Boeing Satellite Systems.Boeing Satellite Systems, Herndon, Va., is being awarded a $9,999,999 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Satellite Connectivity Services and Bandwidth in support of the Standard Missile 3 Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD TBMD Theater Ballistic Missile Defense TBMD Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics TBMD Tactical Ballistic Missile Defense TBMD Terminal Ballistic Missile Defense TBMD Technology Base Medical ). This contract will provide technical and engineering services required to operate, upgrade, maintain and expand the ship/shore Satellite Connectivity System. The purpose of this system is to provide wide-band, over-the-horizon data communications between a missile firing ship and several land-based stations located at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Located in the State of Hawaii on the western shores of Kauai, the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Barking Sands (IATA: BKH, ICAO: PHBK) is the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training missile range. (PMRF PMRF Pacific Missile Range Facility PMRF Precision Manufacturing Research Facility (University of Alabama) ), and the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. during future planned tests of the Aegis Leap Intercept (ALI) missile. Work will be performed in Herndon, Va., and is expected to be completed by February 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Noun 1. Naval Surface Warfare Center - the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare NSWC , Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contract!ing activity (N00178-01-C-1064). |
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