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May 8 (UPI) -- Insitu Inc. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for sustainment parts for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system. The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $11 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price delivery order, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon basic order agreement.
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The contract from Naval Air Systems Command enables Insitu Inc. to provide "sustainment parts to maintain the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system in support of the Marine Corps," according to a Defense Department contract announcement.
The RQ-21 Blackjack is a small tactical unmanned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform used by both the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
The RQ-21A is used to supplement another unmanned aerial vehicle, the Boeing Scan Eagle, and can use the same launcher and recovery system as the Scan Eagle.
Work on the contract will occur in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be complete in January 2019.
The total cumulative value of the contract will be obligated to Insitu Inc. at time of award from Marine Corps fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement funds, the Pentagon said.
None of the obligated funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year in September.
