The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded RTX’s Raytheon a $141 million contract modification to provide Standard Missile-2 production spares. The firm-fixed-price award supports purchases for the governments of Japan, Australia, Netherlands, Spain and Germany under the Foreign Military Sales program.
According to a Department of Defense notice, work under the contract action will be performed in East Camden, Arkansas, and Tucson, Arizona, with completion slated for June 2030. Funding will be provided by each participating country through the FMS program. The modification builds on the original contract awarded in January 2021 for long-lead materials and engineering services for SM-2 production. The initial $8.5 million cost-type undefinitized contract also includes FMS sales to South Korea, Denmark and Taiwan.
The SM-2 is a surface-to-air defense missile designed to intercept anti-ship missiles and aircraft at ranges of up to 90 nautical miles and altitudes of 65,000 feet. RTX said the SM-2 is the primary weapon of the U.S. Navy and is expected to remain a crucial defense weapon on the service’s Aegis destroyers and cruisers for decades to come. More than 12,000 SM-2 units have been delivered to U.S. and international customers, with the U.S. Navy recently using it to intercept anti-ship missiles and drones launched by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
The contract for SM-2 spares comes after another recent FMS transaction involving Raytheon. In February, the company secured a $52.2 million order from the Naval Air Systems Command to provide 18 forward-looking infrared high-definition turret spares for MH-60 Seahawk helicopters operated by India, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Spain.