• E-mail
• Print
• Comment
• Font Size
• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Discuss article

Alion Wins $31M Navy Contract to Enhance Ship Design Programs With Software Development Services

Posted on: Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 09:00 CDT

Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions provider, has been awarded a $31 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to provide information technology and software development expertise in support of Navy ship design programs.

Under the five-year contract, Alion will help the NSWCCD expand its Advanced Ship and Submarine Evaluation Tool (ASSET) and enhance the center's Leading Edge Architecture for Prototyping Systems (LEAPS) software application. NSWCCD, a major component of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), is the Navy's center of excellence for ship design and maritime technology.

"We will develop standardized tools and processes for ship design, which can help the Navy realize a reduction in time and cost to transition these designs into their next stages," said Kenneth Siegman, Alion Senior Vice President and Manager of the JJMA Maritime and Industrial Engineering Group. "Our work includes providing integrated design environments technical support, early state design tools software and engineering support and product data acquisition and integration methods support. We are excited to have been chosen to support the Navy in such a critical area."

ASSET software is used to help the Navy evaluate ship design feasibility. LEAPS is an integrated modeling and simulation environment.

Subcontractors under Alion include AMSEC, The Columbia Group, BMT Designers & Planners, CSC Advanced Marine Center, ICI Services and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). The work will be performed primarily in Carderock, MD, and the period of performance runs until Aug. 6, 2013.

About Alion Science and Technology

Alion Science and Technology is an employee-owned technology solutions company delivering technical expertise and operational support to the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and commercial customers. Building on 70 years of R&D and engineering expertise, Alion brings innovation and insight to multiple business areas: naval architecture & marine engineering; defense operations; systems engineering; modeling & simulation; information management & technology; chemical, biological, nuclear & environmental sciences; wireless spectrum engineering; and industrial technology. Based in McLean, Virginia, Alion employee-owners are located at major offices, customer sites and laboratories worldwide. For more information, call 877.771.6252 or visit Alion online at www.alionscience.com.

This press release contains information about management's view of Alion's future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of risk factors and uncertainties discussed in documents periodically filed by Alion with the SEC. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

Source: Business Wire

More News in this Category