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UNITED STATES : US DoD awards $161M contract for A-RCI to Lockheed Martin
Publish Date : 14-Dec-2011
US DoD awards Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., a $161,267,324 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract for Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) engineering services.
The contract delivers financing for the design and development of A-RCI and common acoustics processing for Technology Insertion 08 through Technology Insertion 10 for the United States submarine fleet and for foreign military sales.
A-RCI is a sonar system that combines and enhances towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing. The defence equipment maker will carry out the work in Clearwater, Fla. (60 percent), and Manassas, Va. (40 percent).
The company is expected to complete the work by December 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $3,253,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contracting activity is the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C.
