Textron Systems has been awarded a not-to-exceed $13 million contract by the Naval Air Systems Command executing agent for the Office of Naval Research, to develop and provide an airborne sensor for the Navy Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Intercept Monitoring Program at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii. The Airborne Intercept Monitoring program is a cost-plus fixed-fee, indefinite-quantity contract for supplies and services.
Under the terms of the contract, Textron Systems will define, develop, install and test an electro-optical data acquisition sensor package for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor missile intercepts. The UAV will be capable of flying within areas known as “keep out” boundaries that manned aircraft are restricted from entering. It can also operate above the weather and atmospheric turbulence.
Bob Buckley, senior vice president of strategic development for Textron Systems said, “We are extremely pleased to have been selected for this very competitive program. Textron Systems has a great deal of expertise in sensor technologies and considers airborne surveillance one of the company’s core competencies.”
The majority of the work will be performed in Kauai, Hawaii with some portion of the development being done at Textron Systems’ Wilmington, Mass. facility. The work is to be completed by March 2007.
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