The Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used by the United States Army, Marine Corps, Australian Army and Swedish Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with the aid of arresting gear similar to jets on an aircraft carrier. Its gimbal-mounted, digitally-stabilized, liquid nitrogen-cooled electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera relays video in real time via a C-band line-of-sight data link to the ground control station (GCS).
Contract Awards
AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee, option-included contract with a maximum value of $126,262,568 to provide logistics and operational support services to the Army and Marine Corps for shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems. A portion of this contract includes foreign military sales in support of Australia. Work will performed in Afghanistan. A combination of fiscal 2014 procurement and fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $14,397,260 are being obligated on this award. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with one bid received. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
ABOUT AAI Corp
Department of Defense (DOD) — Patriot Contract Services, LLC is a leading maritime contractor to the U.S. Government, managing and operating vessels. PCS currently manages five Ready Reserve Force (RRF) ships for the United States Maritime Administration (MARAD), four Surge Large Medium Speed RO-RO (LMSR) vessels for the United States Navy, Military Sealift Command (MSC), as well as one special mission ship and one LMSR prepositioned ship for MSC. PCS also provides crewmembers for vessels operated by Kwajalein Range Services and other ship operators.
PCS has managed a wide range of vessel types for MARAD and MSC, including RO-RO vessels, LASH vessels, and general cargo vessels, powered by steam propulsion, slow speed diesels, medium speed 
Department of Defense (DOD) — Announced solicitation designated for the air component of US Southern Command, provides base operations support (BOS) at forward operating locations (FOL) to permanently assigned Air Force personnel, equipment, facilities, and to deployed Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard aircraft, personnel and equipment conducting USSOUTHCOM, DoD, US State Department, and multi-counter drug agencies counter drug surveillance missions in the Caribbean and Central and South American theaters. The Forward Operating Location Base Operations Support services contract provides all management, personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and other items and services as necessary to perform tailored BOS at Hato International Air Port (IAP), Curacao and Reina Beatrix IAP, Aruba.
