General Dynamics Wins $185M Air Force Cybersecurity Contract

General Dynamics’ technology and professional services business unit, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), has entered a deal worth $185 million to provide cybersecurity services to the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC). 

The operation has a one-year base period, with the option of extending for an additional four. 

The AFCEC is responsible for the planning, design and construction of Air Force facilities, and overseeing the environmental compliance and restoration of buildings.

Under the contract’s terms, GDIT will research cybersecurity threats to the Air Force’s industrial control systems – including building automation, life safety, utility monitoring and airport control – and create new methods of mitigating these threats.

General Dynamics said it will use its cybersecurity and zero trust capabilities to complete the project at 188 installations worldwide.

“Protecting our operational technologies from our adversaries is vital to our national security,” said Brian Sheridan, GDIT’s senior vice president for defense. “As a long-standing partner of the Air Force, we look forward to reimagining new ways to secure its critical infrastructure.”

The deal comes a year after GDIT won all initial task orders on a $4.5 billion Department of the Air Force Security Support Services, where GDIT implemented cybersecurity and communications analysis services.

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GDIT was awarded a $922 million contract in March to modernize U.S. Central Command’s enterprise information technology infrastructure, using cloud, AI and machine learning, and zero trust capabilities to “strengthen operational readiness.”