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Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ received a $235.7 million firm-fixed-price contract in for the production of the FY06 Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA and Block IIIB all up rounds (AURs) AN/DKT-71A telemetric data transmitting sets (TDTS), section level spares, and shipping containers for allied nations. Note that “all-up-rounds” include the missile, its launch container, and related equipment that allows for rapid installation of the naval missiles in vertical launch systems.
According to GlobalSecurity.org, RIM-66K-L/ SM-2 Standard Block IIIA missiles have greater capability at even lower altitudes, and include a more powerful fragmentation warhead. Block IIIB adds an infrared (IR) guidance mode capability developed in Missile Homing Improvement Program (MHIP) to the Block IIIA’s semi-active radar guidance system. These SM-2 versions are provided as medium range rounds that can be fired from AEGIS rail launchers, AEGIS vertical launch systems, and Tartar rail launchers. SM-2 and SM-3 Standard surface-air missiles work best when paired with the AEGIS radar and combat system, but can be employed independently. With respect to this specific contract…
This contract will provide for the procurement of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and other international customers procurements of 221 SM-2 Standard Block IIIA AURs, 64 SM-2 Block IIIB AURs, 106 TDTS’ with installation kits, 69 various FMS spare sections and 393 various FMS shipping containers. Specific countries were not specified by the US DoD DefenseLINK release.
On March 24, 2005, DID covered a similar FY05 contract modification for $266 million. It procured 99 SM-2 Block IIIA AURs, 64 SM-2 Block IIIBs, 51 TDTS, 25 various foreign military sales spare sections and 161 shipping missile containers; the missiles were destined for the U.S. Navy and the navies of Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, and Korea. The SM-2 also serves with the Spanish and Australian navies.
Work on this contract will be performed in Tucson, AZ (83%), Andover, MA (14%), Camden, AR (2%), and Farmington, N.M. (1%), and work is expected to be complete by December 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC is the contracting activity (N00024-06-C-5350).