NAVAIR Awards Raytheon $5.8M Contract Mod for Radar Systems

Raytheon Co., Electronics Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded a $5,833,008 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0123) to exercise an option for the seventh full-rate-production lot of 6 AN/ALR-67(V)3 Radar Warning Receiver systems for the F/A-18E/F. The AN/ALR-67(V)3 RWR is a radar warning receiver that provides visual and aural alerts to F/A-18E/F aircrew upon detection of ground-based, ship-based, or airborne radar emitters. It is designed to enhance pilot situational awareness by providing accurate identification, lethality, and azimuth displays of hostile and friendly emitters. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. (39 percent); Forest, Miss. (27 percent); Goleta, Calif. (16 percent); Lansdale, Pa. (10 percent); Portland, Ore. (5 percent), and McKinney, Texas (3 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2008. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.