28 January 2012

USA: Contract for Sonobuoys for US & Taiwan Navy

ERAPSCO, Inc., Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $38,416,565 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, performance based contract (N00421-11-C-0030) to exercise options for the production of 50,430 AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoys for the Navy (49,990) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (440).

Work will be performed in Columbia City, Ind. (53 percent), and DeLeon Springs, Fla. (47 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2014.  

This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($38,081,382; 99.1 percent) and for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office ($335,183; 0.9 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.