Work on the contract is set to run through June 2014.
updated: 6/12/2012 12:50:43 PM
The U.S Navy has awarded Columbia City-based Undersea Sensor Systems Inc. a $25 million contract. The deal calls on the Whitley County company to produce more than 4,600 sonobuoys.
June 12, 2012
News Release
ERAPSCO, Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $25,392,401 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 4,628 AN/SSQ-125 sonobuoys. Work will be performed in DeLeon Springs, Fla. (53 percent), and Columbia City, Ind. (47 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to the FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (N00421-12-C-0049)
Source: U.S. Department of Defense