Under the contract, ATS will manage server administration, e-mail administration, and application development and maintenance for the next three years.
The FBI’s SIOC is a 40,000-square-foot crisis management and information processing center which provides oversight of all major crisis and emergency operations in the US. The SIOC is designed to monitor, coordinate, and control multiple FBI operations conducted at various national security classification levels simultaneously.
In 1998, ATS designed and deployed both the classified and unclassified information systems supporting the newly built SIOC. At the successful completion of this initial contract, Advanced Technology Systems won a contract to provide follow-on support of those systems.
On April 20, 2006, ATS announced that it had signed a definitive stock purchase agreement with Federal Services pursuant to which Federal Services will purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of ATS for $84 million in cash and $1 million in stock at closing, and up to an additional $39 million in contingent payments.
