The U.S. Department of Defense awarded the following contracts to Maryland companies during the past week.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, is being awarded a $164,033,000 (maximum) cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for scientific and engineering research and development support in the areas of ballistic missile defense and related technology, intelligence, and battle management command, control, and communication. The work will be performed in Laurel, Maryland and is expected to be complete by December 2011. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year for this sole source effort. The Missile Defense Agency, Washington, DC is the contracting activity (HQ0006-07-D-0001).

NAVY

Signal Systems Corp.*, Severna Park, Md., is being awarded a not to exceed $25,000,000 Phase III, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program contract for Topic N03-014 entitled “Air Antisubmarine Warfare Environmental Characterization using Existing Tactical Sensors”, and Topic N04-007 entitled “Continuous Active Sonar.” The contractor will provide services and materials to deliver real time single channel signal processing of the Air Deployable Active Receiver. Services to be provided include exploratory study of application, further research and development, analysis for system integration, customizing prototype to specific platform needs, test and evaluation, production buys, support and training as necessary. Work will be performed in Severna Park, Md., and is expected to be completed in December 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured using SBIR Program Solicitation under Topic N03-014 with five offers received, and Topic N04-007 with nine offers received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J. is the contracting activity (N68335-07-D-0010).

Chesapeake Science Corporation, Millersville, Md., is being awarded a $15,306,136 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for the continued development of the TB-33/BQ Fiber Optic Thin-Line Sensor System which will satisfy a requirement to procure two production representative units, training, and test equipment for training curriculum requirements, test equipment, and 3D mock-up devices. The TB-33 array is currently being developed to provide the same capability as the existing Thin-line TB-29A array with significantly improved reliability. Work will be performed in Greensboro, N.C. (48 percent), Stonington, Conn. (27 percent), and Millersville, Md. (25 percent) and is expected to be completed by September 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-6207).

*- Denotes small busines.