- Parsons has landed a spot on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing contract
- The potential $14 billion COMET contract focuses on five mission tasks, including foundational and technical intelligence analysis
- Parsons will support the Missile and Space Intelligence Center under the COMET program
Parsons announced Wednesday it has won a place on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing, or COMET, vehicle worth up to $14 billion.
The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract supports the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, or MSIC, and its mission partners, encompassing scientific and technical intelligence work, foundational military intelligence, and analytical support across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.
“This award reflects our customers’ confidence in our ability to provide innovative solutions that strengthen decision advantage, accelerate mission outcomes, and support critical national security priorities,” said Mike Kushin, president of defense and intelligence at Parsons.
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What Services Will Parsons Provide to the Missile & Space Intelligence Center?
Under the vehicle, Parsons will compete for task orders covering the full lifecycle of hardware, software and broader systems, including analytical work that feeds all-source intelligence production throughout the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. Five mission task areas make up the contract, spanning a range of domains and disciplines, designed to keep pace with shifting Department of War and national intelligence priorities.
What Are the Mission Task Areas of the COMET Program?
The program’s five mission task areas are foundational and technical intelligence analysis, information technology operations, business processes, foreign materiel exploitation, and modeling and simulation.
COMET underpins the MSIC’s work producing scientific and technical intelligence along with foundational military intelligence assessments of foreign weapon systems. Those analyses give warfighters, policymakers, weapons developers, homeland security agencies and intelligence community partners a clearer picture of adversary capabilities — how they perform, operate and where their limitations and vulnerabilities lie.
