$13M to Stork for RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Canisters to Japan & Canada

RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Launch
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Raytheon Co. Integrated Defense Systems in Portsmouth, RI received a $13 million firm-fixed-price contract for the fabrication, assembly, test, and delivery of 52 MK 20 MOD 1 canisters on behalf of the Governments of Japan (88%) and Canada (12%) under the foreign military sales program. The MK 20 MOD 1 canister holds a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile in a cell of the MK 48 guided missile vertical launching system (GMVLS) for naval ships.

Work will be performed at the facility of Raytheon’s subcontractor Stork Fokker in Hoogeveen, Netherlands, and is expected to be complete by February 2009. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC (N00024-06-C-5435).