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BAE to Provide Navy with Practice and High Explosive Cartridges

The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Minneapolis, Minn., a $24, 068, 204 firm-fixed-price contract for 57MM HE-3P cartridges and 57MM target practice cartridges.

The contract is for the fabrication, testing, inspection and delivery of 57MM, MK 295 MOD 0, high explosive prefragmented programmable, proximity-fuzed cartridges and 57MM, MK 296 MOD 0, target practice cartridges to function in the MK 110 MOD 0 gun mount.

The contract was not competitively procured and contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Work will be performed in Bjorkborn, Sweden, and is expected to be completed by November 2013. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, Md., is the contracting activity

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