Raytheon to Produce SURC for USMC
An industry team led by Raytheon's Naval & Maritime Integrated Systems (N&MIS) business unit has been awarded a competitively procured contract to produce Small Unit Riverine Craft (SURC) for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC). The Raytheon team will produce up to 100 SURCs, with a nominal contract value of $30 million and a potential contract value of up to $60 million. SURC will provide the USMC with a combat craft capable of transporting a 13-man infantry squad primarily in support of operations on inland waterways as well as in a variety of conditions on the open sea. Procured as a commercial item, the Marine Corps team used performance-based acquisition practices and an innovative strategy that reduced the procurement cycle time to less than six months.
GAO Affirms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon as DD(X) Gold Team
Northrop Grumman Corporation, leader of the DD(X) Gold Team, and Raytheon company said today that they were delighted by the decision of the General Accounting Office (GAO), which validates that an appropriate evaluation process was used when the U.S. Navy selected the Gold Team to complete the system design for the Navy's 21st century surface combatant, DD(X). "Now that this issue is behind us, we can move ahead on this transformational ship program, which is so critical to the Navy, the DoD and the nation," said Kent Kresa, Northrop Grumman chairman and chief executive officer. "We were confident in the Navy's selection process, and are grateful that the GAO so expeditiously acted in validating that the Gold Team's proposal provided the best value for the customer.
Raytheon Awarded Contract
Raytheon Co., Naval and Maritime Integrated Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded a $12,786,487 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the design, build, test and deployment of the Acoustic Observatory (AO) Array Wet Subsystem (WS). The array will be deployed off of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Ft Lauderdale, Fla., and will be used to determine the upper bounds to passive sonar performance in highly cluttered, shallow water environments. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I., and is to be completed by July 2004. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under a Request for Proposals, with four offers received. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.
