Lockheed Martin Wins $161M Contract for A-RCI from US DoD

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $161,267,324 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-6266) for Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) engineering services. This contract is being incrementally funded. The contract provides funding for the design and development of A-RCI and common acoustics processing for Technology Insertion 08 through Technology Insertion 10 for the United States submarine fleet and for foreign military sales. A-RCI is a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing. Work will be performed in Clearwater, Fla. (60 percent), and Manassas, Va. (40 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $3,253,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity.