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Enlighten IT Consulting Wins $40 Million Defense Department Task Order For Development Of Data Platform

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

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Enlighten IT Consulting Wins $40 Million Defense Department Task Order For Development Of Data Platform

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The Defense Department awarded Enlighten IT Consulting, Inc. a $40 million task order against a GSA schedule for continued development of the Big Data Platform (BDP), the company said Tuesday.The BPD is a cloud-based architecture with streaming ingest capabilities and provides storage and retrieval rates in the trillions of records per second. The platform ingests and stores data derived from several DoD sensors to support analytics that protect and defend the Department of Defense Information Networks (DoDIN).The company’s team is…

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