Navy to Receive Support for Torpedo Sonar Systems

Lockheed Martin Sippican Incorporated of Marion, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $52,963,189 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-6412) to exercise option year one for the production of Mk 48 Mod 7 guidance and control sections, Mk 48 Mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS) functional item replacement kits, factory test equipment, spares, production support material and related engineering services and hardware support for guidance and control sections and CBASS kits. The modification combines purchases for the Navy (65 percent); the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) via the PMS404 Joint Program Office’s (JPO) Armament Cooperation Program (ACP) (11 percent); and the governments of the Netherlands (23 percent); and Canada and Turkey (less than 1 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Work will be performed in Marion, Massachusetts (88 percent); Braintree, Massachusetts (8 percent); and Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania (4 percent), and is expected to be completed by November 2020. FY 2017 weapons procurement (Navy); foreign military sales ACP/JPO/RAN; and FY 2015 and 2016 weapons procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $52,963,189 will be obligated at the time of award, of which FY 2015 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $246,570 will expire at the end the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.