FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Navy has awarded
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a contract valued at up to $13.5
million for engineering services in support of the Maritime Integrated Air and
Missile Defense Planning System (MIPS), a successor to the AADC Area Air
Defense Commander Capability (AADC). General Dynamics Advanced Information
Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
MIPS is an operational-level planning tool designed to help the Joint
Force Maritime Component Commander rapidly analyze and optimize alternatives
for defeating current or projected air and missile threats. MIPS uses
advanced algorithms to predict the outcomes of various scenarios and
interactions of military forces, to allow the commander to visualize enemy
courses of action, and to help determine the most effective way to counter
those actions.
General Dynamics has been developing MIPS and sustaining a limited fleet
capability for five years. Under this new contract, General Dynamics will
update the existing software models to address new threat and weapon
characteristics. General Dynamics will also migrate that software to a new
computing platform that will overcome the hardware obsolescence issues that
face the existing fleet capability and conforms to the Navy's Open
Architecture Computing Environment standards.
Mike Tweed-Kent, vice president and general manager of integrated combat
systems for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said, 'MIPS is an
example of how General Dynamics is developing advanced hardware and software
technology in an open architecture and open business environment to quickly
and efficiently respond to critical fleet needs.'
Work will be performed in Virginia Beach and Fair Lakes, Va., and is
expected to be completed by July 2010.
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems designs, develops,
manufactures, integrates, operates and maintains mission systems for defense,
space, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, homeland security and
homeland defense customers. Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., the company
specializes in ground systems; imagery processing; mission payloads; space
vehicles; maritime subsurface, surface and airborne mission systems; and
tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination programs for
national intelligence. More information is available on the Internet at
http://www.gd-ais.com.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs
approximately 84,600 people worldwide and anticipates 2008 revenues of
approximately $29.5 billion. The company is a market leader in business
aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions;
shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies.
SOURCE General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
