US Navy Awards Production Lot V for Airborne Low Frequency Sonar Systems

Released on Monday, February 12, 2007

Raytheon Company, Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded a $50,806,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the manufacture, qualification and delivery of 19 Full Rate Production Lot V MH-60R AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) systems and related program support. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I. (60 percent) and Brest, France (40 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-07-C-0013).