U.S. military logistics experts have reportedly asked nine defense companies to help the U.S. Army solve potential issues caused by rapid modernization in command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime segment have announced contracts worth roughly $3.2 billion over the next 10 years for the C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment (G2S) project.
Each of the nine G2S contractors is expected to supply commercial and noncommercial products and services to support C5ISR projects of the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM).
According to CECOM, the program is expected to solve and prevent potential problems during rapid modernization. To accomplish that, vendors will compete to sustain a system early in its life cycle, to include hardware, software, engineering, obsolescence mitigation, and depot partnering.
The G2S contractors include:
· Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
· L3Harris Communications Systems-West
· Telecommunications Systems Inc.
Under this project, the nine companies will provide products and services related to test, evaluation and repair; upgrade, engineering and design-changes; engineering studies and capability analyses; obsolescence monitoring; and hybrid contractor support.
The companies will provide equipment and services such as networking hardware and software; handheld and portable radios; fixed and mobile secure and non-secure voice, video, and data networks; data processing; networking and data transmission such as satellite terminals.
Work also will involve tactical cyber operations; enterprise systems; electronic warfare (EW); radar- and missile-warning receivers and countermeasures; mine detection; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting; sensors such as night-vision equipment; radar; positioning, navigation and timing (PNT); power systems; environmental control; air traffic control; and avionics.
The contract also involves obsolescence monitoring and mitigation for review and approval of form, fit, and function replacement parts.
