General Dynamics Awarded $19 Million for Modernization of Navy Communications Overseas
NEEDHAM, Mass. - General Dynamics Network Systems has been awarded a contract to enhance data networks for the Navy at 16 locations around the world. The value of this contract is $19 million. General Dynamics Network Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
Under this contract, General Dynamics is implementing technology enhancements to the server farm and information assurance systems installed under the $150 million Navy Base Level Information Infrastructure (BLII) program awarded to General Dynamics in December 2001. The company is conducting site surveys, completing site preparation, providing hardware and software, performing configuration and integration of the server farm and information assurance systems, and conducting operational testing.
Under BLII, General Dynamics is providing the data network needs of land-based Navy personnel overseas. The company is designing, engineering and installing upgrades for the data networks and network infrastructure at 81 Navy sites in support of 35,000 users at bases in Korea, Spain, Britain, Japan, Singapore and Diego Garcia. This work is expected to be completed in the fall of 2004.
“Our Navy customer has been pleased with our ability to address emerging technical requirements,” said Steve Briganti, the General Dynamics vice president responsible for the contract. “Our team’s focus on high standards of delivery and our strong partnership with the Navy have resulted in outstanding opportunities for General Dynamics to enhance the Navy’s data communications in support of its warfighters.”
The Navy Space & Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, Calif., competitively awarded the BLII program to General Dynamics under its Voice, Video and Data (ViViD) contract.
General Dynamics Network Systems is a world-class IT architect and systems integrator of converged voice, video and data networks that are secure, scalable, survivable and interoperable. Among its current programs is the renovation of the communications infrastructure at the Pentagon, where the company is meeting the Dept. of Defense’s current and future voice, video and data communications needs. General Dynamics also provides data network design and installation and voice-switching upgrades at Army and Air Force installations, base telecommunications upgrades for the Marine Corps and pier-side telecommunications infrastructure for the Navy.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 69,400 people worldwide and anticipates 2004 revenue of $19 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation.
# # #
Any "forward-looking statements" contained in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Monday, August 2, 2004
Press Contact: (781) 455-2286
|
NEWSLETTER
|
| Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list |
|
|
|
