Mon, Jan 11, 2016
Allows Tracking Of Ground Targets In All Weather Conditions
The U.S. army has awarded a contract to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and its partner, Reston, Virginia’s, Leidos, to design, produce, integrate and test for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) program of record. The ARL-E program is a manned, multiple intelligence (multi-INT) airborne platform that provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify and track surface targets in day/night, near-all-weather conditions with a high degree of timeliness and accuracy.
The single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has a five-year period of performance and a total ceiling value of $661 million. The first task order under the IDIQ will provide the System of Systems (SoS) integration of an extensible Mission Equipment Payload (MEP), including the modification of Bombardier DHC-8 aircraft. Through the duration of the contract, Leidos, the prime contractor, SNC and other teammates Argon ST (a Boeing Company) and L-3 ComCept, will provide an affordable, high-maturity solution using a flexible open architecture that enables integration of future capabilities. The goal is to promote growth and maximize the Army’s investments.
With years of airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) experience supporting a variety of military customers, including the U.S. Army, the Leidos/SNC team provides superior solutions that meet the current and future mission needs for the Armed Services. The team has operationally integrated and flown every type of Government identified sensor in the ARL-E solicitation, validating its offering for the ARL-E MEP as a technologically-sound, low-risk solution.
(Source: SN Corp news release)
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