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(Defenselink -- 9 August 2006) Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems, Inc., Reston, Va., is being awarded an $8,036,730 cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00178-04-C-2006) to exercise an option for continuing engineering support for the development, installation, integration, maintenance and testing of combat system simulation and stimulation equipment for the Aegis program. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (72 percent) and the governments of Japan (16 percent); South Korea (7 percent); Spain (3 percent); and Norway (2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (65 percent); Mount Laurel, N.J. (20 percent); New Church, Va. (7 percent); San Diego, Calif. (5 percent); Arlington, Va., (3 percent); and is expected to be completed by September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.