N0001420C1018

Feb 2020: Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is awarded a $23,287,384 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the naval surveillance application upgrade.  This contract provides for improving radio frequency (RF) sensors on naval surveillance applications.  The improvements will potentially provide increased SWPC (size, weight, power and cooling), modular open system architectures and resolution against small maritime/air targets, detection of moving targets in synthetic aperture radar imagery and the formulation and extraction of other detection and classification features.  Further, these improvements may demonstrate multi-source autonomous surveillance capabilities in support of the RF detection, tracking and identification thrust area.  Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Feb. 2024.  The total cumulative value of this contract is $23,287,384.  The base period is $23,287,384 and no options were proposed.  The action will be incrementally funded with an initial obligation of $2,931,730 utilizing fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured under N00014-19-S-B001, "Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology."  Since proposals are received throughout the year under the Long Range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation are unknown.  The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-20-C-1018).