HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- The Boeing Co. has been awarded a $13,353,939 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously-awarded contract (N00024-18-C-4103), from the United States Navy, for design agent and technical services for the USQ-82(V) family of systems consisting of the Data Multiplex System, Fiber Optic Data Multiplex System, and Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System.

The Boeing Co., as the USQ-82(V) design agent, will provide advanced and highly specialized technical engineering to assist with system sustainment; cybersecurity enhancement; configuration management; development, qualification and integration of systems; testing and technical support to manufacturing and repair vendors.

The USQ-82(V) systems are installed and deployed on Navy DDG 51-class destroyers, in Missile Defense Agency Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense systems, on ships of three countries under Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases, in various Navy and FMS land-based test sites, and are also being installed on new-construction LHA 8 and new FMS Japan and Korean DDGs. This contract involves foreign military sales to Korea and Japan. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach, California (69 percent); Arlington, Virginia (19 percent); Pascagoula, Mississippi (5 percent); Bath, Maine (5 percent); Seattle, Washington (1 percent); and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2020.

Fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); fiscal 2019 other procurement (Navy); fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy); fiscal 2019 research, development, test, and evaluation (Navy); and Foreign Military Sales funding in the amount of $13,353,939 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, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Source: U.S. DoD
Associated URL: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1847883/
Author: U.S. DoD