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$159,695,916

Department of Commerce·U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

financeactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-09-27·LATEST ACTION2026-03-09·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_1333BJ21F00280055_1344_47QTCK18D0003_4732
Award description

CONTRACT TO ACQUIRE EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE ENTERPRISE CLOUD SUPPORT SERVICES UTILIZING AGILE/DEVOPS METHODOLOGIES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

The latest obligation on a 2021 cloud-services contract providing enterprise IT infrastructure and DevOps support to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sub-sectors
government-it-modernizationcloud-infrastructurepatent-office-operations
Why this matters

Modernizing USPTO's IT backbone improves patent processing speed and reliability, critical to U.S. innovation competitiveness and trademark protection.

Supply-chain signal

General Dynamics' cloud and DevOps capabilities support federal IT modernization; success here may expand to other agency contracts.

U.S.–China competition angle

Robust USPTO IT systems strengthen U.S. intellectual-property protection against foreign competitors seeking to exploit patent/trademark vulnerabilities.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-23. Cost: $0.002975.

Period of performance
Start
2021-09-27
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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