Iron Mountain, QualX and TDEC to Support U.S. Army War College Digital Transformation Efforts under New $30 Million Contract
Iron Mountain, QualX and TDEC to Support U.S. Army War College Digital Transformation Efforts under New $30 Million Contract Companies to deliver large-scale digitization project to help preserve armed forces history |
[11-December-2018] |
RESTON, Va., Dec. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated ® (NYSE: IRM), the leading global provider of storage and information management services; QualX Corporation, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business; and TDEC, an SBA HUBZone-certified small business, today announced that they are partnering to deliver a large-scale digitization and preservation project to the U.S. Army War College's U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC). The contract contains a base year of performance with four additional one-year option periods and has a value of up to $30 million. USAHEC makes available a collection of contemporary and historical materials related to strategic leadership and the heritage of the U.S. Army to inform, support research, educate an international audience, and honor soldiers, past and present. This collection includes nearly 300 years of manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual items, artifacts, and other records that are vital to the preservation of America's armed forces history. The project includes processing, digitizing, storage and movement of these artifacts – all done in a secure environment with procedures that ensure the preservation and protection of this historically valuable material. The result of this effort will be the creation of a digital repository, enabling researchers around the world to have access to this unique archival collection of military materials, including an estimated 33 million indexed images. "QualX delivers tailored solutions to meet enterprise-wide support requirements, and we have significant past performance with the Department of Defense," said Alan B. Moon, chief executive officer, QualX. "The addition of Iron Mountain to our team brings the world's most successful records and information management company to this important digital preservation project. We look forward to delivering to USAHEC a capability enabling the agency to fulfill its mission of 'telling the Army story…one soldier at a time.'" As part of this digitization and preservation effort, Iron Mountain will securely transport this collection from its current home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Iron Mountain's Jessup, Maryland facility. Iron Mountain and QualX will then digitize the collection – approximately 24,000 linear feet of unclassified archival collections, ranging from modern paper records to extremely rare and delicate documentation – in accordance with USAHEC digitization standards. TDEC will collect the metadata from this collection and ensure they have clean optical character recognition (OCR) for all scanned PDF documents, maintaining quality control for the digital images. "The digital preservation of these historical assets is an important component to maintaining U.S. Army history," said Michael Lewis, vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Government Solutions. "Iron Mountain's imaging, scanning and indexing services, combined with our proven secure storage options and chain-of-custody processes will ensure that USAHEC meets their digital transformation goals and objectives for this vital and precious collection. We're especially proud to have QualX as our partner, a veteran-owned company that brings important analytic and operational support services to help enhance the overall digitization project." For more information on Iron Mountain's services for Federal Agencies, visit http://www.ironmountain.com/industries/federal-government. About QualX Corporation About TDEC About Iron Mountain
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