GPS Contract Awarded to SAIC for Systems Engineering

The Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center’s GPS Wing has announced a new contract to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) team for systems engineering and integration (SE&I). Contract value is $217 million if all options and maximum award fee are exercised over the five-year contract period of performance.

“This is an important shift in how the Air Force manages space acquisition programs,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Hamel, SMC commander. The announcement cited increased modernization activity in virtually every element of  the GPS enterprise as a driving force for the change.

The Air Force continues to serve as the responsible program authority “systems integrator,” with full responsibility, authority and accountability for the system-wide engineering and integration of the entire GPS enterprise — space, ground, and user equipment. The new SE&I contract will have specific deliverable products using documented work plans and product-oriented focus which will ensure engineering process discipline, interface, and configuration control as well as rigor and consistency across the entire GPS organization, according to the announcement.

The SAIC team for SE&I includes: LinQuest, Booz Allen Hamilton, Harris, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Loral Space Systems, Ducom Inc, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc, Integrity Applications Inc, MacAulay Brown Inc, MCR Federal Inc, Munoz Engineering Inc (MEI) Technologies, Overlook Systems Technologies Inc, Saalex Solutions Inc, and Teledyne Brown Engineering.