Spanish Frigates to Get $30.4M AEGIS Upgrade

F100 AEGIS Frigate(click to view full) Lockheed Martin, Maritime Systems & Sensors in Moorestown, NJ received a $30.4 million cost-plus-award-fee/ cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for combat system engineering, computer program support, system integration and test, ship integration and test, staging, FMS(Foreign Military Sales) program management, and integrated logistics support to include training and technical manuals, for the upgrade of the AEGIS Weapon System on Spanish F100 Alvaro de Bazan Class Frigates (F101 through F104) in support of the Foreign Military Sales Case SP-P-LFZ. This effort is a follow on to NAVSEA Contract N00024-97-C-5171 which procured the AEGIS computer program and support for the Spanish F100 AEGIS Combat System program. The new effort described herein is the upgrade to the AEGIS Computer Program to include the addition of Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) and SM-2 BLK IIIB missile functionalities. Work will be performed in Moorestown, NJ (85%) and Spain (15%), and is expected to be complete by December 2008. This contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. (N00024-06-C-5113).