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Huntington Ingalls Wins $954 Million to Provide ISR Services to USAFE

By Vivienne Machi

Friday, January 24th, 2020

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Huntington Ingalls Wins $954 Million to Provide ISR Services to USAFE

US Air Force insignia on an aging jet plane.

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] has been awarded $954 million to provide persistent multi-role and cross-domain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), the company said Jan. 23. It is the single-largest task order the company has received since HII created its Technical Services division, company spokeswoman Beci Brenton told Defense Daily on Friday. The contract, awarded by the General Services Administration’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM), includes contractor-owned/contractor-operated (COCO) manned and unmanned airborne…

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