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(Defenselink -- 15 September 2006) BAE Systems Land & Armaments, L.P., Armament Systems Division, Minneapolis, Minn., is being awarded a $15,628,033 fixed-price, award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-5454) for procurement of FY 06 MK 13 MOD 0 Canisters for FY06 Navy, Foreign Military Sales, and Memorandum of Understanding with Foreign Government requirements, including packaging, handling, storage, and transportation equipment, and FY 06 Reconfigurable Coding Plug Assemblies. MK 13 canisters for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System store, transport in safety, and enable loading of Tomahawk missiles into the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems aboard DDG-51 Class and CG-47 Class ships. Work will be performed in Aberdeen, S.D., and is expected to be completed by January 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification supports requirements for the Navy (16 percent) the Governments of Japan (30 percent) and South Korea (25 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program and the Governments of Germany (20 percent) and The Netherlands (9 percent) under the Memorandum of Understanding. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.