DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 17, 2012

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 17, 2012
  
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 17, 2012: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  February  17, 2012 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
           Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $333,659,831 firm-fixed-price contract for an undefinitized contract action for the procurement of calendar year 2011 and calendar year 2012 large aircraft infared countermeasures hardware and associated support.  The location of the performances is Rolling Meadows, Ill.  Work is expected to be completed by Feb. 10, 2012.  Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8625-12-C-6598).

NAVY
            Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $45,566,659 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for Shipboard Mine Neutralization System-SeaFox (SMNS-SF) integration, testing and production; operational AN/SQQ-32 Airborne Mine Neutralization System-SeaFox (AMNS-SF) refurbishment and overhaul; and Atlas SeaFox neutralizer rounds delivery.  Work will be performed in Bremen, Germany (43 percent); Syracuse, N.Y. (24 percent); Virginia Beach, Va. (15 percent); Corpus Christi, Texas (14 percent); and Cincinnati, Ohio (4 percent).  Work is expected to completed by March 2013.  Contract was not competitively procured as Lockheed Martin is the sole designer, developer, and producer of the SMNS-SF and AMNS-SF systems, and is only source capable of upgrading and integrating systems with the Atlas SeaFox neutralizer onto the host platforms in the time required to meet urgent operational need.  Contract funds in the amount of $15,125,355 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-12-C-6306).

            The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $22,034,514 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-11-G-0001) for supplies and services to support follow-on test and evaluation of the F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G aircraft.  Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. (77 percent); St. Louis, Mo. (21 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (1 percent); and Bethpage, N.Y. (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed in February 2013.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.