GDIT lands $450M CMS contract

Falls Church-based federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology won a $450 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced Thursday.

Under the contract, GDIT will continue operating and modernizing CMS’ Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS), an accounting system that standardizes federal financial accounting for the centers’ programs. HIGLAS processes approximately 4.5 million Medicare claims daily and more than $2 trillion in payments annually, supporting more than 147 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a news release.

GDIT has worked with CMS for more than 40 years.

“Our continued support of HIGLAS enables us to further advance CMS’ commitment to improve the quality, efficiency and fiscal soundness of its most mission-critical systems,” Kamal Narang, GDIT vice president and general manager for its federal health sector, said in a statement.

GDIT will also manage the day-to-day operation of HIGLAS and use artificial intelligence/machine learning to find potential anomalies in accounting data. The contractor will also host the system’s primary data processing and disaster recovery systems.

The contract has an eight-month base period with seven option years.

GDIT is a subsidiary of Reston-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics, which employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and reported $39.4 billion in 2022 revenue. GDIT has 30,000 employees, 8,000 of whom work in Virginia.