The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a single award Indefinite Delivery Contract to HII Unmanned Systems, Inc., a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, to provide the MK 18 MOD 2 Underwater Unmanned Vehicle Family of Systems. This $98.7 million contract, awarded on April 11, 2019, has a period of performance extending through April 2024. Under this contract, HII Unmanned Systems has received a series of delivery orders to provide specialized unmanned underwater systems, auxiliary equipment, maintenance kits, and engineering support services to support the Navy's maritime security, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and mine countermeasure mission areas. The majority of the work has been performed at HII Unmanned Systems' facilities in Pocasset and Edgartown, Massachusetts.
The contract was awarded on a sole source basis to HII Unmanned Systems as the only qualified vendor capable of delivering the MK 18 UUV Family of Systems. HII Unmanned Systems, as the division of Huntington Ingalls Industries that specializes in unmanned systems, has extensive experience providing the Navy with the REMUS UUVs on which the MK 18 systems are based, and maintains proprietary rights to the REMUS design and data. The Naval Sea Systems Command, which oversees Navy shipbuilding programs, is leveraging HII Unmanned Systems' expertise to modernize its unmanned maritime capabilities in support of strategic undersea superiority goals.
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