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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

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*General Dynamics [GD] won a potential $65 million contract over five years to develop an automated recruiting and hiring system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the e-recruitment system is part of an overall effort to consolidate and modernize the Human Resource systems of DHS. The Department has about 160,000 employees and receives about two million resumes and job applications annually. The base year value of GD's contract wasn't disclosed. *SI…

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