BAE to Provide Airborne Mine Detection Prototype

BAE Systems Spectral Solutions LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a $9,515,068 cost reimbursement contract for the soil-penetrating airborne reconnaissance for threat assessment and neutralization. BAE Systems Spectral Solutions LLC, shall design, build and demonstrate an airborne prototype to detect buried mines/improvised explosive device from an altitude of up to 2000 feet. The total cumulative value of this contract is $12,515,068 if all options are exercised. Work will be the performed in Honolulu, Hawaii, and work is expected to be completed June 21, 2018. If all options are exercised, work will continue through December 28, 2020. Fiscal 2015 research development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $500,000 will be obligated at the time of award and the funds will expire at end of current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under N00014-16-R-BA01 entitled Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology. Since proposals will be received throughout the year under the Long Range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-16-C-3039).