Contract Awards

The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence has awarded the Raytheon Company-Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture a $176 million contract for more than 1,300 Javelin missile rounds and associated engineering support. The joint venture will begin delivering missiles to the U.K. in 2010 and continue through 2012.

SMS Data Products Group, Inc., (SMS) has been awarded a multi-million dollar information technology infrastructure contract by the U.S. Army. A subcontractor to Data Systems Analysts, Inc. (DSA), SMS will expand existing fiber optic and copper wire infrastructure an additional 80 miles to meet key warfighter safety and communication training requirements.

The U.S. Navy has awarded CSC a five-year contract with a potential value of $169 million to support the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program Office. Under the contract, the company will provide program, business and financial management; systems and life-cycle engineering and support; and production planning for LCS seaframes and combat systems currently under construction by Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.

The U.S. Army has awarded L-3 Communications a $162.7 million contract to support the Army Central Command's Kuwait Observer-Controller Team program. Under the contract, the company will be a subcontractor to Raytheon to provide training for U.S. and coalition forces at the Udari Range in Kuwait.

General Dynamics has been awarded a $17 million contract to produce gun systems for the Phalanx Block 1B Close-In Weapon System and the Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System by Raytheon Missile Systems. The gun systems will be produced at the General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products facility in Saco, Maine.

Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract worth more than $100 million by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. to design and develop the David's Sling Weapon System (DSWS). DSWS will intercept short-range ballistic missiles, large caliber rockets and cruise missiles in their terminal flight phase.

The U.S. Army has awarded a joint venture by the Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin a $214 million contract for production of the Javelin Close Combat Weapons System. The Javelin Joint Venture will produce the Javelin missile and command launch units and will provide training and field support.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $31 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new cyber assurance procedures to improve security, dynamic bandwidth allocation and policy-based prioritization levels at the individual unit level.

The U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) has awarded a Lockheed Martin team a $29 million contract for Valiant Angel, a new system that will apply highly advanced broadcasting technologies to help commanders collect, manage, process, exploit and disseminate full-motion video. The team includes Harris Corporation and NetApp.

The U.S. Army Product Manager for Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT) has awarded $418.52 million in AIT-IV contracts to GTSI Corporation, Intermec Technologies Corporation, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, CDO Technologies Incorporated and Lowry Computer Products.