RS Information Systems Wins $4.8 Million Technology Services Contract with U.S. Department of Agriculture.

MCLEAN, Va. -- RS Information Systems, Inc. (RSIS) has been awarded a $4.8 million technology conversion contract by the Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the company announced today.

The award, made through the RSIS GSA FAST contract held by RSIS, is for technology support to the Aerial Photography Field Office of the Farm Service Agency.

"We performed similar technical support for the Department of Agriculture in 2003," said Rodney P. Hunt, RSIS President and CEO. "This contract, representing significant growth in our support for DOA, is due largely to our excellent past performance."

RSIS will convert manually delineated farm boundary information into topological, structured data sets of Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries. The result will be a single data file for each U.S. county used for USDA GIS database-driven application processing.

RSIS, the prime contractor, and Pixxures, Inc., its Arvada, Colo.-based partner on the contract, will complete the majority of the contract by the end of this year. The contract is called Common Land Unit (CLU) Digitizing Services.

RSIS provides advanced technical and business solutions in information technology, systems engineering, telecommunications, scientific support and management consulting to more than 90 federal customers. With 1,700 employees and revenues exceeding $260 million in 2003, the company is ranked in the top 50 on Washington Technology's annual list of the largest federal IT contractors nationally.

An African American-owned firm, RSIS last year received NASA's highly coveted George M. Low Award, the agency's premier award for contractor excellence, and was named Contractor of the Year by Professional Services Council, whose members include the largest federal contractors in the country.