Pentagon Awards $4.5 Billion Contracts for UAV Services

(Source: U.S. Department of Defense; issued April 6, 2017)

-- URS Federal Services, Inc., Germantown, Maryland, has been awarded an estimated $3,600,000,000 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with award fee and award term portions for remotely piloted aircraft services.
Contractor will provide testing, tactics development, advanced training, Joint and Air Force urgent operational need missions.
Work will be performed at Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada; Creech Air Force Base, Nevada; and Tonopah Test Range Airfield, Nevada, and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2034.
This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with four offers received.
Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $2,875,894 are being obligated at the time of award.
Air Force Test Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity. (FA8240-17-D-4651).

-- Leidos, Reston, Virginia (W911QY-17-D-0017); AASKI Technologies, Inc., Tinton Falls, New Jersey (W911QY-17-D-0018); and AAI Corporation/Textron, Hunt Valley, Maryland, will share in a $900,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for technical services and field support in support of Product Office Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Bids were solicited via the Internet with five received.
Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 5, 2022.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Natick, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity.

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