DeciBel Research awarded $40M extension to Missile Defense Agency contract

(deciBel Research Facebook)

HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville company has been rewarded for its continued quality work for the Missile Defense Agency.

The reward or, rather, award is a $40,588,656 extension to indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for deciBel Research. With the award, the total value of this contract will increase from $172,576,570 to $213,165,226, the MDA said in a news release.

The work will continue to be performed in Huntsville, the MDA said.

The contract was originally competitively awarded to provide continued support for the development and sustainment of the MDA’s modeling and simulation truth and elements representations.

According to the news release, the extension will allow for the uninterrupted execution of MDA’s Integrated Master Test Plan that includes ground test events, flight test  events, and warfighter training and combatant command exercise events. The government awarded the extension with only one source under the authority of U.S. Code and federal acquisition regulations.

The ordering period end date is extended to Dec. 13, 2027, and incorporates five options: two 12-month options and three six-month option.

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