General Dynamics Information Technology, a U.S. systems integrator headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with major offices worldwide, has been awarded a $9 million sole-source cloud services contract for Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services (CHES) by the U.S. Air Force.
The CHES environment is being developed to support the delivery of Microsoft Office 365 services and provides the ability for the Air Force to consume additional cloud service offerings in the future, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, SAP and others.
This Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services contract was originally awarded to NES Associates LLC, a subsidiary of CSRA, but CSRA was acquired by General Dynamics on April 3, 2018.
“We are excited to continue the work under the leadership of Stone Baggiano, GDIT’s Director of Logistics and Engineering, and expand our cloud offerings to the Department of Defense,” said Senior Vice President Ken Deutsch, head of General Dynamics Information Technology’s Defense Division. “This contract will serve as a springboard for hybrid cloud solutions and provide our DoD customers with more options as they navigate their journey to the cloud.”
U.S. Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency
CSRA’s legacy business has supported the design and implementation efforts for both the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) cloud computing programs from the onset. Prior to CHES, the company supported the Air Force and DLA cloud engineering efforts for the Collaboration Pathfinder program. The company’s engineers developed a “unique global hybrid-cloud networking, computing and storage architecture capable of meeting all customer requirements.”
The Air Force and DLA are the first Department of Defense (DoD) organizations to consume Microsoft’s Office 365 and Azure, which were the first DoD FedRAMP Impact Level 5 cloud service offerings made available for DoD consumption. As a result, the company worked closely with Microsoft and DISA to design this environment from the ground up.
By leveraging these commercial cloud services, the Air Force can boost productivity, cut costs and increase collaboration, stated General Dynamics Information Technology – a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The new services would meet industry performance standards, offer redundancy and contingency features and provide “state-of-the-art” technology enhancements to improve user experience and minimize service disruption.
