NGA Awards $1B TASER Total Application Services for Enterprise Requirements Contract

February 19, 2010

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded the Total Application Services for Enterprise Requirements contract to:

Accenture National Security Services; BAE Systems Information Technology; Boeing Autometric; Booz Allen Hamilton; Computer Services Corporation Enforcement, Security & Intelligence Group; Environmental Systems Research Institute; General Dynamics One Source; Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services; NJVC; Northrop Grumman; OG Systems; QVine Corporation; Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems; and Science Application International Corporation.

The TASER contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity task order contract where NGA will obtain engineering services across multiple functional categories including: engineering and trade studies; pilots and prototypes; integration and deployment; and application sustainment. This announcement concerns awards made within the engineering and trade studies, pilots and prototypes and the application sustainment areas. Awards in the integration and deployment area are scheduled to be made by the middle of March 2010.

The objectives addressed in this program's acquisition plan have been prioritized on the context of Intelligence Community and NGA senior leadership goals and objectives. Specific contract objectives include:

evaluation of newly developed technology for its application to the National System for Geospatial Intelligence; integration of new technology into the NSG; and sustainment of the NSG applications within the construct of the application service provider/infrastructure service provider construct.

The contract awards are for a five-year base period with no additional option years. The base contract amount is expected to total $1 billion for all awards made over the term of the contract.

NGA is a DoD combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community. The agency's mission is to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), which is the exploitation of satellite or airborne images, fused with other intelligence and geospatial information like mapping, charting and geodesy, to help warfighters and national decision makers visualize what they need to know. NGA is the nation's eyes.