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DRC Wins $6.1 Million Enterprise Architecture Support Contract

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Dynamics Research, a provider of management consulting, engineering, science and technology solutions to federal and state governments, has been awarded a new $6.1 million contract to support the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS). The contract was awarded through the Network Centric Solutions 2 (NETCENTS 2) Enterprise Integration and Service Management (EISM) vehicle. It has a period of performance of four years.

Under the terms of the contract, DRC will enhance and manage AFMS’s enterprise architecture capabilities as well as integrate, centralize and streamline existing enterprise architecture tools, frameworks, models and artifacts.

NETCENTS 2 is the Air Force follow-on of the NETCENTS umbrella vehicle for telecommunications and IT services. Under the NETCENTS 2 EISM contract, the Air Force is expected to procure IT portfolio management analyses, enterprise-wide and cross-domain engineering and architectural analyses, enterprise business process reengineering solutions, and services to develop plans and strategies to implement new Service Oriented Architectures.

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