The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a prime contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide Blue Devil Block 1 Outside the Continental US (OCONUS) operations and maintenance support services to the AFRL Sensors Directorate.

Under the single-award cost-plus fixed-fee contract, the company will provide services related to airfield and flight operations, deliver operations and maintenance of mission payload, as well as perform processing, exploitation and dissemination of products.

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The contract comes with a one-year base period of performance and is valued at $74m.

The contract comes with a one-year base period of performance and is valued at $74m.

The services will provide operational mission support in the form of an advanced multi-intelligence (MULTI-INT) intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensor system to deployed warfighters.

As a follow-on to the Angel Fire electro-optical sensor operational programme, the AFRL Blue Devil has now advanced into an O&M mission support programme after successfully evaluating the use of wide area surveillance technologies in military.

SAIC senior vice president and business unit general manager John Fratamico said: "We look forward to continuing to provide the AFRL with Blue Devil operations and maintenance services in support of warfighter missions worldwide."

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Developed in support of the Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2009, the Blue Devil Block I system helps in tracking a wide range of targets and locations of improvised explosive devices.

Being mounted on a Beechcraft C90 fixed-wing aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle, the system combined wide area field-of-view and narrow field-of-view high definition day and night sensors for the first time.

The system was also developed in Block II variant and used on a Mav6-built aerostat.

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