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GDIT lands EPA contracts valued at $380M

Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has received two contracts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency valued up to $380 million, the company announced Wednesday.

GDIT will provide program support and infrastructure to the EPA’s Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation by applying technical, scientific, analytical chemistry and IT services under a contract valued up to $195 million. The Superfund Quality and Sample Support contract has a two-year base period followed by three two-year options. GDIT’s services will support the office’s mission to clean up contaminated Superfund sites.

Under a second contract, GDIT will provide technical, cyber, education and program management services to the EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience division under a five-year $185 million technical support contract to protect and secure the nation’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure from natural disasters, terrorism, cyberattacks and climate change.

“For more than 40 years, GDIT has partnered with the EPA on many environmental initiatives that are vital to the protection of public health in communities across the U.S.,” Darby Chellis Bade, GDIT’s vice president for EPA programs and climate initiatives, said in a statement. “At GDIT, we are committed to sustainability and delivering mission-critical environmental programs for our customers. This work inspires our scientists and IT professionals who are passionate about protecting our environment and enhancing climate resilience for current and future generations.”

GDIT is a business unit of Reston-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and in 2022 reported $39.4 billion in revenue, an increase of 2.4% from 2021.

GDIT awarded $661M EPA contract

Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has received a $661.6 million contract to modernize and manage IT services for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The award, announced April 28, includes developing and operating the EPA’s enterprise IT infrastructure and applications. Services include cloud computing, platform management, network operations, enterprise identity access management and cybersecurity. The award has a one-year base with six one-year option periods.

“Technology and ingenuity are critical to furthering the government’s environmental mission,” GDIT President Amy Gilliland said in a statement. “GDIT will partner with the EPA to deliver a reliable, secure and technologically advanced IT infrastructure that will support agency initiatives fundamental to protecting human health and the environment.”

GDIT will also standardize the agency’s IT architecture to add emerging technology, provide scalability to support the EPA’s future workforce and enhance customer experience.

“Supporting the EPA’s mission has been a focus of GDIT for more than 40 years,” said Darby Chellis Bade, GDIT vice president for EPA programs and executive lead for climate change initiatives. “We are thrilled to continue this partnership and enable the EPA to operate its IT infrastructure more efficiently.”

GDIT is a subsidiary of Reston-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics Corp.. The parent company employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021.