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Boeing Given $466M Missile Repair Contract

The pact tasks Boeing with repairing the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile guidance set.

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A number of contracts were awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on Wednesday, highlighted by a $466.5 million deal to Boeing for missile guidance repair.

The pact tasks Boeing with repairing the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile guidance set.

The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Air Force deal was a sole source acquisition.

More than $22 million in fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance funds were assigned with the award.

Labor will be conducted in Newark, Ohio and should be finished by June 2, 2021.

Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control has been awarded a $226.9 million foreign military sales deal to acquire 474 unitary rockets and pods, 1,950 reduced range practice rockets and pods, and 450 alternate warhead rockets and pods.

Other services that the company must offer to complete the production include “integrated logistics support, download Demate support, and alternate warhead spares for material release,” according to the DoD.

Bids for the fixed-price-incentive, undefinitized Army contract action were solicited online, with Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control submitting the only offer.

Fiscal 2015 Army Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds and fiscal 2015 other funds are being assigned with the award.

Labor will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, 69 percent, and Camden, Ark., 31 percent. The work should be finished by June 2, 2017.

Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded a $12.2 million contract “for a research project under the Edge-Directed Cyber Technologies for Reliable Mission program.”

The cost-plus-fixed-fee Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract was awarded as a competitive acquisition under an open board agency announcement in which 21 proposals were submitted.

More than $2 million in fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds were assigned with the award.

Labor will be performed in Cambridge, Mass., 90 percetn and Columbus, Ohio., 10 percent.

Electric Boat will be awarded a $6.5 million contract modification, tasking the company with providing common weapons launcher upgrades to the baseline Block III Engineering Development Model configuration.

According to the DoD, the upgrades include “engineering model hardware of the Payload Tube Control/Weapon Control Electronics System for the Virginia-class Block V submarine program.”

The funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Labor for the cost-plus-fixed-fee Navy contract modification will be performed in Groton, Conn. and should be finished by September 2017.

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