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$156,717,606

Department of Education·Department of Education

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_91003122C0003_9100_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

DEVELOP THE AWARD ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION (AED) SYSTEM - A MODERN, FLEXIBLE, AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM TO CALCULATE AID ELIGIBILITY FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS. THIS REPLACES THE CENTRAL PROCESSING SYSTEM.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Develop a modern system to determine federal student aid eligibility, replacing legacy central processing infrastructure.

Sub-sectors
education-technologyfederal-it-systems
Why this matters

Modernizing critical federal aid infrastructure affects millions of students and billions in annual education funding distribution.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001085.

Period of performance
Start
2022-03-31
End
2026-09-29
Status
activein 138 days
Sources

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