Date: 11 September, 2015 – ORBIS was on the BAE’s Weapon Systems Sustainment Team awarded the Towed Array Handling Equipment (TAHE) follow-on contract under SEAPORT-e. This is a five-year $16.2 million contract supports the refurbishment of the TAHE Systems, in which the team will provide engineering, logistics, configuration management, supply chain management, production technicians and quality. The ORBIS Labs will provide automated test equipment and software programming support.

Date:  August 26, 2015 – Orbis has been awarded an $18,930,590 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with options for scientific and engineering support to develop instrumentation systems and test facilities for the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC). Work will be performed at the ATC in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland and contractor facilities in Arizona, Maryland and South Carolina. We are proud to have the following partners; Airtronics, Boeing, Data Matrix Solutions (DMS), ETSVETS, Millenium Corporation, ODME Solutions LLC and WisEngineering. In this role, we will develop and enhance instrumentation designs, fabricate small quantity instrumentation prototypes, provide instrumentation user manuals, and design and install test facilities. ORBIS will provide routine engineering services in support of testing activities and test facilities and instrumentation; on-site instruction and user manuals for proper use and operation of the equipment and systems it designs, fabricates or installs; and document lessons learned in the course of design, fabrication, and testing of instrumentation for consideration by the government subject matter experts for future designs. The contract is worth $18.9 Million for the first two years with a total value of $47.5 M if all options are exercised over 5 years.