U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 8 March 2005) Applied Hydro-Acoustics Research Inc. Centreville, Va., is being awarded a $6,886,762 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort in the development of Tactical Sonar Data Fusion for surface ship sonar systems. The Phase III effort extends the development of data fusion performed in SBIR Phase I and Phase II efforts. The tactical sonar data fusion developed and fabricated in Phase III will result in improved sonar processing technology and allow for its commercialization into the AN/SQQ-89(V) modernization efforts. Work will be performed in Centreville, Va., and is expected to be completed by March 2006. This contract combines support of the U.S. Navy (83 percent) and the Government of Japan (17 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively awarded. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-05-C-6305).