Future Combat team selected
Boeing, SAIC have been awarded the $154 million contract for the Army's Future Combat Systems
Boeing Co. and Science Applications International Corp. have been awarded the $154 million contract for the Future Combat Systems, which will integrate information technology into vehicles used throughout the Army.
The Boeing-SAIC team will be the lead systems integrators to develop technologies for the Army's Objective Force, which will have broad ramifications on how the Army operates during war and peace.
"Future Combat Systems is a major step in the transformation of the Army," said Claude Bolton Jr., assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology. Naming the lead systems integrator is "critical to making the Objective Force a reality in this decade," he said.
The Future Combat Systems initiative is envisioned as a network of systems that will include manned and unmanned platforms capable of conducting missions for assault, air defense, reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition, and battle command and communications, officials said.
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