LMCO MS&T Contract for up to $420M for Aegis Weapon System ACB12

Defense.gov Contracts for Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Training, Moorestown, New Jersey, is being awarded a $60,802,243 fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-only contract for  
 ship integration and test of the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) for AWS Baselines through Advanced Capability Build 12. 
The contract provides for 

• Aegis shipboard integration engineering, 
• Aegis test team support, 
• Aegis modernization team engineering support, 
• ballistic missile defense test team support, and 
• AWS element assessments. 

This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $420,379,808. 

Work will be performed in 

• Moorestown, New Jersey (27 percent); 
• Norfolk, Virginia (22.5 percent); 
• San Diego, California (20 percent); 
• Pascagoula, Mississippi (6.5 percent); 
• Bath, Maine (6.5 percent); 
• Mayport, Florida (6.5 percent); 
• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (5.5 percent); 
• Everett, Washington (4 percent); 
• Syracuse, New York (1 percent), and 
• other locations totaling less than 1 percent (0.5),

 and is expected to be completed by November 2018. Fiscal 2011 and 2013 shipbuilding conversion (Navy); fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2012 and 2014 other procurement (Navy) funding, in the amount of $21,839,327 will be obligated at time of award. 

Contract funds in the amount of $6,485,936 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) - only one or limited number of sources and no other suppliers will satisfy the requirements. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-14-C-5104).

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The US Navy -- Fact File: Aegis Weapon System
The Navy has decided to restart construction of new DDG 51s. The new Aegis destroyer will utilize software componentized to enable reuse and networked-based COTS computing system infrastructures during installation, modifications, and future upgrades. The restarted Aegis destroyers (DDG Restart) will incorporate the same new technologies, as an Aegis Modernized Destroyer such as:

• the Multi- Mission Signal Processor (MMSP), 
• the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP), 
• Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 5.0, and 
• the AN/SQQ-89(V) Anti-Submarine Warfare/Undersea Warfare Combat System (ASWCS/USWCS). 

In addition to this DDG restart effort, the Navy is currently making plans for a follow-on version of the DDG 51 class that will be called DDG Flight III.

In an effort incorporate advances in technology into in-service ships, and to keep pace with emerging threat, the Aegis Modernization (AMOD) program was introduced. AMOD produces system upgrades via the Advanced Capability Build (ACB) process for CG and DDG Modernization, DDG Restart, and DDG FLT III.
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The current Advanced Capability Build, ACB-12, has transitioned to Aegis Baseline 9 (BL 9) and brings increased warfighting capability with regard to

• Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), 
• Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA), 
• the SM-6 missile, 
• the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM), 
• Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) BLK 1B, and 
• MMSP. 

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B/L 9 initiated a Common Source Library (CSL) program for Aegis and brought in the first third-party developed software element, Track Manager/ Track Server, as well as the competitively awarded Common Display System (CDS) and Common Processor System (CPS). The CSL enables software reuse and commonality across all modernized and new construction Aegis Combat System configurations. Specifically, the Aegis CSL allows for the use of common tactical software across four different Aegis configurations, including

• Air Defense Cruisers, 
• IAMD Destroyers with integrated Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability, 
• New Construction Integrated Air and Missile Defense Destroyers, and 
• Aegis Ashore (AA) with integrated BMD capability.