IBM announces DIMHRS team

IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., announced the team it has assembled to compete for what will be the largest government personnel and pay system ever implemented, the company announced May 3.

The IBM "Delta Blue" team includes American Management Systems Inc., Fairfax, Va.; the Dynamic Systems division of CACI International Inc., Arlington, Va.; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Paris; Ciber Inc., Greenwood Village, Colo.; MPRI Inc., Alexandria, Va. and TRW Inc., Cleveland.

The Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System, known as DIMHRS, sprang from a 1997 Defense Department initiative to develop a fully integrated personnel system to handle all active and reserve components of the armed services.

The system will support 3.1 million service personnel. Integration work may run to $1.5 billion, industry officials said. The request for proposals was issued on April 16 and bids are due May 15.

Other companies pursuing the contract, include Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md.; Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles; and Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif.

In a separate competition awarded in March 2001, human resource management software from PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., was chosen for the DIMHRS system. Navy Capt. Valerie Carpenter, program manager for DIMHRS, told Washington Technology late last year that the Navy is looking for in an integrator with a track record of installing PeopleSoft products at an enterprise level.

"The team of integrators we've assembled are world class companies with extensive experience implementing large-scale solutions across multiple and disparate systems," said IBM's Tom Burlin, vice president IBM's Global Services public sector unit. "IBM's own expertise in implementing PeopleSoft applications is similarly extensive."