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NGA Awards $4.5 Billion To General Dynamics For IT Support

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 9th, 2021

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NGA Awards $4.5 Billion To General Dynamics For IT Support

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Monday awarded General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technology business a potential $4.5 billion contract for information technology services. The five-year award, which was announced on Wednesday through the federal procurement site Sam.gov, is for User Facing and Data Center Services (UDS). The contract has a base-year and four one-year options. “The NGA UDS acquisition will provide a full suite of user facing and data center IT services on multiple networks and security domains, inclusive of…

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