Posted by John McHale
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., 29 Jan. 2011. The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) selected a team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) to compete for task orders to provide shipboard, submarine, and shore-based command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) global installation support.
AMSEC's portion of the C4I technology contract will be performed in Charleston, S.C.; Norfolk/Tidewater Area, Va.; Mayport, Fla.; San Diego; and in other continental U.S. and worldwide areas. The work is expected to be completed by January 2016.
Northrop Grumman subsidiary AMSEC LLC won an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ), multiple-award contract with a ceiling of $794 million. In addition, the contract includes an option that, if exercised, would increase the ceiling value to approximately $1.3 billion.