Griffin Contract Addition

The Air Force has added $45 million to the order it intends to place with Raytheon in May for an estimated 5,000 Griffin missiles, pushing the ceiling value of the anticipated five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to $495 million for “missiles, equipment and system support.”

The change was noted in a Jan. 15 amendment to an existing announcement posted a week earlier on the Federal Business Opportunities website. If finalized, the $495 million order would be the Air Force's largest Griffin purchase.

In a separate Jan. 20 notice, the Air Force announced it intention to award Raytheon another $7 million, sole-source contract for engineering system support for the Griffin missile.

Griffin is integrated with the service's remotely piloted aircraft and C-130 Stinger II gunship. There are plans to install the missile on the new C-130J Ghostrider gunship.

The deal comes as the Marine Corps considers installing the Griffin on the MV-22 Osprey to give the tilt-rotor aircraft a forward-firing capability. The Air Force operates 50 CV-22s.