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Investing.com -- BAE Systems has been awarded two defense contracts totaling approximately $82 million for work on Navy aircraft systems and Space Force fuel handling equipment.
The larger contract, valued at $62,460,902, was awarded to BAE Systems in Green Lawn, New York. This cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract covers the design, development, and fabrication of identification friend or foe operational test program sets for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
The contract also includes specialized test equipment, repair equipment, and supporting logistical data such as technical drawing packages and repair procedures. BAE will deliver five units under test to support the Navy. Work will be performed in Green Lawn, New York, with completion expected by September 2030.
The Navy contract was not competed and will be funded by fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement funds, which expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command in Lakehurst, New Jersey, is managing the contract.
In a separate award, BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., based in Rockville, Maryland, received a $19,500,000 cost-plus fixed-fee contract for an automated fuel handling equipment system refresh and installation at Pituffik Space Force Base in Greenland.
This three-year contract was competitively awarded with three responses received. The project has a completion date of September 30, 2028, and will be funded by fiscal 2025 defense working capital funds. The Defense Logistics Agency Contracting Services Office in Columbus, Ohio, is overseeing this contract, which will serve both Air Force and Space Force operations.
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