US Department of Defense, Techno-Sciences, Inc., Beltsville, Md., is being awarded a $16,196,464 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to upgrade and integrate the existing Indonesian Integrated Maritime Surveillance System (IMSS) they developed with eight additional Coastal Surveillance Stations (CSS) and two CSS equipment sets to supplement the two existing project sites in Indonesia; improve communications capabilities at the Indonesian Headquarters Command Center; and upgrade X-Band Radars on seven Indonesian ships and Trident Monitoring System.
They will also define requirements and preliminary design for a Regional Integrated Maritime Security Information Center (RIMSIC) and develop IMSS Concept of Operations, Training and Exercise Plans.
This contract represents purchases by the U.S. Navy for the benefit of the government of Indonesia under the authority of Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2006.
Work will be performed in Beltsville, Md. (51 percent), and in Indonesia (49 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2008. The contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured, but was synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily
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