COLSA awarded $103M defense IT contract

COLSA Corp. has been awarded a Defense Intelligence Agency contract, valued at up to $103 million, for IT and simulation support.

Under the five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, COLSA will provide "scientific computing for analysis technical support to support the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC)" in Huntsville, Alabama, according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

"This requirement is for analytical network, modeling and simulation computationally-intensive computer systems operations, High Performance Computer System operations (HPCS), and HPCS hardware and software maintenance," the DoD said.

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