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Contract Award: Raytheon Co. (Tucson, Arizona) – $26,213,906

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $26,213,906 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-21-C-5434) to exercise options for engineering and technical support for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile and NATO SeaSparrow Missile Systems programs. This contract action combines the purchases for the Navy (99%); and the governments of Japan, and Chile (1%), under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona (73%); Portsmouth, Rhode Island (26%); and various other locations (each less than 1%), and is expected to be completed by December 2025. Fiscal 2024 other customer funds in the amount of $14,101,762 (54%); fiscal 2023 other customer funds in the amount of $4,400,620 (17%); fiscal 2024 weapons procurement navy in the amount of $4,113,360 (16%); fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance (Navy) in the amount of $1,109,485 (4%); fiscal 2024 other procurement Navy in the amount of $1,068,128 (4%); fiscal year 2022 other customer funds in the amount of $823,725 (3%); fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation in the amount of $482,250 (2%); Foreign Military Sales (Japan) funds in the amount of $72,000 (less than 1%); and fiscal 2020 other customer funds in the amount of $42,576 (less than 1%), will be obligated at the time of award, of which $1,109,485 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Awarded June 17, 2024)



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