Contract: Rolls-Royce, $89.1M

Rolls-Royce Defense Services Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded an $89,119,156 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for intermediate and depot level maintenance and related support for in-service T-45 F405-RR-401 Adour engines under the power-by-the-hour arrangement. In addition, this modification provides for inventory control, sustaining engineering and configuration management, as well as integrated logistics support and required engineering elements necessary to support the F405-RR-401 engine at the organization level. Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas (54 percent), NAS Meridian, Miss. (41 percent); NAS Pensacola, Fla. (4 percent), and NAS Patuxent River, Md. (1 percent) and is expected to be completed in September 2011. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/27/10)