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$156,717,606

Department of Education·Department of Education

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

educationactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-03-31·LATEST ACTION2026-04-21·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_91003122C0003_9100_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

DEVELOP THE AWARD ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION (AED) SYSTEM - A MODERN, FLEXIBLE, AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM TO CALCULATE AID ELIGIBILITY FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS. THIS REPLACES THE CENTRAL PROCESSING SYSTEM.

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

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In plain English

Latest obligation on the 2022 Award Eligibility Determination system contract, which modernizes how the Department of Education calculates student financial aid.

Sub-sectors
student-aid-systemsfederal-it-modernization
Why this matters

Replacing a decades-old central processing system affects millions of students' access to federal aid; modernization improves speed and accuracy of eligibility determinations.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-23. Cost: $0.002735.

Period of performance
Start
2022-03-31
End
2026-09-29
Status
activein 91 days
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