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Contract Award: Raytheon Missiles & Defense (Tucson, Arizona) – $578,314,177

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $578,314,177 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-21-C-5411) to procure Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) production requirements including all up rounds, instrumentation kits, engineering services and spares; and to definitize the long-lead-material undefinitized contract action in support of the Navy and the governments of Korea, Denmark, Taiwan, Netherlands, Spain, Chile, Japan and Germany. This contract includes an option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $586,834,591. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona (45%); Huntsville, Alabama (9%); Andover, Massachusetts (8%); Hengelo OV, Netherlands (7%); McKinney, Texas (4%); Anniston, Alabama (2%); Joplin, Missouri (2%); Camden, Arkansas (2%); San Diego, California (2%); San Jose, California (1%); Peabody, Massachusetts (1%); Anaheim, California (1%); Keene, New Hampshire (1%); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1%); Chandler, Arizona (1%); Mountain View, California (1%); Elma, New York (1%); Clearwater, Florida (1%); and other miscellaneous locations (10% total), and is expected to be complete by December 2026. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) (Korea) funds in the amount of $231,687,410 (40%); FMS (Denmark) funds in the amount of $97,952,805 (17%); FMS (Taiwan) funds in the amount of $57,583,218 (10%); Memorandum Of Understanding (Netherlands) funds in the amount of $52,977,595 (9%); FMS (Spain) funds in the amount of $50,199,713 (9%); fiscal 2021 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $36,789,237 (6%); FMS (Chile) funds in the amount of $33,078,183 (5%); FMS (Japan) funds in the amount of $10,808,242 (2%); FMS (Germany) funds in the amount of $4,968,817 (1%); and FMS (Australia) funds in the amount of $2,268,957 (1%) will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Awarded Dec. 17, 2021)



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