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Expeditionary Technology Receives Army’s Field and Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) Contract Valued Up To Billion $36B

ATLANTA; March 2007 --Atlanta-based Expeditionary Technology Services Inc., a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been awarded the U.S. Army’s multiple-award Field and Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) contract to provide logistics support services to the Army and other Defense Department operations around the world. The contract has an estimated value of $36 billion and 20-year scope if all options are exercised.

Under the contract, Expeditionary Technology will compete with other awardees for task orders issued by the Army Contracting Agency. The contract includes support for consulting services, development, deployment, training, operations and maintenance for Department of Defense logistic systems and processes. The FIRST program is designed to enable rapid identification of emerging technology with potential for improving government logistics systems. Expeditionary Technology will provide logistics-support services to Headquarters, Forces Command (HQ FORSCOM); Headquarters, U.S. Army Reserve Command (HQ USARC); Headquarters, ARCENT Third US Army and Headquarters, US First Army, SRCC-East, AMC-HQ, and all other Army or DOD Agencies, CONUS/OCONUS.

Expeditionary Technology’s team includes several of the leading military logistics, and information technology service providers to the Department of Defense. They, include Accenture, Applied Systems Intelligence, B2B Workforce, Diligens Logistics Services, Eagle Group International, The Shaw Group, TechBios, and WEL-VETS. The team possesses an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Army’s processes, people, legacy environments and operational philosophies, as well as technical capabilities to meet the requirements for providing logistics services around the world.

“The Army will really benefit from our team’s commercial logistics and transformation experience,” said Expeditionary Technology CEO David Heino. “Accenture is an industry leader in both commercial and DOD transformation and business process re-engineering. Shaw is the best and one of the largest in installation logistics support. Eagle Group International has been an incumbent in this industry for many years and has demonstrated unprecedented growth. Our small business partners are of the highest quality with relevant and significant qualifications. The Army will also benefit from our key staff’s recent combat experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, including that of my own.”

Expeditionary Technology is a service disabled veteran owned small business based in Atlanta, Georgia that specializes in logistics services, information technology services, and engineering services. One of Expeditionary Technology’s hallmarks is its ability to rapidly develop prototype systems to generate near term results. Expeditionary Technology specializes in providing solutions to our customers using the proven methods and technologies to support their challenging logistics, IT, and engineering programs. Our consultants are military veterans, have significant private sector experience, and have expertise leveraging industry best practices. Learn more at http://www.expeditionary.com/ .