Contract Award: Raytheon Missiles and Defense (Marlborough, Massachusetts) – $23,345,867

Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is awarded a $23,345,867 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-only order under previously awarded basic ordering agreement N00024-22-G-5311 for the procurement of AEGIS Modernization kits for Navy guided-missile destroyers and allied nations. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (57%); and the governments of Japan (42%) and Australia (1%) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Work will be performed in Andover, Massachusetts (77%); and Chesapeake, Virginia (23%), and is expected to be completed by March 2026. Fiscal 2022 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,716,424 (42%); FMS Japan funds in the amount of $9,703,613 (42%); fiscal 2022 Defense-wide procurement funds in the amount of $2,793,463 (12%); fiscal 2021 Defense-wide procurement funds in the amount of $475,506 (2%); FMS Australia funds in the amount of $205,663 (1%); and fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $201,198 (1%) will be obligated at time of award, of which $475,506 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order was not competitively procured, in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) — only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity (N0002423F5301).