The following contracts involving Maryland companies were approved by the Department of Defense during the last week.

NAVY

Jahn Corp.*, Lexington Park, is being awarded a $7,287,568 ceiling-priced modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-03-D-0045) to exercise an option for approximately 146,100 man-hours of advisory and assistance services to the V-22 Program, including management/administrative and resource/operations support; development/ production analysis and technical services; and independent analyses, technical studies and management services. Work will be performed in Patuxent River Md. (90 percent); Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (3 percent); Lakehurst, N.J. (3 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (2 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (1 percent); and Lomita, Calif. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems & Sensors (MS2) Littoral Ships and Systems, Baltimore, is being awarded $26,545,787 to exercise an option under previously awarded contract (N00104-01-D-ZD52) for the manufacture of spare and repair parts used in the MK-41 Vertical Launching System. The pending award will be an undefinitized contractual action for the MK-41 Vertical Launching System Performance Based Logistics (PBL) supply support contract. Work will be performed in Ventura Calif. (85 percent) and Baltimore, Md. (15 percent) and is expected to be completed by November 2010. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity.

ARMY

AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded on Nov. 21, 2006, a $40,722,746 increment as part of a $164,736,153 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Performance Based Logistics for the SHADOW Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole source contract initiated on Sept. 26, 2006. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-06-C-0256).

* Small business