Thursday, March 14, 2013

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 14, 2013

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 14, 2013
Source: U.S. DoD issued No.  145-13 March 14, 2013
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 14, 2013: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  March 14, 2013  are undermentioned;



AIR FORCE
            The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a revised not-to-exceed amount of $3,543,500,000 contract modification (FA8505-12-C-0001, P00004) for country standard time compliance technical order development, integration and testing fabrication of trial kits to support validation and verification activities, procurement of 68 F-15S to SA conversion kits and the procurement and installation of four base stand-up kits.  This modification is a decrease of $456,160,000 for a revised not-to-exceed of $3,543,500,000 for the F-15 S/SA conversion and provisioning program.  The location of the performance is St. Louis, Mo.  Work is expected to be completed by Dec. 19, 2019.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012 through fiscal 2013.  The contracting activity is AFLCMC/WWKA, Robins Air Force Base, Ga.  Contract involves foreign military sales. 

            Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $173,643,542 firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable-no-fee, time and material contract (FA8523-13-D-0002) for sustainment of the LITENING Targeting Pod System.  The location of performance is Rolling Meadows, Ill.  Work is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2017.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013.  The contracting activity is AFLCMC/WNKCA, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. 

NAVY
            The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $128,393,761 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-04-C-3146) for engineering labor to perform extended lifetime fatigue testing, teardown, and post-teardown analysis of the P-8A airframe under the P-8A System Development and Demonstration Program.  The engineering tasks and analyses are necessary to authorize P-8A operations for up to 150 percent of the specified service life of the airframe, dependent upon the results of the extended lifetime testing.  Work will be performed in Seattle, Wash. (95 percent), and St. Louis, Mo. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018.  Fiscal 2013 Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, Navy contract funds in the amount of $128,393,761 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River Md., is the contracting activity.

            Tetra Tech EC Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract with a maximum amount of $100,000,000 for environmental remediation services for projects at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic area of responsibility (AOR).  No task orders are being issued at this time.  Work will be performed primarily within the NAVFAC Atlantic AOR which includes North Carolina (29 percent); Virginia (25 percent); Maryland (15 percent); Connecticut (5 percent); Maine (5 percent); Massechusetts (5 percent); Washington, D.C. (5 percent); Africa (5 percent); Pennsylvania (4 percent); West Virginia (1 percent); and Vieques, Puerto Rico (1 percent).  Although principle geographical areas are identified for the contract, the contractor may be required to perform work at any Navy or Marine Corps activity in the AOR covered by NAVFAC Atlantic.  Work may also be added and performed anywhere outside of NAVFAC Atlantic’s AOR, as required by the government.  The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of March 2018.  Fiscal 2013 Environmental Restoration, Navy contract funds in the amount of $10,000 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with three proposals received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N62470-13-D-8007).  

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
            LB and B Associates Inc., Columbia, Md., was awarded contract SP0600-13-C-5307.  The award is a firm-fixed-price for a minimum $21,623,595 for bulk contractor owned-contractor operated fuel receipt, storage, and issue services, storage and maintenance services at an existing retail government owned-contractor operator self-service fuel ground station.  Locations of performance are Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Maryland with a Sept. 30, 2018 performance completion date.  Using military service is Air Force.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2018 Defense Working Capital funds.  The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va.

            DL FMS Joint Venture*, Clover, S.C., was awarded contract SP0600-13-C-5323.
  The award is a firm-fixed-price contract for a minimum $12,460,291 for operation, maintenance, product quality surveillance, inventory control and accounting, security, safety, and plant protection.  Locations of performance are South Carolina and California with a March 31, 2018 performance completion date.  Using military service is Navy.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2018 Defense Working Capital funds.  The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va. 

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY
            Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a $21,556,370 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-13-C-0039).  The statement of work for this effort is classified.  Work will be performed in Marlborough, Mass. (60 percent) and Cambridge, Mass. (40 percent).  The work is expected to be completed by March 13, 2016.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.

            California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. is being awarded a $15,150,012 modification to a cooperative agreement (HR0011-11-2-0006).  This modification is for the autonomous diagnostics to enable prevention and therapeutics:  diagnostics on demand (ADEPT: DxOD) program.  The digital slipchip platform for use in limited resource settings (LRS) will be designed to provide analytic parity with the equipment typically used in reference laboratories, yet with a user experience and robustness that would permit clinical laboratory improvement amendments (CLIA)-waived status.  To allow for a high level of medical care, the device will be readable with a cell phone, so results can be transmitted to reference laboratories or remote physicians.  Work will be performed in Pasadena, Calif., (99 percent) and Alachua, Fla., (1 percent).  The work is expected to be completed by August, 2014.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity. 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY
            The Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Mass., was awarded a $11,259,242 firm-fixed-price contract modification exercising the first of four option periods of service contract number HEVAS6-12-C-0001.  The contract is for comprehensive education program services, grades pre-Kindergarten through eighth, servicing eligible dependent children of Department of Defense personnel residing on Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.  The period of performance for this option is through June 30, 2014.  The contracting activity for this action is DoDEA/DDESS, Peachtree City, Ga.

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U.S. DoD issued No.  145-13 March 14, 2013
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DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: Barack Obama Invites First Black Miss Israel To Dinner

DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: Barack Obama Invites First Black Miss Israel To Dinner
*Yityish Aynaw, the first Ethiopian-born pageant winner, said the US president had been a 'notable influence in her life'
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Phoebe Greenwood, Tel Aviv  - guardian.co.uk
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 14, 2013:  It will be one of the hottest tickets in town. When the US president,Barack Obama, arrives in Israel on an official visit next week, one of the highlights for the country's dignatries will be a dinner hosted at Israeli president Shimon Peres's home. And among those set to dine with the two presidents is the first black Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw.

When the president's staff called to invite her to the dinnerAynaw, who was crowned just a few weeks ago, was understandably taken aback. "I didn't believe this was happening," she told the Jerusalem Post.
Aynaw arrived in Israel from Ethiopia when she was 12 years old. The beauty queen, who has worked as a sales assistant since leaving the army, has admitted that it was initially difficult for her to assimilate into Israeli society. Despite being 100,000 strong, the Ethiopian Jewish community is marginalised in Israel, where some rabbis have questioned the authenticity of their Jewish faith.
In the course of the Miss Israel competition, Aynaw told the panel of judges: "It's important that a member of the Ethiopian community win the competition for the first time. There are many different communities of many different colours in Israel, and it's important to show that to the world."
On learning that she would be dining with the US president alongside the Israeli leadership, Aynaw admitted that as a young immigrant, she would not have believed "such a thing could happen" to her. Once the news sunk in, however, the 21 year-old former Israeli army officer declared herself "excited" and reasoned: "The first black Miss Israel to be chosen and [Obama] is the first black American President. These goes together."
Obama, she said, has had a "notable influence in her life".
Shortly after winning the title, Aynaw named assassinated US civil rights leader Martin Luther King as one of her heroes: "He fought for justice and equality, and that's one of the reasons I'm here: I want to show that my community has many beautiful qualities that aren't always represented in the media."
While she may have embraced her life in Israel, Aynaw has refused to adopt a Hebrew name as many of African immigrants have done. "I was born sick but my mum believed I had a future," she told Jewish publication The Tablet, explaining that her name in Amharic, the second most spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic, means "looking towards the future". "I'd never change my name," she said. "Ever".
With African roots and controversial names in common, Miss Israel and President Obama have ample mutual ground to break the ice. 

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Phoebe Greenwood, Tel Aviv  - guardian.co.uk
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DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: 17 Suspected of Helping Track bin Laden Get Their Jobs Back

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: 17 Suspected of Helping Track bin Laden Get Their Jobs Back
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Shaan Khan, CNN
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 14, 2013Seventeen Pakistani women suspected of helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan were given their jobs back Thursday, their lawyer told CNN.

The women appeared in the city of Peshawar's high court, where Justices Yayha Afridi and Seth Waqar Ahmed accepted their petition to have their jobs restored, Sajid Ali Awan, the women's counsel, told CNN.

"The court has also directed the Department of Health to act lawfully and take lawful measures after accepting our petition, which is the simple restoration of the employees as their termination without a shown cause notice was against the law," Awan said.

The women were fired from their jobs after allegations that they were involved in Dr. Shakeel Afridi's fake vaccination campaign, which helped the CIA collect DNA samples from residents of bin Laden's compound in the city of Abbottabad. The samples aimed to verify the al Qaeda leader's presence there.

Awan said the secretary of health for Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province fired the health workers in February 2012. However, they pleaded not guilty, saying they were not aware of Dr. Afridi's intentions and were simply following his orders.

Dr. Afridi is serving a 33-year sentence in a Peshawar jail, accused of having links to militant elements in Khyber Agency, though many believe he has been penalized for acting as a CIA front man in the fake vaccination campaign.

Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid on his Abbottabad compound in May of 2011.




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DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Steven Seagal Joins Vladimir Putin For Photo-Op

DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Steven Seagal Joins Vladimir Putin For Photo-Op
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources  Posted by Amy Argetsinger - Washington Post
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 14, 2013: Dennis Rodman is such an amateur. The NBA vet may have gotten a heap of media attention for catching a basketball game with Kim Jong-Eun, but it turns out Steven Seagal has been hanging out with foreign strongmen for years. 


The action star did his own bit of photo-op diplomacy in Moscow with Vladi­mir Putin, touring a martial-arts school where the Russian president called for a revival of Stalin-era school phys-ed programs, reports Reuters

Revelation: Putin, the world leader most frequently photographed in shirtless, macho poses, is actually quite tiny when standing next to Seagal. 

The longtime pals watched martial-arts demonstrations and then, in what appeared to be a comic shtick, Seagal rushed a crowd of kids posing with Putin and protectively pulled him out. (“Kids, remain calm, it’s a great honor to take pictures with the president,” an announcer said.)

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