Friday, June 27, 2014

Contract: Northrop, $8.4M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Sector, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $8,465,734 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-12-C-0126) for the extension of engineering and software sustainment services in support of the Vertical Take-off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fire Scout MQ-8B. Work will be performed in San Diego and is expected to be completed in November 2014. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 06/27/14). Gulf Coast note: Final assembly of Fire Scouts is done in Moss Point, Miss.