$9.5M Engineering Services Contract Includes ASDS Work

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The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA is being awarded a $9.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract to provide engineering and technical services in the areas of system integration, implementation, and management, including hardware and software (see solicitation). CSDL will be providing its integration experience to the following technology development programs:

* Advanced SEAL Delivery System
* Military Flight Operation Quality Assurance Demonstration Project
* Submarine Class Ship Control System

Work will be performed in Cambridge, MA and is expected to be complete by December 2010. This contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, MD issued the contract (N00167-06-D-0001). Among other projects, CSDL is also a major participant in the for the life-extension program for the Trident II D-5 submarine-launched nuclear missile.