Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Training, Baltimore, Maryland, was awarded a $65,376,167 firm-fixed-price contract for MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) proprietary Baseline VII electronics and associated equipment and spares. Proprietary Baseline VII electronics and associated equipment and spares are incorporated into the MK 41 VLS which provides a missile launching system for CG 47 and DDG 51 Class surface combatants of the U.S. Navy, surface combatants of allied navies, and Aegis Ashore requirements for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground Ballistic Missile Defense Program. It is the primary missile launching system aboard Navy combatants used to store, safe, inventory and launch missiles of various types. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $106,754,499. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($65,376,167; 61.2 percent) and the governments of Saudi Arabia ($30,951,905; 29 percent) and Norway ($10,426,427; 9.8 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will be performed in Clearwater, Florida (25 percent); Burlington, Massachusetts (23 percent); Simpsonville, South Carolina (18 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (11 percent); Sterling Heights, Michigan (7 percent); Timonium, Maryland (6 percent); San Jose, California (3 percent), Charlottesville, Virginia (3 percent); Gardena, California (2 percent); and Tualatin, Oregon (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2019. Fiscal 2013 and 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) and fiscal 2014 defense wide procurement funding in the amount of $65,376,167 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with FAR 15.4. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-15-C-5327).

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