U.S. NAVY INCREASES CONTRACT FOR PROCUREMENT OF TWO TB-29A TOWED ARRAY SONARS
WASHINGTON - 3 Phoenix Inc., of Chantilly, Va., has been awarded a $7,263,632 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-6264)from the United States Navy to procure two TB-29A Inverted Passive Electrical Network (iPEN) Towed Array Sonar production representative units, associated spares and test equipment. iPEN leverages technology developed under Small Business Innovation Research Topic N04-138, "Real-time Data Fusion and Visualization Interface for Environmental Research Data."
iPEN telemetry acts as a data fusion point for the integration of towed array handling system sensor data. This technology is expected to provide significant improvement in reliability and operational availability of TB-29A towed arrays.
Work will be performed in Wake Forest, N.C. (50 percent); Houston, Texas (25 percent); Hanover, Md. (15 percent); and Chantilly, Va. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2015.
Fiscal 2011 and 2012 shipbuilding and conversion, Navy contract funds in the amount of $7,263,632 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
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