Boeing [BA] filed an agency-level protest over the Navy’s award of a $41 million contract to a team lead by General Dynamics [GD] for the Marine Corps’ next-generation aviation command and control (C2) system.
Boeing spokeswoman Cheryl Sampson told Defense Daily yesterday the company filed its protest of the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) contract award Oct. 9. Sampson said she couldn’t elaborate on why Boeing filed the protest, other than it is “seeking some additional information.”
The General Dynamics-lead team included Raytheon Solipsys, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon [RTN], Smartronix, Ternion Corp., and Engility [EGL], according to a General Dynamics statement. Northrop Grumman [NOC] also submitted a CAC2S bid.
The contract, awarded Sept. 28, is a fixed-price-incentive contract for engineering development models and developmental testing to support operational testing and a build-to-print technical data package to support “Phase 2” of CAC2S, according to a Defense Department statement. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to $61.4 million.
Marine Corps spokesman David Branham said yesterday the service expects to make its decision on the protest no later than Nov. 14.
General Dynamics said the contract is for up to four engineering development models and nine limited deployment units of the Processing and Display/Sensor Data Subsystem for Increment 1, Phase 2 of CAC2S. When built and fully operational, the system will deliver a real-time picture of events taking place at sea, in the air and on land during a mission.
CAC2S will provide a complete modernization of the Marine Air Command and Control System and will replace dissimilar legacy systems with a common, open, modular and scalable design based on proven, high-technology level hardware and software components.
Contract funds will expire on Sept. 30, 2013, and work is expected to be completed by September 2017.