WORK TO MODERNIZE U.S. NAVY'S SPY-1 AEGIS RADARS PROGRESSES UNDER NEW CONTRACT
MARLBOUROUGH, Mass. -- Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has been awarded a $9,692,058 firm-fixed-price and cost modification to previously awarded contract N00024-19-C-5112, from the United States Navy, to exercise options for fiscal 2020 production of Aegis modernization (AMOD) requirements.
Work will be performed in Andover, Massachusetts (90%); Marlborough, Massachusetts (7%); and Burlington, Massachusetts (3%).
This contract modification covers the production of SPY-1 transmitter ordnance alteration kits for the multi-mission signal processor, radio frequency coherent combiner, sidewall capacitor, and travelling wave tubes.
The AMOD program fields combat system upgrades will enhance the anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense capabilities of Aegis equipped DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and CG 47 Ticonderoga-class cruisers.
Work under the contract is expected to be complete by December 2021.
The Navy is obligating $9.7 million in Fiscal Year 2020 Other Procurement funds at the time of the award, none of which will 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.