Local contractor IAN Corp. was awarded a $7.86 million firm-fixed-price contract for improvements for a temporary expeditionary, containerized initial deployment capability of an integrated air and missile defense at Andersen Air Force Base to support testing.
Work will be performed at Andersen AFB and is expected to be completed by September 2024. Department of Defense fiscal 2020 military construction; and fiscal 2023 and 2024 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,863,140, will be obligated at time of award, according to a DoD announcement. Of that, $7.56 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, received six proposals for this contract, according to the announcement. mbj

$7.8M DoD contract awarded
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