Contract: Northrop, $16.6M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $16,615,880 modification to previously awarded contract to provide integration services for mission packages that will deploy from and integrate with the Littoral Combat Ship. The Navy plans to use spiral development to improve mission capability in identified mission areas. Mission package capabilities are focused on primary mission areas of mine warfare emphasizing mine countermeasures, littoral anti-submarine warfare, and littoral surface warfare operations including prosecution of small boats. About 12 percent of the work will be done in Panama City, Fla., and the largest portion, 47 percent, in Bethpage, N.Y. Work is expected to be completed by September 2009. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 02/09/09) Gulf Coast note: Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., is involved in building LCS ships for the Navy