World Wide Technology, the Maryland Heights IT heavyweight long rooted in Westport Plaza, just locked in a 12‑month, $230 million U.S. Army contract to run a Cisco‑centered IT modernization effort known as GEMSS 2.1. The award, announced July 7, rolls a tangle of separate Army Cisco agreements into one support and licensing vehicle and delivers a headline‑grabbing federal win for the St. Louis tech scene.
In its announcement, WWT said GEMSS 2.1 will provide year‑round hardware technical support, software subscriptions, legacy‑software maintenance, advanced implementation services and enterprise asset management for Army installations around the globe. The company said the deal pulls together the Army Voice, Video and Security (VV&S) program, GEMSS 1.0 and about 30 additional Cisco enterprise agreements into a single, centralized solution. In a press release via WWT, the firm framed the contract as a way for the Army to streamline how it manages software and IT assets.
Locally, there is plenty of reason for the region to pay attention. WWT is headquartered in Westport in Maryland Heights and ranks as the St. Louis region’s second‑largest privately held company, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. The outlet highlighted the company’s long record of federal contracts and its outsized role in the metro area’s tech economy, casting the GEMSS 2.1 win as another sizable federal program running through a St. Louis‑based operation…