Army awards $248M unmanned aircraft contract to 7 firms
The Army awards seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $248.5 million contract to supply unmanned aircraft systems.
The Army has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $248.5 million contract to supply unmanned aircraft systems across the branch.
Nine other bids were submitted for the contract that covers both long-range reconnaissance surveillance and medium-range mobile UAS, the Defense Department said in its Wednesday contracts digest.
Other requirements include a tactical open government-owned architecture controller, plus spare and repair parts.
Awardees are:
- AeroVironment
- Blackbar Engineering
- Altavian
- EFW, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America
- GECO Inc.
- Innovative Automation Technologies
- Strata-G Solutions
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