BTG on Team Awarded Joint Staff
Systems Engineering Contract
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, October 30, 2000 - BTG, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTGI), an
information systems and technical services company, announced that it is a
member of the FC Business Systems (FCBS) team that has been awarded an $8
million contract for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon under the Information
Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP-II) contract. The Information
Technology Engineering, Integration, and Logistics Support contract, which
has a term of one year with the potential of four option years, was awarded
by the Systems Engineering and Integration Division of the Joint Staff
Information Resources Management Office at the Pentagon. BTG will lead the
execution team of FCBS, CACI and ManTech.
The team will provide services that include systems planning, requirements
analysis, integration engineering, computer lab testing and logistics
activities. BTG has extensive experience in this area, providing similar
services to the Joint Services under the Joint Deployable Intelligence
Support System (JDISS), for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA),
and for the Department of the Army Information Management Center (IMCEN) at
the Pentagon. BTG is also leading the team for an earlier Joint Staff
contract, providing information technology support services under a $23
million program awarded by the Operations Division of the Joint Staff.
The ITOP-II program, under which both the Joint Staff systems engineering
and information technology contracts were issued, is a $10 billion
government-wide procurement vehicle under which federal agencies can acquire
a full range of information technology services and products from teams of
contractors.
BTG Senior Vice President Les Rose, General Manager of Applied Engineering
Solutions, said the team is pleased with the opportunity to expand its
support to the Joint Staff. "Our team looks forward to a partnership with
the Joint Staff Information Resources Management Office, providing the
engineering support to put innovative and proven solutions in place, as well
as the operations and maintenance support needed to maintain technology
insertion in the Joint Staff enterprise." |
