Contract: Northrop Grumman, $17.1M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $17,132,243 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. The Navy's plan is to use continuous evaluation of system maturity through a disciplined system engineering framework to improve mission capability in identified mission areas. LCS mission packages will be optimized for flexibility in the littorals. 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. The LCS mission packages are developed and acquired separately from the LCS Sea Frame. Twelve percent of the work will be done in Panama City, Fla. Other work sites are in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, California and Virginia, and is expected to be completed by March 2011. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/02/10)