the Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. federal government customers, announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide Engineering and Technical Support Services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division Warfare Analysis Department. The contract is for one-year, with four additional option years, giving the program a total potential value of $23 million.

Under the competitively awarded contract, ManTech will support the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division Warfare Analysis Department with modeling, simulation, and analysis services in areas such as anti-air warfare, amphibious warfare, anti-surface warfare, mine warfare, naval special warfare, information warfare, non-combat operations, electronic warfare, mobility, homeland defense, and command, control, and communications. The contract will support modeling, algorithm and software development initiatives that will be used to assess areas such as joint capabilities, threats, readiness, force levels, costs, survivability, and vulnerability factors. Work will be performed at NAVAIR in Patuxent River, MD.

 “We are especially well-equipped to support this high-end Warfare Analysis effort due to our extensive experience with warfare modeling and simulation techniques and our team of highly skilled software engineering professionals and systems analysts with domain knowledge and expertise of military campaigns, force structure, concept of operations, tactics, strategy, and weapons capabilities,” said Kenneth J. Farquhar, President, ManTech Systems Engineering Corporation. “Our experience in managing highly technical teams was also a clear discriminator reflected in our web-based Contract Management System. In addition, ManTech has significant experience working in secure environments, as will be required under this contract.”

ManTech Systems Engineering Corporation is an independently assessed SW-CMM Level 3 company.
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About ManTech International Corporation:
Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ManTech International Corporation is a leading provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. federal government customers.  The company’s expertise includes software development, enterprise security architecture, information assurance, intelligence operations support, network and critical infrastructure protection, information technology, communications integration and www.mantech.com.