Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: June 12, 2017
The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies positions on a potential five-year, $1.73 billion contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services for land and maritime-based unmanned aerial systems.
The Naval Air Systems Command received four offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers drone ISR non-developmental equipment, spares, trained personnel, installation, certification, operations, sustainment and maintenance support services, the Defense Departmentsaid Thursday.
The awardees are Boeings (NYSE: BA) Insitu business,Textrons (NYSE: TXT) AAI Corp., PAEs ISR business and Academi Training Center and will perform work at their respective facilities in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina through June 2022.
The firm-fixed-price contract allows Insitu and AAI to compete for ground- and sea-based UAS task orders, while PAE ISR and Academi are eligible to vie for land-based UAS support task orders.
The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific is soliciting proposals for the development and fielding of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems…
The Department of War is accelerating its push into unmanned systems, moving beyond experimentation toward large-scale production, streamlined acquisition and…
BAE Systems has received a $117.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support depot-level modernization, maintenance and repair of USS…
Advanced wireless infrastructure is becoming as strategically important as artificial intelligence in modern defense operations 5G standalone enables network slicing,…