Navy Contract – December 17, 2015
BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support/Electronic Solutions, Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $20,939,424 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the procurement of 284 full-rate production Lot VI of the integrated defensive electronic countermeasures AN/ALE-55 fiber optic towed decoys in support of the F/A-18E/F aircraft. In addition, this award provides for support logistics and engineering efforts for the AN/ALE-55, including field support and repairs, failure analysis, investigations, and corrective actions recommendations. Work will be performed at Nashua, New Hampshire (30 percent); Chelmsford Essex, United Kingdom (22 percent); Rochester, New York (10 percent); Fremont, California (6 percent); San Diego, California (4 percent); Landenburg, Pennsylvania (2 percent); Toledo, Ohio (1 percent); Hopkinton, Massachusetts (1 percent); and various other locations in the continental U.S. (25 percent). Work is expected to be completed by November 2017. Fiscal 2016 procurement ammunition (Navy and Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $20,939,424 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-16-C-0020).