General Dynamics Awarded Foreign Language Training Support Services Contract
FAIRFAX, Va. –
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General
Dynamics (NYSE: GD), is one of six awardees selected by the Defense
Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) for the Foreign
Language Training and Training Support Services contract. The
five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a
potential value of $96.3 million to all awardees if all options are
exercised.
General Dynamics will provide foreign language
instruction; curriculum development and documentation; infrastructure
support for individual, small-group classes and instructors; as well as
long-distance support and instructor-quality control for Mobile Training
Teams. In addition, General Dynamics will provide state-of-the-art
language training facilities equipped with Wi-Fi, classrooms and lounge
areas in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
“With proven
high-quality training and a culture of responsiveness, we will ensure
the Institute’s language training technology requirements are met,” said
Ken Slaght, vice president and general manager of General Dynamics
Information Technology’s Navy Marine Corps Services sector. “General
Dynamics has the technical expertise to match the specific requirements
for classroom, blended and remote learning environments.”
The
DLIFLC is a multi-service educational and research institution charged
with providing culturally based foreign language education, training,
evaluation, research and sustainment for active and reserve components,
foreign military students, civilian personnel working in the federal
government and various law enforcement agencies. As part of the Army
Training and Doctrine Command, the Institute is headquartered at the
Presidio of Monterey, Calif., and provides resident instruction in 23
languages and two dialects, taught by more than 2,000 highly educated
instructors.
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