Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin awarded contracts for ICBMs.

Northrop Grumman Systems will be awarded a $22,990,520 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Operational Software Sustainment program.
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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during a developmental test at 12:33 a.m. Pacific Time Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Picture source: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Clayton Wear)

This contract provides a capability to correct existing software deficiencies, implements changes in Minuteman operational software domains and maintains the ICBM operational software update capability. Work will be performed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Huntington Beach, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Space Park, California, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2022. This award is a sole-source task order.

The total cumulative face value of the contract is $22,990,520 for a base and one option year. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance funds will be used with no funds being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill AFB, Utah, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a maximum $15,172,684 firm-fixed-price definitive contract for the Voice Control Panel Matrix on the Minuteman III weapon system. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S.Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is a 31-month contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Colorado, with an April 23, 2023, performance completion date. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.