GDIT Awarded $1.5 Billion Enterprise IT Modernization Contract to Strengthen US Strategic Command’s Operational Readiness
The company will leverage digital engineering, AI, and cyber capabilities to enhance strategic deterrence, including critical nuclear command-and-control systems.
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced that it was awarded an enterprise IT modernization contract to strengthen the US Strategic Command’s (STRATCOM) operational readiness. The new $1.5 billion contract, awarded in May, covers a one-year base period and six option years.
STRATCOM oversees the nation’s strategic deterrence, global strike, nuclear command and control, and electromagnetic spectrum operations worldwide. To support its global missions, STRATCOM requires a cutting-edge enterprise IT network environment that connects data and systems to national decision makers and mobile warfighters.
Under this contract, GDIT will leverage its digital engineering capabilities to cut costs, increase efficiency, and enhance collaboration among mission partners. The company will also integrate artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies into STRATCOM’s enterprise data to empower decision makers to act quickly. Additionally, GDIT will transition STRATCOM to a new hybrid cloud environment to enable greater flexibility and scalability. To protect the combatant command’s networks and data from evolving cyber threats, the company will also implement advanced cybersecurity and zero-trust solutions.
“Modernizing STRATCOM’s IT capabilities is critical to protecting our national security and maintaining our strategic deterrence edge,” said Brian Sheridan, GDIT’s senior vice president for Defense. “We look forward to delivering a secure, agile, and resilient network that enables our warfighters to be better connected, informed, and ready.”
The award further expands the company’s mission-critical IT services for combatant commands. GDIT also provides digital modernization services to the US Central Command and technical and mission support services to the US Special Operations Command.