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Northrop Grumman Gets $14M US Navy MQ-8 Fire Scout Support Contract

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Northrop Grumman Gets $14M US Navy MQ-8 Fire Scout Support Contract
June 21, 2018) Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Salvatore Green, left, and Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Jake Price, both assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1, prepare the MC-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for launch aboard the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4). (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Jalen Robinson/Released)

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $14,305,018 modification (P00010) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N0001923C0002).

This modification exercises options and increases the ceiling to provide engineering support, cyber security activities and capabilities, integrated logistics support, material and training services support, software sustainment, and travel in support of sustainment efforts for the MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned Air Systems.

Work will be performed in San Diego, California, and is expected to be completed in December 2024. Fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,901,344 will be obligated at the time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Source: DoD

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