Bingen wins $45 million contract for support from US Defense

Insitu, Inc., Bingen, Wash., is being awarded a $45,967,010 firm fixed-price contract to provide deployment services and flight hours in support of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). These services will provide electro-optical/infra red and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of Marine Corps operations in Operation Enduring Freedom, and will encompass both the operations and maintenance of the ScanEagle UAS to provide real-time imagery and data to USMC personnel. Work will be performed in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be completed in May 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $45,967,010 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-2. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity .