News & Press Releases
GTS wins NAVSEA contract for the production of Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) Systems valued at $22.2 million
PRESS RELEASE
September 25, 2014
DefenseLINK News Contract Award
Announcements
Global Technical Systems,* Virginia Beach, Virginia, is being awarded a
$22,204,809 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only contract for production of the
Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) hardware and associated engineering services. The BFTT T46D
system is a rack-based console providing high fidelity Combat System Element training, encompassing
individual watch-station training, within the lifelines unit-level training, integrated warfare
commander training, strike group training and coalition/joint training. This contract will provide
for the production, testing and delivery of BFTT T46D systems, spares and associated engineering
services. Work will be performed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by
September 2017. Fiscal 2014 other procurement (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $1,219,992 will
be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This
contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with eight
offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting
activity (N00024-14-C-5110).
*Small Business
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or
757-468-8751
x5130
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins SPAWAR multi-award IDIQ contract for CANES Production valued at $2.5
billion
PRESS RELEASE
No: CR-159-14
August 20,
2014
CONTRACTS
NAVY
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, Inc.,
Rockville, Maryland (N00039-14-D-0121); General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Massachusetts
(N00039-14-D-0122); Global Technical Systems,* Virginia Beach, Virginia (N00039-14-D-0123); Northrop
Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia (N00039-14-D-0124); and Serco, Inc., Reston, Virginia
(N00039-14-D-0125), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity,
firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise
Services (CANES) production units.
The estimated, cumulative value of the multiple award
contract is $2,529,500,000. CANES serves as the bridge to the future of Navy afloat networks,
consolidating existing legacy and standalone networks, providing the necessary infrastructure for
applications, systems and services to operate in the tactical domain. CANES delivers its
capabilities within a single complete system, bringing the necessary infrastructure that will enable
timely and interoperable information exchange among tactical, support and non-tactical or
administrative users, applications and information technology platforms.
This contract has
an eight-year ordering period up to the contract award amount. There are no options. Work will be
performed in North Charleston, South Carolina; Taunton, Massachusetts; Virginia Beach, Virginia;
Madison, Alabama; and San Diego, California, as delivery orders determine.
Work is expected
to be completed by August 2022. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be
obligated as individual delivery orders are issued. The multiple award contracts were competitively
procured by full and open competition bids via the Space and Naval Warfare e-Commerce Central and
the Federal Business Opportunities websites, with seven offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.
For more information,
please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751 x5130
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins Navy SBIR: Improved, Flexible Infrastructure Compatible,
Open-Loop Air-Cooled Computer Rack/ Cabinet
PRESS RELEASE
August 4, 2014
Virginia Beach, VA - Global Technical Systems (GTS) wins Navy SBIR: Improved, Flexible Infrastructure
Compatible, Open-Loop Air-Cooled Computer Rack/Cabinet (SBIR #N141-043). GTS, the producer of the
AN/UYQ-107 Common Processing System (CPS) for the US Navy, is charged with developing a computer
rack / cabinet with an improved, more efficient, Flexible Infrastructure (FI) HVAC compatible, air
cooling system to provide an alternative solution to the existing permanent ducted HVAC cooling
services. The Phase I SBIR, supporting NAVSEA PMS 377 interests, is valued at ~$80,000 with a 6
month period of performance. All work will be performed from GTS’s Virginia Beach CPS production
facilities.
Read more at https://www.navysbir.com/14_1selections.html.
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751 x5130
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins NAVAIR Gatekeeper On The Move - Biometrics (GOTM-B) development contract
valued at $11.8 million
PRESS RELEASE
No: CR-130-14
July 10, 2014
NAVY
Global Technical
Systems,* Virginia Beach, Virginia, is being awarded an $11,825,274 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for
the development of a prototype Gatekeeper On The Move - Biometrics (GOTM-B) in support of
reconnaissance and surveillance payloads, sensors, delivery systems and platforms. The GOTM-B system
is an innovative, non-contact, on the move, multimodal biometric (3D Finger, Face, and Iris)
identity operations and force protection capability.
Work is expected to be completed in
July 2017. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation (defense-wide) funds in the amount
of $3,312,000 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured via a Broad Agency
Announcement and one offer was received. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the
contracting activity (N68335-14-C-0183).
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at
danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PRESS
RELEASE
June 12, 2014
GTS wins Consolidated Automated Support Systems CASS
Equipment Prototype and Testing Delivery Order valued at ~$50,000.
The CASS
IMUTS/EGI OTPS ON-660A/USM First Article (contract # N68836-13-D-0009-0001) objective is to
build-to-print a single copy of the First Article IMUTS/EGI OTPS ON-660A/USM hardware assemblies and
key spare OTPS elements for use on CASS family of ATE. A set of replacement parts will be assembled
in support of future utilization or repair actions on prototype OTPS.
The effort requires
the fabrication and assembly of various sheet metals, plastic and acrylic parts and assemblies to
serve as housing assemblies, cable assemblies, test fixtures and safety covers for avionics
assemblies under CASS testing. The CASS First Article DO provides automated test capability for
numerous Weapons Replacement Assemblies (WRAs) and Shop Replaceable Assemblies (SRAs) used in the
FA-18 aircraft.
These WRAs/SRAs require their own automated test program, along with a unique
interface assembly, test cable set, and fixtures in order to interface with the US Navy standard for
automated testing, CASS. These unique items must be designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested as
one-of-a-kind parts or assemblies.
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at
danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins NAVSEA IDIQ contract for Common Processing System (CPS) Production valued at $84.9
million
PRESS RELEASE
May 6, 2014
DefenseLINK News Contract Award
Announcements
Global Technical Systems, Virginia Beach, Virginia, is being awarded an
$84,900,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for production of the
Common Processing System (CPS), spares and associated engineering services.
The CPS is a
computer processing system based on an open architecture design. CPS consists of the CPS enclosure
assembly and three subsystems: the processing subsystem, the storage/extraction subsystem, and the
input/output subsystem. It is intended to support the computer requirements of various Navy combat
systems. This contract will provide for production, testing and delivery of CPS (both water cooled
and air cooled), spares, and associated engineering services.
Work will be performed in
Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by May 2018. Fiscal 2014 other
procurement, Navy contract funds in the amount of $1,555,308 will be obligated at time of award and
will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via
the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command,
Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-14-D-5213).
*Small
Business
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PRESS
RELEASE
June 19, 2013
CBP Awards ULAD to Global Technical Systems
Team
Global Technical Systems (GTS), headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA,
has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, single award, fixed price contract for
delivery of Ultra-Light Aircraft Detection (ULAD) Systems to the US Customs and Border Protection
(CBP), Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition (OTIA) (Contract: HSBP10-13-D-00004).
Provided through Customs and Border Protection Office of Administration, Procurement
Directorate, Aviation, Maritime and Border Technologies Contracting Division; the contract, which
includes a 2 year base period and eight (8) one year options, has a ceiling value of $100,000,000.
The purpose of the ULAD System is to support CBP’s role in homeland security and law
enforcement through detection and tracking of ultra-light aircraft or similar low and slow flying,
small radar cross section aircraft that violate US borders. The scope of work includes ULAD system
fabrication, procurement, delivery, training, and lifecycle support.
The winning GTS Team
includes Accipiter Radar Corporation and DRS Technologies. Work will be performed at GTS
Headquarters in Virginia Beach, teammate sites listed below and at Border Patrol Stations throughout
the US.
GTS, a premier provider of COTS based, advanced engineering solutions, has been
serving DHS and CBP for more than a decade. GTS provides innovative, cost-effective, high-tech
engineering products and product-based services encompassing latest generation software and hardware
solutions and engineering services for homeland security, defense and other critical government
interests.
GTS expertise in advanced technologies generates products and services across a
spectrum that includes: C4ISR systems, mission-critical combat systems processing, biometrics, cyber
security, military combat systems hardware production, advanced radar and sensor systems, and depot
repair and logistics. Kevin McTigue, Vice President for Business Development for GTS remarked: “The
GTS Team is honored to have been selected to provide this pivotal capability to the US Customs and
Border Protection. Our team was assembled because it brings the right technology, expertise and
experience to address this serious border security challenge. We look forward to working again with
the men and women of CBP!”
Accipiter Radar provides high-performance radar and sensor
information networks engineered to detect, track and characterize targets such as small vessels,
low-flying aircraft, and birds. The result is enhanced, wide-area security for applications
including homeland security, law enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, bird strike
prevention and environmental protection. It’s Total Coverage™ radar and Accipiter digital radar
processing systems, already in use at DoD and FAA facilities, will be provided to the ULAD program
and supported from its Orchard Park, New York facility. For more information about Accipiter Radar
please visit www.accipiterradar.com or contact Dr. Tim J. Nohara at tnohara@accipiterradar.com or
716-508-4432.
DRS Technologies, Inc. provides integrated products, systems and support
services to all branches of the U.S. military, major aerospace and defense prime contractors,
government intelligence agencies, international military forces, and industrial and homeland defense
markets. DRS employs approximately 7,500 people worldwide and has annual revenues of over $2.5
billion dollars. DRS has provided engineering, technical, field service, logistic, administrative
and program management support to vital government interests for almost 40 years.
For ULAD,
DRS will provide Logistics Support services, including all documentation, field support, and system
maintenance. For more information about DRS Technologies please visit www.drs.com or contact: Dave
Peterson at: 757-819-0700.
GTS has offices in: Virginia Beach, VA and St. Petersburg,
FL.
For more information about ULAD, the team or GTS, please contact Dan Bahen at
danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PRESS
RELEASE
June 11, 2013, Virginia Beach, VA
GTS wins
Consolidated Automated Support Systems CASS Equipment Prototype and Testing multi-award IDIQ
valued at $2.8 million
Awarded through NAVAIR Fleet Readiness Center Southeast
(FRCSE - contract # N68836-13-D-0009), the scope of this effort is to provide manufacturing support
to FRCSE, Jacksonville, FL, code 48400, including electrical / mechanical prototype design and
fabrication, product drawing review and feedback, First Article (commonly referred to as Low Rate
Initial Production (LRIP)) manufacturing.
All efforts are in support of the US Navy CASS
(Consolidated Automated Support System) OTPS (Operational Test Program Set) for various platforms
and commodities.
Current supported platforms include but are not limited to: MH-60R/S,
F/A-18, P-3, EP-3E ARIES II, EA-6B Prowler, E-2C Hawkeye, and E-6 Mercury. Additional commodities to
include but not limited to the platform’s respective Support Equipment (SE); Peculiar Support
Equipment (PSE) and Common Support Equipment (CSE), Air Combat Electronics (ACE), Tactical
Reconnaissance and Electro-Optics Equipment, and other assigned equipment or systems as directed.
The equipment developed under individual delivery orders shall be capable of operating at platform
mission level and maintenance levels including Organizational, Intermediate, and Depot level as
directed by delivery order.
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at
danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751 x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS Awarded Japanese Aegis Modernization (JAMOD) Delivery Order for the Common Processing System (CPS)
PRESS RELEASE
April 15, 2013
Distribution Statement A – Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Global
Technical Systems (GTS), the producer of the AN/UYQ-107 Common Processing System (CPS) for the US
Navy, is developing, integrating and producing the next-generation COTS-based Aegis Combat System
processing capability for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force under contract (N00024-09-5212)
through NAVSEA, IWS-1. The JAMOD effort is valued at $2.6M, has an 18 months period of performance,
with FAU delivered in 6 months and production deliveries commencing in 2015. All work will be
performed from GTS’s Virginia Beach CPS production facility.
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins SPAWAR IDIQ Battlespace Awareness Contract valued at $98.7 million
PRESS
RELEASE
November 2, 2012
Management Services Group, Inc. dba Global
Technical Systems*, Virginia Beach, Va. (N65236-13-D-5810); Sentek Consulting Inc. dba Sentek
Global*, San Diego (N65236-13-D-5811); Skylla Engineering Ltd.*, Humble, Texas (N65236-13-D-5812);
and UEC Electronics*, Hanahan, S.C. (N65236-13-D-5813), are each being awarded an
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-based, multiple award
contracts, with provisions for fixed-price-incentive and firm-fixed-price orders, to provide battle
space awareness services including the integration and test of systems of systems focused on the
delivery of battlespace awareness, and intelligence capabilities and systems as well as the
integrated employment of information operations (IO) capabilities, and also the development,
integration, and test of intelligence, battlespace awareness, and information operations
applications and dedicated hardware. The cumulative, estimated value of the base year is
$19,750,000.
Contract funds in the amount of $10,000 will be obligated on this award. These
contracts include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of these multiple
award contracts to an estimated $98,760,000. These four contractors may compete for the task orders
under the terms and conditions of the awarded contracts. Work will be performed worldwide, and is
expected to be completed by November 2013. If all options are exercised, work could continue until
November 2017.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These
contracts were competitively procured via full and open competition after exclusion of sources (8(a)
set-aside) with proposals solicited via the Commerce Business Daily’s Federal Business Opportunities
website, and the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central website, with seven offers received. Space and Naval
Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.
For more
information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins $1.1 million contract to develop and deploy Coast Watch
System
September 28, 2012
Global
Technical Systems (GTS), headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, has been
awarded a $1.1M delivery order by the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Command (SPAWAR) International Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) Integration Program Office, in
support of Maritime Surveillance Systems (MSS) for international
programs.
SPAWAR, has awarded a contract to GTS, to develop and
deploy a Coast Watch System, Shipboard Command and Control Suite
(CWS-SCCS) on the Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas (BRP) Gregorio del
Pilar (PF-15), formerly United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC)
Hamilton (WHEC-715). The GTS system will interoperate with the
previously procured, land-based CWS system deployed along the South
coast of the Sulu Archipelago to meet Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
needs of the Republic of Philippines (ROP). The system will provide the
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with increased situational
awareness through sensor fusion, target detection and classification,
and communication capabilities.
Under this delivery order, GTS
will perform systems engineering, design, development, integration,
installation, and testing of the CWS-SCCS, including: radar systems, an
AIS system, track management functions, communications integration,
remote components, and a Local Area Network (LAN).
GTS is a Small
Business Administration (SBA) certified 8(a), Minority Woman-Owned,
Small Disadvantaged Business. Our mission is to provide innovative,
cost-effective, high-tech engineering products and product-based
services encompassing latest generation software and hardware solutions
and engineering services for defense, homeland security and other
critical government interests. Our expertise in advanced technologies
generates products and services across a spectrum that includes:
mission-critical combat systems processing, C4ISR, biometrics, cyber
security, military combat systems hardware production, advanced radar
and sensor systems, and depot repair and logistics. GTS has offices in:
Virginia Beach, VA; St Petersburg, FL; and Oxford, MS.
For more information, please contact
Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GTS wins $3.5 million contract for H-1 Y/Z Helicopter CASS Support Equipment Manufacturing
and Assembly
September 27, 2012
NAVAIR Public Release
2012-1104
Distribution Statement A – Approved for public release; distribution is
unlimited.
Global Technical Systems (GTS), headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, has been
awarded a $3.5M contract by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), for H-1 Y/Z Helicopter
Consolidated Automated System Support (CASS) Support Equipment Manufacturing and Assembly.
The H-1 CASS Support Equipment Project provides Operational Test Program Set (OTPS)
production to address testing for three (3) Weapons Replacement Assemblies (WRAs) used in the H-1Y/Z
Helicopter to meet the program needs of PMA-276. These WRAs require their own automated test
program, along with a unique interface assembly, test cable set, and fixtures in order to interface
with the US Navy standard for automated testing, CASS.
Under this contract, GTS will
manufacture, fabricate and integrate the H-1 OTPS using a full spectrum of manufacturing and
assembly capabilities including: sheet metals, plastic and acrylic parts and assemblies to serve as
housing assemblies, cable assemblies, test fixtures, and safety covers for avionics assemblies under
CASS testing.
GTS is a Small Business Administration (SBA) certified 8(a), Minority
Woman-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business. Our mission is to provide innovative, cost-effective,
high-tech engineering products and product-based services encompassing latest generation software
and hardware solutions and engineering services for defense, homeland security and other critical
government interests. Our expertise in advanced technologies generates products and services across
a spectrum that includes: mission-critical combat systems processing, C4ISR, biometrics, cyber
security, military combat systems hardware production, advanced radar and sensor systems, and depot
repair and logistics. GTS has offices in: Virginia Beach, VA; St Petersburg, FL; and Oxford,
MS.
For more information, please contact Dan Bahen at danbahen@gtshq.com or 757-468-8751
x5130
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
