Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors has been awarded a $197,500,977 cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-incentives contract for post-Critical Design Review Aegis Combat Systems Engineering to support the Australian Government under the US Foreign Military Sales program.
The requirements include the necessary combat systems engineering, computer program development, ship integration and test, logistics technical services, technical manuals and staging support to design and build an Aegis Weapon System to support the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) program.
The AWD AWS baseline will be derived from a technology refreshed variant of the US Navy AWS Baseline 7 Phase I.
This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $211,425,860.
Work will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey (86 per cent), and Adelaide (14 per cent), and is expected to be completed by December 2014.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.