Contract: Northrop Grumman, $18.8M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded an $18,820,793 modification to previously awarded contract to provide engineering and production planning services for mission packages that will deploy from and integrate with the Littoral Combat Ship. Mission package capabilities are currently 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. Twenty percent of the work will be done in Panama City, Fla. Other work locations are Bethpage (45 percent); Washington, DC (20 percent); Ventura County, Calif. (10 percent); and Dahlgren, Va. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2013. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington DC, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/12/12)