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Leidos, Riverside awarded open architecture contract

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Airman 1st Class Nick Fazio, with the Network Operations, verifies the status and configuration of the 96th Communications Squadron’s data center equipment at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., June 9. Approximately 40 Airmen and civilians are responsible for the connectivity of the base’s more than 19,500 user workcenters on base. Their contributions combined with the other branches and flights led to the 96th CS earning the 2013 Maj. Gen. Harold McClelland best large communications work center award for Air Force Materiel Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Riverside Research Institute and Leidos have been awarded a $48 million Air Force contract to develop open architecture mission systems.

Under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Air Force Research Laboratory contract, the two companies will “provide applied and advanced research and development, as well as advanced component development and prototypes, to evolve and expand emerging open architecture standards and approaches for current and next-generation Air Force weapon systems,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The contract is scheduled to be completed by November 2023.

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