SPS To Support U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Through
System Development and Integration Contract
Falls Church, VA, April 2005 – The U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded one of the two Systems Development and
Integration (SDI) contracts to SPS's Prime contractor partner, Raytheon
Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC). RTSC announced the USPTO SDI contract
award on February 21, 2005, stating that the contract has a potential value of
up to $251 million. SPS and the Raytheon RTSC, a component of Raytheon
Information Systems (RIS), established a partnership in 2004, to pursue the SDI
work. Joanie Barr, SPS Vice President of the Software Solutions Division
stated: "Our joint efforts have not only resulted in a winning proposal
effort, but also established a trust relationship and effective collaboration
that will continue for years to come and ultimately result in better service to
our USPTO customer.”
Under the SDI contract, SPS will continue its ten years of service to the USPTO,
where much of its early work was as a prime contractor under a GSA Schedule 70
contract. Past SPS work at USPTO involved designing and developing the primary
revenue accounting system, migrating and re-architecting the USPTO's legacy
Patent Application Location and Monitoring (PALM) system, and supporting
electronic patent application filing and processing, as well as other patent
and trademark application processing systems for USPTO. This experience will be
beneficial to meeting current and future USPTO enterprise development and
integration needs under the SDI contract. Mr. Greg Dorsett, SPS President
announced: "The award to Team Raytheon will make it possible for us to support
our long-term USPTO customer through the SDI contract for up to 8 more years.
We are very pleased to be a member of the Raytheon team and anticipate a
long-term successful relationship.”
Under the performance-based SDI contract, Team Raytheon will provide a wide
variety of systems engineering support services, ranging from systems analysis
and design, to operations, and program and project management activities. SPS
team members will be part of integrated work teams formed from all Raytheon SDI
partners to provide the most qualified and capable support to the USPTO for
each SDI task order.
SPS is already supporting several programs under the Raytheon SDI Contract. SPS
primarily provides services for the Patent Application Location and Monitoring
(PALM) Maintenance and Enhancement tasks, which support the following systems:
PALM Pre-Exam, PALM Infrastructure, PALM File Ordering System (FOS), PALM
Examination / Post Examination (EXPO), and the PALM Patent Cooperation Treaty
Operations (PCT OPS - formerly called POWER) system. We also provide support
for the Patent Application Services and Security (PASS) System, the Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board Information System (TTABIS), and the Classification Data
System (CDS). SPS provides information standards support, including XML and PDF
expertise, under the Architecture, Engineering, and Technical Services (AETS)
Information Standards task, as well as support for USPTO Data Modeling and Data
Standardization and a number of short term studies awarded to Team Raytheon,
including a study supporting USPTO Unified E-Government initiatives.
About Raytheon Technical Services Company, LLC
RTSC provides technology solutions for defense, federal and commercial
customers worldwide. It specializes in mission support, engineering product
solutions, and engineering service solutions. Mission support-Raytheon's
integrated approach to predicting customer needs, sensing problems and
preemptively applying solutions-enables Raytheon to maintain readiness and
deliver operational capability on demand, allowing customers to focus on their
missions.
Raytheon Company, with 2004 sales of $20.2 billion, is an industry leader in
defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical
services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in
Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.
About SPS
Software Performance Systems, Inc. (SPS), a small business based in Maryland, is
a privately held information technology services provider.
Established in 1995, SPS specializes in the design and integration of large
Web-based solutions for State and Local Governments and commercial
clients. SPS has been honored with many national awards, including:
#10 ranking in the Computerworld Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT, Deloitte's
Virginia Technology Fast 50 and North America Technology Fast 500, and as a SBA
Exporter of the Year. More importantly, SPS solutions helped our clients win
prestigious awards, including the Grace Hopper Federal Government Technology
Leadership Award, the E-Gov Pioneer Award, the Excellence.gov Grand Prize
Award, and the Government IT Agency Award for Excellence in Government.
SPS...proven over time.
Contact Information
Software Performance Systems, Inc.
Mike Dorsett, PMP
VP Financial Solutions Division
301-518-5711
MDorsett@goSPS.com
www.goSPS.com
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