Textron Systems Corp., Hunt Valley, Maryland, is awarded a $20,790,809 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Magnetic and Acoustic Generation Next Unmanned Superconducting Sweep (MAGNUSS). This contract provides for the development of a mine countermeasure technology referred to as MAGNUSS. The MAGNUSS payload technology is composed of a high temperature superconducting magnetic source with an advanced acoustic generator. The MAGNUSS program is an Office of Naval Research sponsored Future Naval Capability effort for the development, fabrication, integration and demonstration of the payload which is expected to transition to the Naval Sea Systems Command program for the Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vehicle. Work will be performed in Ayer, Massachusetts (47%); Hunt Valley, Maryland (35%); and Groton, Connecticut (18%). Work is expected to be completed by March 7, 2026. The total cumulative value of the 36-month base period is $20,790,809, with an additional 12 months for the options in the amount of $54,072,789. The option periods of performance are of various lengths, all of which, if exercised, may run concurrently with the base and other options. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,089,000 are obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Long Range Broad Agency Announcement N00014-22-S-B001 and Special Notice N00014-21-S-SN12, MAGNUSS. Three proposals were received in response to the solicitation. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-23-C-2006).
Recommended
free preview