Security Cooperation News -- 13 November 2006

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(Defenselink -- 13 November, 2006) Raytheon Company, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $31,857,134 firm-fixed-price modification under previously awarded contract (N00024 05 C 5341) to exercise an option to procure Full Service Support (FSS) requirements in support of the STANDARD Missile-1 (SM-1) Program of U.S. Allied Nations. This SM-1 FSS FY07 option exercise consists of MK56 Dual Thrust Rocket Motor (DTRM) Regrain Production and SM-1 Block VIA missile assembly, testing and delivery. This effort combines requirements for the Governments of France (24 percent); Japan (16 percent); Turkey (16 percent); Bahrain (15 percent); Poland (12 percent); Italy (11 percent); and Chile (06 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Camden, Arkansas (85 percent) and Tucson, Ariz. (15 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 2009. 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.

 (Defenselink -- 13 November, 2006) ARGONST, Inc., Smithfield, Pa., is being awarded a $17,650,437 firm-fixed-price contract for production, test and delivery of one AN/SLQ-25A torpedo countermeasure transmitting set and upgrade kits. The AN/SLQ-25A is a digitally controlled, modular design, electro-acoustic soft-kill countermeasure decoy system designed to provide ships with a countermeasure capability to defend ships against wake homing torpedoes, acoustic homing torpedoes, and wire guided torpedoes. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (91 percent) and the Government of Australia (9 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Smithfield, PA., and is expected to be completed by Dec 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-6201).