New Navy Contract

Monday, August 16, 2010

FLIR Systems, Inc., North Billerica, Mass., is being awarded an $8,624,000 firm-fixed-price contract for non-warranty repairs and spares for the maritime forward looking infrared radar (MARFLIR); high-power microscopic field (HPMF); and MicroStar systems.  The MARFLIR, HPMF, and MicroStar systems are to provide maritime crafts, ground vehicles, and unmanned aircraft with all-weather, day/night, high-resolution, stabilized, forward-looking infrared thermal imaging capability to augment existing optical and radar sensors by imaging enemy forces on land, at-sea and in the air, particularly during periods of darkness and poor visibility.  These systems enhance the detection, recognition, identification and tracking targets.  Work will be performed in North Billerica, Mass., and is expected to be completed by August 2015.  Contract funds in the amount of $20,893 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured.  Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-10-D-JQ86).
 

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