BAE SYSTEMS Receives $27.3 Million Contract Modification for Systems Technical Support and Logistics Services.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. has received a $27.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army TACOM TACOM Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (US Army) TACOM Tactical Communications TACOM Tactical Command TACOM Tank-Automotive and Armament Command TACOM Theater Army Command TACOM Tactical Army Command TACOM Tactical Army COM Life Cycle Management Command for systems technical support and logistics services for Bradley Combat Systems. "This effort continues our excellent field service support in returning vehicles back over to the troops, as well as providing new equipment training to vehicle users," said Barbara Handly, systems technical support manager for BAE Systems. Under the contract, BAE Systems will supply training services in the way of New Equipment Training Teams (NETT) to support the training of new Bradley crews receiving Bradley A3 and ODS (Operational Data Store) A database designed for queries on transactional data. An ODS is often an interim or staging area for a data warehouse, but differs in that its contents are updated in the course of business, whereas a data warehouse contains static data. based vehicles over the next year. The training will be provided to both active force and National Guard units receiving Bradleys in 2007. The work on this contract will be performed in Santa Clara, Calif. under fiscal year 2007 funding. About BAE Systems BAE Systems is the premier trans-Atlantic defense and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . With 86,000 employees worldwide, BAE Systems sales exceeded $28 billion in 2005. |
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