Sierra Nevada wins $9.5M contract to support intelligence info sharing

Sierra Nevada Corp. has won a $9.5 million contract with the Air Force to provide enterprise engine software and hardware prototype system.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has won a $9.5 million contract with the Air Force to provide enterprise engine software and hardware prototype system.

Under the contract, Sierra Nevada will develop technologies and operational prototypes to satisfy the undersecretary of defense for intelligence goals of optimizing information sharing within the intelligence community, the Defense Department said in a release.

The company will develop technology for an enterprise engine using model-driven development methods and techniques that enable agile software adaptation to situational awareness and decision making, the Defense Department said in a release.

Sierra Nevada Corp. will then demonstrate the prototype to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the areas of mission analysis, agile mission processing and mission knowledge-based situational assessments.

Work will be performed in Sparks, Nev., and is expected to be completed Sept. 22, 2017.