Enlighten IT Consulting has secured a $40 million task order from the U.S. federal government for continued work onÂ a cloud-based architecture that offers storage and retrieval capacity at a rate of more than one trillionÂ records per second.

The companyÂ said TuesdayÂ the Big Data PlatformÂ is designed toÂ ingest and store data from various Defense Department sensors thatÂ will be used to provideÂ analytics for DoD’s information networks.

EITC aims to build on current methods to infuse emerging commercial and open source technologies into platformÂ and the company will oversee the delivery of analytics from the Defense Information Systems Agency partners to the DoD community under the contract.

Duane Shugars, BDP and governance project manager at EITC, said the company will implementÂ agile development practices to help update the platform and address challenges faced by network defenders and warfighters that use critical information technology systems.

The task order was awarded through a General Services Administration schedule.

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