Saab wins nearly $16M Navy contract, with a quarter of the work to be done in DeWitt

DeWITT, N.Y. — Saab Inc. was recently awarded an almost $15.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of underwater unmanned vehicles and associated storage containers, training naval mines, spare parts, training documentation, training, and transportation.  This pact involves foreign military sales to the government of Kuwait. Work will be performed in […]

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DeWITT, N.Y. — Saab Inc. was recently awarded an almost $15.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of underwater unmanned vehicles and associated storage containers, training naval mines, spare parts, training documentation, training, and transportation. 

This pact involves foreign military sales to the government of Kuwait. Work will be performed in Cranston, Rhode Island (75 percent) and DeWitt (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2025, according to a Dec. 4 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Foreign military sales funds totaling $15,877,254 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured, per the announcement. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity.

Jornal Staff

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