Rockwell Collins to Provide E-6B Modification Kits

Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $46,582,848 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-13-C-0004) to exercise an option for the manufacture and installation of two Block I modification aircraft kits including Internet Protocol Bandwidth Expansion Phase III and very low frequency transmit terminals (VTT) for the E-6B aircraft. In addition, this contract includes the manufacture and installation of four VTT retrofit modification kits in support of the low rate initial production E-6B aircraft, field support, differences training, software licenses and agreements, and updates to an operational flight trainer. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.