BAE Systems on Thursday said it was awarded a prime contractor position with the U.S. Navy as a means of bolstering maritime operations and flight safety systems aboard new aircraft carriers and large deck amphibious ships.
BAE Systems was one of three contractors presented the opportunity to bid on future integration, engineering, assembly, testing and installation-focused task orders awarded on a new contract throughout an eight-year ordering period. The company said the contract was for an indefinite delivery and quantity.
“As a leading systems integrator, we continuously seek to broaden our support to the U.S. Navy to advance its C5ISR capabilities,” Mark Keeler, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems’ Integrated Defense Solutions business, said. “We are working with our defense customers to innovate our approach to systems development to better meet their ever evolving mission requirements in alignment with construction and modernization priorities.”
The work will primarily be executed near the Navy’s Test and Integration Facility Complex, officials said, which is also known as the C4I-System Innovation Facility and located at Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic in Charleston, S.C. Additional work is slated for shipyards in Pascagoula, Miss., Newport News, Va., and Norfolk, Va.
BAE Systems provides large-scale systems engineering, integration and sustainment services across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.