General Dynamics Awarded Navy Cyber Mission Engineering Contract

GDIT will provide next-generation electronic warfare capabilities to protect and support America's warfighters against a variety of technological threats.

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Jan 07, 2019, 12:00 ET

FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) today announced it has been awarded the Navy Cyber Mission Engineering Support contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN) Atlantic. The multiple-award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract holds a shared ceiling of $898 million. It includes a five-year base ordering period, with one two-year option ordering period, and one six-month option-to-extend-services option ordering period GDIT will compete for individual task orders to provide state-of-the-art solutions for the Navy and Marine Corps' warfighting needs.

"This contract offers a new platform to showcase GDIT's next-generation cyber and electronic warfare solutions to reinforce the Navy's important mission," said Senior Vice President Leigh Palmer, head of GDIT's Defense Division. "As electronic warfare continues to evolve, maintaining relevancy and technological superiority is critical. GDIT will support the Navy by utilizing our decades of engineering and technical experience to build mission-focused electronic warfare capabilities across the Navy's warfighter domains."

Through this contract, GDIT will support SPAWARSYSCEN Atlantic by providing complex engineering and technical services in support of national security mission capabilities. This will include research, development, test, evaluation, production and fielding for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), information operations (IO), identity operations (IdOps), Enterprise Information Services (EIS) and space capabilities.

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