Northrop Grumman Upgrading E-6B Tactical Common Data Link Kits for the Navy

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia, is awarded $18,200,000 for firm-fixed-price delivery order N0001918F0478 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-15-G-0026). The order procures three aircraft B-Kits and associated spares for the Multi-Role Tactical Common Data Link modification upgrade to the E-6B aircraft. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah (73 percent); San Diego, California (25 percent); and Boston, Massachusetts (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2020. Fiscal year 2017 and 2018 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $18,200,000, will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.