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NATO Sea Sparrow program. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-87-C- 5127).

Raytheon Company, Equipment Division,

Wayland, Mass., is being awarded a $17,221,717 firm-fixed-price contract for

Sea Sparrow VLS for the Royal Netherlands

Navy and updated technical manuals for the

U.S. Navy. Work will be performed in Way- land (49.2 percent), Denmark (5.9 percent),

Belgium (7.5 percent), the Netherlands (28.4 percent) and Canada (9 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 1989. This contract covers purchases for the Netherlands and the U.S. Navy under the NATO Sea Sparrow program. The Naval

Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-C- 5127).

Lockheed Missiles and Space Company,

Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being issued a $5,037,275 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for en- gineering services for the British Naval Bal- listic Missile Program. Work will be per- formed in Sunnyvale, and is expected to be completed March 1987. Work under this contract is being funded by the U.K. The

Strategic Systems Program Office, Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00030-86-C-0121).

Lockheed Missiles and Space Company,

Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being issued a $8,278,947 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for en- gineering services for the British Naval Bal- listic Missile Program. Work will be per- formed in Sunnyvale, and is expected to be completed March 1987. Work under this contract is being funded by the U.K. The

Strategic Systems Program Office, Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00030-86-C-0121).

October 9

General Dynamics, Pomona Division, Po- mona, Calif., is being awarded a $162,607,646 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for 71

Phalanx Close In Weapon Systems (CIWS) for the U.S. Navy and ships of foreign na- vies. Work will be performed in Pomona, and is expected to be completed in December 1987. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (70.6 percent), Australia (1.5 percent), Japan (11.7 percent), Great Brit- ain (14.7 percent) and Pakistan (1.5 per- cent) under the Foreign Military Sales pro- gram. The Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-C-7002).

Jacksonville Shipyard Incorporated,

Jacksonville, Fla., is being awarded a $3,777,613 firm-fixed-price contract for the

Selected Restricted Availability (SRA) of

USS Paul (FF-1080). Work will be performed in Jacksonville, and is expected to be com- pleted January 6, 1987. Two bids were soli- cited and two offers were received. The

Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-H-8171).

RCA Corporation, Camden, N.J., is being awarded a $23,750,000 letter contract for three Trident integrated radio rooms (two shipboard and one trainer), trainer upgrade, cables, services and support, data, and an option for an additional radio room with cables. Work will be performed in Camden, and is expected to be completed December 31, 1993. The Space and Naval Warfare Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00039-87-C-0071).

Vitro Corporation, Silver Spring, Md., is receiving a $5,538,033 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for an additional 268,800 man hours of effort as technical support services for the Breakout program under the Naval Sea

Systems Command Logistics Support Engi- neering Activity and the Space and Naval

Warfare Systems Command Detachment,

Mechanicsburg, Pa. The new total value of the contract is $10,387,178. Vitro set aside 52 percent of the total effort for subcon- tracting (39.5 percent to VSE Corporation,

Alexandria, Va. and 12.5 percent to Re- source Consultants, Incorporated, Vienna,

Va.). Work will be performed in Camp Hill,

Pa. (48 percent), Mechanicsburg, Pa. (30 percent), Alexandria (10 percent), and Vien- na, Va. (12 percent), and is expected to be completed September 30, 1987. Eighty-five bids were solicited and five offers were received. The Navy Ships Parts Control

Center, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the con- tracting activity (N00104-85-C-3822).

October 10

Continental Maritime of San Diego, In- corporated, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $3,169,310 modification to a (continued)

The USNS Invincible, recently launched at Tacoma Boatbuilding, Tacoma, Wash., is the tenth in a series of 26 T-AGOS class vessels.

Tacoma Boatbuilding Launches

Tenth T-AGOS For Navy

The tenth in a projected fleet of 26 Navy oceanographic surveillance ships (T-AGOS) was recently chris- tened "Invincible" at Tacoma Boat- building Company in Tacoma,

Wash.

The USNS Invincible (T-AGOS- 10) will be operated by the Military

Sealift Command for the Space and

Warfare Systems Command. The

T-AGOS class ocean surveillance ships are named to convey positive traits of capability or accomplish- ment. The 224-foot-long Invincible will be homeported at Little Creek,

Va.

Richard E. Metrey, Technical

Director, David Taylor Naval Ship

Research and Development Center, was the principal speaker, and his wife served as the ship's sponsor.

The primary mission of the USNS

Invincible and her nine sister ships is to provide platforms and trans- portation for the Surveillance

Towed Array Sensor (SURTASS), a passive undersea surveillance sys- tem. The T-AGOS ships will collect, process and transmit acoustic data.

The 26-ship fleet will operate worldwide, with half being home- ported in Little Creek, Va., and the remainder in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ta- coma Boatbuilding has built all 10

T-AGOS completed to date.

After operating with a Civil Ser- vice mariner crew employed by the

MSC for approximately one year, the Invincible will be manned by a civilian crew under contract by the

MSC.

For free literature containing full details on the shipbuilding and re- pairing services and facilities of- fered by Tacoma Boatbuilding,

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