L-3 provides Navy with critical tech support

L-3 Services Group is providing engineering and technical support to the Navy under a $17.4 million contract, according to a Defense Department announcement.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee, noncompetitive contract calls for L-3 Services to provide critical engineering and technical services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Special Communications Requirements Division.

Those services will support legacy, current and next-generation telecommunications and related system requirements for various Navy, Army, Air Force, special operations forces and other agencies, the announcement states.

The work, which is expected to be completed by October 2011, will be performed at St. Inigoes and Lexington Park, Md., and at other locations within and outside the United States.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

L-3 Services is a division of L-3 Communications Corp., of New York, which ranks No. 8 on Washington Technology’s 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.