Integrated Systems Awarded Navy Contract

Integrated Systems Solutions Inc.* Pomfret, Md., is being awarded a $64,073,299 ceiling-priced cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for research and development services to increase the government’s understanding of Lighter Than Air platforms and their usage for sensor technologies. Services to be provided include experimenting with outfitting commercial blimps with sensors and a tactical data link, equipping an airship with Electro Optics /Infrared /Hyperspectral cameras to provide all-weather, day-night surveillance, the use of an Advanced Airship Flying Laboratory to provide a flying laboratory for testing sensors, the use of high altitude airship surveillance, the creation of Hybrid Ultra Large Aircraft , and training of Test Pilots to fly airships. Work will be performed at Patuxent River, Md., and is expected to be completed in April 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured using Broad Agency Announcement with one offer received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity