Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems and Smiths Detection have each won a potential 10-year contract from the U.S. Army to develop platforms designed to detect aerosols, threat vapors and other chemical agents.A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says Chemring received a potential $838.5M contract and Smiths Detection a potential $667.3M contract under the XM12 Aerosol & Vapor Chemical Agent Detector program.
Under the AVCAD initiative, the contractors will develop a system with a wireless alarm capability that will work to identify and report chemical hazards in support of dismounted and mounted reconnaissance, decontamination, base defense, monitoring and unmasking missions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marine Corps.
The EMD base period covers the delivery of six AVCAD prototypes and the EMD option includes the design and delivery of 75 units as well as system support packages for preventive maintenance checks and services, according to the solicitation.
LRIP covers the delivery of 128 units and support to item unique identification, production verification test, consumables and spare parts.
FRP calls for the companies to produce up to 3.2K units for the initial year, at least 11.6K for the second year through fifth year and more than 7.4K units for year six. The phase also includes packaging, spare parts and consumables.
