Army Terminates Aerial Common Sensor Development Contract

Published: Jan 13, 2006
Source: www.globalsecurity.org



FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. -- The United States Army announced today that it is terminating the $879 million Lockheed Martin, System Design and Development (SDD) contract for the Aerial Common Sensor.

"After carefully evaluating Lockheed's proposals, we decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players -- industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and Air Force -- back to the drawing board to make sure we all have a firm understanding of what the requirements are and the various challenges we need to overcome to make this program succeed. We are not terminating the program. I think -- I know -- that we learned a great deal in the early stages of this contract during the system's design maturation phase and we intend to take this knowledge forward. The Army remains committed to building and fielding the next-generation reconnaissance aircraft for the Warfighter," said Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology Claude M. Bolton.continue..