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SAIC awarded Air Force C2 support contract

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Staff Sgt. Alex Garviria, 721st Communication Squadron senior systems controller, and 2nd Lt. Rachel James, 721st CS crew commander, work in the Global Strategic Warning and Space Surveillance System Center at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., Sept. 2, 2014. The 721st CS provides continuous monitoring of the strategic missile warning systems to ensure a constant dataflow of key information to North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, Secretary of Defense, President of the United States, strategic, and theater commanders. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Ardrey)

SAIC has been awarded a contract, valued at up to $47 million, to support an Air Force command and control center.

Under the contract, awarded by the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, SAIC will support a new Air Force Command and Control Facility (C2F) near Omaha, Nebraska.

“SAIC will support SSC Pacific in the design, installation, configuration, and transition of the IT infrastructure for the new C2F,” according to a company news release. “SAIC will also support the development of a private cloud data center infrastructure for staff located in the new facility.”

The contract includes a base year and three one-year options.

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Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.