Hydroid Signs With SPAWAR

Hydroid has been awarded an USD8.4 million cost-plus-incentive fee contract from Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR, USA) to provide Littoral Battlespace Sensing (LBS) Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) and associated technologies.

The ultimate end user is the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), who acquires and analyses global ocean and littoral data and provides specialised and operationally significant products and services to all elements within the Department of Defence.

Hydroid will provide SPAWAR with REMUS 600 AUVs equipped with technologies for meteorological and oceanographic data collection, as well as technologies for processing and dissemination of these data. This technology will enable superior decision making based on information that is collected by a system of networked sensors and shared through a network of interoperable Naval and Joint networks information systems.

The contract, being managed by SPAWAR San Diego, CA is a Cost Plus Incentive Fee and Firm Fixed Price competitive contract, with incentives, options, and a ceiling of approximately USD77 Million (USD). The work will be performed at Hydroid's headquarters in Pocasset, MA, and the Engineering Development Model (EDM) phase is expected to be completed by March 2012. If all options are exercised, deliveries of LBS-AUVs will continue through 2017.