General Dynamics to provide IT services for Army Information Technology Agency

FAIRFAX, Va. 21 April, 2012. General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for the U.S. Army Information Technology Agency (USAITA) to support the Services Directorate Enterprise Data Center Enterprise Backup, Mainframe and Server Services Program at the Pentagon. Theone-year contract with one option year has a potential value of $20.2 million if all options are exercised.

Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide unclassified and classified mainframe computerized processing for ITA users worldwide, as well as management of server and application hosting and storage services. The company will also define metrics to measure performance and develop a design solution to migrate the directorate to a service-oriented architecture framework.

General Dynamics has supported the USAITA at the Pentagon in several facets for over 15 years.