Airborne Tactical Advantage has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for subsonic and supersonic aircraft.

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $54.4 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for Type III high subsonic and Type IV supersonic aircraft, according to a Defense Department contract announcement.

The Type III high subsonic and Type IV supersonic aircraft are designed to simulate incoming threats for testing and training defensive capabilities.

Work on the contract will occur in Newport News, Va., where Airborne Tactical Advantage is located, along with California and other undisclosed locations across the United States, the Pentagon said.

The period of performance will be complete in May 2019.

The Naval Air Warfare Center said that more than $6.1 million will be obligated to Airborne Tactical Advantage at time of award.

Obligated funds will be allocated from Navy fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds, which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year in September.

Air Force contracts with UTAS for reconnaissance pods
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2018 - UTAS was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for high-resolution imagery and air-to-ground communications.

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $61.3 million under the terms indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award.

The contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center enables UTAS, a division of Goodrich, to provide an increased quantity of the DB-110 tactical reconnaissance pods to the Air Force and other foreign military sales partner nations, the Pentagon said.

The reconnaissance pod provides day and night, high-resolution, wide-area imaging capabilities for F-16 aircraft, as well as other jet fighters, from up to 80 nautical miles away and can collect more than 10,000 square miles of imagery per hour. The pod provides stand-off and vertical imaging capabilities, along with air-to-ground communication over constrained bandwidth systems.

The modification brings the total cumulative value of the original contract to more than $135.4 million.

Work on the contract will occur in Westford, Mass., and is expected to be complete in May 2021.

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