Houston, Texas — KBR Inc. announced they were awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity job order construction contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Europe Africa Southwest Asia for the largest U.S. base in Africa. This contract award is the second recent contract awarded to KBR by NAVFAC to support military operations at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa. KBR is currently performing operations and maintenance services under the Base Operations Support Services (BOSS) contract.

“KBR’s prior success working in Djibouti has led to the award of this contract,” said Stuart Bradie, KBR President and CEO. “KBR has long been a proud supporter of the U.S. military. We have successfully delivered on projects in harsh, complex environments in which the military has served and this project is no different.”

According to the Department of Defense (DoD — Scitor Corporation, Reston, Virginia, was awarded a $25,063,344 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide high-altitude light detection and ranging off-nadir experimentation that includes technology demonstrations and assessments for counter insurgency operations to meet the objectives to advance state of the art in high-altitude off-nadir data collections.

Work will be performed in Djibouti, Africa (65 percent), and Baltimore, Maryland (35 percent), with an estimated completion date of Sept. 25, 2016. One bid was solicited, with one received. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $16,150,000 are being obligated at the time of the award.