McDonald Bradley nets IV&V work

McDonald Bradley Inc. won a subcontract potentially worth $8 million to provide independent verification and validation services for the Patent and Trademark Office.

McDonald Bradley of Herndon, Va., will do the work under the agency's IT Product Assurance services contract, awarded to Galaxy Scientific Corp. The contract provides services for design, development and implementation of new automated systems as well as the enhancement of existing systems.

It also supports creation and rollout of infrastructure changes for patent and trademark application processing and examination functions, management and administrative systems and the dissemination of information to the public.