Monday, December 10, 2012

Air Force awards contract for MQ-9 Reaper aircraft

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Medium Altitude UAS Division, intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. for the procurement of fiscal year 2015 MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 aircraft, spares, support equipment, and technical data package. The Air Force announcement the award on Monday in contract documents released through the Federal Business Opportunities website.
 
General Atomics ASI is the sole designer, developer, and manufacturer of the Predator/Reaper system and is the only firm that possesses the necessary knowledge, experience and technical data required to perform these efforts.
 
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