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Navy awards OSSCAR contract

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A C-130E from the 2nd Airlift Squadron, Pope AFB, N.C., flies over the Atlantic Ocean along the North Carolina coast. The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the intratheater portion of the airlift mission. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for paradropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Howard Blair)

The Navy has awarded a contract for an ISR system that will be mounted on a C-130.

Compass Systems has received a $14 million sole-source contract for the Optical Sensor System Cargo Aircraft Roll-on/Roll-Off (OSSCAR) system for the C-130 A-J, according to a Department of Defense contract announcement.

The prior FedBizOpps pre-solicitation refers to the project as the “Operational Mapping and Networked Intelligence (OMNi)”-based OSSCAR.

“Support for the Roll-on/Roll-off Sensor Systems will include tasking for the Naval Manned Aircraft; development of Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems; data management/fusion; and application to manned and UAV platforms,” said the pre-solicitation, which noted that testing may be performed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia.

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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.