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USAF awards a $485 mn contract to Lockheed Martin for Sniper precision weapons targeting pods.
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US
Department of Defense announced today, March 28, that US company Lockheed
Martin won a sole-source contract worth nearly half a billion dollars
to supply the US Air Force with Sniper advanced targeting pods.
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 Lockheed Martin Sniper advanced targeting pod |
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“Lockheed
Martin … has been awarded a $485,000,000 firm fixed price with
minimal cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity
contract. Contractor [Lockheed] will provide multiple Sniper advanced
targeting pods,” the US DoD said in an official statement,
released on Friday.. The building of the Sniper pods will be performed at a Lockheed Martin facility in Orlando, Florida. Development is expected to be completed by March, 2018, the DoD release said. Lockheed also won an $8.9 million contract to provide ten Sniper targeting pods to the Royal Jordanian Air Force by the end of 2016, according to the DoD. Lockheed Martin's Sniper
is an electro-optical targeting system in a single, lightweight pod
that is compatible with the latest precision-guided weapons for detecting,
identifying and engaging multiple moving and fixed targets in air-to-air
and air-to-ground engagements. In addition to fulfilling strike mission
requirements, Sniper is changing the way armed forces operate in theater
to meet the challenges of nontraditional intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (NTISR). |
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