ITT Corp.’s NexGen Communications in Dulles, Virginia received a $9.7 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 1,450 distributed tactical communication systems-radio only (DTCS-RO) communication devices to the U.S. Navy. NexGen will perform the work in Dulles, Virginia and expects to complete it by March 2010.

The DTCS-RO communication devices are hand-held, beyond line-of-sight command and control systems suitable for tactical operations. ITT acquired NexGen Communications when it acquired EDO Corp. in 2007 for $1.7 billion.

EDO had acquired NexGen Communications, a privately-held company specializing in the design and production of communications systems for the U.S. government, in 2005. After completing the EDO acquisition, ITT added NexGen to its Intelligence and Information Warfare (IIW) division.

According to the Defense Industry Daily, this contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Dahlgren Division in Dahlgren, Virginia (N00178-10-C-3056).