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Northrop Gets $2.31B Air Force
Contract for Minuteman III ICBM
Maintenance Support in Utah
Northrop Grumman has received a potential $2.31 billion contract to provide program management and sustaining engineering support services for the propulsion subsystem of the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III interconti- nental ballistic missile.
Work includes maintenance engineering, systems and equipment modification, software and hardware maintenance, procurement, repair and refurbishment, development and produc- tion engineering, materials and subcomponent analysis and aging surveillance test and evaluation, the Department of Defense said.
The contractor will also help identify anomalous behavior, aging mechanism and po- tential modifications to the ICBM system.
Work will occur in Corinne and Magna, Utah, through Nov. 5, 2040.
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at
Hill Air Force Base in Utah is the contract- ing activity and obligated $10.6 million in fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance funds at the time of award.
In September, Northrop secured a $13.3B con- tract for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program that will replace the Minuteman III ICBM system.
SEAKR Wins $60 Million DARPA
Contract
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced March 12 it awarded SEAKR Engineering a $60.4 million contract to de- velop a data processing system for satellites to operate autonomously.
SEAKR, based in Centennial, Colorado, was selected by DARPA in 2019 to develop the ar- tificial brain of the agency’s Blackjack sat- ellite network. The new contract is for work to be completed by March 2022.
DARPA began the Blackjack program in 2018 in an effort to demonstrate the use of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide ser- vices like communications, missile warning and navigation. SEAKR is developing the so-called Pit Boss artificial intelligence system that will enable the Blackjack constellation to operate autonomously.
DARPA plans to launch an on-orbit technology demonstration of Pit Boss in 2021.
General Atomics Captures $11M
Navy Contract
Work under the contract is expected to run through February 2024. The deal is a cost- plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. Services will include logistics support, sup- portability analysis, maintenance planning, reliability maintenance, support equipment recommendations, program development and post production support, provisioning data, packag- ing requirements identification, and technical manual development as it directly correlates to AAG depot planning for the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS John F. Kennedy. Nearly all of the work will be performed in San Diego.
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