Ultra Electronics Wins $83.8M Contract for AN/SPS-73 Radar, Potential Value of $420M
Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems Inc., Braintree, Massachusetts, is awarded a $83,779,202 firm-fixed-price contract for production of AN/SPS-73(V) Next Generation Surface Search Radar systems. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $420,508,738. Work will be performed in Braintree, Massachusetts (73%); Wake Forest, North Carolina (17%); and Chantilly, Virginia (10%), and is expected to be completed by August 2027. If all options are exercised, work will continue through September 2031. Fiscal 2024 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $57,778,760 (69%); fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $14,444,690 (17%); fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,666,814 (10%); and fiscal 2025 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,888,938 (4%), will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(5) (a statute expressly authorizes or requires that the procurement be made through a specified source). Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-25-C-4127).
