Indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract offers task orders to mature key structural technologies

Northrop
Grumman Corporation will help NASA’s Langley
Research Center, Hampton, Va., mature key airframe structures
technologies under a recently awarded indefinite delivery/
indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract.

Northrop Grumman won the contract for its Structures and
Materials and Aerodynamic, Aerothermodynamic, and Acoustics
Technology for Aerospace Vehicles (SMAcTAV) proposal. Under
the five-year contract, the company will compete for up
to $39 million in total task orders. Award levels are expected
to range from $200,000 to $1 million.

“This award recognizes Northrop Grumman’s leadership in
the development of innovative, mission-enabling airframe
structures technologies,” said Allen Lockyer, manager of
advanced structures development for the company’s Integrated
Systems sector. “These skills have contributed heavily to
the company’s development of platforms such as the B-2 stealth
bomber, the Global Hawk aerial reconnaissance system and
several advanced, high-altitude surveillance assets.”

An ID/IQ contract is a funding vehicle that allows U.S.
government customers to allocate a set amount of funding
to a general category of activities for a prescribed amount
of time. Over the life of the contract, task orders are
defined and awarded to individual contractors to conduct
particular activities. Under the ID/IQ approach, NASA can
issue a task order for which all contractors compete or
it can award funds on a sole-source basis to a company that
has proposed a unique technology development idea.

“ID/IQ task order contracts give the government a flexible,
cost-effective way to have aerospace contractors conduct
unique, short-duration research projects,” explained Tod
Palm, Northrop Grumman’s program manager for the ID/IQ contract.
“These projects provide opportunities for large contractors
and small businesses alike to gain knowledge and experience
that could help them win larger government contracts in
the future.”

According to Palm, Northrop Grumman expects task orders
under the SMAcTAV contract to relate to the following topics:
structural mechanics and durability; structural dynamics;
aeroelasticity and flight controls; metals and thermal structures;
analytical and computational methods; advanced materials;
materials processing; configuration aerodynamics; acoustics;
aerothermodynamics; and hypersonic air-breathing propulsion.

Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems is a premier aerospace
and defense systems integration organization. Headquartered
in El Segundo, Calif., it designs, develops, produces and
supports integrated systems and subsystems optimized for
use on networks. For its government and civil customers
worldwide, Integrated Systems delivers best-value solutions,
products and services that support military and homeland
defense missions in the areas of intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance; space access; battle management command
and control; and integrated strike warfare.

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Contact:
Brooks McKinney, APR
Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems
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