Stauder Technologies of St. Peters, Mo., has been awarded a contract modification with a not-to-exceed ceiling of $9.6 million with undefinitized contract line items for not less than 230 units, the U.S. Department of Defense announced July 31.

The modification came after a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, undefinitized letter contract to support an increase in the approved acquisition objective to 1016 units of Target Location, Designation and Hand-off Systems (TLDHS) used as the forward observer’s entry device for requesting the new Excalibur Unitary GPS (Global Positioning System) Precision Guided Munition.

TLDHS is a man-portable equipment suite which enables warfighters to perform target acquisition before handing targets off to fire-support agencies via interface with tactical data systems using current and planned communications equipment.

Work is expected to be completed by August 2008.