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Contract Award: Rockwell Collins Simulation and Solutions (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – $14,697,546

Rockwell Collins Simulation and Solutions, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was awarded a $14,697,546 firm-fixed-price modification (P00023) to a previously awarded contract (N6134021C0017). This modification adds scope to produce and deliver four Special Programs Advanced Readiness Trainer Afloat/Ashore (SPARTA) devices as well as computer hardware and software updates to maintenance devices for the Virtual Reality Concurrency Gap effort including associated technical data, computer software, and computer software documentation in support of the trainer architecture modernization efforts for the E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training System. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Virginia (80%); and Orlando, Florida (10%), and is expected to be completed in December 2026. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $12,297,546; and fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,400,000 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity. (Awarded June 28, 2024)



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