FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics
Information Technology (GDIT) announced today it will support the
U.S. Air Force's 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance Wing (480 ISRW) through their Technical Operations
Support contract. The single-award contract holds a total estimated
value of $217 million. It includes a
nine-month base period with seven one-year options as well as a
possible six-month extension.
"We are excited to continue our strong legacy providing expert
engineering and technology solutions for the Air Force," said
Senior Vice President Leigh Palmer,
head of GDIT's Defense Division. "GDIT's team developed and
implemented the initial design for this global network. We will
leverage this expertise to maintain current network technology
while seamlessly modernizing the Air Force's global network into a
next-generation posture."
The Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS), also
referred to as the AN/GSQ-272 SENTINEL, is the Air Force's primary
ISR planning, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and
dissemination weapon system. It employs a global communications
architecture that connects multiple intelligence platforms,
Department of Defense networks and sensors. The AF DCGS weapon
systems' communications architecture is a complicated, high-speed
network that supports combatant commanders across the globe.
The 480th leads global ISR operations within the AF
DCGS' weapon system. They provide time-sensitive, Multiple-source
Intelligence (Multi-INT) data and products derived from selected
service/allied/coalition ISR platforms. AF DCGS participates in
operations throughout the world, including those led by the United
Nations, NATO, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S.
European Command, U.S. Forces Korea, U.S. Northern Command, U.S.
Pacific Command and U.S. Southern Command.
GDIT's legacy operations have been the sole network support
provider of this weapons system for more than 20 years. Through
this task order, GDIT will support the AF DCGS Operations Center
with network administration, network engineering, information
assurance, computer network defense, systems administration,
project management and C4ISR engineering of 480 ISRW's information
technology assets from the network and enterprise level.
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