$7.4M for High-Resolution Sonar Mine Detectors

Northrop Grumman Corp’s Electronic Sensors and Systems/Oceanic and Naval Systems in Annapolis, MD won a $7.4 million cost-plus-award-fee contract for the development of components, systems, and subsystems to provide sonar solutions for high-resolution bottom mine detection and classification for use in unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) applications.

Work will be performed in Annapolis, MD and is expected to be complete by February 2007. This contract was competitively procured via a Topical Broad Agency Announcement, and eight offers were received. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI issued the contract (N66604-05-C-0997).