Navy MMA study contracts awarded to four companies

Sea Power, Sep 2000 by Burgess, Richard R

IBM has been awarded a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) contract-potentially worth $168.5 million-to serve as the prime systems integrator for the command's Regional Maintenance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. The project-the largest military ERP project in the world-involves replacing more than 150 Navy systems and is expected to reduce NAVSEA costs by 36 percent over the next decade. By improving the delivery of maintenance services, the company expects to reduce, by about 50 percent, the time required to overhaul a ship when the ERP is fully implemented.

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems has announced that the company's SLY-2(V) Advanced Integrated Electronic-Warfare System (AIEWS) has passed Critical Design Review with the Navy. The AIEWS is replacing the SLO-32 as the electronic countermeasures system on Navy surface combatants.

L-3 Communications' Link Simulation and Training unit has delivered the first flight simulator for the F/A18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter to the Navy.

General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems has been awarded a $91 million contract to provide engineering and manufacturing development for the Area Air-Defense Commander Capability (AADC) program. The AADC will be used in the planning, coordination, and execution of an integrated air-defense system in support of joint-force commanders.

Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding has been awarded a $49 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract to develop a detailed design for the installation of gas-turbine propulsion and an all-electric auxiliary plant for the eighth Waspclass amphibious assault ship (LHD). The first seven LHDs are steam-powered.

Raytheon has been awarded a $46.5 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract to develop and test the LandAttack Standard Missile through the engineering and management development phase.

KAPL Inc., a Lockheed Martin company, has been awarded a $678.5 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract for naval nuclear propulsion work at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. 0