Technica to provide Air Force IT services.

• Author: Machi, Vivienne
• Position: Global Defense

The Air Force has awarded a potential five-year, $224 million task order to Technica Corp. to fill the service's information technology needs.

Through the Air Force National Capital Region Information Technology Services contract, Technica--which is based in Dulles, Virginia--will support the IT systems of the service's headquarters, Air Force District of Washington, office of the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Lenny Schaefer, the company's director of Air Force programs.

It will also support Air Force activities at the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and other locations within a 300-mile radius of Washington, D.C., he said.

"These customers range from operations-level military and civilian personnel to the highest senior leaders in the U.S. Air Force and DoD," he said.

The contract provides "the full spectrum" of IT services support, including a help desk, customer service technicians, break/fix services, voice system support, network center operations and more, he noted. The major support areas are program management, IT operations and maintenance, systems engineering and special project support.

Technica will also provide secure communications technology support to the National Military Command Center, Schaefer said.

"The NMCC is the communications nexus between our nation's warfighters and the Pentagon, and...