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CACI International (Arlington, Virginia) reported that it has been awarded a four-year, $64 million contract to support the Military Health System (MHS) Information Assurance Program. CACI will supply information assurance solutions to the Technology Management, Integration and Standards (TMI&S) Directorate of the Department of Defense (DoD) TRICARE Management Activity.

The award, for one base year and three option years, was made under the Defense Medical Information Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services (D/SIDDOMS) contract vehicle. The contract continues information assurance services CACI provides to TMI&S’ western region and expands the company’s services to include the directorate’s northern and southern regions. With the award, CACI increases its support for military healthcare services and expands its core systems integration business area.

One of the main objectives of the TMI&S Directorate is to certify that MHS information systems, as well as Tricare contractor systems that access DoD systems, meet DoD standards for information technology security.

CACI’s role includes helping to provide security management, technical services, and support for DoD certification and accreditation of MHS information systems. The company offers solutions for information assurance, including risk assessment, threat projection, and analysis, through infrastructure protection, training, disaster recovery, and the creation of computer incident response teams. CACI’s services will help the TMI&S Directorate manage and secure a broad array of medical information to more efficiently serve the needs of the military community.

CACI International provides IT and network solutions.

In grant news: Boston Micromachines (BMC; Watertown, Massachusetts), a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics (AO) systems, said it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) from the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda Maryland). This grant will enable BMC and its research partner the School of Optometry at Indiana University (Bloomington) to develop an instrument that will enable high resolution retinal imaging of 95% of the population, providing significant advancement in the research and diagnose of eye diseases in the elderly.