UNICOM Government, Inc. (UGI) is an American

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(IT) hardware and solutions company.Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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UNICOM Global UNICOM Global is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Mission Hills, California. The company was founded by Corry Hong in Los Angeles, California in 1981 to develop AUTOMON/CICS and related products for the CICS main ...

. It was formerly GTSI Corp, founded in 1983 and acquired by UNICOM Global in 2012 (see history).

Overview

UNICOM Government provides information technology solutions and professional services for the US Federal, State, and Local Governments. UNICOM Government, Inc. is informally known by its abbreviation, UGI.

History

*UNICOM Government was founded in 1983 as Government Technology Services Incorporated (GTSI) to provide microcomputer software to the

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. *By 1986, it was working with local, state and federal government agencies. *In 1994, it introduced the first browser-based government contract catalog. *In 1996, it registered its URL and engaged in e-commerce. *In 1999, it launched the first government IT portal, governmentIT.com, featuring the latest in IT applications for government employees. *In June 2012, it was acquired by

, after UNICOM completed a

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for outstanding shares of GTSI common stock for $7.75 per share in cash; GTSI became a

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of UNICOM, and GTSI stock was delisted from

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.David Hubler
GTSI stock purchase completed; Unicom merger nears
''Washington Technology'', June 18, 2012. GTSI Corp. was renamed UNICOM Government, Inc. in 2013, and is now a division of its parent company, UNICOM Global, Inc.Jill R. Aitoro

''Washington Business Journal'', March 7, 2013. *In June 2014, UGI was awarded a $774 million contract extension to provide U.S. Army Technology Solutions as part of the Army’s ITES-2H contract that had a $6.763 billion procurement ceiling. *In April 2021, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Site III award was awarded to Team Business Integra (Team BI), which included UGI as a team member. This 10-year, $12.6 billion dollar, multi-award IDIQ for Information Technology Solutions includes several Task Orders for the delivery of IT and technical support services to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

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