WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin Sippican Inc., of Marion, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $59,156,580 firm-fixed-price, cost and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-6412, from the United States Navy, to exercise options for the production of Mk 48 Mod 7 guidance and control sections (G&C), Mk 48 Mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS) functional item replacement kits, factory test equipment, spares, production support material, and related engineering services and hardware repair support for G&C sections and CBASS kits. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (89 percent); and the governments of the Netherlands (9 percent); and Canada and Turkey (2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.
Work will be performed in Marion, Massachusetts (88 percent); Braintree, Massachusetts (8 percent); and Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania (4 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2021.
Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) in the amount of $51,095,847; FMS funding in the amount of $6,230,033; and fiscal 2016 weapons procurement (Navy) in the amount of $1,830,700 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.