Intel agency awards $1 billion in IT work

A slew of big players in government consulting and contracting will share in the $1 billion new spending program being launched by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The list of winners is long for the engineering contract set up to deliver new technology for gathering intelligence information via satellite, among other services.

The companies include Accenture, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Computer Sciences Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics One Source, Northrop Grumman, OG Systems, QVine Corporation and Science Application International.

The contract is known as the Total Application Services for Enterprise Requirements or "TASER." This TASER award is designed to provide services in the areas of engineering and trade studies, pilots and prototypes, and application sustainment, according to the NGA.

The NGA expects to award TASER contracts for integration and deployment next month. The agency is charged with providing timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. It is a DoD combat-support agency and a member of the national intelligence community.

For more on the big contract:
- see this InformationWeek article