Raytheon Co., Falls Church, Va., is being awarded an $8,405,187 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-98-C-0190) to modify the Block 2 Tactical Control System software.
Raytheon Co., Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va., is being awarded an $8,405,187 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-98-C-0190) to modify the Block 2 Tactical Control System The Tactical Control System (TCS) is a group of protocols that govern the command and control system for unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs. History
Developed by EG&G Technical Services and Raytheon, starting in 1999, the Tactical Control System software. The Tactical Control System will provide the military services with a single unmanned aerial vehicle A powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely, can be expendable or recoverable, and can carry a lethal or nonlethal payload. mission planning, command and control, data processing and dissemination system for operation of the medium altitude endurance and tactical family of unmanned aerial vehicles
Main article: Unmanned aerial vehicle
The following is a list of Unmanned aerial vehicles developed and operated by various countries around the world. Listed with primary mission(s) and year of first flight. . Work will be performed in Falls Church, Va. (94%), and Dahlgren, Va. (6%), and is expected to be completed in December 2004. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air System Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
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| | Comment: | Raytheon Co., Falls Church, Va., is being awarded an $8,405,187 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-98-C-0190) to modify the Block 2 Tactical Control System software. |
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| Publication: | EDP Weekly's IT Monitor |
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| Article Type: | Brief Article |
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| Geographic Code: | 1USA |
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| Date: | Jun 23, 2003 |
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| Words: | 115 |
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