Missile Defense Agency Modifies Space Tracking and Surveillance System Contract

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, California, has been awarded a maximum $21,803,101 modification (P00308) to the previously awarded contract to provide on-orbit operations and sustainment for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the cost-plus-award-fee contract to $2,386,832,669 from $2,365,029,568. Work will be performed at the Missile Defense Space Center at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, with an expected completion date of March 31, 2016. Fiscal year 2015 research and development funds in the amount of $10,616,237 are being obligated at time of award. The Missile Defense Agency, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the contracting activity (F04701-02-C-0009).