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Army Selects Five Companies for Awards to Support JIEDDO

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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The Army Research, Development and Engineering Command has awarded five prime contracts to CACI International [CAI], GS5, LLC, ITT Corp. [ITT], Lanmark Technology, and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] worth a potential $494 million over five-years to provide technical and operational support services to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). The Comprehensive Support Services contract is designed to give JIEDDO long-term support and continuity of its contractor personnel. The contract consolidates support work that has been performed by…

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