Vehicle command and control transformation

Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc., has been awarded a $22,071,517 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity performance-based contract with hybrid pricing arrangements to provide production engineering, integration product improvement, test and evaluation, and maintenance support as well as the capacity to modernize or introduce transformational technologies into systems and technical support services of various C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cryptology, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) programs for fielding on platforms such as: Marine Corps Up-Armored HMMWV, Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Rapid Responded Vehicle, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, other Department of Defense vehicle platforms, Navy C5ISR tactical vehicles, and Marine Corps C5ISR tactical vehicles, in addition to other tactical vehicles.

This contract includes four one-year options and three-award terms, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $221,972,342. Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by May 2009 (May 2016 with all options and award terms exercised). The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.

Source: DoD

Editor's Note: Eagan, McAllister Associates is wholly owned by SAIC

SAIC Awarded $47 Million to Support Distributed Common Ground System - Army

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced it has been awarded a subcontract by Sensor Technologies, Inc. to provide advanced analytical and technical support on a task order for the Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A). The task order, awarded under the Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract, has a two-year period of performance. SAIC's subcontract has a value of more than $47 million.

DCGS-A provides the U.S. Army with fully integrated and timely intelligence on the battlefield. SAIC will continue to support current DCGS-A system users while integrating new tactics, techniques and procedures and processes to help improve customer capabilities. Throughout the task order, SAIC will provide embedded mentor services to Army and DoD forces around the globe.

SAIC has previously provided system development and analytical support for the Army under a different contract vehicle.

Source: SAIC

Visibuilding moves forward

Visibuilding is a program inside the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO). "VisiBuilding will develop technology that will re-establish surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities into buildings to perform three main functions:

• Determine building layouts,
• Find anomalous quantities of materials,
• Locate people within the building.

VisiBuilding's approach to this addresses three main areas of technical concentration:

• Phenomenology of signal penetration into buildings,
• Sensor positioning and utilization to maximize information about the building,
• Model-based 3-D building deconvolution that operates in a multipath-rich, diffractive environment."

Science Applications International Corp., (SAIC) has been awarded a $5,270,000.00 cost-plus contract to develop and test the VisiBuilding concept.Work will be performed in San Diego, CA and is to be completed by Aug. 15, 2009. There were 70 bids received.

Sources: As cited and DoD
Photo: STO

Testing of FCS early prototype systems accelerated

Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, today announced that the Army has accelerated test schedules for two FCS robotic prototypes based on current readiness levels and positive feedback from soldiers who are using early versions of the systems in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Beginning this month, 25 FCS Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) units developed jointly with iRobot Corporation and 11 Class I (Block 0) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) developed jointly with Honeywell will be delivered in increments to Army Evaluation Task Force soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas. The soldiers will train with the equipment before conducting user testing in the summer. Deliveries will occur between January and June 2008 with testing expected to conclude in September. Based on soldier feedback, a recommendation will be made to senior Army leadership whether to field the platforms or continue with system development under the core FCS program.

Source: Press release
Photo: Boeing