The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $13,731,493 cost-plus-incentive-fee option to a previously awarded contract (N00178-15-C-2016) to continue to provide design agent and technical engineering services in support of the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex Systems (GEDMS) program. GEDMS is a shipboard network used for DDG 51 class destroyers. The GEDMS network transfers inputs and/or outputs for the machinery control systems, damage control system, steering control system, AEGIS combat system, navigation displays and interior communications alarms and indicators. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (91 percent); and the governments of Australia (3 percent); Korea (3 percent); and Japan (3 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The work will be performed in Huntington Beach, Calif. (72 percent); Arlington, Va. (11 percent); Bath, Maine (9 percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (3 percent); Georgetown, D.C. (3 percent); Richardson, Texas (1 percent); and Fairfax, Va. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2018. The Naval Surface Warfare Center-Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/22/17)
