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Pentagon Contract Announcement

(Source: US Department of Defense; issued March 08, 2023)

BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP, Sterling Heights, Michigan, is awarded a $256,885,866 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract M67854-16-C-0006 for Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV). The total cumulative face value of the contract is $2,327,974,121.

This contract modification provides for the exercise of options for the procurement of 27 full rate production (FRP) ACV personnel variants, 17 FRP ACV command variants, and associated production, and fielding and support costs.

Work will be performed in York, Pennsylvania (60%); Aiken, South Carolina (15%); San Jose, California (15%); Sterling Heights, Michigan (5%); and Stafford, Virginia (5%), with an expected completion date of July 2025. Fiscal 2023 procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $256,885,866 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second order awarded to BAE for the production of ACVs. The previous one, worth $245.6 million, was awarded March 3 and funded the procurement of early production material.)

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