Contract Award: $126M Logistics and Operational Support Services to the Army and Marine Corps

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).

Department of Defense announced: 

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

AAI Logistics & Technical Services, AAI Test & Training and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems are operating units of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company. Originally founded in 1950 as AAI Corporation, Textron Systems announced the formation of three separate AAI organizations in 2011. This organizational change will continue to power efficiencies and enable each business to better support customers' current and future needs.