Perspecta Inc., a leading U.S. government services provider, announced today that it has been awarded a prime contract from the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) to continue work on the Expert Scientific and Analytical Support (ESAS) II program. This award has a two-year base period, two two-year option periods and a ceiling value of $49.8 million.

Under the contract, Perspecta will continue to support the research and development of future nuclear detonation  systems and other advanced detection technologies to meet AFTAC's evolving operational mission requirements for monitoring treaties and other customer directed technology applications.

"AFTAC's mission is an integral component of the country's national security program," said Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Perspecta. "We are proud of the progress we have made in partnership with AFTAC and look forward to advancing the technology aspects of this critical operation."

Since 2011, Perspecta has supported the Air Force's technical capabilities to ensure nuclear detection mission readiness and treaty verification through the advancement of standoff detection, multi sensor platform correlation, situational awareness, analysis, diagnostics, forensics and systems engineering.

Source: prnewswire.com