POINT MUGU, Calif. / CRANE, Ind. - The U.S. Navy has awarded two companies a modification and a contract supporting the EA-18G electronic attack aircraft's ALQ-99 electronic countermeasures/attack system set. The awards total $25.5 million.

Northrop Grumman Systems of Bethpage, N.Y., has been awarded a $13.5 million modification (#P00023) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N68936-14-D-0018). The modification increases the scope of the contract to provide support to the EA-18G CP-2640/ALQ Electronic Attack Unit (EAU) Software Modernization Program (SMP). The EAU SMP is an EAU Operational Flight Program upgrade consisting of a phased approach resulting in a modularized and documented architecture to facilitate rapid, asynchronous demand-based release of capabilities utilizing Universal Mission Systems Interfaces that will support agile development for improved delivery speed, flexibility, and reduced cost.

The contracted work will be performed in Point Mugu, Calif., and is expected to be completed in July 2019. At the time of the award, the Navy had obligated no funding for the program, but funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued. The U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Point Mugu, Calif., is acting as the contracting activity for the Northrop Grumman contract modification.

Meanwhile CPI Radant Technologies Division of Stow, Mass., was awarded a $12.0-million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00164-18-D-WS20) with a five-year ordering period for Extended Low-Band Radomes in support of the ALQ-99 Airborne Electronic Countermeasures System aboard EA-18G aircraft. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) - only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

The contracted work will be performed in Stow, Mass., and is expected to be completed by September 2023.

At the time of the award, the Navy was obligating $5.0 million in Fiscal Year 2018 Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation funding, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity for the CPI Radant award.

Source: U.S. Department of Defense