 Navy extends contract with Phoenix Air for electronic warfare training Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2018 - The Defense Department modified a contract aimed at training aircrews in electronic warfare. The modified contract between the U.S. Navy and Phoenix Air Group, is valued at more than $14.6 million and extends the current period of performance by two years, expiring in November 2020. The deal, announced Friday, provides services in support of Navy electronic warfare aircraft training jamming systems. They are designed for "stand-off jamming for opposing force threat simulation during various levels of exercises for shipboard and aircrew tactics, aircraft weapon system operators and for procedures to counter potential enemy electronic attack threats," according to a Pentagon press release. Work on the contract will occur in Florida, California and Virginia. No funds will be obligated to Phoenix Air Group at time of award, the Defense Department said.
Boeing tapped for warhead arming devices The contract, announced Monday by the U.S. Air Force, is valued at more than $7 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price delivery order and enable Boeing to re-manufacture 94 warhead arming devices on air launched cruise missiles. The AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile is a subsonic, air-launched cruise missile designed to increase the effectiveness of the B-52H Stratofortress, a long-range, strategic bomber. Work on the contract will occur in Newark, Ohio, and is expected to be complete in July 2021. The total cumulative value of the contract will be obligated to Boeing at time of award. The obligated funds will be allocated from fiscal 2018 procurement funds, the Pentagon said.
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The U.S. Navy has selected the Naval Strike Missile for its Over-the-Horizon program on littoral combat ships and future frigates.
The selection of the NSM, offered by Raytheon and Kongsberg Gruppen, comes after several other companies dropped out of bidding for the program in 2017.
The weapon is a long-range, precision missile for use against heavily defended land and sea targets. Raytheon says the missile, originally produced by its Norwegian partner, has demonstrated an unmatched ability to penetrate enemy defense systems.
The NSM will be the first Raytheon weapon to be used by the U.S. Navy, the Pentagon said when it revealed the $14.8 million contract last week. The contract includes options that would bring the total value of the contract to $847.6 million.
The NSM uses advanced seeker and target identification technology, and can defeat enemy defenses up to 100 nautical miles away.
"Raytheon and Kongsberg are providing the Navy with a proven, off-the-shelf solution that exceeds requirements for the over-the-horizon mission," Raytheon Missile Systems' president, Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, said in a statement.
The missile will be produced mainly in Norway by Kongsberg, while Raytheon will manufacture launchers, missiles, and components in the United States. The company has already started launcher production at its factory in Louisville, Ky., and will perform final assembly and tests at its facility in Tucson, Ariz.
The contract will generate business for more than two dozen U.S. suppliers, while the overall program is the product of a longtime partnership with Norway and its defense leader Kongsberg, the company said.
Through the 50-year partnership, Raytheon and Kongsberg "are able to provide the U.S. Navy with the best of two worlds by combining the capability of NSM with Raytheon's proficiency as the world's largest missile maker," said Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace AS president Eirik Lie.
Lockheed Martin and Boeing were also contenders, but withdrew from the competition last year as the Navy refined requirements for the weapon.
Lockheed to convert air-to-surface missiles for Air Force
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 -
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract worth more than $9.2 million by the Defense Department for software conversion on air-to-surface missiles.
The contract, from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and announced on Tuesday, enables Lockheed Martin to provide phase II of the software conversion program for the joint air-to-surface standoff missile, or JASSM, missile system, according to the Pentagon.
Specifically, the contract will provide for continued conversion of the operational flight program on the AGM-158 JASSM ER, or extended range, from the Ada computer language to C++.
Lockheed will provide a preliminary design review that includes support, source data and analysis for the system's operational flight program and integrated flight simulation software design.
The weapon is a long-range air-launched cruise missile that's equipped with a airframe that provides for stealthy maneuvering from enemy radar systems.
It uses an infrared seeker and GPS guidance to autonomously strike fixed targets at long ranges with a 1,000-pound penetrating blast warhead.
The standard model can be mounted on most Air Force and Navy fighters, including, bomber aircraft, while the JASSM-ER is currently deployed on the B1B Lancer heavy supersonic bomber. The ER version is being adapted for use with other aircraft.
Work on the contract will occur in Orlando, Fla., and is expected to be complete in August 2019.
More than $4 million will be obligated to Lockheed at the time of award from fiscal 2018 research and development funds, the Pentagon said.
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