Jacobs, the managing partner for Jacobs-Russell Team, was selected under a $3 billion expansion program to support the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the company reported on Wednesday. 

"This contract symbolizes a renewed commitment to that investment and is an historic win, not only for the joint venture team, but for the Atlanta region," said Jacobs People & Places Solutions senior vice president and regional director Tom Meinhart.

The Jacobs-Russell Team, a joint venture between Jacobs and H. J. Russell & Company, will serve as MARTA's chief project management officer (CPMO) of Supplemental Services Consultant and manage approximately $700 million in construction spending in the first five years of the program’s More MARTA Atlanta expansion project.

"For more than 40 years, the City of Atlanta and Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton counties have invested in transit in the Atlanta region," Meinhart added.

The Jacobs led team will be responsible for the standardization of project management processes and will handle quality assurance and project resources, including planning, monitoring and performance measurements. The project will potentially create more than six thousand jobs and employ 15 subcontractors, 13 of which are either minority-owned, women-owned or small business enterprises.

MARTA general manager and CEO Jeffrey Parker explains, "The centralized project management model lends itself to efficiency… With the expertise and vision the Jacobs/Russell Team brings, we are confident that this historic expansion will be delivered efficiently and will make sense in the local and regional context."

The More MARTA Atlanta plan is designed to improve transit services in historically underserved communities, increasing access to employment centers throughout the city of Atlanta.

In addition to strengthening the city’s economic vitality, More MARTA Atlanta will address metro Atlanta’s transportation needs amid a growing and evolving population. The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) has anticipated that by 2040, the region will see an influx of 2.5 million new residents. 

About Jacobs

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. 

With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. 

Anika Systems has been awarded a 3-year, $4 million contract by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide Process Automation Business Intelligence Analytics Support Services. The contract was awarded as an 8(a) sole source action and funded by the NSF Division of Administrative Services, the company announced on Tuesday.

“We are the pioneers and thought leaders in adoption of Intelligent Automation in the Federal government. Our customers include IRS, HHS and USPTO. We differentiate ourselves as a ‘Show Me’ company and not a ‘Tell Me’ company,” said Kiran Gullapalli, vice president of Strategy and Growth with Anika Systems. 

Anika Systems has offered a variety of scalable Intelligent Automation (IA) solutions that assist federal agencies achieve higher levels of productivity, efficiency and compliance and cost reduction. 

The company has achieved its IA through developing solutions in the fields of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The IA solutions enable process orchestration to make smarter decisions and achieve end-to-end AI-Driven Process Automation.

Anika Systems’ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a software technology solution for the automation of business processes. The company’s RPA has enabled federal agencies to automate manual, repetitive and rules-based business processes in a non-intrusive way by leveraging the existing infrastructure of underlying systems

The company also has deep rooted experience in  building both Enterprise Analytics as well as Self-service data discovery platforms for Enterprise users as well as business users, including Architect, Build and Maintain Business Intelligence and Visualization Centers of Excellence (CoEs). 

Anika Systems is an Intelligent Automation leader and UiPath Premier Partner. The contract award marks the company’s fifth prime contract in the intelligent automation space.

About Anika Systems

Anika Systems is an outcome-driven technology consulting firm that helps federal agencies solve business problems and enable them for the future, with services and solutions spanning Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation, Enterprise IT Modernization, Application Development and Cloud Engineering.

Perspecta Inc. has been awarded a potential four-year, $237 million Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) from the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command to deliver the Army Training Information System (ATIS), the company reported on Wednesday. 

"As a leader in digital strategy and transformation, we are committed to bringing the most innovative solutions to our customers in order to enable mission success," said Jeff Bohling, senior vice president and general manager of the defense business group at Perspecta. 

The fixed-price award is for Phase II of the ATIS program. Perspecta will support the development, integration, delivery, operation and maintenance of an enterprise capability for Army training and education information. 

Perspecta will integrate its solution that consolidates 28 legacy systems, implements proven processes and migrates data into a single-entry, integrated, cloud-based system. The company’s solution will provide the Army with a real-time understanding of combat readiness with reduced cost and complexity.

"This award is a testament to our success during Phase I of the program, and we look forward to bringing this new capability to life in support of the Army's readiness goals," Bohling added.

Perspecta successfully completed Phase I of the ATIS program in 2019 where the company delivered a prototype of its ATIS solution. Perspecta included Fox, a commercial-off-the-shelf software from Britannica Knowledge Systems. 

The company has also received a potential five-year, $14.5 million contract to further support the U.S. Army in April 2020. Under the contract, Perspecta will  support the service branch’s develop a set of autonomous, configurable cyber technologies.

Perspecta will design, build and test a defense-tailored machine learning technology for use in cyber threat detection under the Autonomous Defensive Cyber Operations program. The company will leverage its Learning Using Privileged Information machine learning paradigm that allows sensors to operate in environments with a wide variety of threats.

Army Combat Capabilities Development Command launched the program to address the need for light-weight, autonomous tools that facilitate the training and deployment of cybersecurity platforms.

About Perspecta Inc.

At Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP), we question, we seek and we solve. Perspecta brings a diverse set of capabilities to our U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care and state and local markets. Our 270+ issued, licensed and pending patents are more than just pieces of paper, they tell the story of our innovation. 

With offerings in mission services, digital transformation and enterprise operations, our team of nearly 14,000 engineers, analysts, investigators and architects work tirelessly to not only execute the mission, but build and support the backbone that enables it. Perspecta was formed to take on big challenges. We are an engine for growth and success and we enable our customers to build a better nation.