Author: Naomi Cooper|| Date Published: August 31, 2023
QinetiQ Group‘s U.S. subsidiary has won a five-year, $224 million contract to engineer systems and provide other professional support services for the Space Development Agency’s future layered network of missile tracking satellites in low-Earth orbit.
The work comprises engineering and technical analysis, management and professional services and acquisition support to the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture project, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
SDA officially awarded the firm-fixed-price contract to Avantus Federal, which QinetiQ US acquired in 2022 for approximately $590 million.
The agency received two bids for the competitive acquisition effort and will obligate $13 million in fiscal 2023 operations and maintenance and research, development, test and evaluation funds.
PWSA, formerly called the National Defense Space Architecture, is intended to detect and track hypersonic weapons and other advanced missile threats.
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