The US Army has awarded a contract to Textron Systems to provide software development, training and support for the future intelligence framework.

Under the $48.5m contract, Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems will continue to develop and maintain the distributed common ground system (DCGS) army application framework (DAF) as well as the DAF software development kit.

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In addition, Overwatch will also continue to develop and maintain major system components including the tactical entity database, messaging and interoperability, and visualisation and analysis tools.

The five-year contract was awarded by the US Army Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (IEW&S) Program Executive Office.

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