United States, Sept. 11 -- Metron Inc., Reston, Virginia, is awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the "Research, Development and Transition in Support of Mission Planning" effort. This contract focuses on enhancing the Navy's mission planning capabilities by integrating advanced Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) data and probabilistic risk assessments. The research and development effort will improve the Navy's ability to incorporate physical battlespace factors, including atmospheric effects on the electromagnetic spectrum, space weather and acoustic impacts, into multi-domain mission planning and risk management systems. The contractor will develop algorithms and decision support tools to predict and assess the impacts of uncerta...