Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, El Segundo, California, is being awarded a $51,284,530 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program radar system development and demonstration, ECP-025, radar modification for Global Hawk Block 40. Air Force Mobility Command, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $33,280,877 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for integrated sensor suite theater evaluation and test effort to develop an innovative counter-improvised explosive device capability. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Ke'aki Technologies, Honolulu, Hawaii; LongView, Bethesda, Maryland; Smartronix Incorporated, Hollywood, Maryland; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, McLean, Virginia; Eleu Pacific Partners, Fulton, Maryland; Akimeka LLC, Kihei, Hawaii; and ASM Research Incorporated, Fairfax, Virginia, were awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for the purpose of supporting information management/information technology demonstrations for Pacific Joint Information Technology Center, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, to include medical information management/information technology (IM/IT) research studies; proof of concept demonstrations; prototyping of IM/IT products; creating related advanced concept technology demonstrations (ACTD); and working with other programs of record to transition successful ACTDs to acquisition programs.  The value of this action is not to exceed $300 million. The guaranteed minimum per contract is $200,000. TRICARE Management Activity, Contract Operations Division, Falls Church, Virginia, is the Contracting Activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Sector, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $25,709,758 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to purchase three Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicles Lot 5 low rate initial production and one ground control station. The Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems, Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Incorporated, Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $20,596,718 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for technology maturation efforts in support of the next-generation jammer, which will replace the aging ALQ-99 tactical jamming system. Technology maturation efforts include research in support of future development of airborne electronic attack capability from a tactical-size airborne stand-off/mod-escort platform. Specifically, the contractor will mature and provide a concept demonstrator (CD) design and mature critical technology elements required to support CD design. Other awards include: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems - Eastern Region, Bethpage, New York, $20,220,599; and ITT Exelis, Clifton, New Jersey, $20,175,204. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Space and Missions Systems Corporation, San Jose, California, is being awarded a $10,360,820 firm-fixed-price modification contract to procure spare hardware to support the Airborne Sigint Intelligence Payload Increment 1 software development task. A total of 26 unique spare items are to be procured. The hardware is required to repair and maintain lab and flight test support equipment during the Increment 1 development effort and future upgrade programs. Reconnaissance Systems Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems, Bethpage, New York, is being awarded a $31,423,996 firm-fixed-price delivery order for spare components of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye low rate initial production, Lots 3 and 4. The company also is being awarded a $15,343,569 firm-fixed-price order against a previously issued basic order agreement for the procurement, packaging, handling, storage, transportation and delivery of the 146 E-2D avionic units under test in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity for both awards.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, San Diego, California, is being awarded an undefinitized contract action with a not-to -exceed ceiling of $262,336,248. The contract provides for the development, manufacture, and test of two vertical take-off and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (VTUAVs); production of six air vehicles; and spare parts in support of the VTUAV endurance upgrade rapid deployment capability effort. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Melville, New York, is being awarded an $8,840,092 contract modification for the delivery of AN/SPQ-9B cooperative engagement capability interface kits and antenna group upgrade kits for use on U.S. Navy ships. The AN/SPQ-9B radar system provides the capability to detect and track low-flying, high-speed, small radar cross section anti-ship missile targets in heavy clutter environments. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $52.8 million, 27-month engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract to upgrade its electronic attack (EA) pods. The program has a potential value of $480 million including EMD, a low-rate initial production phase (LRIP) and five production options. Northrop Grumman's solution, an upgraded ALQ-131 EA pod, is fully capable of operating in support of A-10, C-130, F-15 and F-16 aircraft and aircrews.