WASHINGTON — Huntsville’s Raytheon facility will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting in a recent missile contract won by the company.
Tucson-based Raytheon was awarded a $333,281,489 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee contract for Standard Missile-6 full rate production requirements, spares, and round design agent, the Navy announced.
Nearly 75% of the work will be performed in Tucson with about 20% coming to Huntsville. The remainder will be in Andover, Mass.; and Dine, N.M., and is expected to be completed by October 2027. If all options are exercised, work will continue through September 2030.
The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $908,144,803.
The SM-6 comes in several variants, each tailored to specific operational requirements. The baseline model is the SM-6 Block I, designed primarily for extended-range air defense. It features the ability to intercept enemy aircraft, cruise missiles, and, in some cases, ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
The warhead of the SM-6 is a blast-fragmentation type, designed to maximize damage upon impact. It is optimized to destroy a wide range of aerial threats, from aircraft to missiles.
