Smartronix Teams on U.S. Marine Corps Enterprise IT Contract Award
Fairfax,
Virginia – 29 January 2009 – Smartronix as a team
member with General Dynamics Information Technology, has been
awarded a contract by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command
(MARCORSYSCOM) to support the Marine Corps Enterprise IT
Services (MCEITS) program. The single award, indefinite
delivery/indefinite quantity contract is valued up to $95
million over a six year period. In addition to Smartronix,
General Dynamics is leading a team that also includes
Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California; Electronic Data Systems,
Plano, Texas; and Zenetex, Herndon, Virginia.
Through the contract, Smartronix will help design, build and
integrate the first MCEITS Enterprise IT Center, which provides
application hosting capabilities, enterprise shared services,
access to enterprise-wide information, collaboration and
information sharing across business and warfighter domains.
Specifically, Smartronix will support the contract by providing
the Information Assurance (IA) architecture for the design and
build-out of the IT Center and its hosted applications.