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Contract Award: General Atomics (San Diego, California) – $20,549,597

General Atomics, San Diego, California, is awarded a $20,549,597 firm-fixed-price modification (P00070) to a previously awarded contract (N0001914C0037). This modification exercises options to procure 18 Advanced Arresting Gear Water Twister (WT) Mod-II shipsets for Navy Gerald R. Ford-class Aircraft Carriers 78, 79, and 80. Additionally, this modification provides for the development of logistics support products and the execution of engineering change proposals related to WT Mod-II as approved by the Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Program Decentralized Change Control Board. Work will be performed in Tupelo, Mississippi (55.8%); San Diego, California (26.1%); Chicago, Illinois (3.6%); Dayton, Ohio (2.2%); Spring Grove, Illinois (2.1%); Cleveland, Ohio (2.8%); Placentia, California (1.3%); Malvern, Pennsylvania (1.3%); Birmingham, Alabama (1%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (3.8%), and is expected to be completed in August 2024. Fiscal 2022 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $20,549,597 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

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