Scott Nicholas
Raytheon has secured a potential $36.7 million contract option from the U.S. Navy for design agent and engineering services for the military branch’s ship self-defense weapon modernization initiative.
The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s missile systems business will support the Navy’s efforts to update the Rolling Airframe Missile MK-31 guided missile weapon system.
The company will provide design, systems, software maintenance, reliability, maintainability, quality assurance and logistics engineering services in an effort to help maintain the current weapon system“™s capacity, noted DoD.
Work will occur in Arizona and Kentucky through September 2017 and about $2.3 million of the contract funds will come from the German government.
The Rolling Airframe Missile is a joint effort of the U.S. and Germany to protect ships against air and surface threats.
