Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $10,833,670 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the development and integration of a Multi Capability Pod (MCAP) onto the MQ-8C Fire Scout, including the purchase of two MCAPS and one MCAP Mass Model. The MCAP provides multiple electronic warfare sensors for employment in the littorals. Work will be performed in California, Virginia and Texas and is expected to be completed in June 2015. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 05/01/14) Final assembly work on Fire Scout is done in Moss Point, Miss.