The USAF has awarded BAE Systems a $495 million contract to continue providing instrumentation support and sustainment services for military and government agencies in the US and allied nations.
The single-award contract has a ceiling amount of $945 million over seven years. It covers work at 27 Instrumentation Range Support Program (IRSP) ranges in the US and overseas (Germany, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK).
BAE Systems has been the sustainment contractor of choice in the IRSP since 1985. The company services components and subsystems for radars, telemetry and optical range mission systems, flight termination systems, data acquisition systems and global positioning systems.
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