Raytheon Company, Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $105,462,144 cost-plus-scheduled event-based incentive fee contract for system design and development of the Block 2 upgrade to the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM), guided missile weapon system, in support of the Program Executive Office-Integrated Weapon Systems.
The RAM MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System is co-developed and co-produced under a NATO cooperative program between the United States and Germany.
RAM is a missile system designed to provide anti-ship missile defense for multiple ship platforms. The Block 2 upgrade will enable the RAM missile to more effectively counter the emerging threat of more maneuverable anti-ship missiles.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by December 2010.Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured.
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-5454).
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