MicroTech selected as prime on $2.5B warfighter support contract

21st March 2011 - 13:00 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

RSS

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

Follow Shephard News on Twitter

Author

The Shephard News Team

As part of our promise to deliver comprehensive coverage to Premium News and Defence Insight …

Read full bio

More from Digital Battlespace

AUSA 2024: General Micro Systems adds four new products to the X9 Spider family

The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
BAE Systems gets go-ahead for second phase of mission communications programme

DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
Just Released: Space Technology Report

Why space is an essential part of modern military capabilities
Work-from-home warfare: the power of mixed reality

Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
Northrop Grumman receives follow-on contract for CUAS and C-IED systems

The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage AI software selected for UK Strategic Command’s Defence Support

Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.