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USSOCOM Awards Contract To Gentex For Advancement Of Headborne Systems Technologies

It appears that USSOCOM has issued multiple contracts in response to their Broad Agency Announcement issued earlier this year to refine requirements for the next generation SOF helmet. The latest award is to Gentex, and we assume, much of the work to be accomplished by their Ops-Core business unit. The BAA can be seen below.

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Ops-Core FAST helmets have been SOCOM issue for many years and the fruits of this contract will be used by Natick to help  refine requirements for the next generation SOF helmet.  


Contract Award Dollar Amount: $370,365.51 Plus Option CLINs valued at $464,607.00.

The announcement is found at www.FBO.gov as long as they keep it there. Earlier award announcements to others have been deleted.

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4 Responses to “USSOCOM Awards Contract To Gentex For Advancement Of Headborne Systems Technologies”

  1. Caleb says:
    August 1, 2016 at 22:11

    Does the comms model not have the RAC headset because SOCOM units will be using peltors instead of them? Is that component not part of the contract?

  2. BS says:
    August 2, 2016 at 06:32

    I think it’s quite old graphic before they even thought about the RAC.

  3. Joe momma says:
    August 4, 2016 at 03:31

    So, can we get some RAC yet or what???