US Navy Orders 53 Lot 10 ALR-67 Radar Warning Receivers

Released on Thursday, December 06, 2007

Raytheon Co., Electronics Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded a $51,860,207 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0123) to exercise an option for the full-rate-production of 53 Lot 10 AN/ALR-67(V)3 Radar Warning Receivers for the U.S. Navy (24); Canadian Air Force (25); and the Finnish Air Force (4), including spare weapon replaceable assemblies for the U.S. Navy. The AN/ALR-67(V)3 RWR is a radar warning receiver that provides visual and aural alerts to F/A-18E/F aircrew upon detection of ground-based, ship-based, or airborne radar emitters. It is designed to enhance pilot situational awareness by providing accurate identification, lethality, and azimuth displays of hostile and friendly emitters. Work will be performed in Forest, Miss. (46 percent); Goleta, Calif. (14 percent); Lansdale, Pa. (10 percent); Brisbane, Australia (9 percent); Chatsworth, Calif. (7 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (7 percent); McKinney, Texas (4 percent); and Portland, Ore. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed in Mar 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($25,700,620; 49.55 percent), and the Governments of Canada ($22,742,495; 43.85 percent), and Finland ($3,417,092; 6.6 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.