Booz Allen wins $210M Air Force Research Lab tech transition contract
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Ross Wilkers
Among other areas, the service branch's scientific research-and-development arm is pushing to help intelligence agencies adopt new sensors and collaborate more with mission partners.
Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential three-year, $209.9 million task order for IT and systems engineering services to help the Air Force Research Laboratory advance new technologies and systems across the national security community.
AFRL received three offers for the Nimbus order that has a particular focus on the transition and sustainment of systems into operational environments, the Pentagon said in its Wednesday awards digest.
Nimbus covers technology areas such as command and control, communications, computer, cybersecurity, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
A request for information posted in October describes AFRL’s major goals for the program as incorporating emerging sensors into the intelligence community’s operations, along with managing collaborations between those agencies and other Defense Department mission partners.
Booz Allen will also take on work involving configuration and database management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, agile methodology implementation, test documentation and certification support for major systems.
Nimbus appears to be a brand new requirement with no incumbent. AFRL awarded this order through the Alliant 2 government-wide IT solutions vehicle.