NAVY
(Defenselink -- 9
November, 2006) Lockheed Martin Corporation, Maritime System and Sensors,
Littoral Ships and Systems, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $60,726,869
firm-fixed-price modification under previously awarded contract
(N00024-98-C-5363) for procurement of four MK 41, MOD 15 Baseline VII, Vertical
Launcher Ship (VLS) Sets. The contract will provide launcher support equipment
and the associated labor for establishing material requisitions, program
scheduling requirements, and establishment of purchase orders with suppliers and
performance of necessary business and production operations, in support of MK41
VLS for the Governments of Australia (73.2 percent) and Spain (26.8 percent)
under the Foreign Military Sales
Program. Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (52.7 percent), Minneapolis,
Minn. (22 percent), Aberdeen, S.D. (8 percent), Aiken, S.C. (7 percent), Ft.
Totten, N.D. (5.2 percent), East Elmhurst, N.Y. (5.1 percent), and is expected
to be completed by December 2008. 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.