Alion Science and Technology yesterday said it will provide Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) with technology development, integration and evaluation expertise under a $24 million contract.
Alion’s NSWC PCD work includes technical engineering to increase unmanned and automated weapon systems capabilities for such tasks as implementing unmanned systems payloads on commercial-off-the-shelf or existing non-developmental unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) with limited modifications.
Under the contract, this work can include UUVs, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
“The capabilities and prototype systems produced by Alion will be used by the Navy and other homeland security-focused agencies such as the U.S. Coast Guard, joint services and Department of Homeland Security,” said Terri Spoonhour, group senior vice president and manager of the Distributed Simulation Group. “These technologies comprise configurations operating from several types of weapons platforms and other vehicles such as Navy warships and experimental boats, explosive ordnance disposal operating craft and various other craft as well as shore-based facilities.”
The NSWC PCD supports research, development, test and evaluation for weapon systems development associated with mine warfare, naval special warfare and amphibious/expeditionary maneuver warfare systems, and other littoral missions, the company said in a statement.
The contract was awarded under the Defense Technical Information Center’s (DTIC’s) Weapon Systems Technology Information Analysis Center (WSTIAC), which Alion runs under contract. The contract will run through September 2015.
WSTIAC is one of nine DTIC Information Analysis Centers (IACs). The IACs house libraries of information focused on specific technology areas, in addition to providing technical expertise in these areas.