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Two Navy IT NGEN-R Teams Start To Take Shape

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

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Two teams set to compete on the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Networks Re-compete (NGEN-R) contract have officially announced their partnerships on Feb. 2 and 5.Leidos [LDOS] said Feb. 5 it is working with IBM [IBM], Unisys [UIS], and Verizon’s [VZ] Enterprise Solutions to compete on the NGEN-R Service Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) program contract. Separately, on Feb. 2 DXC Technology [DXC] said it selected AT&T [ATT] to be a “key member” of its NGEN-R recompete team.NGEN is the Navy’s enterprise-wide information technology (IT) services contract vehicle, which…

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