Monday, March 22, 2010

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 22, 2010

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 22, 2010 Source: U.S. DoD issued March 22, 2010
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - March 22, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued March 22, 2010 are undermentioned;
CONTRACTS
NAVY ~Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a $28,144,958 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00039-08-C-0115) for eight Submarine High Data Rate Antenna Systems. Work will be performed in Marlborough, Mass. (69 percent) and St. Petersburg, Fla. (31 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured because Raytheon developed the submarine antenna under contract N00039-04-D-0033, which was competitively awarded Oct. 23, 1996. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity. ~Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $24,147,757 modification under previously awarded contract (N00030-07-C-0100) for the Trident II (D5) life extension commonality parts procurement. This effort is to provide procurement and testing of commonality parts necessary for the Trident II (D5) life extension program. The total contract value after award of this effort will be $1,159,319,749. Work will be performed in Bloomington, Minn. (93.24 percent); Sunnyvale, Calif. (4.15 percent); Fairview, N.C. (2.46 percent); Marionville, Mo. (0.10 percent); and Clearwater, Fla. (0.05 percent), and work is expected to be completed May 31, 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $11,000,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Strategic Systems Program, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity. ~Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $21,900,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for engineering and logistic services in response to obsolescence and operational and/or technical issues for the P-3 aircraft. Services are in support of the Navy and Foreign Military Sales customers, which include all members of the P-3 airframe sustainment international working group, including the governments of Australia, Canada, Germany and Norway. Work will be performed in Marietta, Ga., and is expected to be completed in March 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-10-D-0015). ~Accord MACTEC JV*, Santa Ana, Calif., is being awarded a maximum amount $20,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for architect-engineering services to provide comprehensive environmental response, Compensation and Liability Act/Resource Conservation and Recovery Act/underground storage tanks environmental studies and other support services in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). Work will be performed at Navy and Marine Corps installations and other Department of Defense installations within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including, but not limited to, Calif. (90 percent), Ariz. (2 percent), Nev. (2 percent), N.M. (2 percent), Colo. (2 percent), and Utah (2 percent). The contract is expected to be completed by Mar. 2015. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as an 8(a) small business set-aside via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 12 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-10-D-0814). ~General Dynamics – Ordnance and Tactical Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded $19,961,049 for delivery order under previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (M67854-05-D-6014) for the Production Lot 3 (PL3) procurement of 20 full rate production Expeditionary Fire Support Systems (EFSS) together with their corresponding basic issue item kits, additional authorization list hardware. The EFSS provides all-weather, ground-based, close supporting, accurate, immediately responsive, and lethal indirect fires. The EFSS is defined as a launcher, mobility platform (prime mover), ammunition (not included in this order), ammunition supply vehicle, and technical fire direction equipment necessary for orienting the weapon on to an azimuth of fire and accurately computing firing data. Work will be performed in St. Aubin, France (63 percent), Robbins, N.C. (20 percent), and Forest, Va. (17 percent), and work is expected to be completed by April 22, 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity. ~Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems & Sensors, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $14,078,054 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2303) for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class design services. These LCS class design services provide necessary engineering, program, and technical support for LCS class ships. This includes class baseline design services, class configuration management services, class documentation services, ship interim support, ship systems development, and other technical and engineering analyses. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va. (41 percent), Moorestown, N.J. (16 percent), Baltimore, Md. (15 percent), Marinette, Wis. (14 percent), Washington, D.C. (8 percent), Arlington, Va. (6 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. ~Ecology and Environment, Inc., Lancaster, N.Y., is being awarded a maximum amount $10,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design and/or engineering services for base development planning and engineering services for Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ), Range Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (RAICUZ) and other encroachment-related studies at various Navy and Marine Corps facilities and other government facilities worldwide. The preponderance of documents to be prepared under this contract are AICUZ documents including the following: detailed analysis of aircraft noise, accident potential, land use compatibility, operations alternatives, and potential solutions to both existing and potential incompatible land use problems. RAICUZ documents include the following: quantify range compatibility zones, aircraft noise zones and blast noise zones, develop strategies for lands affected by potential weapon impacts or noise impacts, and develop a strategy to promote compatible development on land within these areas. Work will predominantly be performed in Md. (25 percent), Va. (20 percent), N.C (20 percent), Fla. (20 percent) and Calif., (10 percent). Work may also be performed within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic area of responsibility and the adjacent waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including the Continental United States, the Caribbean, Europe and North Africa (5 percent). However, tasks associated with this contract may be assigned anywhere in the world. The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of Mar. 2015. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website with nine proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (contract number N62470-10-D-2024). ~Contingency Response Services, LLC, Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $9,615,384 cost-plus-award-fee task order #JN09 on March 12, 2010, under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity global contingency services contract (N62742-06-D-1113) for debris removal in Haiti. The work to be performed provides for removing concrete and organic rubble and debris and other selected material from right of way within the Turgeau area of Haiti or surrounding areas. Work will be performed in Turgeau, Haiti, and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity. DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ~Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a maximum $14,073,970 firm fixed price, sole source contract for inertial navigation units and common cockpit spare parts. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Navy. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is March 31, 2013. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Procurement Operations, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPRPA1-09-G-002Y-0001). AIR FORCE ~Burnett Equipment, Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., was awarded a $12,497,882 contract which will provide Louden Crane System items to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. At this time, no money has been obligated. OC-ALC/PKEA at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma is the contracting activity. (FA8100-10-D-0003)

DTN News: Russia Denies Bid For U.S. Air Tanker Contract

DTN News: Russia Denies Bid For U.S. Air Tanker Contract Source: DTN News / Reuters (NSI News Source Info) MOSCOW, Russia - March 22, 2010: Russia denied on Monday that its state-run United Aviation Corporation (UAC) planned to bid for a $50 billion contract to replace the U.S. Air Force's fleet of air tankers, rivaling Boeing Co and Europe's EADS. John Kirkland, a Los Angeles-based attorney, had told various news media over the weekend that UAC would announce a joint venture on Monday with a U.S. defense contractor to enter the bidding for the tanker deal. UAC denied it had held any talks on bidding for the contract. "We have not been holding, are not holding and are not planning to hold such talks," said a UAC official. Separately, UAC vice-president Alexander Tulyakov said the attorney did not work for the company. "John Kirkland is not a UAC representative and we have had no communications with him (about the tender)," he told Reuters. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had not discussed any Russian role in the contract when they met on Friday, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "It was not a topic at the talks," he told Reuters. The U.S. Air Force has been trying for nearly a decade to replace its fleet of Boeing-built KC-135 tanker aircraft, which are close to 50 years old. EADS (Paris:EAD.PA - News), the parent company of Airbus, won a deal in 2008 to build an initial 179 tankers, only to have it canceled after auditors intervened. The Pentagon said last week that EADS had expressed possible interested in continuing to compete with Boeing (BA - News) for the contract. Kirkland quoted Alexander Shishkin, who he said worked for the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, as saying the U.S.-Russian joint venture being formed to bid would be announced at UAC headquarters on Monday morning. However Shishkin, when contacted by Reuters on Monday, said he could not say anything. He would not even confirm he worked for the Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation. "I cannot say anything until the bosses decide something," he said. UAC's Tulyakov also said Russia was making arms sales abroad only via state arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport. "We have held no discussions with them (about the tender)," he added. FANTASY An official at the agency said that there was nobody called Alexander Shishkin listed as working there. Kirkland had said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed a UAC bid for the tanker contract at a meeting with Clinton. Russia's Foreign Ministry declined comment on Monday. Neither Russian nor U.S. officials mentioned at the time any discussions about a tanker bid. Clinton held a bilateral meeting with Lavrov on Thursday and met President Dmitry Medvedev and Putin on Friday separately. Kirkland said that a Russian bid would be based on a widebody version of UAC's Ilyushin-96 aircraft, which he said would be called the Ilyushin-98. "There are some internal discussions within the UAC, but very preliminary ones, about the production of an air tanker based on the Il-96. But to talk about Russian air tankers refueling U.S. military planes -- it is from the realms of fantasy," said a UAC source, who asked not to be named. Fewer than 30 Ilyushin-96 aircraft have been produced and the plane is considered technically inferior to Western competitors. Russian news media reported last year that production of the passenger variant had been canceled, although a cargo version is still in limited production. Russian media have made no mention of a new version of the Il-96 called the Il-98. (Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and Guy Faulconbridge, additional reporting by Conor Sweeney, writing by Michael Stott and Dmitry Zhdannikov; editing by David Stamp)

DTN News: UK To Award Tanks Contract To General Dynamics - Report

DTN News: UK To Award Tanks Contract To General Dynamics - Report Source: DTN News / Reuters (NSI News Source Info) LONDON, UK - March 22, 2010: The UK government will award a key army contract to U.S. firm General Dynamics' (GD.N) UK arm on Monday, leaving rival British bidder BAE Systems (BAES.L) out in the cold, according to the Sunday Times. The first phase of the 4 billion pounds ($6.08 billion) contract to build armored reconnaissance vehicles will be announced on Monday, the newspaper said. BAE had put forward a jobs creation package in an attempt last week to secure the deal. The Ministry of Defense said only that "an announcement would be made in due course." General Dynamics UK could not immediately be reached for comment. (Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Hans Peters)

DTN News: Royal Navy's Two Of The Best - Dauntless And Astute On Sea Trials

DTN News: Royal Navy's Two Of The Best - Dauntless And Astute On Sea Trials Source: DTN News / BAE Systems (NSI News Source Info) GLASGOW, U.K. - March 22, 2010: Two of the most advanced naval vessels in the world met for the first time this week, as Dauntless, the second of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, and Astute, the first of class Astute nuclear powered attack submarine, combined on sea trials in the firth of Clyde. Astute is the most advanced attack submarine ever supplied to the Royal Navy, incorporating the latest stealth technology combined with a world class sonar system, an improved capability for world-wide operations, much greater firepower, better communications and crew accommodation than in-service submarines. Astute is designed to fulfil a range of key strategic and tactical roles including anti-ship and anti-submarine operations, surveillance and intelligence gathering and support for land forces. Displacing 7,400 tonnes and measuring 97 metres from bow to propulsor, Astute is significantly larger than the Swiftsure and Trafalgar class submarines that she will replace but requires fewer crew to operate her due to the advanced technology and automated systems on board.The Type 45 anti-air warfare destroyers are the most advanced ships of their kind in the world today. With a primary role to defend a task force from any aerial attack, they are extremely flexible and can provide a wide range of capability ranging from humanitarian relief through to intense war fighting.Dauntless was handed over to the Ministry of Defence by BAE Systems in December 2009 and will be commissioned into the Royal Navy fleet later this year. Astute arrived at her operational base of Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde from BAE Systems’ Barrow yard in November 2009 and is currently undergoing sea trials ahead of her acceptance into service. About BAE Systems BAE Systems is a global defence, security and aerospace company with approximately 107,000 employees worldwide. The Company delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. In 2009 BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$ 36.2 billion).