Jacobs Wins IT and Data Center Operations Contract for U.S. Army Missiles & Space
May 24 2016 - 7:45AM
Business Wire
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it
received a contract to provide the U.S. Army Program Executive
Office Missiles & Space (PEO MS) with enterprise IT support
services.
Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is expected to provide
data center and cloud services; network and telecommunications
operations and maintenance; systems management; application
development; disaster recovery planning and support; cybersecurity
and information assurance support; and service desk operations for
approximately 2,500 end-users on multiple classified and
unclassified networks.
The contract supports the PEO MS and its eight subordinate
program offices, as well as external Department of Defense (DoD)
organizations such as PEO Aviation, the Army Material System
Analysis Activity and the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.
The contract is valued at $32.3 million over five years.
In making the announcement, Jacobs Senior Vice President
Aerospace and Technology Darren Kraabel stated, “Jacobs is proud to
build on our longstanding relationship with U.S. Army PEO MS, where
we have continuously applied technical expertise and industry best
practices, including the use of the ITIL® framework and the
integration of cloud service technology.
“The culmination of our efforts has positioned PEO MS to serve
as a Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) provider, an
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
provider, supporting some of the DoD’s most important research
programs. We look forward to this new opportunity to bring advanced
technical solutions to support PEO MS and Army critical
missions.”
Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers
of technical, professional and construction services.
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