WASHINGTON (Jan. 22, 2009) - The U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday 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 $28,291,742 cost plus incentive fee order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) for non-recurring engineering for the design, integration, test, validation and verification of two flight-worthy synthetic radar Virtual Mission Training System (VMTS) retrofit kits for the U.S. Navy T-45C trainer aircraft. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. (83 percent) an d Haifa, Israel (17 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2011. 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.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded an $8,509,598 cost plus fix fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00421-05-G-0001) to provide three System Interrogator/Transponder Set RT1645 Weapon Replaceable Assemblies and five Shop Replaceable Assemblies for the Japanese Foreign Military Sales (FMS) E-2C aircraft program. Work will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y., and is expected to be completed in Dec. 2010. 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.