BTG Awarded Over $12 Million in New GIS Contracts
Company Expanding Its Practice in Geographic Information Systems
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2000-- BTG, Inc. (NASDAQ: BTGI - news), an information systems and technical services company, announced that it has been awarded more than $12 million dollars in new contracts for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services this year.
The company said the new awards to its Geospatial Division have come primarily from U.S. Government defense and civilian agencies. The terms of the contracts range from one to two years; work will be performed at BTG facilities and client sites in the United States, South America, and Japan.
Senior Vice President Les Rose, General Manager of BTG Applied Engineering Solutions, said the company is now expanding its geospatial offerings to clients in the commercial sector. ``Geospatial services comprise one of our fastest growing business practices and those services are as valuable to private sector organizations as they are to our government clients. With our depth of experience and expertise in GIS, Remote Sensing, Range Support, Training, and Facilities Utilization, we can move our customers to higher levels of efficiency in a much shorter time.'' Rose said the Geospatial Division, which already had operations in Cape Canaveral and Niceville, Florida, Santa Maria, California, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, opened two new facilities this year at client sites in Hawaii and Japan.
Joe Staton, Director of BTG's Geospatial Division, said U.S. military customers have selected BTG to provide aerial mapping and GIS services in support of base comprehensive planning, airfield obstruction surveys, contingency planning, and facilities management. ``Our technical staff members are also retained on customer sites at military, federal and civilian installations to help with enterprise GIS development for critical decision making. As a result of BTG's reputation for no-nonsense GIS implementation, referrals and follow-on awards have been the primary source of new business this year.'' Staton said he expects the expansion of GIS business to continue.
A GIS is a computer-based system and associated data bases that assemble information identified according to geographic location, allowing it to be stored, manipulated and displayed. Uses include resource management, contingency planning, and scientific research. BTG's GIS systems, for example, have been used to predict potential flooding caused by changing weather patterns, and in classifying dune vegetation to preserve the ecology of the coast along the Pacific Northwest. |
