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2002 Press Release
Westar Announces IT Services Contract Win
St. Louis, Missouri, September 30, 2002 -- The U.S. Army Safety Center, Ft. Rucker, Alabama announced a $7.5M contract award to Westar’s COBRO Division to provide it with information technology support services.
Under this contract, Westar will provide application development services, application maintenance programming, network administration, and help desk support for the Safety Center’s world-wide operations on a 24/7/365 basis.
According to Charlie Mingus, COBRO Vice President, "We're quickly gaining critical mass in providing outsourced application development and IT services, and this win illustrates that many customers prefer to deal with a support contractor that clearly understands their business, our aviation focus really makes us the most effective supplier."
Mr. Jim Callen was appointed Program Manager for this contract, and will direct the support activities at COBRO's offices at Ft. Rucker, AL.
COBRO is a division of Westar Aerospace and Defense Group, Inc. with over $70M in annual sales and 600 employees around the world dedicated to providing engineering, programmatic, and logistics solutions to the Department of Defense and friendly foreign governments. Westar companies are Leaders in Technology, Leaders in Service(sm).