Contract: Jacobs, $42.4M

Jacobs Technology Inc., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $42,383,852 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the development of a launch test set complex for prototype testing and qualification of a launcher subsystem for the U.S. Navy and the government of the United Kingdom. Work will be done in China Lake, Calif., and is expected to be completed in December 2019. Navy working capital funds in the amount of $200,000 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (90 percent) and the government of the United Kingdom (10 percent) under the foreign military sales program. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR.6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, is the contracting activity (N68936-15-C-0026). (Source: DoD, 12/29/14)