Wednesday, September 01, 2010

DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated September 1, 2010

DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated September 1, 2010
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources including latest updates Defense News, Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News& Yahoo
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 1, 2010: Comprehensive daily news related to Aerospace/Defense for the world of TODAY.
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 1, 2010

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 1, 2010 Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 792-10 September 1, 2010 (NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - September 1, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued September 1, 2010 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Clark/McCarthy, JV, Costa Mesa, Calif., is being awarded a $393,883,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of the hospital replacement, plus an option for additional parking, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. This project will provide inpatient medical facilities, ancillary departments, emergency care, primary care, specialty care clinics, and support spaces. Facilities shall accommodate non-ambulatory patients with stays in excess of 24 hours. Services shall include surgery, patient overnight stays, dental care, intensive care, and general medical and emergency care. This hospital will need an appropriately-sized facility designed for efficient staff and patient operations to provide modern, safe, and effective medical care for its military population and beneficiaries. The contract also contains two planned modifications which, if issued, would increase the cumulative contract value to $451,248,000. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by February 2014. Funds for this project are provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with eight proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-10-C-0001).

DMS International, Inc.*, Silver Spring, Md., is being awarded a maximum $20,607,059 firm-fixed-price contract for the modular amphibious egress trainer and will provide underwater egress training and maintenance support for this effort. Work will be performed in Camp Pendleton, Calif. (40 percent); Camp Lejeune, N.C. (20 percent); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (20 percent); and Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan (20 percent). Work is expected to be completed Dec. 31, 2014. Contract funds expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured by open competition, small business only, with four offers received. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-10-C-8126).

Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $10,462,639 for firm-fixed-price task order #0008 under a previously awarded environmental multiple award contract (N62473-10-D-0807) for remedial action for Units C1, C4, C5 and Building 241 area at Hunters Point Shipyard. The task order also contains three unexercised options which, if exercised, would increase the cumulative task order value to $14,313,709. Work will be performed in San Francisco, Calif., and is expected to be completed by August 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc.*, Hauppauge, N.Y., is being awarded an $8,853,586 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the acquisition of various OE-538 688 class submarine mast fairing assemblies. Mast fairing assemblies house the inner mast, the hoist cylinder, and the inner mast erecting/retracting mechanism onboard submarines. Work will be performed in Hauppauge, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by September 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $306,992 will expire at end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship System Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-10-D-0019).

AIR FORCE

Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., was awarded a $161,278,400 contract modification which will provide Enhanced Paveway II, III and GPS adapter kits in addition to kit spares, adapter groups, readiness test sets, bomb tool kits, enhanced paveway tool sets, CAMBRE adapter kits and mission planning software. At this time, $161,278,400 has been obligated. OO-ALC/GHGKB, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8213-08-C-0028).

The Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, was awarded an estimated $18,008,976 contract for the development of curriculum, programs of instruction, and pilot training courses and assessment of their effectiveness in final product form in safety, survivability, and sustainment of operations in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear environment. At this time, $ 2,014,880 has been obligated. 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-00-D-3180; Delivery Order 0671).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $15,550,105 contract modification for the procurement of 20 spare integrated forebodies for the F-22A. At this time, $15,550,105 has been obligated. 478 AESG/PK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting agency (FA8611-06-C-2899; P00102).

Linde, LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., was awarded a $5,806,948 contract modification to provide laboratory analytical services, non-personal services, for the processing, separation and radio assay of atmospheric gas samples for elemental determination of sample components for the purpose of nuclear test ban treaty verification. This action is the exercise of the second contract option period. At this time, $5,806,948 has been obligated. AF/ISR Agency/A7KRB, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (FA7022-10-C-0006; Modification P00001).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Brad Hall & Associates*, Idaho Falls, Idaho, is being awarded a maximum $60,716,183 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel. Other locations of performance are Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities website with 33 responses. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-8506).

Mansfield Oil Co., Inc.*, Gainesville, Ga., is being awarded a maximum $52,042,816 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel. Other locations of performance are North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities website with 33 responses. The date of performance completion is Oct. 31, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-8521).

Idaho Technology, Inc.*, Salt Lake City, Utah, is being awarded a maximum $29,413,865 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for reagents/assay, sample purification, and spare parts kits. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. The date of performance completion is Aug. 29, 2015. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2D0-10-D-0003).

Seminole Energy Services*, Tulsa, Okla., is being awarded a maximum $22,199,762 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for natural gas supplies. Other locations of performance are Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. Using services are Army, Air Force, federal civilian agencies and university. The original proposal was Web-solicited with 29 responses. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-7503).

Troy Co., Inc.*, Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a maximum $14,059,407 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, total set-aside contract for fuel. Other locations of performance are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were originally 57 proposals solicited with 57 responses. The date of performance completion is Oct. 31, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-8516).

Merlin Petroleum Co., Inc.*, Westport, Conn., is being awarded a maximum $11,037,762 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel. Other locations of performance are Florida and North Carolina. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities website with 33 responses. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-8515).

U.S. Foodservice, Inc., Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nev., is being awarded a maximum $9,300,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity, sole-source, prime vendor contract for full line food distribution. Other location of performance is New Mexico. Using services are Army and Air Force. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. The date of performance completion is Sept. 3, 2011. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM300-10-D-3388).

Crown Clothing Co.*, Vineland, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $5,798,318 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, total set-aside contract for men’s coats. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Marine Corps. There were originally four proposals solicited with four responses. The date of performance completion is Dec. 30, 2011. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM1C1-10-D-1101).

TTV, LLC, dba Triune Associates*, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a minimum $5,647,327 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, total set-aside, sole-source contract for fuel. Other locations of performance are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana. Using services are Army and Air Force. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. The date of performance completion is Oct. 31, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-10-D-8504).

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency is announcing the award of a sole-source cost-plus-award-fee modification to Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Woburn, Mass., under the HQ0006-03-C-0047 contract. The total award value is $22,552,681. Under this modification, Raytheon will continue to provide support services for AN/TPY-2 radar flight and ground testing. The work will be performed in Woburn, Mass. The performance period is from September 2010 through June 2011. Fiscal 2010 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be used to incrementally fund this effort in the amount of $1,443,793. The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

Logos Technologies, Inc., is being awarded a $17,467,782 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-10-C-0187). This work is for the BioJet program to demonstrate an end-to-end lipid fermentation process at scale for the commercially viable production of hydrotreated renewable jet fuel. Work will be performed in Arlington, Va (7.1 percent); Ashburn, Va. (21.3 percent); Niskayuna, N.Y. (0.7 percent); Honolulu, Hawaii (2.6 percent); Bloomfield, N.J. (9.2 percent); Cambridge, Mass. (4 percent); San Diego, Calif. (41.3 percent); East Hartford, Conn. (0.9 percent); Houston, Texas (2.5 percent); Pittsburgh, Penn. (7.8 percent); Rochester, N.Y. (2.6 percent). The work is expected to be completed by June 30, 2012. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.

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DTN News: Pakistan TODAY September 1, 2010 - Blasts Kill 20 In Pakistan's Lahore, 170 Hurt

DTN News: Pakistan TODAY September 1, 2010 - Blasts Kill 20 In Pakistan's Lahore, 170 Hurt
Source: DTN News / Reuters By Mubasher Bukhari
(NSI News Source Info) LAHORE, Pakistan - September 1, 2010: Three bombs exploded at a Shi'ite procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding over 170, piling pressure on a government already overwhelmed by floods. Police said two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd, after a lull in violence during the floods, the type of attack that Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed in the past. Sajjad Bhutta, a senior Lahore official, told Reuters the death toll had climbed to 20, with at least 170 wounded. Rescue services said 25 were killed. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department said prosecutors had charged the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, for the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December. Mehsud, believed to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan, was accused of conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, the Justice Department said. The charges confirm Pakistan's Taliban insurgents have extended their reach overseas. Soon after the Lahore blasts, a mob set fire to a police station. People also beat policemen, witnesses said. Pro-Taliban Sunni militants frequently attack Shi'ites as part of a campaign to destabilise the U.S.-backed government. The renewed violence came as millions of Pakistanis continued to struggle for food and water more than a month after the worst floods in the country's history, deepening concerns over the stability of the country. The floods have ravaged Pakistan's economy, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said, with massive job losses and soaring inflation expected to hurt a nation whose stability is vital to the U.S. war against militants in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. "The floods have inflicted damage to the economy which may, by some estimates, reach $43 billion , while affecting 30 percent of all agricultural land," Gilani said briefing the cabinet. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, with cotton the main cash crop. The sector is a major source of employment. Facing the prospect of long-term economic pain, Pakistan hopes the International Monetary Fund will soften the terms of an $11 billion loan. Pakistani and IMF officials are meeting in Washington to work out the impact of the floods. "This economic loss will translate into massive job losses affecting incomes of thousands of families, which may have serious social implications," said Gilani, whose government was heavily criticised for its slow response to the catastrophe. Pakistan's military has taken charge of relief efforts, but Islamist charities, some linked to militant groups, have also stepped in, raising concerns they may exploit public anger. BLACKLIST The United States on Wednesday formally added Mehsud's Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, to its blacklist of foreign terrorist organisations subject to travel and economic sanctions. The TTP is the main Pakistani militant alliance which operates from Pakistan's northwest. It is suspected of being behind most bomb and suicide attacks across Pakistan. Before the floods struck a vast swath of the country, the army said it had scored major gains against the Taliban. In renewed air strikes in the northwest, Pakistani forces killed up to 62 militants, their family members and other civilians with no ties to the fighters, officials said on Wednesday. Washington has repeatedly urged Pakistan to go after militant sanctuaries in the northwest saying these have helped boost the Afghan insurgency, now at its deadliest. Pakistan says it is doing all it can to fight the militants. Testing ties further, Pakistan's army said on Wednesday it scrapped talks with U.S. military officials after a military delegation sent to Washington had to go through "unwarranted" airport security checks. British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said it could take Pakistan years to recover from the floods with threats from water-borne disease and opportunistic militants. "The danger always is that you get groups who have an ulterior motive who provide aid to try to curry favour," he said after visiting an aid camp.
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DTN News: Iraq TODAY September 1, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden Launches New US Mission In Iraq

DTN News: Iraq TODAY September 1, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden Launches New US Mission In Iraq Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources including AFP & Reuters
(NSI News Source Info) CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - September 1, 2010: Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, ushering in a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 troops. Addressing soldiers near Baghdad a day after the US combat role here officially ended, Biden sought to rally the near 50,000 American soldiers who will remain in the country until a total withdrawal at the end of 2011. The vice president acknowledged that the 2003 invasion had split US public opinion but he called for unity around the new training and advisory mission and said he believed the Iraq conflict's "darkest days are now behind us." "It is no secret that this war has divided Americans but they have never shrunk from the united support of the United States military," Biden told an audience of around 1,000 troops and invited guests. "Now is the time to put these differences behind us," he said at Al Faw Palace, the former hunting lodge of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein which falls within Camp Victory and is now the US military's Iraq headquarters. Biden said the new training mission -- Operation New Dawn -- would continue US engagement with Iraq, but he also acknowledged Iraqi lives lost. "Tens of thousands of security forces and innocent civilians have been killed," he said, noting the impact of a brutal insurgency that swept the country in the years that followed Saddam's ouster. "The Iraqi people have rejected their ugly face of violence," Biden added, referring to the insurgents. A total of 49,700 US troops are currently in Iraq for the new training and counter-terrorism mission, which follows President Barack Obama's pledge to end combat operations and bring American troops home. Thousands of US soldiers have left Iraq in recent months and Obama used a speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday to note the end of combat operations. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who was also in Iraq to mark the launch of Operation New Dawn, told troops based in the country their work remained vital despite an increased focus on the war in Afghanistan. "You should know your work here going forward is critical to the future of this part of the world, and to the national security of our country," he said. Gates also acknowledged the domestic controversy in the United States over the war. "The problem with this war for many Americans is that the premise on which we justified going to war proved not to be valid," he told reporters ahead of Wednesday's ceremony, which saw the appointment of a new US commander in Iraq. "Even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States, it will always be clouded by how it began," Gates added. Then US president George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 arguing that the country was rife with weapons of mass destruction. Despite exhaustive efforts, none were ever found. Biden, who has held repeated meetings with Iraqi political leaders in a bid to speed up protracted coalition talks since an inconclusive March general election, said he believed a deal was now finally close. "I am absolutely convinced that they are nearing the ability of forming a government, that will be a government representing the outcome of the election, which was very much divided," he told US network CBS. Outgoing General Ray Odierno, who was replaced by newly promoted General Lloyd Austin as commander of US forces in Iraq at the ceremony, received standing ovations from troops, before and after he addressed them. "Even today there are those who doubt that the Iraqi security forces are ready to take full responsibility for security," Odierno said. "I say before you today they are ready to do that task." Prior to the ceremony, however, the deputy commander of the new US mission, Lieutenant General Michael Barbero, said he expected a new Iraqi government to make a formal request for extra help as the end of next year looms. "I know the Iraqi government are looking at some of the gaps they are going to have in their capabilities in December 2011 and they are concerned about it," Barbero told reporters. "I would predict that they are going to ask for some assistance. We've got a lot of work to do right up to December 2011," he said. Soon after reaching Iraq on Wednesday, Gates said Washington was prepared to consider any Iraqi request to amend the pullout timetable. "We'd be willing to look at that but again it would have to come at the initiative of the Iraqis," the defence secretary told troops at Camp Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
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DTN News: North Korean Multiple Rocket Launcher (MRL) System Entered Service With Burmese Army

DTN News: North Korean Multiple Rocket Launcher (MRL) System Entered Service With Burmese Army
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 1, 2010: North Korean-made truck-mounted multiple launch rocket systems have been reportedly set up at Burmese army bases in northern, eastern and central Burma, according to military sources.
The North Korean rockets were recently delivered to missile operation commands in Mohnyin in Kachin State, Naungcho and Kengtung in Shan State and Kyaukpadaung in Mandalay Division, sources said. Missile operation commands were reportedly formed in 2009.
It is not clear when the multiple launch rocket systems were shipped from North Korea. However, military sources said delivery of rocket launchers mounted on trucks occurred several times in recent years. The North Korean troop with M1985 multiple launch rocket system.
Sources said they witnessed at least 14 units of 240-mm truck-mounted multiple launch rocket systems arrive at Thilawa Port near Rangoon on the North Korean vessel, Kang Nam I, in early 2008. Previous reports said Burma had purchased 30 units of 240-mm truck-mounted multiple launch rocket systems from North Korean.
According to GlobalSecurity.org, North Korea produces two different 240mm rocket launchers, the 12-round M-1985 and the 22-round M-1991. The M-1985 rocket pack is easily identified by two rows of six rocket tubes mounted on a cab behind an engine chassis. The M-1991 is mounted on a cab over an engine chassis. Both launch packs can be adapted to a suitable cross-country truck.
The Kang Nam I was believed enroute to Burma again in June 2009. However, it reversed course and returned home after a US Navy destroyer followed it amid growing concern that it was carrying illegal arms shipments.
However, more arms shipments from North Korea appear to have been delivered to Burma in 2009-2010. The latest report about a North Korean vessel's arrival was in April. The ship, the Chong Gen, docked at Thilawa Port.
Last week, the junta acknowledged that the Chong Gen was at the port, but it denied involvement in any arms trading with Pyongyang, saying Burma follows UN Security Council resolution 1874 which bans arms trading with North Korea. The junta said the North Korean vessel came to Burma with shipments of cement and exported rice.
According to reports by Burma military experts Maung Aung Myoe and Andrew Selth, purchasing multiple-launch rocket systems is a part of the junta’s military modernization plan. While the junta has acquired 107-mm type 63 and 122-mm type 90 multiple-launch rocket from China, North Korea has provided it with 240-mm truck-mounted launch rocket.
Some experts have said North Korea is also involved in a secret relationship with Burma for the sale of short and medium-range ballistic missiles and the development of underground facilities. Other experts and Burmese defectors claim that North Korea is also providing Burma with technology designed to create a nuclear program.
Burma severed its relationship with North Korea in 1983 following North Korean agents’ assassination of members of a South Korean delegation led by President Chun Doo Hwan. The two countries restored relations in early 1990s and officially re-establish diplomatic ties in April 2007.
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