Naval Surface Warfare Center to upgrade systems

General Dynamics Information Technology will provide information technology and engineering services to the Navy under a five-year, $18.6 million contract.

The Seaport-e contract vehicle specifically calls for General Dynamics IT to upgrade various machinery systems at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, company officials said today.

The majority of the work will be performed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Ship Systems Engineering Station at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center.

GDIT computer programmers, software and systems engineers, and program management experts will provide the Philadelphia facility with software development, software process documentation and software data collection.

General Dynamics will also perform quality assurance and support the development of policy and procedures such as software certification and safety, the officials said.

GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics Corp., of Falls Church, Va. General Dynamics C4 Systems, another unit of the company, announced Dec. 2 that it would consolidate purchasing for Army training systems under a five-year, $200 million contract.