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Contract Award: Raytheon Co. (Tucson, Arizona) – $160,916,166

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a not-to-exceed $160,916,166 undefinitized modification (P00005) to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm-target) contract (N0001924C0032). This modification adds scope to provide non-recurring engineering (NRE) to develop, manufacture, and qualify a second source solid rocket motor assembly and WDU-17/B warhead in support of AIM-9X missile production, as well as provides NRE to support WDU-17/B warhead qualification and transfer of technical data package design activity for the AIM-9X missile in support of the Navy, Air Force, Army, the government of Ukraine, and Foreign Military Sales customers. Additionally, this modification partially exercises options for the production and delivery of 126 AIM-9X-4 Block II Tactical Missiles, 32 AIM-9X missile containers, and 20 spare DSU-41 Active Optical Target Detector and Radio Frequency data links for the Army. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona (36.37%); Raufoss, Norway (35.19%); North Logan, Utah (3.32%); Simsbury, Connecticut (3.32%); Niles, Illinois (2.85%); Camden, Arkansas (2.67%); Keyser, West Virgina (2.51%); Hillsboro, Oregon (1.54%); Schrobenhausen, Germany (1.46%); Midland, Ontario, Canada (1.04%); Heilbronn, Germany (0.85%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (8.88%), and is expected to be complete by September 2029. Fiscal 2025 weapons procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $70,863,263; fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Army) funds in the amount of $1,492,862; fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Army) funds in the amount of $639,798; and Ukraine security assistance initiative (Department of Defense Wide) funds in the amount of $127,146,184, will be obligated at the time of award, $127,785,982 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract action was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.



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