HTS deguassing pact: $12M

American Superconductor Corp. of Ayer, Mass., is awarded a $12,855,394 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for high temperature superconducting (HTS) degaussing hardware as well as engineering and technical services. Services under this contract support the technology transfer and maturation of high temperature superconducting technology by implementing a total-ship demonstration and proof-of-concept of a full HTS degaussing system installed and integrated within a Navy ship. Work will be performed in Ayer, Mass. (76% percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (15%); Philadelphia (5%); Washington, D.C. (2%); and New Orleans (2%), and is expected to be completed by September 2021. FY 2018 Navy research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $1,704,349 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured, in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Naval Surface Warfare Center of Philadelphia is the contracting activity. (DoD 12/20/18)