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World Wide Technology Awarded U.S. Navy SPAWAR Contracts

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Systems integrator World Wide Technology has been awarded two Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic contracts by the U.S. Navy to provide commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment to the U.S. government. The Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Multiple Award Contracts (MAC) have a combined potential value of $1 billion over five years.

Through the first of these two contract awards (contract: N6523612D4121), WWT will support SPAWAR by providing COTS equipment to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. federal civilian agencies that will meet existing and future mission support requirements in the areas of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The second contract award (contract: N6523612D4135), enables WWT to provide the U.S. government with COTS communication products.

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