STARA to Provide Surveillance Tower Kits for Afghanistan

STARA Technologies Incorporated, Gilbert, Arizona, is being awarded a $12,527,861 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-fee contract for 14 Surveillance Tower Integration Kit (STIK) systems; eight field service representatives deployed in theater for the STIK systems; 11 towers to integrate into the STIK system to create a persistent ground surveillance tower; and level three drawings. Work will be performed in Afghanistan, Gilbert and Yuma, Arizona, and is expected to be completed in September 2012. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.