February 20, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX) said it has won a three-year contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide program development, management and support for the National Center for Public Health Informatics. The contract, which involves a series of twelve task areas, has a value of $21 million if all options are exercised, according to SRA.

Public health informatics is the systematic application of information technology and computer sciences to public health practice, research and learning. NCPHI uses public health informatics to ensure that public health information is disseminated within CDC and other public health organizations, as appropriate, to support key public health goals.

Under the contract, SRA will provide NCPHI technical, program and management services across a range of initiatives, which include program and performance management, enterprise architecture, information resource governance, communications and collaboration, applied research and development, and public health program development and management.

The goal of the initiatives, according to SRA, is to enhance the availability of health data and the adoption of public health information standards across the public health community.

Fairfax, Virginia-based SRA and its subsidiaries are focused in such areas as air surveillance and air traffic management; contract research organization services cybersecurity, disaster response planning, enterprise resource planning, environmental strategies, IT systems, infrastructure and managed services, logistics, public health preparedness, strategic management consulting, systems engineering and wireless integration.

The company serves government organizations serving the national security, civil government and global health markets.

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