United States Department of Defense

STANDARD Missile Company, Falls Church, Virginia, is being awarded a $79,496,460 letter contract for production of 243 STANDARD Missile - 2, BLK III/IIIA all-up rounds for fiscal year 1995 and section level spares, miscellaneous spares, shipping containers, AN/DKT-53B telemeters, and provisioning technical documentation for the U.S. Navy (63%) and the government of Japan (37%) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona (62%), Bristol, Tennessee (25%), Chattanooga, Tennessee (7%), and Falls Church, Virginia (6%), and is expected to be completed by March 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-96-C-5304).