Parsons Corp. has won a $28 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance command and control, and space software baselines for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Global Application Research, Development, Engineering, and Maintenance program.
The contract includes one 3-year performance period.
“Parsons delivers value for national security customers like the U.S. Air Force by integrating technologies, transforming data, and customizing site-specific capabilities to meet their varying mission demands,” said Mike Kushin, president of the Defense and Intelligence sector for Parsons. “In a rapidly evolving threat ecosystem, it’s imperative that our defense and intelligence apparatus maintains intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance dominance, requiring agile development of technologies and tools, which we are proud to continue delivering to the AFRL.”
The task order provides research, development, prototyping, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment and maintenance of innovative technologies and concepts on a continuous timeline through the contract life cycle.
The programs also leverages Parsons’ cyber expertise to identify toolset weaknesses and deliver needed enhancements to meet the needs of the Air Force, Defense Department, intelligence community and other federal agency end-users.
GARDEM is a $427 million multiple-award contract vehicle aimed at creating and implementing updated software baselines. Parsons won multiple task orders on the contract since first awarded in 2019.