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Cyber

Octo Consulting Group Wins NGA IT Contract

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

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The Defense Department awarded Octo Consulting Group a $34 million fixed price per sprint agile development contract to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) IT Services Directorate, the company said Tuesday.The contract is to last for over five years and calls for Octo to provide software engineering, infrastructure, as well as operations and sustainment support to the NGA’s Agile Web Presence (AWP) program. The fixed price per spring vehicle is innovative for the AWP program and the federal government, the…

Congress

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Congress

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