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contract wins

N2W partnering kick-off

By: John Pilot
The Naval Air Systems Command – Special Communications
Mission Solutions (NAVAIR-SCMS) and MIL REPS attended
the Next National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West
(N2W) kick-off partnering workshop 24-25 April in St. Louis, MO.
Approximately 100 people attended the off-site event from the
NGA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with the prime
contractor and subcontractors.
McCarthy HITT – Next NGA West JV was awarded the
$711,651,970 design-build contract for the construction of the Next
NGA West (N2W) campus that will be built in St. Louis, Missouri
with a tentative completion date of April 2023.
Next NGA West is the largest federal investment project in the
history of St. Louis. It is a mega-project jointly managed by the
NGA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Air Force.
The NAVAIR-SCMS MIL team is responsible for the development of the N2W information technology (IT) requirements and design
recommendations. A successful N2W IT System Requirements Review was held in December 2018 at NGA and included the delivery
of a baselined IT System Requirements Document. Currently in the design phase of the project, the NAVAIR-SCMS MIL team is
evaluating IT infrastructure technologies and will provide IT design solutions for network transport, data center, user facing, and
cybersecurity.
The 97-acre campus includes the 712,000-square-foot office building, parking structures, visitor control center, and other features. The
site is located in the historic St. Louis Place neighborhood at the intersection of Jefferson and Cass avenues.

ITS Sector celebrates two new

LOC contracts

MIL and the ITS Sector are pleased to announce the award of desk support and is responsible for documenting, categorizing,
two new contracts with the Office of the Chief Information and assigning incident tickets and service requests, and restoring
Officer (OCIO) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The first award services or fulfilling service requests where appropriate.
was made to MIL in April 2019 to assist OCIO’s Design and Congratulations to the entire ITS Sector, and the LOC support
Development Division in designing, implementing, and reviewing team in particular, for these two most recent wins!
application and cloud architectural solutions in support of the
Enterprise Copyright System (ECS). The Library selected MIL
support the Library’s multi-year effort to modernize and cloud- On the winning team!
to deliver an experienced cloud-native application architect to
enable ECS. ECS is one of the Library’s mission-critical systems MIL is pleased to be a part of the winning team selected to
and therefore must be “secure, highly scalable, and fully cloud support the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
native.” (PCLOB). An independent agency within the Executive Branch,
In early June 2019, MIL received word of a second LOC OCIO PCLOB was established as a result of the 9/11 Commission
award—this one a follow-on task to continue the Library's IT Act of 2007. The Board’s mission is to ensure that the federal
operations support, e.g., IT service desk, asset and configuration government’s efforts to prevent terrorism are balanced with
management (hardware and software), audiovisual and the need to protect privacy and civil liberties. MIL VP Paul
conference support, software packaging and testing (core and Marshall will be providing his expertise on the PCLOB effort as a
non-core), ITSM tool management, customer training and subcontractor to RMA Associates. We are thrilled with this win as
education, and continual service improvement and customer it represents a new agency for MIL.
satisfaction. MIL currently supplies the Library with 24x7 service

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