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October 22, 2012

Odyssey Systems one of five awarded $851 million ETASS II contract

Odyssey Systems Consulting Group is one of five contractors awarded the “Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services II” contract to provide support to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

The ceiling value of the contract is $851million over a five-year period of performance.

The Odyssey Systems-led team will provide a broad range of technically-oriented Advisory and Assistance Services, to include systems and specialty engineering, architecture development, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, information assurance, and other technical and acquisition support services to the Air Force’s Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications and Networks, and Business Enterprise Systems portfolios. This competitive award acknowledges the outstanding past contributions of Odyssey and its team members to the success of the former Air Force Electronic Systems Center mission and recognizes their potential to provide innovative services and solutions to AFLCMC in the future.

Odyssey’s Team members include: Battelle, Blue Force LLC, DSD Laboratories, EWA, MacAulay Brown, Paradigm Technologies Inc., Quasars Inc., The SI Organization, Vantage Applications, and Wyle. Services will primarily be provided at Hanscom AFB, Mass., Maxwell AFB – Gunter Annex, Ala., Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Randolph AFB, Texas, and Lackland AFB, Texas, and a dozen additional U.S. operating locations.

“We are honored to be selected to provide technical services in support of the AFLCMC mission to ‘Acquire and Support War-Winning Capabilities,’” said Michael Sweat, Odyssey CEO. “We are anxious to build upon our exceptional legacy as a leading A&AS services provider at Electronic Systems Center since 1997, and to demonstrate our team’s ability to drive mission performance while simultaneously implementing innovative strategies to reduce cost in this austere fiscal environment.”




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