$17.7M Contract for P-8A Flight and Maintenance Training Awarded to Aviation Systems Engineering

Aviation Systems Engineering Co. Inc., Lexington Park, Maryland, is awarded a $17,740,956 firm-fixed price contract to train the German Navy in both maintenance functions and flight operations for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft to assist German P-8A squadrons in achieving European military airworthiness requirements for aircraft maintainer various rates; as well as teach maintenance practices for conventional weapon loading and fiber optic wiring, teach P-8A pilots and aircrew, support the German Navy in maintaining pilot and aircrew proficiency and completing Naval Air Training and Operating Procedure Standardization check rides as well as emergency procedure check rides for the German Navy. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, Florida (50%); Nordholz, Germany (40%); and Berlin, Germany (10%), and is expected to be complete by May 2030. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $7,804,612 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract action was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001925C0113).