Contract: Rolls-Royce, $5.7M

Rolls-Royce Marine International Inc., Walpole, Mass., is being awarded a $5,672,842 cost plus fixed fee contract for a Compact High-Power High-Density Waterjet. The objective of this contract is for research to implement the waterjet technology developed in Phase I to resolve the anticipated cavitation erosion issues. This includes the preparation of the detailed design and fabrication of two full-scale waterjet prototypes for demonstration. Seven percent of the work will be done in Pascagoula, Miss., 90 percent in Walpole and 3 percent in Sweden. Work is expected to be completed September 2011. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/19/09)