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April 12, 2018 By AMK

Army switches to special fast-track contract for drone-mounted signal jammer

The U.S. Army wants drone-mounted signal jammers now to dominate future electronic warfare and is switching to a little-understood and lightly regulated contracting method to get them.

After more than a year trying to fill a standard contract for a drone-mounted system to jam enemy communications, the Army’s electronic warfare division is switching course and will use a fast-track system that isn’t bound by traditional contracting rules.

Rather than continue its year-long, Federal Acquisition Regulation-based solicitation, the Army Electronic Warfare and Cyber division is handing its multi-function electronic warfare Air Large program over to the Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace, or C5. While the Army will still pick the winner of the Air Large contract, that company will be a member of the C5 consortium.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/03/army-switches-special-fast-track-contract-drone-mounted-signal-jammer/147102/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Army, C5, consortium, cyberspace, FAR, fast track, OTA, other transaction authority

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