Unisys Receives 10-Year Service Award from Defense Courier Service.MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 1997--Unisys Corp. announced Friday that its Federal Systems Division (FSD) has received a 10-year Service Award from the Defense Courier Service The Defense Courier Service (DCS),is established under the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and is a global courier network for the expeditious, cost-effective, and secure distribution of highly classified and sensitive material. (DCS), the jointly-staffed, Department of Defense command reporting to the United States Transportation Command The unified command with the mission to provide strategic air, land, and sea transportation and common-user port management for the Department of Defense across the range of military operations. Also called USTRANSCOM. . DCS controls a global network of 22 courier stations responsible for the secure movement of the nation's most highly classified and sensitive national security material. Unisys FSD began working with DCS in 1986 providing Unisys U5000/50 and U5000/90 Unix systems, software and maintenance support. Over the years, FSD has upgraded those systems, re-written database software, installed Lotus CC mail, and provided consulting in bar code technology, Defense Data Network integration, digitized I.D. cards and In-Transit Visibility The award presentation was made at the Unisys facility in Reston, and was given to FSD by USAF Major Frederick Bromley III, director of C4 Systems, on behalf of USAF Colonel Clarence Johnson, DCS Commander. Receiving the award for Unisys FSD was T. J. Miller, vice president and general manager, Information Services and Solutions; Bob Delleo, vice president, Information Engineering Services; and Don Panzica, Information Engineering Services program manager. DCS, also known as "The Nation's Couriers," is headquartered in Fort Meade, Md., and supports the Army, Navy, Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, unified commanders, Defense Intelligence Agency Noun 1. Defense Intelligence Agency - an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition DIA , Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of State, U.S. Allies and other federal agencies. Unisys Federal Systems Division Unisys Federal Systems Division has been successfully serving the federal market for more than four decades. The division has a large share of federal government IDIQ IDIQ Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (contracting/procurement) contracts and is a leading provider of systems integration and information technology solutions and services. Last year, for the second year in a row, the division won more than $1.5 billion in new contracts. Some of those included the Department of Transportation, Information Technology Omnibus Procurement; Social Security Administration, IWS/LAN IWS/LAN Intelligent Work Station/Local Area Network ; Defense Information Systems Agency, DEIS II; National Institutes of Health, Image World, and Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners; and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. SEWP SEWP Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement (NASA) SEWP Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (NASA) SEWP Science and Engineering Workforce Project II Networking Products and Workstations. Awards in 1997 include SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. , Consolidated Local Area Network Maintenance; Department of Agriculture, ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. Support Services; General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. , Virtual Data Center Services; Department of State, Office of Foreign Missions; State of Virginia, Year 2000; and DISA, Nuclear Planning and Execution System. Further information is available at: http://www.federal.unisys.com Unisys -- The Information Management Company Unisys is one of a select group of companies with the portfolio of services, technologies and third party alliances needed to deliver the benefits of information management -- helping clients use their information asset to enhance their competitiveness and responsiveness to customers. Our expertise in information management is founded on the strengths of our three global businesses: consulting, solutions and systems integration; industry-leading technologies; and comprehensive services and products supporting distributed computing environments. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com -- for further information. -0- Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corp. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Unisys Corp. Mark Root, 703/556-5345 Internet: rootm@federal.unisys.com |
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