Navmar Applied Sciences is being awarded a $41,463,854 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project under Topics N92-170 “Laser Detection and Ranging Identification Demonstration”, N94-178 “Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe”, and AF083-006 “Low Cost Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)”.
This contract provides for the procurement of 21 persistent surveillance unmanned aerial systems TigerShark Block 3 (TSB3) XTS, TSB3 XTS product upgrades, and options for an additional 30 TSB3 UAVs, as well as corresponding ground control stations, research and engineering support, and deployment training in support of persistent threat detection systems deployed outside of the Continental United States.
Work will be performed in Johnstown, Pa., (55 percent); Afghanistan (35 percent); Hollywood, Md. (6 percent);Warminster, Pa. (3 percent); and Yuma, Ariz. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $13,400,354 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This Phase III SBIR contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(5). The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-12-C-0353).
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