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2005 Press Release
Marine Corps Systems Command Selects Westar for BPA Contract
August 31, 2005, Washington DC. The Marine Corps System Command has awarded
Westar Aerospace & Defense Group a new Prime BPA Contract to provide
Engineering & Scientific Support Services. Westar’s new MARCOSYSCOM
BPA is a component of the Marine’s Commercial Enterprise Omnibus
support services (CEOss) contract vehicle. The value to Westar over the
next five years is expected to be $30 million.
Westar and its team of subcontractors, including Foster-Miller, Inc.,
an affiliate in the QinetiQ North American group, will provide technical
engineering assistance and support services to various Marine Product
Groups and Program Offices, including those for Battlespace Management
/ Air Defense, C4ISR, and Armor & Fire Support. Westar’s other
teammates include EG&G Corp., Wyle Laboratories, MTC Technologies,
MCR Federal, RNB Technologies, Scientific Research Corporation, SURVICE
Engineering Company.
Harry Radcliffe, Westar’s Program Manager, said: “We are proud to be selected as the only new supplier team to be added under the System Command’s Engineering and Scientific domain for FY 06.” Westar will manage the contract as part of its National Capital Region business base and from our new Project Office located in Dumfries, Virginia, just outside the gates of Marine Corps Base Quantico. Jim Williford, the Executive VP of Westar’s Washington office stated, “We are excited to be able to leverage synergies and technologies that we supply other branches in Iraq and Afghanistan to the benefit of the Marines.”
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.