Northrop awarded $75 million contract for Counter Rocket Artillery in Iraq and Afghanistan

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Corp., Herndon, Va., was awarded on Nov. 5 a $75,689,357 contract. This contract is to provide for Counter -Rocket Artillery and Mortar protection of forward operating bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Work is to be performed in Bagram, Afghanistan (40 percent); Baghdad, Iraq (40 percent); and Huntsville, Ala. (20 percent), with an estimated completion date of May 5, 2011. One bid was solicited with one bid received. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Contracting Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.