Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $28,126,043 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for software sustainment, non-recurring engineering support and obsolescence efforts including future growth software development for the vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle Fire Scout MQ-8B.  Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif. (90 percent), and Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. (10 percent); and is expected to be completed in September 2013.  Contract funds in the amount of $28,126,043 will expire at the end of the fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1).  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-12-C-0126).