Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a $72 million task order with a 60-month period of performance for Endurance UAS (EUAS), Tactical UAS (TUAS), Soldier UAS (SUAS), and Command Control and Effects (C2E) for Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation (AVN), Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office (UASPO). Alion was awarded this contract under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center's (DoD IAC) multiple-award contract (MAC) vehicle. These DoD IAC MAC task orders are awarded by the U.S. Air Force's 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron.
"Support includes air survivability, reverse engineering, prototype development, cyber security and training as well as whole system modification and integration to successfully deliver products to benefit the UASPO," said Terri Walker-Spoonhour, Alion's Senior Vice President of Operations and Acting General Manager of the Cyber and Electronic Warfare Group. "Our systematic approach achieves speed in planning and execution, allowing us to deliver results quickly and efficiently against urgent operational requirements. We look forward to supporting the Army PEO Aviation's UASPO."
Alion will perform research, analysis, trade studies, and testing to provide recommendations and plans for the development, integration, management, and technical support for UAS programs, projects, systems, subsystems, components, and support equipment to enable the PEO AVN Program Managers (PMs) to develop capability, increase availability, improve reliability, and reduce the support costs of UAS programs. The focus will be on airworthiness; data interoperability; Information Assurance (IA); hardware interchangeability; testing and evaluation; maintenance management; data analysis; obsolescence management; and systems engineering practices. This will include performing Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI) analyses and developing strategies, as well as analyzing and recommending solutions for logistics, testing, independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), life-cycle, and cost issues to refine and improve sustainability initiatives.
