Engility Corp Wins $39 Million EW Weapon Systems Contract

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  • 07:34 AM, February 22, 2014
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Engility Corp has won a $39 million modification contract for electronic warfare (EW) weapons systems for the US Navy and Australian EA-6B, EA-18G, E-2C, MH-60R, BAMS, P-8A aircrafts.

This contract also includes the support for Unmanned Air Systems, flight simulators, training systems, other advanced electronic attack derivatives and initiatives.  

Services to be provided include systems engineering, in-service hardware and software engineering, intelligence data analysis, test and evaluation, EW systems development, threat analysis, threat defeat, mission planning, and EW data development.  EW weapons systems modifications include weapon system software, on-call field engineering analysis, test and evaluation, studies and analysis, threat analysis and sensor intelligence mission data files, jammer techniques development and logistics for distribution of Operational Flight Programs.  

Work is expected to be completed in February 2019.  

This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($37 million; 95 percent) and the Government of Australia ($1 million; 5 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.   

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