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Contract Award: Kilgore Flares Co. LLC doing business as Chemring Countermeasures USA (Toone, Tennessee) – $12,000,909

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC, doing business as Chemring Countermeasures USA, Toone, Tennessee, is awarded a $12,000,909 firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture of MJU-61A/B aircraft infrared flares. All work will be performed in Toone, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by March 2022. This effort involves funding under the Foreign Military Sales program. Funding for the MJU-32A/B combines purchases with procurement of ammunition (Air Force) funds (60%); procurement of ammunition (Navy and Marine Corps) funds (24%); Australia funds (13.78%); Japan funds (1.33%); the Netherlands funds (0.41%); Italy funds (0.31%); and Brazil funds (0.17%) in the full amount of $12,000,909, which will be obligated at time of award. Funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with two firms solicited; two offers received. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00104-21-C-K062).

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