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Navy Extends NGEN Another Year

Thursday, September 6th, 2018

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Navy Extends NGEN Another Year

The Navy awarded Perspecta a $787 million contract on Wednesday to extend the current Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract for another year through September 2019.As the incumbent, Perspecta provides the Navy NGEN services through its U.S. public sector business it inherited from DXC Technology [DXC], which itself took Hewlett Packard’s [HP] Enterprise Services business. Perspecta launched in May as a merger of DXC’s U.S. public sector business, Vencore and Keypoint Government Solutions (Defense Daily, March 9).The new contract, issued…

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