SAIC to provide Blue Devil operations and maintenance support services to AFRL

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide Blue Devil Block 1 (Blue Devil) outside the Continental US (OCONUS) operations and maintenance (O&M) support services to the AFRL Sensors Directorate.

Under the contract, SAIC will provide operational mission support of deployed warfighters with an advanced multi-intelligence (MULTI-INT) intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor system, in addition to O&M services.

The recent Blue Devil contract follows previously awarded contract in support of Angel Fire electro-optical sensor operational programme for the AFRL.

SAIC senior vice president and business unit general manager John Fratamico said, "We look forward to continuing to provide the AFRL with Blue Devil operations and maintenance services in support of warfighter missions worldwide."

The contract work also includes airfield and flight operations, mission payload O&M, and the processing, exploitation and dissemination of intelligence products.

Following the evaluation of the military utility of wide area surveillance technologies, the Blue Devil programme transitions from the test and evaluation phase to O&M mission support programme.

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