ManTech tends USDA security ops center

ManTech International Corp. has received a five-year contract worth up to $10.8 million to support the Security Operations Center in the Agriculture Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Under the contract, ManTech will provide round-the-clock incident handling and strategic support to help detect and report malicious cyber activities on the agency’s enterprise information infrastructure.

The CIO office is responsible for supervising and coordinating the design, acquisition, maintenance, use and disposal of information technology by USDA agencies and monitoring the performance of USDA’s IT programs and activities.

ManTech International, of Fairfax, Va., ranks No. 31 on Washington Technology’s 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.