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Army Launches $4B Program For Management Of Commercial IT Hardware

Wednesday, September 6th, 2017

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The Army wants to hire a company to manage the purchasing and maintenance of network hardware under a $3.9 billion contract announced Aug. 24.A request for proposals (RFP) for the Common Hardware Systems (CHS) program was released Aug. 24 by the Army’ Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), which expects to award the CHS-5 contract within the third quarter of FY '18CHS oversees all commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) information technology (IT) products and services for all new and…

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