Adacel Systems Inc.

Adacel Systems Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $23,696,045 firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for 46 Tower Simulation Simulators (TSS) to be installed at U.S. Air Force bases throughout the continental United States and overseas. The simulators will provide U.S. Air Force air traffic controllers with the tools needed to achieve and maintain proficiency in the skills necessary to effectively control the airspace in a Military Air Traffic Control (ATC) environment. Specific TSS objectives are: (1) certify new technical ATC trainee's to become air traffic controllers; (2) train controllers in multiple positions, with aircraft and additional controller interactions and coordination, while building confidence and proficiency; and (3) expose controllers to base mission changes, new aircraft, and unique flight characteristics. Options for contractor logistic support and for a training support center capability to support the simulators are also being exercised. Locations of performance are Adacel Systems Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas (20 percent); TRW Inc., System Group, Global Information Technology Division, San Antonio (60 percent) and other locations. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be completed by July 2004. Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-01-C-0025, P00003).