Contract: AAI, $11M

AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., is being awarded a $10,966,798 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-6322) to exercise options for engineering services for the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) program. The UISS is one of the systems, which will allow the Littoral Combat Ship to perform its mine warfare sweep mission. UISS will target acoustic, magnetic, and magnetic/acoustic combination mine types only. The UISS Program will satisfy the U.S. Navy's need for a rapid, wide-area coverage mine clearance capability, required to neutralize magnetic/acoustic influence mines. UISS seeks to provide a high area coverage rate in a small, lightweight package with minimal impact on the host platform. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley (72 percent); Slidell, La. (24 percent); Hauppauge, N.Y. (2 percent); Columbia, Md. (1 percent), and Lemont Furnace, Pa. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2016. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 06/29/15) One of the two Littoral Combat Ship types are built in Mobile, Ala.