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market results from decades of domain expertise, incumbency on
priority programs and continuous innovation to deliver technologies that
meet our customers’ needs. These solutions include:
•fixed and mobile radio and satellite communication systems and
antenna technologies;
•information assurance and encryption, products, systems and
services;
•command-and-control systems; and
•broadband networking.
We improve our customers’ ability to communicate, collaborate and
access vital information. For example, we are the prime contractor for
the Army’s top modernization priority, the Warfighter Information
Network-Tactical (WIN-T), a mobile battlefield communication network
that provides soldiers secure, high-speed, high-capacity voice, data
and video communications. We are responsible for the design,
engineering, integration, production, program management and
support of this network.
We are also the prime contractor on many of the Army’s core
tactical radio programs, including the AN/PRC-154A Rifleman and AN/
PRC-155 two-channel Manpack radios. These products give soldiers
secure mobile voice, video and data communications capabilities,
similar to those available through commercial cellular networks. The
Army has purchased more than 26,000 of these radios from us and
plans to competitively procure more than 240,000. We deliver similar
communications and information-sharing benefits to federal/civilian
customers, including air traffic controller radios to the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA).
Information Systems and Technology also provides many of these
capabilities to non-U.S. public agencies and commercial customers.
For the Canadian Department of National Defence, we developed,
deployed and continue to support the Canadian Army’s fully integrated,
secure combat voice and data network. We leveraged this experience
to deliver the U.K. MoD’s Bowman tactical communication system for
which we provide ongoing support and capability upgrades.
IT solutions and mission support services – We design, build and
operate large-scale secure IT networks and systems and provide
professional and technical services and solutions to the U.S. defense
and intelligence communities; to the Departments of Homeland
Security and Health and Human Services, and other federal/civilian
agencies; and to commercial and international customers. We
specialize in:
•secure wireless and wire-line networks, enterprise infrastructure,
network operations and maintenance;
•health IT solutions and services;
•large-scale data center optimization and modernization; and
•mission operations, simulation and training systems and services.
Information Systems and Technology provides technical-support
personnel and domain specialists to help customers execute their
missions. Our employees develop, install and operate mission systems
on a daily basis. We also supply network-modernization and IT
infrastructure services to U.S. government customers, commercial
wireless network providers, and federal, state and local public safety
agencies. We work closely with our customers to ensure their network
infrastructures are secure, efficient, scalable and cost-effective. We are
at the forefront of cloud technologies and services.
The group is a leading provider in the healthcare IT market,
supporting military and other U.S. government health systems with
critical citizen services for healthcare reform and medical benefits
programs. Our offerings include data management, analytics, fraud
prevention and detection software, process automation and program
management solutions for public and commercial health systems. For
example, we are operating approximately 15 customer contact centers
for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, responding to
consumer inquiries about key programs and providing call center
services for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act program.
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems – We design,
build, deploy and support ISR, naval control systems and cyber security
solutions for customers in the U.S. defense, intelligence and homeland
security communities, and to U.S. allies. Our offerings include:
•signals and information collection, processing and distribution
systems and imagery sensors;
•cyber security solutions and products; and
•open-architecture surface and undersea naval control systems.
Information Systems and Technology provides solutions for classified
programs. Our expertise includes multi-intelligence ground systems,
command-and-control and reconnaissance systems and large-scale,
high-performance data and signal processing. We deliver high-reliability,
long-life sensors and payloads designed to perform in the most extreme
environments, including space payloads and undersea sensor and power
systems.
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