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Army

Army To Negotiate With AAI Corp. For UAS Tech Integration

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

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The Army yesterday said it expects to negotiate a sole source contract with AAI Corp. [TXT] for more than 300,000 labor hours to support the service integration of technology into the contractor’s fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The Army Contracting Command-Redstone (ACC-R), anticipates a sole source Indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for an estimated 300,140 labor hours of engineering and technical services and associated in material, travel and other direct costs. The ordering period will be 36…

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