Raytheon Wins $22.5 Million Modification Contract for RAM Upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile

Raytheon has won $22.5 million modification contract to exercise options for design agent and engineering support services for the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement program.

The MK-31 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Weapon System is a cooperative development and production program conducted jointly by the US and the Federal Republic of Germany under memoranda of understanding, the US department of defense said in a statement Tuesday.

The support contract is required to maintain current weapon system capability as well as resolve issues through design, systems, software maintenance, reliability, maintainability, quality assurance and logistics engineering services.

Work is expected to be completed by September 2019. Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy); German foreign military sales (FMS); Egyptian FMS; and Qatar FMS funding in the amount of $4,637,552 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.