BAE subsidiary United Defense Limited Partnership Armament Systems Division in Minneapolis, MN received a $17 million fixed-price-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-04-C-5454 for multinational procurement of vertical air defense missile launching cannisters and associated hardware. The cannisters are designed to launch the SM-2 Standard and Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles.
The contract covers:
* FY 2005 MK 13 Canisters for fiscal 2005 U.S. Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Memorandum of Understanding with foreign governments (MOU) requirements and ancillary hardware, and fiscal 2005 Reconfigurable Coding Plug Assemblies;
MK13 canisters for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System store, transport in safety, and enable loading of the Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block II/III configurations into the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems carried by U.S. Navy DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class destroyers and CG-47 Ticonderoga Class cruisers.
* FY 2005 MK 25 Canisters for fiscal 2005 U.S. Navy and NATO SeaSparrow Project Office requirements and ancillary hardware. MK 25 canisters for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System store, transport in safety, and enable loading of the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile into the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems aboard DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class U.S. Navy destroyers.
The combined requirements are for the U.S. Navy (43%); the Government of Japan (14%) under FMS; the Governments of The Netherlands (19%) and Germany (16%) under the MOU; and NSPO (8%).
Work will be performed in Aberdeen, SD, and is expected to be complete by September 2007. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC issued the contract.
