Contract Awards

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.

AnviCom Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Command Information, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Transportation Command to
provide modernization and life cycle engineering support for a mission-critical supply chain system for the U.S. Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC). The contract has a potential value of $33 million if all options are exercised.

The U.S. Army Product Manager for Joint-Automatic Identification Technology, a part of the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has awarded the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-III contract to Savi, a Lockheed Martin company; Northrop Grumman Information Technology; Unisys; and Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC). The contract has a ceiling value of $429.4 million and is for commercial active RFID hardware, software and services.

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company has received a $9.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for Post Production System Support (PPSS) Services for The Netherlands. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aviation and Missile Command is the contracting activity.

SimAuthor, a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ North America, has been awarded a four-year, $5 million contract from the Commander Naval Air Forces (CNAF) to continue support of CNAF's Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance (MFOQA) Bridge program with its flight data analysis, visualization software and MFOQA subject matter expert team.

Elbit Systems Limited and Israel Aerospace Industries Limited (IAI)'s respective subsidiaries, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Limited (Elbit Systems Electro-Optics) and ELTA Systems Limited (ELTA), have been awarded a $141 million contract to supply the Turkish Air Force with combined airborne imagery intelligence systems. Elbit Systems Electro-Optics received $87 million, and ELTA received $54 million.

General Dynamics' wholly owned subsidiary, Electric Boats, and its teammate, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, have been awarded a contract valued at $14 billion by the U.S. Navy for the construction of eight Virginia-class submarines.

McDonnell Douglas Corporation is receiving a firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force for $107 million for 4,372 Joint Direct Attack Munition Lot 13 Guided Vehicle kits.

Verizon Business and Nortel have reached a three-year agreement in which Nortel will evolve its traditional voice system to Verizon Internet Protocol (IP) Trunking VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service, which is based on session initiation protocol. In addition, Verizon Business will manage Nortel's existing Verizon Private IP network, enabling Nortel to benefit from expanded managed network service capabilities and industry-leading service level agreements.