American Management Systems, Inc.
American Management Systems American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was founded in 1970 as a technology and management consulting firm. It was founded by a group of five former United States Department of Defense officials who worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson , Inc., Fairfax, Va., is receiving a $5,058,324 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract (N00104-02-D-Q008) for management, technical, and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , studies, and implementation of specific initiatives for Secretary of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the U.S. Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel organizations. NAVSEA consists of four shipyards, eight "warfare centers" (two undersea and six surface), four major shipbuilding locations and the NAVSEA headquarters, , naval shipyards, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, and Military Sealift Command A major command of the US Navy, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated common-user sealift transportation services to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a global basis. Also called MSC. See also transportation component command. . This modification also exercises an option to extend the ordering period of the contract until Sept. 30, 2003. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Va. (estimated 28 percent); Norfolk, Va. (estimated 20 percent); Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor, land-locked harbor, on the southern coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, W of Honolulu; one of the largest and best natural harbors in the E Pacific Ocean. In the vicinity are many U.S. military installations, including the chief U.S. , Hawaii (estimated 20 percent); Washington, D.C. (estimated 13 percent); Kittery, Maine (estimated 12 percent); and Bremerton, Wash. (estimated seven percent), and is to be completed by September 2004. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity.
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