Raytheon's Forest plant earns top billing on DoD contract

Raytheon’s Forest, Miss., plant will receive 66 percent of work on a Defense Department contract worth more than $15.8 million, along with Space and Airborne Systems’ Electronic Warfare Systems at Goleta, Calif., for a fixed price contract for 48 integrated multi-platform launch controllers (IMPLCs) for installation on F/A-18 aircraft. IMPLC is a component of the AN/ALE-50(V) countermeasures decoy dispensing set and the Integrated Defensive Electronics Countermeasure System. The majority of the work will be in Mississippi; but other aspects will be performed in California (25 percent), and Nashua, N.H. (9 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $7,881,260 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. Source: Defense Department.