Under Contract

By The Hill Staff - 10/27/11 08:02 PM ET

• The Army on Oct. 24 awarded Global Integrated Security a $480 million contract. The “firm-fixed-price contract” will require “reconstruction security support services throughout Afghanistan in support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.” The contract should end in October 2015.

• SRI International on Oct. 25 won a $7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The “cost-plus-fixed-fee contract,” which will run through September 2016, sets SRI to work on the Broad Operational Language Technology Program. The objective is to “creat[e] technology capable of translating multiple foreign languages in all genres, retriev[e] information from the translated material and enabl[e] bilingual communication via speech or text.” The language work, which includes “Arabic dialect components,” will be completed in 12 locations, three of which are overseas.

• Noblis and “team members, including Flatirons Solutions Corp.,” have been awarded an approximately $350 million contract by the Federal Aviation Administration, the company announced Oct. 25. The Enterprise Communications Support Services Contract requires Noblis and others to “provide a wide range of technology management support to the FAA’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) Communications Services organization.”

• Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Aeronautical Systems was awarded an almost $519 million contract modification on Oct. 21 by the Air Force. The modification is on an existing contract “for the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program.”

Contract information compiled from defense.gov, USASpending.gov and outside press releases. Send statements about government contracts to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .