BAE Systems Signs Navy Deal

BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $28,803,712 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, term contract (N00421-01-C-0077) to exercise an option for technical and engineering services to support the development, procurement, integration, testing, installation and certification of shipboard communication systems; the development and integration of like systems at shore sites associated with the deployment of, or fleet support to, surface combatants; and the development, testing and integration of mobile and airborne communication systems designed to interface with the command, control, communication, computers and intelligence (C4I) architecture of surface combatants. The estimated level of effort for this option is 378,938 man-hours. Work will be performed in California, Md. (80%); St. Inigoes, Md. (10%); Bath, Maine (5%); and Pascagoula, Miss. (5%), and is expected to be completed in December 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.