Contract: Northrop, $255.3M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $255,256,728 for fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification P00009 to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-15-C-0002) for the procurement three low-rate initial production Lot 1 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft, one main operation control station and one forward operation control station, training courseware, and tooling. Work will be performed in San Diego (30 percent); Baltimore, Md. (12.6 percent); Palmdale, Calif. (10.6 percent); Salt Lake City, Utah (10 percent); Red Oak, Texas (8 percent); Moss Point, Miss. (3.9 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (3.8 percent); Bridgeport, W.V. (3 percent); Santa Clarita, Calif. (1.6 percent); Montreal, Quebec, Canada (0.6 percent); Vandalia, Ohio (0.6 percent); Medford, N.Y. (0.5 percent); and various locations within the U.S. (11.2 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2020. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/27/16)