DISA awards AFRICOM ISR contract to TeraLogics

U.S. Army Africa communicators Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Gamez (left) and Spc. James Lagerstrom prepare a conference room in the Forward Command Post for a video teleconference. This mobile command post is self-contained and enables worldwide communications capabilities for up to 200 users. Unique communications features allow the FCP to provide vast variety of sophisticated radio, internet and video teleconference capabilities.

DISA has awarded a $1.4 million contract for ISR video services for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).

The contract was given to TeraLogics, a subsidiary of Cubic Corp. The contract calls for TeraLogics to expand its existing Unified Video Dissemination System (UVDS) contract into the European theater, to service AFRICOM’s airborne, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) requirements.

“TeraLogics, a developer of agile software, will also support the engineering and implementation of an enterprise-wide transcoding service for the Full Motion Video (FMV) disseminated through the UVDS AISR architecture,” a Cubic news release said.

The UVDS suite of services, including the routing backbone and web-based application portal, which will be installed at DISA’s U.S. European Command (EUCOM) Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) to directly support AFRICOM.

“This deployment of UVDS in the European region is the first iteration of the future global UVDS architecture, enabling real-time access to AISR through proximity-based unified video portals and a robust global multicast network,” Cubic said.