDIT press release.
GDIT will also advance geospatial intelligence capabilities by “delivering a full range of enterprise services, including application services, high-performance computing, virtual desktop, unified communications, DevOps, Platform as a Service, and mobile secure wireless across multiple networks and agency locations worldwide.”
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The technology implementation will also support IT infrastructure at NGA’s St. Louis, Mo. location, the press release states. The contract has an ordering period of 10 years.
“We are proud of our longstanding partnership with NGA and look forward to this opportunity to continue to leverage our portfolio of innovative technologies and services to advance the geospatial mission,” Amy Gilliland, GDIT president, said.
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