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Exelis wins Navy engineering services and software support contract

Exelis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation, Clifton, New Jersey, was awarded a $12,321,567 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for engineering services and software support equipment products for the Advanced Self-Protection Jammer AN/ALQ-165, the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures AN/ALQ-214, Aircraft Self Protection Optimization and the Software Improvement Project.

Services will also include engineering support for the governments of Australia, Kuwait, Finland, and Switzerland under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will be performed in Clifton, New Jersey, and is expected to be completed in June 2021. 

Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,638,789 are being obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1.  This contract combines purchases for the Navy ($7,392,941; 60 percent); and governments of Australia ($2,464,313; 20 percent); Kuwait ($985,725; 8 percent); Finland ($739,294; 6 percent); and Switzerland ($739,294; 6 percent).  The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, is the contracting activity (N68936-16-D-0026).

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