GA Tupelo gets 35% mod work

General Atomics' Electromagnetics Systems Group of San Diego is awarded a $10,140,766 modification (P00045) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-14-C-0037). This modification is to produce installation work instructions and manufacture production hardware kits resulting from changes identified in the changes for post-production implementation CVN-79 aircraft carrier list. Additionally, this modification provides installation of production kits and performance of local checkout onboard the aircraft carrier and production "cut-ins" for hardware upgrades for items currently being produced for CVN-80 aircraft carrier. Work will be performed in San Diego (53%); Tupelo, Miss. (35%) and Norfolk, Va. (12%), and is expected to be completed in January 2024. FY 2018 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds in the amount of $10,140,766 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command of Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 12/30/19)