MS gets 5% of DDG-51 services

Boeing Co. of Huntington Beach, Calif., is awarded a $13,353,939 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously-awarded contract (N00024-18-C-4103) for design agent and technical services for the AN/USQ-82(V) family of systems consisting of the Data Multiplex System, Fiber Optic Data Multiplex System, and Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System. Boeing, as the AN/USQ-82(V) design agent, will provide advanced and highly specialized technical engineering to assist with system sustainment; cybersecurity enhancement; configuration management; development, qualification and integration of systems; testing and technical support to manufacturing and repair vendors. The AN/USQ-82(V) systems are installed and deployed on Navy DDG 51-class destroyers, in Missile Defense Agency Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense systems, on ships of three countries under Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases, in various Navy and FMS land-based test sites, and are also being installed on new-construction LHA 8 and new FMS Japan and Korean DDGs. This contract involves Foreign Military Sales to Korea and Japan. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach (69%); Arlington, Va. (19%); Pascagoula, Miss. (5%); Bath, Maine (5%); Seattle (1%), and Philadelphia (1%), and is expected to be completed by May 2020 with FY 2019 Navy shipbuilding and conversion; FY-19 other Navy procurement; FY-19 Navy operations and maintenance; and FY-19 Navy research, development, test, and evaluation. Foreign Military Sales funding in the amount of $13,353,939 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 05/15/19)