CSC Receives Potential $391M EAGLE Task Order
Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC] has won a potential task order under the Department of Homeland Security’s EAGLE program worth up to $391 million over six and one-half years if all options are exercised. The initial six-month base phase of the order is worth $17.5 million and began on July 1. Under the task order CSC will provide information technology managed services, including consolidation, transformation and virtualization, in support of the operation and maintenance of the primary DHS data center at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Subsequent phases of the task order are worth $30.4 million, $45.6 million, $55.3 million, $62.3 million, $60.5 million and $59.6 million respectively, CSC says. After five and one-half years DHS could decide to exercise a 24-month option worth $109.1 million instead of the sixth year option. The 24-month option would bring the total potential value of the task order to $391 million.
Raytheon Gets $4.7M to Continue SORDS Development
Raytheon [RTN] has received a $4.7 million contract to transition into the development phase of a program being sponsored by the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to find ways to detect radiological threat materials at stand-off ranges. The award follows a successful Phase I effort where Raytheon went through a preliminary design review of its proposed solution for the Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS), John McElroy, the head of homeland security advanced technology efforts at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems division, tells TR2. In the second phase Raytheon will “dive deeper” into the design and do modeling and simulation to examine the various tradeoffs that will have to be made in constructing a prototype, which would be the focus of Phase III if the company is awarded another contract, he said. The SORDS technology that Raytheon is working on involves multiple modes of detector technology and sophisticated software algorithms that analyze the collected data and provide detection of harmful radiation with a degree of identification, McElroy says. The system would be vehicle mounted–such as a sport utility vehicle (SUV) or pick-up truck–so that it is portable and relocatable, he said. The system would detect at distances while moving, he added. The radiation detection technology is passive. McElroy describes Phase II as the critical design review part of the program. In addition to modeling and simulating the design, Raytheon would also begin long-lead purchases of detector materials in anticipation of being promoted to the next phase. Raytheon received a $2.9 million Phase I contract last November. A fourth phase of the program would involve test and evaluation of the prototype. Raytheon says that a total of $9.9 million is available for all four phases.
DTRA Awards Advanced Radiation Detection Development Contracts
The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded separate contracts to General Electric’s [GE] Global Research Center and United Kingdom- based Durham Science Crystals, Ltd., under the Advanced Detector Development and Nuclear Forensics Research and Development Broad Agency Announcement (HDTRA1-08-NTD-BAA). GE’s $4.2 million contract is titled, Target-Linked Radiation Imaging for Standoff Detection. Durham’s $2 million contract is titled, Development of Detectors from Vapour Grown Cadmium Zinc Telluride. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has two offers that are on the unfunded list and may be considered for awards if funds become available. The project titles are: The Use of Actinide Speciation for Rapid Forensic Sample Preparation; and Development of an Automated System for Rapid Radiochemical Analysis.
Coast Guard Awards decision/analysis partners $5M for Logistics Help
The Coast Guard has awarded the management consulting firm decision/analysis partners LLC, a three-year, $5 million contract to help with a logistics transformation effort. Under the contract Northern Virginia-based decision/analysis partners will continue to support the Logistics Transformation Program Integration Office with logistics requirements development and management, risk assessment and change management, marketing and communications, infrastructure and organization baselining and realignment analyses, business case analyses and facilitation. The decision/analysis team includes BearingPoint [BE].
DHS S&T Awards Alion $1.8M for Info Sharing
Alion Science and Technology received a potential one-year, $1.8 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch to support critical cross-agency information sharing capabilities required within and between DHS agencies. Alion’s team will review how DHS stakeholder organizations acquire, manage, analyze, and distribute information external to their operations and will outline a set of best practices supported by advanced technology and software capability. Alion’s subcontractors include Eastport Analytics, Innovative Analytics and Training, and Swan Island Networks.
Goodrich Developing Chem Detection Technology for DHS
Goodrich Corp. [GR] says it has received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deliver and evaluate a terahertz spectrometer to pinpoint the presence or absence of hazardous chemicals in public places. The terahertz technology is designed to reduce false alarm rates. “The terahertz spectrometer system has the potential to significantly improve the protection of our country’s critical assets,” says Tom Bergeron, president of Goodrich’s ISR Systems business unit. “It has demonstrated exceptional performance in detecting harmful chemicals as well as common false alarm sources such as cleaning agents, paint and water vapor.”