URS secures $3.6B UAV contract

(From Left) Drone America’s Todd Richman, pilot, and Kyle Pruett, engineer and pilot, prepare to test fly the Savant sUAS with cloud seeding flares at the Hawthorne Industrial Airport in Hawthorne, Nev. on Friday, April 29, 2016. The Savant flew to 400 feet and was successful in igniting two silver-iodide cloud seeding flares. Photo by Kevin Clifford/Drone America

URS Federal Services has been awarded an Air Force contract, valued at up to $3.6 billion, to support UAV programs.

Under the contract, URS will provide “testing, tactics development, advanced training, [and] Joint and Air Force urgent operational need missions,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The work will be performed at three Nevada sites: Nevada Test and Training Range; Creech Air Force Base; and Tonopah Test Range Airfield.

The work, which is scheduled to be completed by March 2034, was ordered by the Air Force Test Center at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, according to the DoD.