Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: March 31, 2017
The U.S. Navy has selected six companies to compete for task orders to research, develop, sustain and update the service branchs Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems under a potential five-year, $197.9 million contract.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division solicited proposals from 11 companies for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and expects work to occur in California through March 2022, the Defense Departmentsaid Thursday.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers several CEIS equipment such as electronic attack/active emitter pods, electro-optical tracking platforms, countermeasure systems, unmanned aerial vehicle instrumentation tools, GPS-based time-space-position-data instrumentation and multispectral target systems that DoD and allies use at test and training ranges.
The awardees are:
Dynetics
Engility (NYSE: EGL)
Kranze Technology Solutions
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS)
New Directions Technologies
NuWaves
The service branch obligated $15,000 from working capital funds for fiscal 2017 at the time of award.
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