AMRAAM Technical Support

The Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $21.9 million base contract for AMRAAM technical support, just weeks after the company received a $492 million contract for foreign and domestic missile production.

The contract has five one-year option periods, according to the Jan. 14 award notice posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website.

The company is the sole provider of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, including the latest D-model that improves the weapon system's accuracy, network compatibility and adds a two-way data link -- according to service documents.

The primary export variant is the older C7-model, which has also received improvements.

The service had anticipated awarding the technical support contract last October, according to an earlier presolicitation notice.

The contract provides "materials, facilities, test equipment, engineering and management services to support AMRAAM production and AMRAAM requirements in various areas of systems engineering, software, overall flight test support, and logistics support," the notice states.

The announcement comes after the Air Force concluded negotiations for production Lots 28-30 for fiscal years 2014-2016. Those negotiations wrapped up Nov. 24, 2014, Inside the Air Force reported last month.