NETCENTS-2 contract for Diligent - UPI.com The U.S. Air Force has contracted Diligent Consulting Inc. multiyear, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for net-centric application services. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force has contracted Diligent Consulting Inc. multiyear, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for net-centric application services. The NETCENTS-2 Application Services - Small Business award features a base period of performance of three years and four one-year options. It also contains a provision for an overall performance period of 10 years if the Air Force exercises all options. The contracts overall value if all options are exercised: $960 million. "Over the last few years we have successfully completed full lifecycle development for several Air Force systems and are currently working on others," said David Cerminaro, Diligent's president and chief executive officer. We have been able to reduce costs for the Air Force by modernizing old legacy code to current web-based technology, enabled by Service Oriented Architecture, and fully documented following Department of Defense Architectural Framework 2.0 guidelines. This contract greatly strengthens Diligent's capability to support our clients and grow our company. Under the contract, Diligent will provide services such as application development, sustainment, migration, integration, training, help desk support, testing and operational support. Other services include exposing data from Authoritative Data Sources to support web-services or Service Oriented Architecture constructs. Diligent said the contract also provides for other Department of Defense organizations to avail themselves of company services.