SANDY HOOK, Conn. -- The Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) effort is a long-standing U.S. Navy program designed to integrate and distribute data from airborne, land, and sea-based assets through a sensor network. The CEC is tasked with enhancing anti-air warfare (AAW) capabilities. In practice, this means development and implementation of a multitude of hardware and software sets, allowing communications between sensors and fire control systems of radically varied origins and destinations.

With such a broad and critical mission requirement, the CEC has received sizable funding since the program's inception in the 1980s. Due to the ever-changing nature of the U.S. Navy's platforms, hardware, and software, funding for CEC (even if the program name changes) - and any potential follow-on programs - is expected to be steady and significant for many years to come.

On June 28, 2023, L3 Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $27,288,723 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-22-C-5218), from the United States Navy, to exercise options for CEC System spares, signal data processors, USG-2B systems, USG-8B system, and engineering studies and analyses.

Work will be performed in Largo, Florida (48%); Menlo Park, California (19%); Lititz, Pennsylvania (17%); and Salt Lake City, Utah (16%), and is expected to be completed by January 2025. Fiscal 2023 working capital funds in the amount of $11,689,828 (43%); fiscal 2023 Foreign Military Sales (Canada) in the amount of $4,582,890 (17%); fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,188,419 (11%); fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,445,899 (9%); fiscal 2023 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,179,654 (8%); fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,672,560 (6%); fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,022,433 (4%); fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $300,864 (1%); and fiscal 2023 Foreign Military Sales (Australia) in the amount of $206,176 (1%), 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, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Source: Forecast International
Associated URL: https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3442962/
Author: R. Sterk, Naval Systems