Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) News
Printer Friendly VersionSwRI awarded 5th design engineering program
Total value of contract award is $240 million over five years.
San Antonio -- April 23, 1996 -- Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) has been selected as one of four contractors by the Ogden Air Logistics Center (ALC) at Hill AFB, Utah, to improve the reliability and maintainability of existing Department of Defense systems, equipment, and software. The total value of the five-year Design Engineering Program (DEP) is $240 million.
In the past nine years, SwRI has won three similar DEP awards from the Sacramento ALC and one from the San Antonio ALC.
"The $240 million amount of this program is a ceiling figure," notes SwRI Training Systems and Simulators Department Director and Ogden ALC DEP Program Manager R. Curtis Heinen. "Individual task orders may add up to several million dollars each.
"Most of the task orders we receive will be for work on ammunition and explosives, strategic missile systems, aircraft structural components, training devices, and cameras and other photographic equipment," Heinen adds. "We will perform studies and analyses of existing systems and components, design hardware and software, build prototypes, and conduct a variety of engineering tasks necessary to improve reliability and maintainability."
Though awarded by a particular ALC, the contract calls for the Institute and the other contractors -- Battelle-Memorial Institute, Science Applications International Corporation, and BDM International, Inc. -- to provide engineering services fulfilling the terms of the contract for any of the ALCs in the U.S. The centers are located at Kelly, McClellan, Hill, Tinker, and Robins Air Force Bases. TRW and MTL are subcontractors on the SwRI project team.
Southwest Research Institute has broad experience in
engineering studies, design, prototype development, testing, and logistics support
activities for a wide variety of equipment. More than 350 Institute employees have
contributed to DEP tasks since 1987.
For more information about the DEP award, contact Deborah Deffenbaugh, Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510, Phone (210) 522-2046, Fax (210) 522-3547.
