U.S. Navy Modifies BAMS-D Contract
Northrop Grumman awarded contract modification to provide sustainment engineering services support to the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator (BAMS-D) program.
Based on the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system designed for land surveillance, the BAMS-D system was modified to work in a maritime environment. Northrop Grumman is being awarded an $8,988,148 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to provide sustainment engineering services support to the BAMS-D program.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, is being awarded an $8,988,148 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-15-C-0007) to provide sustainment engineering services support to the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator (BAMS-D) program. Services to be provided include the design, development, and installation of modifications to the BAMS-D communications system required to remain compliant with system and network performance requirements. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, (50 percent); Patuxent River, Maryland (25 percent); and San Diego (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2016. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy overseas contingency operations) funding in the amount of $8,988,148 will be obligated at time of award; all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
