Shipboard combat systems training the focus of $18.4 million Aptima contract
NewsSeptember 04, 2018
WOBURN, Mass. Engineering firm Aptima Inc. has won an $18.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, five-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the The Naval Surface Warfare Center (Dahlgren, Virginia) for services relating to research and data collection on methods to measure student performance and design/development of an adaptive performance measurement framework for the Center for Surface Combat Systems.
This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (25 percent) and the governments of Japan (50 percent) and Australia (25 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Aptima documents show that each country will receive the same intellectual property and/or material at the end of the contract, which is expected to be complete by August 2023.
Work under the contract will be performed in Orlando, Florida; Arlington, Virginia; Woburn, Massachusetts; Salt Lake City, Utah; Billings, Montana; and Dayton, Ohio.