General Dynamics, Government Systems Corp.General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2006 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. , Government Systems Corp., Worldwide Telecommunications Systems, Needham Heights, Mass., is being issued a $102,199,015 delivery order for Firm Requirement Base Level Information Infrastructure (BLII BLII Base Level Information Infrastructure ) improvements at Navy installations in Europe, the Far East and Bahrain. This order contains options, which if exercised, may bring the total cumulative value of this order to $137,867,782 depending on user requirements and funds availability. This delivery order is being issued under a previously competed $2,934,185,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price ViViD contract awarded July 29, 1997. The ViViD contract includes Voice, Video, and Data (ViViD) modernization of the Department of the Navy's base-level information infrastructure. The modernization provided for the use of commercial hardware, software and services required to implement a base-level infrastructure capable of supporting and integrating ViViD that can physically extend from th!e public switch network to ships docked pier-side. In this delivery order, General Dynamics will provide an integrated Intranet that will have the capability to use common Navy applications across the enterprise, provide a secure operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and provide stringent configuration management capabilities and processes. The contractor will design/engineer, procure, install, integrate, test and deliver outside plant (fiber-optic cable) upgrades, inside plant (CAT 5/5E and fiber-optic cable) upgrades and Information Technology Service Centers and Information Technology Outreach Centers in order to provide the Government the capability to deliver basic network services to all Navy users outside the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. . The contractor will utilize the NMCI NMCI Navy/Marine Corps Intranet NMCI National Multi-Cultural Institute CONUS technical solution and best industry practices to minimize the overall total cost of ownership of the BLII OCONUS OCONUS Outside the Continental United States OCONUS Outside Contiguous United States Information Technology enterprise. Work will be performed at various locations outside the c!ontinental U.S. (OCONUS) including the Far East (50%), Euro!pe (40%), and Bahrain (10%) and is expected to be completed by October 2003. Order funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This order was competitively procured with two offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare naval warfare Military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea and waged against other seagoing vessels or targets on land or in the air. The earliest naval attacks were raids by the armed men of a tribe or town using fishing boats or merchant ships. Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N68939-97-D-0041). |
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