Alion Awarded $84.7 M Task Order to Support Naval Sea Systems IT Management

(Source: Alion Science and Technology; issued June 24, 2009)
MCLEAN, Va. --- Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions provider, has been awarded an $84.7 million task order to support the Naval Sea Systems (NAVSEA) Command Information Officer (CIO) by consolidating and enhancing key IT systems, including the NAVSEA Intranet. The Alion team will support and manage the NAVSEA Legacy applications and operations as they transition into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) program or the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Tool. The team will also assist NAVSEA in defining requirements and design standards for its follow-on system, the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN). In addition, NAVSEA is consolidating all of their external Web sites and migrating to single-point hosting while the internal sites are migrated to a Microsoft SharePoint-based system. Alion is leading the effort and consolidating the sites under an information portal called I-NavSea. “This contract helps NAVSEA combine a majority of its support services under one contractor, which improves technical efficiency, reduces costs, improves IT security and provides an enhanced integration of all NAVSEA enterprise IT functions and assets,” said Timer Keenan, Alion Senior Vice President and Manager of the Strategic Operations Group. “Our goal is to assist NAVSEA in viewing information technology as a contributor to mission effectiveness versus a simple cost of doing business.” Alion has been providing IT consultation and services to the NAVSEA CIO since 2000. Under this new task order, which has one base year, an option year, and three Award Term Years, Alion will provide a broad range of operational and technical services, including resource management, enterprise application management, database and software development, and network management. To support the task order, issued under the NAVSEA SeaPort-E contract, Alion is leading a team that includes General Dynamics IT, Infosoft, Pac Solutions, Information Innovators and Imagine One. Alion Science and Technology (pronounced: ah-LYE-un) is an employee-owned technology solutions company delivering technical expertise and operational support to the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and commercial customers. Based in McLean, Va., Alion has employee-owners at major offices, customer sites and laboratories worldwide.