Air Force radar support program won by BAE Systems
NewsDecember 28, 2015
WASHINGTON. BAE Systems won a U.S. Air Force Instrumentation Radar Support Program (IRSP) contract to give multiple agencies a wide range of radar support services. IRSP provides services across the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and at least seven foreign governments.
The five-year contract is valued at a total of $278.5 million and will be incrementally obligated.
BAE Systems officials have managed IRSP, a government-administered co-op program, since 1985. It was created to enable support to several agencies with similar radar, telemetry, and optical tracking systems, as well as compatible missions. Today, IRSP supports more than 500 systems with work that ranges from relatively simple logistical upgrades to complete depot-level overhauls.
The company will deploy serviceable components and subsystems for 28 test ranges with radar, telemetry, and optical tracking systems worldwide.
The work will be mostly performed at the BAE Systems’ IRSP component repair facility in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and is expected to be finished by the end of 2020. The Air Force obligated an initial $200,000 at the time of the award.
