The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a cost plus award fee/award term contract with a potential dollar value of $159 million to integrate mission packages and evaluate future mission systems technologies for the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). contract award is approximately $4.5 million. this effort. regions. warfighting architecture as a requirement. number of secondary missions. surface and subsurface domains. Littoral Combat Ships relevant to the spectrum of conflict. modules on the ship with each other and with the ship's combat system. and Washington D.C., as well as at the LCS sites. program in various sites throughout the country.