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2005 Press Release
Army Space and Missile Defense Command Awards Westar $50M SIAP Contract
August 9th, 2005, St. Louis, MO. Westar Aerospace & Defense Group
announced today that it was awarded a $50 million contract by the US Army
Space and Missile Defense Command develop methods and engineer solutions
to streamline and accelerate the injection of Single Integrated Air Picture
(SIAP) technologies into the hands of U.S. and joint coalition war-fighters.
The work will be completed at Westar and Government sites in Huntsville
AL., Ft. Hood TX, and other locations around the world.
According to Bill Durham, Westar's Vice President for Tactical C4I Systems,
"We've been working hard to improve information utilization and joint
forces situational awareness for years, and based on our progress to date,
our customer has again given us their confidence with this new important
award. This is a great testament to our systems integration ability, field
experience, and our people's prior successes managing the technical challenges
to interoperability. We are proud and excited to assist our customer with
this important mission."
Westar is a leading technology services provider to defense, space, and security customers around the world. As a supplier to the US Department of Defense and coalition and allied nations, Westar performs rapid technology insertion, defense systems architecture simulation and design, conducts interoperability analysis, systems integration, engineering and programmatic support, and develops and deploys logistics software. By providing a full range of engineering and consulting services Westar completes broad-based and large scale multidisciplinary projects that deliver improved readiness and lower operating costs to its customers. Westar has 1000 technology professionals in St. Louis MO, Washington D.C., Huntsville AL, Ft. Hood TX and Ft. Campbell KY and at numerous other locations in the US and around the world.
QinetiQ (pronounced ki’ ne tik as in ‘kinetic energy’)
is a leading global defense technology and security company. Founded in
2001, QinetiQ today has grown internationally, with around 11,500 employees
in the UK and US, many of them internationally acclaimed experts, providing
government and commercial customers sophisticated resources to create,
evaluate, test, and deliver technology-based services, solutions and products.
In 2004, it acquired Westar Aerospace & Defense Group and Foster-Miller,
Inc. In 2005, QinetiQ also announced its signing of purchase agreements
with Apogen Technologies and Belgian firm Verhaert. These transactions
are expected to close later this year. Visit www.QinetiQ.com for further
information.