Wednesday, August 17, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 17, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 17, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - August 17, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued August 17, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Medico Industries, Inc., Wilkes Barre, Pa. (W15QKN-11-D-0149); Modern Industries, Inc., Erie, Pa. (W15QKN-11-D-0200); and T&A Screw Products, Terryville, Conn. (W15QKN-11-D-0201), were awarded a $185,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award-task-order contract. The award will provide for the facilities, personnel, and equipment services for the manufacture of the shell bodies, projectile 60mm M710A1/M768; and projectile 81mm M821A1/M821A2/M8889A1/M889A2. Work location will be determined with each task order, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2020. Eight bids were solicited, with eight bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity.

Honeywell International, Inc., Clearwater, Fla., was awarded a $141,200,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of inertial navigation units for several end items, including the Bradley, Knight, and Howitzer. Work will be performed in Clearwater, Fla., with an estimated completion date of July 30, 2016. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-11-D-0160).

Federal Prison Industries, Washington, D.C., was awarded a $20,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of outer tactical vests for Pakistan. Work will be performed in Yazoo City, Miss., with an estimated completion date of Aug. 25, 2013. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-08-D-0045).

ALS 88-Amigo, J.V., Natalia, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0001); CPME, L.L.C, d.b.a. Teran Construction Co., El Paso, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0002); DLP Group, Inc., Corpus Christi, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0003); Escamilla / Basecom Construction, Fort Worth, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0004); Healthy Resources Enterprise, Inc., dba HREI, Houston, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0005); HJD Capital Electric, Inc., San Antonio, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0006); Jamco Group III, L.L.C., San Antonio, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0007); Leetex Construction, L.L.C., Dallas, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0008); Mirador Enterprises, Inc., El Paso, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0009); SMR Construction, Inc., Richardson, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0010); Streeter Construction Group, L.L.C., Desoto, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0011); Triune Beck, J.V., IV, Dallas, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0012); Unity Contractor Service, Inc., Austin, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0013); W.A. Robbins Construction Co., Inc., Houston, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0014); and W.B. Construction and Sons, Inc., Beaumont, Texas (W912L1-11-D-0015), were awarded a $20,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award-task-order contract between 15 contractors. The award will provide for the construction projects of various size and value for the National Guard in the state of Texas. Work will be performed at various military installations across Texas, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 21, 2011. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 22 bids received. The National Guard Bureau, Austin, Texas, is the contracting activity.

Forrester Construction Co., Rockville, Md., was awarded a $12,944,621 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the construction services to build Columbarium Court Nine at Arlington National Cemetery. Work will be performed in Arlington, Va., with an estimated completion date of Feb. 13, 2013. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 11 bids received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Md., is the contracting activity (W912DR-11-C-0031).

AMTEC Corp., Janesville, Wis., was awarded an $11,714,839 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of quantities of various 40mm grenades and cartridges. Work will be performed in Janesville, Wis., with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2014. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with two bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-10-C-0013).

Dutra Dredging Co., San Rafael, Calif., was awarded an $11,470,000 construction contract. The award will provide for the maintenance dredging services of the Oakland inner and outer Harbor Channel, including transport of disposal services at the ocean disposal site. Work will be performed in Alameda, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.; and Marin, Calif., with an estimated completion date of Feb. 7, 2013. Twenty bids were solicited, with two bids received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco, Calif., is the contracting activity (W912P7-11-C-0012).

Heil Trailer International, Athens, Tenn., was awarded an $8,100,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of the Tanker Ballistic Protection System for the M967A2 and M967A2 fuel tanker semitrailers. Work will be performed in Athens, Tenn., with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2013. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (DAAE07-02-D-S022).

BAE Systems Land and Armaments, L.P., York, Pa., was awarded a $7,031,054 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to refurbish 12 M109A+ self-propelled howitzers for the country of Chile. Work will be performed in York, Pa., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2012. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-10-G-0003).

AIR FORCE

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Greenville, Texas, is being awarded a $12,054,022 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide integration and test support for Blue Devil 2 airship. AESG/WIJK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-06-G-4003 1157).

MEI Technologies, Inc., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $7,307,401 cost-reimbursable and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide research and developing for war gaming efforts to include development of weapon simulators, environments, and coordination of large, multi-agency war games in support of advancing the state of the art in technology development and advancement of war gaming scenarios. In addition, all necessary materials to include any hardware, facilities, supplies, travel, labor, supplies, and services to perform war gaming. AFRL/RDKB, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA9451-11-C-0288)

NAVY

FLIR System, Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., is being awarded a $9,547,000 firm-fixed-price, basic ordering agreement for gyro-stabilized long-range thermal imaging sensor systems and pan-and-tilt long-range thermal imaging sensor systems, spare parts, upgrades and repairs in support of the Ground Based Operations Surveillance System. The gyro-stabilized long-range thermal imaging sensor system is a long-range, zoom, color charged-coupled device, daylight camera and thermal mid-wave infrared imager, multi-sensor target acquisition, laser range finder, digital magnetic compass and target geo-location device stabilized gimbal assembly. The pan-and-tilt long-range thermal imaging sensor system is a long-range, large format, zoom, color CCD daylight camera and thermal infrared imager, mapping software and laser range finder capable of establishing target geo-location mounted on a pan-tilt assembly. Work will be performed in Wilsonville, Ore., and is expected to be completed by March 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $4,030,954 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-11-G-JQ72).

Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc.*, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $7,744,698 fixed-price contract for a dry-docking restricted availability on USS Squall (PC 7). This contract is for the accomplishment of miscellaneous structural, electrical, and mechanical repairs, including dry-docking. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $7,744,698 will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with four proposals solicited and three offers received. Norfolk Ship Support Activity, Portsmouth, Va., is the contracting activity (N50054-11-C-1106).

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $6,986,478 option exercise modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5115) for management and engineering services to maintain and modify as necessary the design of DDG 51-class combat system compartments and topside arrangements, in support of the program executive officer Integrated Warfare Systems. The required services for DDG 51-class ships include program management and operation support, quality assurance, configuration management, ship design integration, fleet lifecycle engineering support, installation support, firmware maintenance, combat system test and evaluation, Navy-furnished material support, special studies, and future-ship integration studies. Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J. (37 percent); Bath, Maine (25 percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (22 percent); San Diego, Calif. (6 percent); Washington, D.C. (5 percent); Norfolk, Va. (3 percent); Port Hueneme, Calif. (1 percent); and Syracuse, N.Y. (1 percent). Work is expected to be completed by September 2012. Contract funds will notexpire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
U.S. DoD issued No. 720-11 August 17, 2011
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DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated August 17, 2011

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DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: China Already Has Advanced Stealth Technology Claims Pakistan

DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: China Already Has Advanced Stealth Technology Claims Pakistan
**DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Pakistan Let China See Crashed U.S. "Stealth" Copter - Dated August 16, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 17, 2011: China is not interested in acquiring the stealth technology currently being used by the United States for its flying machines as it has already developed the same in a much advanced shape and is using it in its most sophisticated multi-role planes, highly placed defence sources told The News here Monday.
The planes have successfully conducted their test flights early this year and China is now in the production phase of its stealth planes. A chopper fitted with stealth characteristics is not much different to what is used for the fixed-wings planes. The Chinese never requested Pakistan to provide any sort of access to the debris of the US stealth chopper that crashed in the Abbottabad operation on May 2 in which American special forces reportedly killed Osama bin Laden (OBL) and took his body to Afghanistan.
Highly placed defence sources say American satellites were monitoring the movement in and around Abbottabad during the days when the debris was lying outside the OBL compound. The area was under the constant watch of the world media and US moles were also actively at work during that period. In such a situation it was not possible for any Chinese expert to examine the tail of the chopper and, secondly, China never asked for such access. The stealth planes exterior is made of highly specialised materials such as Polygraphite. China has complete knowledge of the technology and is successfully using it already, the sources maintained.
They pointed out that the western media reports pertaining to so-called inspection by the Chinese experts is totally baseless and it appearance after more than three months depicts ill-intention. The purpose is to malign Pakistan and build pressure on it.
Providing background of the technology the sources said that it is used to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Development of stealth technology began in Germany during World War II.
Well-known modern examples of stealth aircraft include the United States’ F-117 Nighthawk (1981-2008), the B-2 Spirit, the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II. While no aircraft is totally invisible to radar, stealth aircraft prevents conventional radar from detecting or tracking the aircraft effectively, reducing the odds of a successful attack.
Stealth is the combination of passive low observable (LO) features and active emitters such as Low Probability of Intercept Radars, radios and laser designators. These are usually combined with active defences such as chaff, flares, and ECM. It is accomplished by using a complex design philosophy to reduce the ability of an opponent’s sensors to detect, track, or attack the stealth aircraft. This philosophy also takes into account the heat, sound, and other emissions of the aircraft as these can also be used to locate it. It has already been established that the United States does not have monopoly on the stealth technology, as some other countries are also equipped with it.
Full-size stealth combat aircraft demonstrators have been flown by the United States in 1977, Russia in 2010 and China in 2011, while the US Military has already adopted three stealth designs, and is preparing to adopt another.
Most recent fighter designs will at least claim to have some sort of stealth, low observable, reduced RCS or radar jamming capability, but as yet there has been no actual air-to-air combat experience against stealth aircraft.
During World War I, an attempt to reduce the visibility of military aircraft resulted in the German heavy bomber, the Linke-Hofmann R.I; this had a wooden structure covered with transparent material. The first true “stealth” aircraft may have been the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber, developed in Germany during the last years of World War II. In the closing weeks of the war the US military initiated “Operation Paperclip”, an effort by the US Army to capture as much advanced German weapons research as possible, and also to deny that research to advancing Soviet troops. A Horton glider and the Ho 229 number V3 were secured and sent to Northrop Aviation for evaluation in the United States, which much later used a flying wing design for the B-2 stealth bomber. The first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft was in December 1989 during Operation Just Cause in Panama. On 20 December 1989, two USAF F-117s bombed a Panamanian Defence Force barracks in Rio Hato, Panama. In 1991, F-117s were tasked with attacking the most heavily fortified targets in Iraq in the opening phase of Operation Desert Storm and were the only jets allowed to operate inside Baghdad’s city limits.
Stealth aircraft are typically more expensive to develop and manufacture. An example is the B-2 Spirit that is many times more expensive than the conventional bomber aircraft. The B-2 programme cost the U.S. Air Force almost $45 billion.
Stealth aircraft have been used in several conflicts: the United States invasion of Panama, the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 military intervention in Libya. To date, the United States of America is the only country to have used stealth aircraft in combat.
The first use of stealth aircraft was in the United States invasion of Panama, where F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft were used to drop bombs on enemy airfields and positions while evading enemy radars. The successful first deployment of stealth aircraft to a combat zone marked a milestone in military aviation. In 1990 the F-117 Nighthawk was used again in the Gulf War, where F-117s flew approximately 1,300 sorties and scored direct hits on 1,600 high-value targets in Iraq while accumulating over 6,905 flight hours. Only 2.5% of the American aircraft in Iraq were F-117s, yet they struck more than 40% of the strategic targets, dropping over 2,000 tons of precision-guided munitions and striking their targets with over an 80% success rate.
The sources pointed out that in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia two stealth aircraft were used by the United States, the veteran F-117 Nighthawk, and the newly introduced B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bomber. The F-117 performed its usual role of striking precision high-value targets and performed well, although one F-117 was shot down by a Serbian Isayev S-125 ‘Neva-M’ missile. The new B-2 Spirit was highly successful, destroying 33% of selected Serbian bombing targets in the first eight weeks of U.S. involvement in the War.
During this war, B-2s flew non-stop to Kosovo from their home base in Missouri and back.
In the 2003 invasion of Iraq, F-117 Nighthawks and B-2 Spirits were again used, and this was the last time the F-117 would see combat.
F-117s dropped satellite-guided strike munitions on selected targets, with high success. B-2 Spirits conducted 49 sorties in the invasion, releasing more than 1.5 million pounds of munitions. The most recent use of stealth aircraft was in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, where B-2 Spirits dropped 40 bombs on a Libyan airfield with concentrated air defences in support of the UN no-fly zone. In future, it is likely that stealth aircraft will continue to play a valuable role in air combat. In future conflicts the United States is likely to use F-22 Raptor, B-2 Spirit, and the F-35 Lightning II to perform a variety of operations.
In Russia, the Sukhoi PAK FA stealth multi-role fighter is to be introduced in 2015, to perform a wide variety of missions. In India, the Sukhoi/HAL FGFA, the Indian version of the PAK FA, is to be introduced from 2017 in higher numbers, also to perform a wide variety of missions. In China, the Chengdu J-20 stealth multi-role fighter is to be pressed into service around 2018. A prototype was flown early this year.
The sources reminded that the only time a stealth aircraft has been shot down was on 27 March 1999, during Operation Allied Force. An American F-117 Nighthawk’s bomb bay had malfunctioned causing it to remain open for an unusually long time, allowing a Serbian Air Defence crew who were operating their radars on unusually long wavelengths to launch an Isayev S-125 ‘Neva-M’ missile at it, which brought it down.
The pilot ejected and was rescued and the aircraft itself remained relatively intact due to striking the ground at a slow speed in inverted position. A B-2 crashed on February 23, 2008 shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the sources added.
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By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir - The News, Pakistan
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