Raytheon is Supplying Common Sensor Payloads to the Navy

Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $28,540,000 firm-fixed-price, definitive contract for the procurement of 20 common sensor payloads (CSP), consisting of one turret and one electronics unit in each system as well as data. The CSP is an electro-optical/infrared sensor (EO/IR) system for the Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. The primary mission of the EO/IR sensor system is to provide enhanced visual imagery to augment existing electronic sensors that will enhance low-visibility and night navigation, interception, observation and surveillance; insertion and extraction operations; combat search and rescue; identification; real-time situational awareness and threat warning; reconnaissance and surveillance as well as visit, board, search and seizure operations. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and is expected to be completed by October 2019. Fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement (Army) funding in the amount of $28,540,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured, in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, Crane, Indiana, is the contracting activity (N00164-18-C-JQ40).