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$47,347,063

Department of Transportation·Federal Aviation Administration

to SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

aerospaceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-07-28·LATEST ACTION2026-04-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_693KA922F00152_6920_693KA918D00010_6920
Award description

SURVEILLANCE AND BROADCAST SERVICES (SBS) SUPPORT

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

FAA surveillance and broadcast services support for civil aviation operations and air traffic management.

Sub-sectors
civil-aviation-infrastructureair-traffic-surveillancefaa-operations
Why this matters

Surveillance and broadcast systems are critical infrastructure for safe, efficient U.S. airspace management and national aviation security.

Supply-chain signal

Large contract to SAIC indicates reliance on systems integrators for FAA modernization; upstream demand for radar, communications, and data processing components.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. aviation infrastructure modernization competes with Chinese civil aviation expansion; surveillance systems are strategic for airspace sovereignty.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002159.

Period of performance
Start
2022-07-28
End
2024-01-13
Status
expired857 days ago
Sources

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