Rockwell to Provide E-6B Bandwidth Expansion

Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded $9,201,304 for modification 0041 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-13-C-0004) to exercise an option for the installation of one Block I modification aircraft kit, to include the Internet Protocol Bandwidth Expansion and Very Low Terminal kits, on one E-6B aircraft. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (95 percent); and Richardson, Texas (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2017. Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,201,304 are being obligated on this 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.