BAE Systems Receives $56 Million in Orders for Thermal Weapon Sights from US Defense

BAE Systems, US Combat Systems, York, Penn., was awarded on April 21 a $53,309,854 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of 3,034 Bradley Advanced Survivability Kits III to outfit the Bradley Fighting Vehicles to the BUSK III configuration. Work will be performed in York, Penn., with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2011. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity. BAE Systems will provide thermal weapon sights to the U.S. Army under a $56 million contract that continues production of the widely-used sights that improve situational awareness and survivability for men and women in combat. The second-generation thermal sights give soldiers a tremendous day/night advantage to detect, observe and engage the enemy on today’s battlefield by providing imagery independent of darkness, smoke and other common battlefield obscurants. Under the contract, BAE Systems will provide light, medium and heavy variants for use on individual and crew served weapons. “BAE Systems is the world’s number one provider of thermal sights, giving men and women serving in harm’s way the ability to see through obscured visibility conditions, day or night,” said Barry Yeadon, director of thermal weapon sight programs for BAE Systems in Lexington, Massachusetts.