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Akima awarded $13M Defense Intelligence Agency knowledge management contract

By TechTaffy Desk

RiverTech, a subsidiary of Akima, has been awarded a contract to provide knowledge management (KM) support services to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Directorate of Operations.

The award has a five-year period of performance and a total contract value of approximately $13 million, if all options are exercised, the company said in a statement. RiverTech will provide KM support services to ingest, transform, load, maintain and establish data sets.

The contract was awarded under the OASIS Small Business Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Pool contract.

[Image courtesy: DIA]

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