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Booz Allen Hamilton Receives Task Orders To Support NGA

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, October 19th, 2012

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Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] yesterday said it has won eight major task orders to provide management and technical services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) through the Enterprise Support to Management and Resources for Technical Services (ESMARTS) contract. ESMARTS is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a maximum value of $873 million, and will provide services to NGA through December 2016. Booz provided similar support to NGA under the predecessor SMARTS contract initiated in 2006. Through ESMARTS, Booz…

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