ManTech bags $89 million Army contract for C3 support Defence and Security

The U.S. Army has awarded a contract potentially worth $89.4 million to ManTech for software engineering assistance for the service’s Software Engineering Center.

Under the contract, ManTech will be facilitating command, control and communications system field software engineering assistance, the contract was awarded by Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The cost-plus-fixed-fee work order has a 12-month base period of performance with an optional 12-month expansion period.

The company has been contracted for various sets of services. ManTech will facilitate combat operations, exercise and garrison support for Army users of critical and tactical command, control and communities. It will also engage field support for logistics management systems and training support for foreign mission command training centers.

According to Daniel J. Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech's Mission Solutions & Services Group - The command control and communications systems plays a vital role in the successful employment of the Army’s mission. ManTech is contented to be a preferred choice, once again, to deliver software and systems engineering skills in support of this important effort.

The Army’s Software Engineering Center, which is in the Army’s Communications-Electronics Command’s Life Cycle Management Command, is accountable for formulating life cycle software solutions and services to facilitate information dominance and warfighter superiority, according to the Army. This covers solutions and services throughout the C4ISR enterprise under the center’s Warfighter Mission Area.

Among the top 20 defense contractors, ManTech ranked No. 12 for 2014 with a defense revenue totaling $1.5 billion for fiscal 2013.