L-3 Comm. awarded 5-year $179m task order from the U.S. Army.

L-3 Communications (NYSE:LLL) announced recently that the Systems Engineering Services division of L-3 Communications ILEX Systems (L-3 ILEX SESD), in partnership with subcontractor TELOS-OK, has been awarded a five-year, $179 million task order from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to provide system and software engineering services for CECOM's Software Engineering Center and Fire Support Software Engineering (SEC, FSSE) organization located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

ILEX SESD and TELOS-OK will develop and maintain software enhancements and provide training and post-deployment system and software support for fielded fire support (FS) systems, including the Initial Fire Support Automated System (IFSAS) and the Battery Computer System (BCS). ILEX SESD and TELOS-OK engineers will provide acquisition support to Army/Joint Program Managers (PMs) and their prime contractors in the development of command and control, target acquisition, meteorological, fire direction and software-intensive fire control systems, including software requirements analyses, technical reviews, code analyses, test plan evaluations, field exercise support and other software-related activities.

L-3 ILEX SESD is based in Shrewsbury, NJ (Fort Monmouth) with major operations in Sierra Vista, AZ (Fort Huachuca), and field service offices at over twenty sites worldwide including Korea, Germany, Hawaii, Fort Bragg, Fort Stewart, Fort Drum, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Belvoir, Fort Lewis, Fort Campbell, Hunter Army Airfield, and deployment sites such as Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to software support of SATCOM systems, L-3 ILEX SESD provides systems/software engineering support in the development, integration, maintenance and testing of intelligence fusion, surveillance, electronic warfare, sensor, tactical communications, command and control, simulation, and training systems. L-3 ILEX SESD is also highly experienced in the joint interoperability of military communications and in applying centralized, distributed and client-server architectures to real-time, high-volume transaction processing requirements.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading provider of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, secure communications systems, aircraft modernization, training and government services and is a merchant supplier of a broad array of high technology products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, selected U.S. Government intelligence agencies and aerospace prime contractors.