Lockheed Martin has won a $47.8 million DoD military health contract

Lockheed Martin has won a $47.8 million contract to develop and integrate software applications for the Department of Defense's Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP), Block 2.

The program calls for the interoperability and integration of data from several existing DoD Military Health System medical applications so that standard electronic medical records can be generated and maintained in theater under a variety of conditions.

These records must then be transportable electronically or manually with a military patient to central DoD healthcare facilities. The data are also consolidated and made available to commanders in near real time through the Global Combat Support System (GCSS).

The contract was awarded under the National Institutes of Health Chief Information Officers Solutions and Partners-2 contract vehicle. Lockheed Martin was selected by the DoD TMIP Office, a joint program within the TRICARE Medical Activity and the DoD Military Health System.

The expected total value of the contract includes $10.25 million for the first year, plus five option periods of additional work. Linda Gooden, president of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, said, "We are delighted to have been selected for this important DoD program. We have assembled a world-class team poised to successfully develop new field- level patient data systems that will benefit the patient, their medical providers and commanders."

Development of applications and integration of the Military Health System software applications into TMIP will be performed by Lockheed Martin and its teammates, Integic, Booz Allen Hamilton, EDS, Equalnox, and ScenPro. Requirements call for software development, testing, integration, deployment, operation and maintenance.

A result of a Presidential Directive issued following the Gulf War, TMIP has been designed to provide electronic documentation of longitudinal health care and to track potential symptoms and other medical information. TMIP applications will be used on laptops and a variety of computing devices in the field. Medical information is collected and data uploaded to the global Military Health System.

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