Dominique Stump
The U.S. Navy has awarded Progeny Systems a $66.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract to provide MK 54 Mod 1 lightweight torpedo sonar assembly kits and associated test equipment, spare units and engineering and hardware services.
The Navy will use Progeny’s sonar assembly kits to build, test and evaluate MK 54 Mod 1 LWTs, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
The torpedoes will work to support Navy surface and air-based anti-submarine warfare forces against submarine threats in littoral environments, DoD added.
The MK 54 Mod 1 torpedo features commercial-off-the-shelf digital signal-processing technology, an advanced guidance and control system based on COTS processing technologies as well as tactical software updates for operations in shallow waters.
The Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $58.8 million from the Navy’s fiscal 2014 and 2016 weapons procurement and fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds.
Progeny will perform work for the contract in Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia through August 2020, DoD said.
The company provides defense systems integration, advanced information systems, research and development, full-scale manufacturing services and technologies to DoD and other government and private sector clients.
