Applied Technology Associates (ATA) Awarded $60 Million Space Vehicles Advanced Technology (SVAT) Contract

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Technology Associates (ATA) has been awarded a $60,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (FA9453-14-D-0312) to assist Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, Spacecraft Technology Division in the discovery, development and transition of spacecraft technologies for missions that include defensive space control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, responsive space, and space situational awareness.  On this contract, ATA will support AFRL's basic and applied research, engineering development and analysis, subsystem development, integration and test, and experimentation efforts. Work will be performed at Albuquerque, N.M. and Kirtland AFB, N.M., and is expected to be completed by March 20, 2019.

"This is an exciting contract for ATA, allowing our company to continue serving AFRL in research and development efforts that are important to the Air Force's Space Missions.  These efforts support ATA's strategy of being on the technology forefront of space applications," said ATA's President, Dan Gillings.

ATA is an award-winning, small business providing high performance, state-of-the-art custom solutions, technical services, and assembly, integration, and test capabilities for ground, air, and space applications.  The company specializes in line of sight stabilization, inertial sensing, and real-time processing systems for government and commercial customers.  For more information about ATA, please visit www.atacorp.com.

SOURCE Applied Technology Associates