General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has been awarded a $95.5 million contract extension to continue its support of the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Experimentation Program and Joint Futures Lab. The work includes engineering, technical and administrative services for joint concept development and prototyping.
This award is to execute Option II, Lot III of a five-year contract awarded in February 2004, extending the term of the original contract until July 2007. The total value of the contract to date, including this option, is $277.7 million. The U.S. Navy Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Philadelphia Detachment, awarded the modification in support of the Joint Forces Command.
General Dynamics has supported the Joint Experimentation Program since 1998 and holds separate contracts to support the Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Command, Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration Program, and Joint Warfighting Center.
The Joint Experimentation Program's mission is to develop, explore, test and assess new joint warfighting concepts, organizational structures and emerging technologies through discovery, innovation and experimentation in order to drive transformational changes that achieve the optimal future joint force capability.
The Joint Experimentation Program supports the military services, combatant commanders, government agencies, multinational partners and others in validating future joint concepts and providing recommendations to military and civilian leadership. Program success is measured in improved future military capabilities placed in the hands of warfighters and improved coalition capabilities in multinational operations.
General Dynamics also supports the Joint Futures Laboratory (JFL) as part of this contract. This 111,000-square-foot laboratory opened in 2003 and expanded the facilities of the permanent Distributed Continuous Experimentation Environment laboratory. With its state-of the-art modeling and simulation systems, Joint Forces Command is able to collaboratively conduct and distribute experiments worldwide.
This robust venue for classified and unclassified electronically distributed experimentation offers a world-class resource where concepts may be repeatedly examined from the time they emerge as potentially good ideas, through various discovery events, to their ultimate transition to the operational forces.
