$10.4M Contract Modification Extends Engineering Services for Marine Corps MQ-9A UAS Program

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, is awarded a $10,376,474 modification (P00009) to a cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001924F0008) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001922G0006). This modification exercises an option to extend services to continue to provide engineering and logistics support services for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Expeditionary/Medium Altitude Long Endurance in support of capability development and sustainment of the United States Marine Corps MQ-9A UAS. Work will be performed in Poway, California (42%); Indo-Pacific Command Theater (20%); Yuma, Arizona (13%); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (10%), Patuxent River, Maryland (7%); Cherry Point, North Carolina (7%); and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (1%), and is expected to be completed in August 2025. Fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,719,365; and fiscal 2025 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,000,000, and will be obligated at the time of award, $3,000,000 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.