Saab awarded nearly $9 million Navy order for radar spare parts

DeWITT — Saab Inc., which has local facilities in the town of DeWitt, has recently been awarded a more than $8.9 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy, under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement for multi-mode radar spares. Work will be performed in Gothenburg, Sweden (66 percent) and DeWitt (34 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 2026, according to a July 1 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense. Fiscal 2022 other procurement (Navy) funds totaling $3.8 million (43 percent); fiscal 2023 other procurement (Navy) funds of nearly $3.1 million (34 percent); fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds totaling almost $1.5 million (16 percent); and fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding of nearly $600,000 (7 percent) will be obligated at time of award, of which $5.3 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic ordering agreement was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) (only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the needs of the agency), per the contract announcement. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. is the contracting authority.