Harris Corp. [HRS] has received a potential 21-month bridge contract from Customs and Border Protection to continue providing support for the Tethered Aerostats Radar System, known as TARS, which provides long-range search and track of air and surface targets. The potential value of the award, which has a one-year base period and four options covering up to nine months, was redacted. There are eight operational TARS sites. A competitive contract for continue TARS support is expected to be awarded by March 31.
Customs and Border Protection plans to award a contract to General Atomics for operational and maintenance support services for the agency’s MQ-9 Predator unmanned aircraft systems. The support consists of air vehicle pilots and mission payload operators, systems, airframe, and equipment repairs and modifications, system upgrades, software support, mission equipment integration, training, VADER radar services, and data development.