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GAO Affirms DD(X)

Contract to Gold Team

Northrop Grumman Corporation, leader of the DD(X) Gold Team, and

Raytheon company, received positive news last month when the General

Accounting Office (GAO), decided that an appropriate evaluation process was used when the U.S. Navy selected the

Gold Team to complete the system design for the Navy's 21st century sur- face combatant, DD(X).

Northrop Grumman's Ship Systems sector will lead the DD(X) system design, engineering prototype develop- ment and testing under a $265 million contract awarded to the Gold Team by the Navy on April 29. The Gold Team includes Raytheon and more than 30 of the nation's top engineering and mar- itime industrial companies. The initial design contract has a total value of approximately $2.9 billion over four years.

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Key technologies of DD(X) include developing and testing engineering development models for advanced con- cepts for the gun system, radar suite, integrated power system, vertical launch system and signature management/reduction.

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Raytheon's Naval & Maritime Integrat- ed Systems (N&MIS) business will be responsible for DD(X) systems engi- neering, software development and development of combat system equip- ment. As part of this effort, Raytheon

N&MIS will build and test a dual fre- quency radar suite, an integrated solid- state communication system, a new launcher, an Integrated Undersea War- fare Suite and a multimission total ship computing environment.

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Drydock Contract

Electric Boat, a wholly-owned sub- sidiary of General Dynamics, has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract worth up to $61.1 million to maintain and operate the Shippingport drydock at the Naval

Submarine Base New London.

The contract covers an initial period of one year, with options for four addition- al years. Management, operation and preventative maintenance of the Ship- pingport will be provided on a cost-plus- fixed-fee basis and is worth up to $34.6 million over the next five years, with $2.2 million of the total funded in the current fiscal year. The drydocking ser- vices associated with this contract will be paid on a firm-fixed-price basis and will be worth up to $26.4 million during the life of the contract.

The Shippingport (ARDM-4), which is used to lift submarines out of the water for repairs, had previously been operated by Navy personnel, but will now be run by a civilian crew of about 40 Electric Boat employees.

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