General Dynamics wins $5.6B info sharing support contract
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Ross Wilkers
The Mission Partner Environment works to help partnership and coalition participants communicate and collaborate.
General Dynamics’ IT services unit has won a potential 11-year, $5.6 billion contract to help operate and maintain a system used by the U.S. military and its international partners to share information.
One other company submitted a proposal for the Mission Partner Environment Program Operations, Maintenance and Sustainment contract. The Air Force is managing this procurement and has tasked GDIT to work with both fielded and operational capabilities for this program, the Pentagon said in its Tuesday awards digest.
MPE is set up as a capability framework for commanders to plan and carry out missions. The Defense Department created MPE to facilitate exchanges of information between all participants within a specific partnership or coalition.
As our Defense One colleagues have reported, MPE also functions as a collection of common services that gives users access to only what they are cleared to see.
Many allies and partners do not share the same classification system, therefore another digital communications platform like MPE is needed to bridge that gap.
The new MPE OM&S program appears to be a consolidation of at least 70 prior contracts, according to Deltek data.
GDIT will perform work under the new contract through Dec. 9, 2035.