GA-ASI Gets $36M US Navy MQ-9 Service Contract

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded $36,467,263 for modification P00002 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-18-C-1063). This modification provides for nine months of Group 5 unmanned air system intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services.

These services are in support of outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS) Task Force Southwest and Marine Corps operations utilizing contractor-owned/contractor-operated MQ-9 unmanned air systems. Work will be performed in Yuma, Arizona (35 percent); Poway, California (15 percent); and OCONUS locations (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2020.

Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance Overseas Contingency Operations (Navy) funds in the amount of $36,467,263 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Source: DoD