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A Year After EPIC Award BAE Looks To Cut Costs, Time On Ship C4I Work

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein In the year since BAE Systems won the Navy's Enterprise Platform Integration Contract (EPIC) to provide technical expertise for integrating and installing command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems on ships, the company has begun looking at ways to continue to cut costs and time, a company official said. In February 2008 the Navy awarded BAE a $242 million contract to provide integration, installation, engineering, procurement, test, inspection and delivery of C4I systems. The contract stemmed…

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