The U.S. Department of Defense’s Thursday announcement of military contracts was highlighted by a $790.3 million Air Force contract with ATK Launch Systems for work benefitting the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) propulsion subsystem.
ATK’s work, which will involve engineering and program management support, is intended to confirm that changes made to the subsystem will maintain and improve its system-level performance.
More than $6 million in fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds will be assigned with a cost-plus-fixed-fee, maximum ceiling contract. All of the labor will be performed in Corrine and Magna, Utah and should be finished by Nov. 4, 2016.
Virginia-based defense company Leidos has been awarded a $661.8 million contract for work on the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) system. The labor includes design, architectural engineering, configuration management, system and aircraft integration, and testing.
Three companies, all of which were solicited by the DoD, submitted bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Army contract. The location of the labor and related funding will be decided with teach order.
Lockheed Martin Mission System and Training will be given a $129.4 million contract after an option was exercised on a Navy contract for Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (A-RCI) system engineering and technical support. The option will task Lockheed Martin with continuing its development of the sonar A-RCI, a sonar system that assimilates and upgrades towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing via the insertion of the COTS hardware and software.
More than $6.5 million in funds will be assigned with the award, none of which will expire at the end of the 2015 fiscal year. The majority of the work (95 percent) will be conducted in Manassas, Va., while the remaining labor will take place in Syracuse, N.Y. All of the labor should be finished in December 2016.
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems will be given a $65.8 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for 22 MH-60R Airborne Low Frequency Sonar Systems. Twenty of the systems will benefit the U.S. Navy, while the remaining two will benefit the Saudi Arabian government. Of the funds being awarded, 91 percent will go toward the systems benefit the U.S. None of the funds will expire at the end of the 2015 fiscal year. Most of the labor (59 percent) will be performed in France, while the remaining work will take place in the U.S. The work is slated to be completed in September 2018.
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