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Saturday, May 17, 2014

General Dynamics Awarded $63 Million to Modernize Military Health Billing and Collections System

FAIRFAX, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Rock Island to develop, implement and maintain the Armed Forces Billing and Collection Utilization Solution (ABACUS). The new system will enable the U.S. Army Medical Command, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and U.S. Air Force Medical Service to better identify, process and collect other health insurance. This task order has a value of $63 million over five years, if all options are exercised.

Under this contract, General Dynamics will provide software-as-a-service using a cloud hosting solution to generate medical claims, pharmacy claims, invoices and governmental billing forms – automating, consolidating and centralizing the tasks of three disparate systems and replacing legacy systems. The company will deploy ABACUS into 136 military medical treatment facilities around the globe. Work will be performed primarily in Herndon, Va., with implementation support at customer locations worldwide.



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