Contract: Raytheon, $45.5M

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, McKinney, Texas, was awarded an estimated $45,500,000 modification for an existing indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee line items, for low-rate initial production (LRIP) and full-Rate production of the Silent Knight Radar system in support of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This action is an order for LRIP II radars. This modification increases the contract ceiling to $200,000,000. The work will be performed in McKinney; and Forest, Miss., and is expected to be completed by June 2019. Headquarters, USSOCOM, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (H92222-16-D-0033). (Source: DoD, 02/22/17) Note: The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, part of USSOCOM, is headquartered at Hurlburt Field, in Okaloosa County, Fla.