QinetiQ North America will Continue Support to Marine's Deputy Commander of SIAT

STAFFORD, Va., July 7, 2009 --[ASDWire]-- The Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) Acquisition Center for Support Services (ACSS) awarded QinetiQ North America a prime contract for continued services to MSCS’s Deputy Commander, Systems Engineering, Interoperability, Architectures and Technology (DC, SIAT).

The contract, a one-year $11.7 million option, was awarded to the company’s Systems Engineering Group under the Commercial Enterprise Omnibus support services (CEOss) Engineering and Scientific domain, and builds upon the previous one-year base period of performance awarded in April 2008.

DC, SIAT is responsible for ensuring that materiel solutions developed or acquired by the MCSC and the Program Executive Officer for Land Systems (PEO LS) are systems-engineered, integrated, interoperable, and certified. To that end, DC, SIAT conducts detailed systems engineering, establishes technical policies and guidance, and manages the technical analysis and distributed planning required to deliver world-class Marine Corps systems to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF).

As the prime contractor, QinetiQ North America will provide a wide range of engineering services and analytic support in the areas of MAGTF and Joint Systems Integration, Joint Certification, Systems Engineering Policy and Processes, and Architecture Design and Development.

“To support DC, SIAT, we have assembled a team with both technically and operationally relevant experience, capable of providing superior engineering support,” said Nylda Conde, Sr. Vice President, Engineering and Technical Services Division, QinetiQ North America.


About QinetiQ North America:
QinetiQ North America delivers world-class technology and responsive solutions to government agencies and commercial customers for many of their most urgent and complex challenges. QinetiQ North America is an independent, innovative technology provider that earns over a billion dollars in revenue operating with small company speed and agility while leveraging significant global resources. More than 6,400 QinetiQ North America engineers, scientists and technicians have the mission knowledge and proven, reliable performance to meet the rapidly changing demands of national defense, homeland security and information assurance customers. QinetiQ North America is part of QinetiQ Group plc, (QQ.LSE), one of the world’s leading defense and security technology companies. For more information: www.QinetiQ-NA.com.