Contract: Boeing, $13.4M

The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded $13,381,495 to exercise a cost-plus-incentive-fee option to a previously awarded contract (N00178-15-C-2016) to continue to provide design agent and technical engineering services in support of the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex Systems (GEDMS) program. GEDMS is a shipboard network used for DDG 51 class destroyers. The GEDMS network transfers inputs and/or outputs for the machinery control systems, damage control system, steering control system, AEGIS combat system, navigation displays, and interior communications alarms and indicators. It was designed to replace the mile of point-to-point cabling, signal converters, junction boxes, and switchboards associated with conventional ship’s cabling. GEDMS is being forward-fitted on DDG 51 new construction, back-fitted to Flight I/II DDG 51-78 and Flight IIA DDGs 79-107, LHD Capstone ships and AEGIS Ashore installations. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (91 percent); and the governments of Australia (3 percent); Korea (3 percent); and Japan (3 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales program. The work will be performed in Huntington Beach (72 percent); Arlington, Va. (11 percent); Bath, Maine (9 percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (3 percent); Georgetown, D.C. (3 percent); Richardson, Texas (1 percent); and Fairfax, Va. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2017. The Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/22/16)