Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: October 4, 2016
U.S. Navy photo
General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business has received a potential one-year, $44 million contract to perform risk reduction efforts for the U.S. Navy™s MQ-25 unmanned carrier aerial system program.
The contractor will develop trade space and refine concepts in support of requirements generation prior to the program™s engineering and manufacturing development phase, the Defense Departmentsaid Monday.
General Atomics received the contract a week after the military branch awarded a $43.4 million contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a separate $43.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for risk reduction measures in support of the MQ-25 carrier drone program.
General Atomics will perform work under its sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in California and Iowa through October 2017.
The Naval Air Systems Command will obligate the full contract amount from the service branch™s fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award.
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