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Lockheed Wins Defense Message System Deal

Dawn S. Onley writes in The Washington Post:

Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a $750 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to sustain and support the Defense Message System.

DMS is an organizational messaging system used by the services and defense agencies to send e-mails at all classification levels. Through the system, users can send not only text messages but also maps, drawings, video and spreadsheets. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract runs for one base year with nine one-year options and was awarded to Lockheed Martin's Integrated Systems and Solutions division in Gaithersburg. The original DMS contract, valued at $1.6 billion and also awarded to Lockheed, expires April 30.

posted by Fergie @ 4/10/2006 09:37:00 AM