General Dynamics wins military work worth $50 million

General Dynamics Network Systems has won three task orders, valued at $41 million over the next five years, under the Air Force Information Technology Services contract, the company announced June 21.

Among it services, the company will provide continuous network operations and management support to the Air Force Network Operations Center and the Defense Message System Air Force Technical Support Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Gunter Annex, Montgomery, Ala.

General Dynamics Network Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va.

At the Air Force Network Operations Center, General Dynamics will provide around-the-clock network operations and management support to the Air Force's primary network hub.

The center guides information assurance efforts of local Air Force network operations centers and global classified and unclassified networks encompassing more than 140 sites. It also coordinates responses to network threats with Air Force computer emergency response teams and major command network operations and security centers.

At the Defense Message System Technical Support Center, General Dynamics will be the single point of contact for continuous assistance to more than 300 strategic and tactical Defense Message System sites around the world.

General Dynamics will work with the Defense Information Systems Agency network operations centers, Air Force major command network operations and security centers and DMS sites.

In a separate statement June 21, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems announced it has been awarded a $9 million modification to an existing contract to provide technology support services to the Joint Command and Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Battle Center in Suffolk, Va.

The work will be carried out in Suffolk and is expected to be finished by June 2002. The contract being modified was originally awarded in October 1998 and was valued at $43 million.