Lockheed wins $45 million contract for Australian destroyer work

Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors is being awarded a $44,910,868 contract for combat systems engineering to support the government of Australia under the Foreign Military Sales Program - Case AT-P-LCQ. The government of Australia selected the Navy/Lockheed Martin Aegis Combat System for its Australian Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Program. These requirements include the necessary combat systems engineering, computer program development, ship integration and test logistics technical services, NSCC/CSEDS equipment, and staging support to design and build an Aegis Weapon System (AWS) baseline to support the AWD Program. The AWD AWS baseline will be derived from a technology refreshed variant of the Navy AWS baseline 7 Phase I. This contract will support efforts through Aegis Combat System critical design review (CDR). Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., (97 percent) and Australia (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.