The Navy, continuing to build up its electronic warfare arsenal, has awarded $49 million worth of contracts to three small businesses to install surface electronic warfare systems on multiple ship hulls while removing some existing systems.
The work under the contract will include ship and ordnance alterations, industrial services such as platform prefabrication/fabrication, system/equipment, shipboard installations, material support, and quality assurance inspection. The majority of the work, 87.8 percent, will be performed on Navy ships, although the contract also calls for work un the Foreign Military Sales program on ships for Saudi Arabia (4.8 percent), Taiwan (5.3 percent) and the Philippines (2.1 percent), according to a contract announcement from the Defense Department.
The companies on the small business set-aside contract are Prism Maritime, Stimulus Engineering Services and Superior Marine Solutions. Work will be performed pier side at U.S. maritime facilities in the United States and abroad, as well as at public or private facilities when U.S. facilities are not available. Work is expected to be completed by September 2020. Read more
Source: www.defensesystems.com