EDS has been awarded a contract to provide I.T. support services to the Defense Manpower Data Center. Part of the contract includes support of the agency’s Common Access Card.
The contract, which runs one year followed by four one-year option periods, extends a relationship between DMDC and EDS that has spanned nearly 30 years. The contract is worth $179 million if all options are exercised.
One of the programs EDS will support with the contracts is DMDC’s issuance of more than 15 million Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 compliant, Java-based, Common Access Cards. The CAC program is the department’s key tool to authenticate the identities of active duty, reserve, National Guard and DOD civilian and contractor personnel.
DMDC also operates other programs that impact individual members of the DOD, as well as other departments and agencies. The programs support active duty, reserve, and retired military members and their families, and civilian employees of the DOD. These programs include verifying military entitlements and benefits; providing identity management for the DOD; helping identify fraud and waste in DOD systems; conducting personnel surveys; and assisting military members and their spouses with relocations, quality of life issues and transition to civilian life. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
