U.S. NAVY INCREASES CONTRACT VALUE FOR TORPEDO WARNING SYSTEM SERVICES
WASHINGTON - 3 Phoenix Inc., of Chantilly, Va., has been awarded a $9,116,551 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-6287) from the United States Navy for the procurement of engineering services for development, integration, testing, and logistic support of the torpedo warning system (TWS).
The TWS provides surface ships with the ability to detect threat torpedoes and thereby employ defensive measures including maneuver and hard and soft kill countermeasures. Work will be performed in Chantilly, Va. (46 percent); Fairfax, Va. (28 percent); Houston, Texas (18 percent); Wake Forest, N.C. (6 percent), and Hanover, Md. (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by October 2014.
Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $9,042,080 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 Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.