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provide training and IT support services for critical Army intelligence opera-
tions, including unmanned aircraft systems training units. We integrate
and operate systems that create lifelike training scenarios, helping operators
improve their proficiency at a fraction of the cost of live-action exercises.
Information Systems and Technology also supplies network-
modernization and IT infrastructure services to U.S. government cus-
tomers. As one of the U.S. Air Force’s leading partners for network mod-
ernization, the group has provided IT support services to more than 75
Air Force bases, and it currently supports the Air Force’s main operating
bases. The group also has provided continuous enterprise-wide IT serv-
ices and support to the U.S. Senate for more than five years.
In addition, we are a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions
that meet the fast-growing needs for technology modernization of
government and commercial healthcare organizations. Our offerings
include data management, analytics, fraud prevention and detection
software, decision support and process automation solutions. In
Afghanistan and Iraq, the group supports the Army’s military healthcare
IT mission, helping ensure continuity of care for injured soldiers by
providing accurate and timely information to medical staff both in the
field and at treatment facilities. For the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, we are supporting the government’s implementation of health-
care reform and medical benefits programs, including facilitating a
program to provide retirees with prescription health coverage.
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems – We also provide
mission-related systems development, integration and operations
support to customers in the U.S. defense, intelligence and homeland
security communities, and to U.S. allies. These offerings include:
•open-architecture mission systems;
•signals and information collection, processing and distribution systems;
•design, development and integration of imagery solutions;
•sensors and cameras;
•special-purpose computing and
•cyber security services and products.
We have a 50-year legacy of providing advanced fire control systems
for Navy submarine programs, and currently are developing and
integrating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and hardware
upgrades to improve the tactical control capabilities for multiple submarine
classes. This initiative leads the implementation of the Navy's open
architecture and open business model approach on submarines with a
design that emphasizes shared standards, providing greater interoperability,
scalability and supplier independence. Capitalizing on this expertise and
open architecture approach, the group developed the core mission
system for the Navy’s Independence Class of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS),
and it is the ship mission systems integrator on the Joint High Speed
Vessel (JHSV) program for the Army and the Navy.
Information Systems and Technology continues to expand its imagery
offerings. For example, the group recently integrated cameras and
optics with algorithms and sensors to enhance customers’ ability to
gather and interpret visual data. This group also produces the Defense
Department’s most-widely used imagery-analysis software suite. This
software is currently providing actionable information derived from raw
intelligence and archived imagery to more than 10,000 intelligence and
tactical users.
Information Systems and Technology’s contracts in securing and
protecting organizations from network attacks have resulted in a market-
leading position in cyber security. The group performs data recovery,
forensic examinations and diagnostics as a prime contractor for the DoD
Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the world’s largest accredited cyber crime
laboratory. It is also the principal support contractor for the Department
of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
(US-CERT), which provides response support to and defense against
cyber attacks for U.S. executive branch agencies, and information
sharing and collaboration with state and local government, industry and
international partners.
The group’s diverse customer base has stimulated strong growth
opportunities in each of its three principal markets, including:
•the warfighter’s need for improved tactical communications and real-
time intelligence;
•IT network and business system consolidation and modernization, and
military and federal requirements for healthcare IT services and
•the growing requirements for cyber security services among homeland
security, defense, intelligence and commercial customers.
Revenues for the Information Systems and Technology group were 34
percent of our consolidated revenues in 2008 and 2009 and 36 percent
in 2010. Revenues by major products and services were as follows:
Year Ended December 31 2008 2009 2010
Tactical communication systems $ 4,455 $ 4,713 $ 5,134
Information technology services 3,536 3,920 4,262
Intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance systems 2,047 2,169 2,216
Total Information Systems and
Technology $ 10,038 $ 10,802 $ 11,612
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