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The Northrop Grumman Integrated Battle Command System is in service with Poland and the US Army with another 20 countries believed to have expressed an interest.
Leading Systems Integrator MicroTech has been selected as a Prime Vendor for the US Army $2.5 Billion Operations, Planning, Training and Resource Support Services (OPTARSS II) contract, a flagship vehicle for US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). MicroTech will leverage its proven and certified business processes and solutions to assist our troops. MicroTech will provide Operational Planning; Training; Modeling and Simulation; Flight Operations; Mobilization Plans and Execution; Deployment Operations; Force Protection and Transformation Services.
"This strategic DoD-wide award validates our capabilities to join the battle and meet the most pressing challenges of Warfighters," said Tony Jimenez, President & CEO of MicroTech. "MicroTech has a solid history of ID/IQ success with all service branches. OPTARSS II not only extends our capabilities across the DoD, but also showcases the competence of our staff of highly trained professionals - many of them military veterans - who understand the business of government and the demands of force support."
MicroTech provides Technology Services, Systems Engineering, Product Solutions, Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) and Innovation & Integration primarily to the public sector. The organization has made Quality Assurance an important part of its customer service focus, achieving ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 20000 certifications in the first five years of being in business, along with an elite CMMI Maturity Level 3 rating. A Prime Contractor on more-than-100 Federal projects and 25-plus contract vehicles, MicroTech offers access to 2500 vendors and over a million technology products across the government. MicroTech is the only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and 8(a) company that earned an OPTARSS II award.
"OPTARSS II will accelerate acquisition timelines and push our most transformational Warfighter Support Solutions to the edge," Jimenez said. "MicroTech is honored to be selected to carry-out this important mission."
Source: MicroTech
The Northrop Grumman Integrated Battle Command System is in service with Poland and the US Army with another 20 countries believed to have expressed an interest.
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