Submarine Radar Upgrade: Ultra Maritime Wins $36.6M Contract for AN/BPS System Support

Ultra Maritime, Braintree, Massachusetts, is awarded a $36,599,581 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and firm-fixed-price contract for engineering and technical support and production of the AN/BPS radar software management system on new construction and in-service submarines. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $38,793,318. Work will be performed in Braintree, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed by April 2030. Fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,200,000 will be obligated at time of contract award and the funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract not competitively procured in accordance with 15 U.S. Code 638(r)(4)(b) (issue, without further justification, Phase III awards relating to technology, including sole source awards, to the SBIR and STTR award recipients that developed the technology). The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.