Two industry teams are pursuing a contract for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) program.
Northrop Grumman [NOC] and industry partner Boeing [BA] last week submitted a joint proposal for the work, while Teledyne Technologies, Inc. [TDY] said its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., would team with Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon [RTN] to pursue the deal.
OSF, which will integrate the MDA’s modeling and simulation architectures for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), is expected to be awarded in July 2011 as an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with an estimated program value of $595 million over five years.
“OSF is a top priority for Teledyne, and we intend to offer MDA a best value solution, building on 25 years of experience in test framework development and missile system engineering,” said Rex Geveden, president, Teledyne Brown Engineering.
“Missile defense calls for flexible, high-fidelity simulations that are affordable. OSF is crucial for increasing the cost-effective role of modeling and simulation in verifying and certifying BMDS performance,” said Kelley Zelickson, vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for Northrop Grumman Information Systems. “In response, we have assembled an extraordinarily talented, comprehensive and balanced team to offer the best value with our proposal.”
Northrop Grumman and Boeing are the principal developers of the MDA’s current modeling and simulation frameworks consisting of the Digital Simulation Architecture (digital representation) and the Single Stimulation Framework (hardware-in-the-loop representation). The OSF program will enhance and integrate these current frameworks into a system that accurately represents the performance of fielded BMDS equipment against a variety of threats in realistic environments.
The BMDS is a complex system of sensors, interceptors and a command and control, battle management and communications network.