Logicon Wins $117 Million Contract to Support Pentagon's Threat Reduction Agency

Logicon has won a key U.S. Defense Department contract to assist in reducing the threat from weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

The $117 million contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) will provide for analytical work on a mission that is attracting increasingly high-level attention at the Pentagon and the U.S. Congress as concern grows about battlefield use by enemies. The contract is to run for five years.

Winning the contract "allows us to retain and grow our in-depth knowledge of the operational and technical elements of many DTRA projects and to expand our support activities into other DTRA functional areas such as arms control, chem/bio, and cooperative threat reduction," said Logicon R&D VP Charles Stebbins. Winning the contract was a key business goal for Stebbins for this year.

Logicon is to develop concepts on deterring mass destruction weapons use, preparing for future threats, and coming up with alternative solutions to deal with those threats.

"The program is science at the highest technical level, coupled with operational considerations," said Lou Moses, Logicon's DTRA program manager. The firm's efforts will be led by its Information Solutions business unit with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia.

DTRA is a relatively young organization within the Pentagon. It was created by combining several organizations, including those conducting on-site inspections and overseeing export technology controls, and one focused on mass destructive weapons countermeasures and elimination.

By Robert Wall