The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a contract modification worth over $10.4 million to activate development equipment suites for future advanced capability builds in support of computer program development at the Naval Systems Computer Center and Combat System Engineering Development Site, the Defense Department said Aug. 31.
The modification provides technical engineering, configuration management, associated equipment/supplies, quality assurance, information assurance, and other operation and maintenance efforts required for the Combat Systems Engineering Development Site, SPY-1A Test Facility, and the Naval Systems Computing Center.
The facilities, collectively known as the “Aegis Sites,” incorporate integrated, classified, real-time networks that connect several contractor and government facilities required to build, integrate, test, and deliver computer code baselines.
This contract also provides for the continuing site maintenance and planned improvements of the sites for the Aegis Combat System and Aegis Weapon System upgrades to Ticonderoga and Arleigh Burke-class ships through the completion of Advanced Capability Build 12 and Technology Insertion 12 (ACB 12/TI 12). This is in addition to Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Foreign Military Sales requirements, the Defense Department said.
The $5.8 million in Fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funds were set to be obligated at award time and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The contract work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., with an expected completion time of June 2018. The contracting activity is the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.