Contract: Leidos, $35.5M

Leidos Inc. of Reston, Va., is being awarded a $35,493,358 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull No. 2. This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the contract value to $43,559,069. Work will be performed in Gulfport, Miss. (44.70%); Long Beach, Miss. (24.27%); Arlington, Va. (16.40%); Pasadena, Calif. (6.53%); Bowie, Md. (2.33%; Newport, R.I. (1.56%); Melbourne, Fla. (1.38%); Kalama, Wash. (1.25%); and various places below one percent (1.58%). The base and option periods will run concurrently, therefore, work is expected to be completed Dec. 13, 2020. FY 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $36,493,358 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of FY-18. This contract was competitively procured under N00014-17-S-B001 long range broad agency announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology. Since proposals will be received throughout the year under the long-range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research of Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/15/17)