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NAVAIR plans to award Lockheed Martin work to integrate LRASM on the B-52, which already carries up to 20 JASSMs. The Oct. 7 notice covers software updates, testing, test asset repair and failure review boards; no price or schedule has been disclosed.
Read the story →HII's Newport News Shipbuilding won a $56 million Navy contract, with an option up to $91 million, to support AUKUS engineering, Foreign Military Sales work for the UK and Australia, and design of the SSN-AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine.
GAO says DOD should merge fragmented Army, Navy and Air Force GPS-backup programs as GPS modernization slips and the Next Generation Operational Control System is canceled, putting M-code receivers and munitions integration at risk.
DFAS awarded Ernst & Young two labor-hour contracts worth up to $869.4M combined to audit Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force financial statements. Each competitive solicitation drew one quote; the Air Force deal succeeds EY's 2022 contract for the same work.
The Navy added $150 million to Shield AI's X-BAT other transaction agreement, matched by $150 million of company capital, bringing commitments to $400 million. The first full-scale prototype is weeks from completion, with VTOL flight tests set to begin by year's end.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon an undefinitized SM-3 Block IB contract with a $4.4 billion base and a ceiling of up to $6.3 billion, aimed at replenishing interceptors used in combat. Production runs mainly in Tucson and Huntsville.
X-Bow Systems won a prototype agreement worth up to $69.7M, administered by Army Contracting Command-Rock Island, to develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for an undisclosed next-generation Navy weapon, including rate tooling for up to 500 motors a year in Luling, Texas.
Navy gave Lockheed Martin a $209M firm-fixed-price modification to build AN/SLQ-32(V)6 SEWIP Block II electronic warfare systems through 2029, with options to about $1.71B, ahead of a potential $7.13B multiple-award AN/SLQ-32 contract.
The Navy awarded Anduril a contract of up to $2.9B, paid on demonstrated output, to back Arsenal-2, a $3.7B privately funded Maryland yard that will build Virginia-class components for Electric Boat and Newport News starting in 2030.
The Navy awarded Raytheon a five-year, up-to-$24.4B contract with two option years for SM-6 interceptors. Quantities and delivery schedules are unspecified, and industry executives say Congress has not yet appropriated the money.
GAO denied Patriot Contract Services' protest of the Navy's corrective action on the $746M T-AGOS and T-AGM ship operations contract. The competition reopens, with final revised proposals and a possible new award decision.
The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls a $5.1 billion fixed-ceiling incentive contract to refuel and overhaul USS Harry S. Truman at Newport News. The award was sole-source, work runs to November 2031, and $547.8 million was obligated at award.
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