WASHINGTON (Aug. 22, 2009) - The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $76,314,597 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0014). This modification provides for the procurement of additional ancillary mission equipment for the F/A-18 E/F and E/A-18G aircraft. Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., (79.2 percent); St. Louis, Mo., (11.3 percent); Minneapolis, Minn., (7.3 percent); and Camarillo, Calif., (2.2 percent) and is expected to be completed in August 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $29,923,008 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
ERAPSCO, Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $7,242,977 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the procurement of 500 AN/SSQ-125 engineering developmental model sonobuoys in support of Navy Antisubmarine Forces for the mission of detection, classification and localization of adversary submarines during peacetime and combat operations. Work will be performed in DeLeon Springs, Fla., (55 percent) and Columbia City, Ind., (45 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to the FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-09-C-0073).