The Coast Guard this week said it has awarded a potential five-year, $42.8 million contract to Mythics to provide software licenses for a new information technology system to manage the service’s logistics.

The award for the software portion of the Coast Guard Logistics Information Management Systems (CG-LIMS) was separated from the work for the configuration and management of the software system.

The Coast Guard is serving as the system integrator and will be directly involved in the software’s configuration and deployment. The CG-LIMS will help the service better manage configuration, maintenance, supply chain and technical data for its assets by migrating legacy systems into a new one through incremental technical refreshments.

“This project will provide the mission support community with the modern tools they deserve to support Coast Guard mission execution,” Capt. Dan Taylor, the project manager for CG-LIMS, said in a statement. Taylor said the award “is a significant step in executing the Coast Guard strategy of streamlining the logistics support for the aircraft, ships, boats, shore facilities and command, control, communications and computers systems needed

The HC-144A maritime patrol aircraft will be the first asset to implement CG-LIMS.

The first task order under the Blanket Purchase Agreement award to Mythics is for $678,000 to purchase 40 user licenses to support the initial configuration for one year.

Mythics will provide Oracle [ORCL] e-business products as its CG-LIMS software solution and Ventureforth’s vMobile software to support offline capability, which preserves data that would otherwise be lost in the event an asset in the field loses communications with CG-LIMS software hosted ashore, the Coast Guard said.

Mythics is a small, value added reseller of Oracle products and is based in Northern Virginia.