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Contract Award: Raytheon Missiles and Defense (Tucson, Arizona) – $50,069,297

Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $50,069,297 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-5431 to exercise options for fiscal 2022 design agent and engineering support services for the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by July 2023. Fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,526,558 (33%); fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,249,235 (27%); fiscal 2022 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of 778,703 (17%); fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $568,139 (13%); and fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $464,593 (10%) will be obligated at the time of award, of which, funds in the amount of $1,526,558 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. 



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