Acquisition

Harris Corporation has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement to provide land mobile radios to the U.S. departments of Interior and Agriculture as well as the FBI Training Academy.

Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a contract to support the Naval Systems Engineering Directorate in providing technical and management services in all technical disciplines required to design and support the full spectrum of naval ship types. The award has a potential value of $391 million if all options are exercised.

Stanley Incorporated has received a three-year, $3.8 million firm-fixed-price contract by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command to provide technical, programmatic, managerial and administrative support to the program manager for Marine Corps Network and Infrastructure Services for the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN). Stanley will provide systems engineering planning, documentation and oversight of NGEN acquisition activities.

Aerospace Corporation is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for $797 million. This action will provide acquisition of scientific, engineering and technical support for the federally funded research and development center (Aerospace Corp.), which supports the U.S. Air Force and other U.S. Defense Department.

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force have signed a memorandum of agreement that will leverage development, production, sustainment and upgrade efforts for the RQ-4-based programs under each of the services. The agreement enables the services to continue to pursue common objectives across the RQ-4 enterprise while retaining each service's specific mission and operational requirements. Military officials believe the agreement will promote cost savings and eliminate redundancies. The new memorandum will allow the Navy and Air Force to share data that will help ensure program effectiveness and help contractors increase quality and improve on-time delivery, they say.