Contract Awards

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 Boeing Company has selected BAE Systems' electronics, intelligence and support division to provide the next-generational digital electronic warfare suite (DEWS) for future international versions of the F-15 multirole fighter aircraft. During the initial phases of the program, BAE Systems will produce DEWS test units and support Boeing's efforts to integrate the system into the F-15 weapon platform.

Assurance Technology Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems are being awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee/fixed-fee contracts for $29 million. This action will provide for self-awareness space situations awareness acquisition, which is born out of the U.S. Air Force's need to provide threat-warning instruments or sensors for the nation's space-based assets.

Telephonics Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force in excess of $6 million for TruLink wireless intercommunication systems. The TruLink system will be used by five-member aeromedical evacuation teams to provide clear voice communications between team members, thereby enhancing the safe transport and care of patients onboard military aircraft.

IPL has signed a framework contract with Thales UK for the supply of software services. This framework has already led to IPL carrying out a significant amount of work on a Thales software radio program. This also will be for an ongoing development of a personal mobile radio, based on the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) system.

Raytheon Company has received a $232.8 million contract for the system development and demonstration phase of the global positioning system-based Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) program for shipboard applications. JPALS provides all-weather shipboard landing capability to assist the U.S. Navy with pinpoint landing accuracy on aircraft carriers. The team, led by Raytheon Network Centric Systems, includes Rockwell Collins, Northrop Grumman and SAIC. The Raytheon team's solution for JPALS improves safety, lowers the total cost of ownership during the program's life cycle and provides greater flexibility and efficiency.

Raytheon Company and The Boeing Company have received a $125 million U.S. Army contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program. The contract funds a 27-month technology development program to develop and fire three prototype missiles with fully integrated tri-mode seekers. The Raytheon-Boeing JAGM team brings mature, advanced seeker and missile technologies to the program. The team also has decades of fixed-and rotary-wing integration expertise.

Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) is being awarded $11 million for a firm-fixed-price task order under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price multi-year services contract. EDS will deploy, operate and maintain an intrusion prevention system within the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) network and will deploy the unclassified system administrator alternate log-on token capability. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, PMW-200, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

EDS has also been awarded $7 million for a firm-fixed-price task order under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price multi-year services contract to deploy, operate and maintain an intrusion prevention system and security information manager solution within the classified secret Internet protocol router network NMCI network. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, PMW-200, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

IMPACT Science & Technology has received a $28.4 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the production and support of 550 JCREW 2.1 radio-controlled improvised explosive device (RCIED) electronic warfare systems to meet urgent U.S. Defense Department requirements in support of operation Enduring Freedom. Vehicle-mounted CREW systems are used in the Defense Department's joint counter RCIED electronic warfare program.

The Raytheon Company-Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture received a $111.6 million U.S. Army Global War on Terror supplemental contract to produce additional Javelin missiles and command launch sites. Javelin is the world's first man-portable fire-and-forget medium-range missile system and is designed for one-soldier operations in all environments.