RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy awarded SAIC Corp. a contract worth about $60 million to continue providing mission engineering support by testing heavyweight and lightweight torpedoes for Naval Sea Systems Command, SAIC said in a release.
In support of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWC), SAIC will handle testing and data collection for Mk48 heavyweight torpedoes, and Mk54 and Mk46 lightweight torpedoes.
“For more than 13 years, SAIC has supported the testing of approximately 150 torpedoes as part of the engineering, technical, and management services we provide to the NUWC’s Propulsion Test Facility in Newport, Rhode Island,” said Jim Scanlon, executive vice president and general manager of the Defense Systems Group of SAIC. “We look forward to continuing to support NUWC with testing of torpedoes and torpedo components over the next five years.”
As part of the single-award contract, SAIC will prepare the test facility and test torpedoes, interface the test torpedo, execute the test, and collect and process test data. Additionally, SAIC will support preparing torpedoes for testing at off-site test ranges and locations. SAIC will also provide maintenance, upgrades, and operational support for test torpedo assembly and turnaround, system and subsystem testing, data reduction, test equipment operation, and data and configuration management.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base period of performance with four option years.
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