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$48,086,942

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

intelligenceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-01-31·LATEST ACTION2026-02-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75N98122F00001_7529_HHSN316201200023W_7529
Award description

USPTO ENTERPRISE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT SERVICES TASK ORDER

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

Provides enterprise network infrastructure support services for USPTO systems and operations.

Sub-sectors
cybersecurityfederal-it-infrastructurenetwork-operations
Why this matters

USPTO patent/trademark systems are critical national IP infrastructure; network security and uptime directly impact innovation competitiveness.

Supply-chain signal

General Dynamics IT is a major federal IT contractor; this signals continued reliance on large defense-tech integrators for civilian agency infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

Securing USPTO networks protects U.S. intellectual property systems from foreign espionage and IP theft, a key competitive vulnerability.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002129.

Period of performance
Start
2022-01-31
End
2027-01-30
Status
activein 256 days
Sources

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