Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ is being awarded an $11.2 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide Full Service Support (FSS) for the Standard Missile-1 (SM-1) program of U.S. Allied Nations. The SM-1 was phased out of the U.S. Navy in 2003; it is an earlier version of the Standard Missile-2 currently used on AEGIS-equipped ships for anti-air defense. An even newer variant, the SM-3 Standard, is currently being tested as part of the USA’s ballistic missile defense plans.
In preparation for the U.S. Navy’s withdrawal of its SM-1 compatible ships, support has transitioned to Raytheon who leads a team of companies that provides users with continued access to spares and repair services.
This contract combines purchases for the countries of Egypt (43%), Taiwan (26%); Spain (10%); Japan (6%); Turkey (6%); France (3%); Italy (3%); Bahrain (1%); Netherlands (1%); and Poland (1%) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.
The SM-1 FSS Program consists of core support (program management, asset storage, test equipment support, logistics support and tasking to demilitarize hardware no longer needed for long-term support of the SM-1 Program), intermediate level maintenance (provide re-certification of SM-1 Block VI, VIA, VIB missiles), depot level maintenance (repair and maintenance of, or preparation, upgrade and installation of SM-1 Block V, VI, VIA and VIB sections, assemblies, subassemblies, and components), MK56 Rocket Motor Regrain Program (production qualification and production), test equipment support, All-Up-Round (AUR), and technical engineering services.
This contract was not competitively procured. Work will be performed in Sacramento, CA (67%) and Tucson, AZ (33%), and the contract will expire before the end of September 2006. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC issued the contract (N00024-05-C-5341).