GA-Tupelo gets 5% EMALS pact

General Atomics' Electromagnetics Systems Group of San Diego is awarded a $10,364,470 modification (P00047) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-14-C-0037). This modification procures hardware and installation support services for the System Functional Demonstrator and Shipset Control Lab sites for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System. Work will be performed in San Diego (95%), and Tupelo, Miss. (5%). It is expected to be completed December 2021. FY 2018 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds in the amount of $10,364,470 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 02/18/20)