U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 18 July 2005) United Defense Limited Partnership Armament Systems Division, Minneapolis, Minn., is being awarded a $17,038,380 fixed-price-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-5454) for procurement of fiscal 2005 MK 13 Canisters for fiscal 2005 U.S. Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Memorandum of Understanding with foreign governments (MOU) requirements and ancillary hardware, and fiscal 2005 Reconfigurable Coding Plug Assemblies; and fiscal 2005 MK 25 Canisters for fiscal 2005 U.S. Navy and NATO SeaSparrow Project Office requirements and ancillary hardware. MK13 canisters for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System store, transport in safety, and enable loading of the Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block II/III configurations into the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems aboard DDG-51 Class and CG-47 Class U. S. Navy ships. MK 25 canisters for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System store, transport in safety, and enable loading of the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile into the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems aboard DDG-51 Class U. S. Navy ships. The combined requirements are for the U.S. Navy (43 percent); the Government of Japan (14 percent) under FMS; the Governments of The Netherlands (19 percent) and Germany (16 percent) under the MOU; and NSPO (8 percent). Work will be performed in Aberdeen, S.D., and is expected to be completed by September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.