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Contract Award: Northrup Grumman Systems (Rolling Meadows, Illinois) – $72,839,416

Northrup Grumman Systems, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, is awarded a $72,839,416 fixed-price incentive (firm-target), cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract. This contract provides the necessary hardware and associated technical engineering, management and logistics support for the production and delivery of 51 AN/APR-39 D(V)2 Radar Warning Receiver/Electronic Warfare Management Systems (38 for the Navy, and 13 for the government of Nigeria); and 27 D(V)2 battery handle assemblies (15 for the Navy, and 12 for the government of Nigeria) in support of the MV-22B, AH-1Z, UH-1Y, and CH-53K aircraft, as well as provides non-recurring engineering in support of providing production capacity to meet necessary fielding requirements. This contract also provides non-recurring engineering for processor conversion for the government of Morocco. Work will be performed in Rolling Meadows, Illinois (50.27%); Woburn, Massachusetts (9.48%); Lansdale, Pennsylvania (8.5%); San Leandro, California (5.42%); Lewisburg, Tennessee (5.3%); Longmont, Colorado (5%); Verona, Wisconsin (2.5%); Salt Lake City, Utah (1.75%); Newark, Delaware (1.6%); Melbourne, Florida (1.29%); Baltimore, Maryland (1.17%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (7.72%), and is expected to be completed in April 2027. Fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $44,795,860; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,825,543; and FMS funds in the amount of $17,218,013, will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1). Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001923C0001). 

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