Slidell work on UISS program

AAI Corp. of Hunt Valley, Md., is awarded a $10,839,582 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only, firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-6322) to exercise options for engineering and technical services for the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) unmanned surface vehicle platform. UISS will allow the Littoral Combat Ship(s) to perform its mine-countermeasures warfare mission. UISS will target acoustic, magnetic, and magnetic/acoustic combination mine types only. The UISS program will satisfy the 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, Maryland (70 percent); and Slidell, La. (30 percent), and is expected to be complete by September 2019. FY 2019 Navy research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $10,839,582 will be obligated at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 01/10/19)