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By Eddy Metcalf |
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July 1, 2010 – The
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Metron Aviation,
Inc., of
The $1.15 billion
contract awarded to Metron Aviation for 10 years is one of the largest
ever awarded by the FAA to a small business. The announcement was made
at the FAA’s Small Business Conference at the
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The two contracts
are the last of six awarded under an umbrella portfolio called System
Engineering 2020 (SE-2020). SE-2020 was designed to encourage small
business participation. It has a ceiling of $6.5 billion, making it the
largest set of awards in the agency’s history.
The work performed
by Metron Aviation will complement work done by Boeing, General Dynamics
and ITT under SE2020 contracts awarded last month. The firms will
conduct large-scale demonstrations to see how NextGen concepts,
procedures and technologies can be integrated into the current system.
The $711 million
contract awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton for 10 years follows the first
SE2020 contract awarded to CSSI, Inc., in April. Both companies will
evaluate emerging procedures and technologies and perform systems
engineering to determine the best way to deploy the NextGen initiatives
on a wide scale. |