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Contract Award: Compass Systems Inc. (Lexington Park, Maryland) – $9,740,967

Compass Systems Inc.,* Lexington Park, Maryland, is awarded a $9,740,967 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.  This contract provides for research, development, design, analysis and integration of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads, to include the following systems: radar, electro optical/infrared, command and control, data link and processing and exploitation software in support of systems integration onto the Navy Research Laboratory P-3 test aircraft. Work will be performed in Lexington Park, Maryland (78%); Rochester, New York (11%); and Springfield, Virginia (11%), and is expected to be completed in April 2024. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $620,192 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposal; one offer was received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (N6833521C0216).



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