Northrop Wins $795M for Advanced Hawkeye

 

An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye makes its first carrier take-off aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during its carrier suitability trials earlier this year. (USN photo)

July 25, 2011 defense-aerospace.com

(Source: U.S Department of Defense; issued July 22, 2011)

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $760,783,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-10-C-0044) for the manufacture and delivery of five Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP), lot three, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) aircraft, including associated non-recurring support.

In addition, this modification provides for long lead materials and related support for five LRIP, lot four, E-2D AHE aircraft.

Work will be performed in Syracuse, N.Y. (25.36 percent); Bethpage, N.Y. (25.10 percent); St. Augustine, Fla. (19.3 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (5.34 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (4.84 percent); Menlo Park, Calif. (4.64 percent); Rolling Meadows, Ill. (2.50 percent); and various locations within the United States (12.92 percent).

Work is expected to be completed by May 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

-- Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $34,000,000 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N00019-08-C-0027).

This modification definitizes the previously awarded modification for the procurement of one additional E-2D Advanced Hawkeye low rate initial production, lot two, aircraft.

Work will be performed in Syracuse, N.Y. (25.36 percent); Bethpage, N.Y. (25.10 percent); St. Augustine, Fla. (19.3 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (5.34 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (4.84 percent); Menlo Park, Calif. (4.64 percent); Rolling Meadows, Ill. (2.50 percent); and various locations throughout the United States (12.92 percent).

Work is expected to be completed in July 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.