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Navy Awards BAE Systems $55.5M Missile Launch System Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems, Land & Armaments a firm-fixed-price contract potentially worth $55, 501, 612 for MK 41 Vertical Launching System mechanical modules and related equipment and services. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The MK 41 VLS provides a missile launching system for CG 47 and DDG 51 class surface combatants surface combatants, and Aegis Ashore requirements for the Missile Defense Agency‘s Ground Ballistic Missile Defense Program.  It is the primary missile launching system aboard Navy combatants used to store, safe, inventory and launch missiles of various types.

Work is expected to be completed by September 2015. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity

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