DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated November 7, 2014

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated November 7, 2014
Source: K. V. Seth - DTN News + U.S. DoD issued No. CR-214-15 November 7, 2014
(NSI News Source Info) KOTTAKKAL, Kerala INDIA - November 7, 2014: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued November 7, 2014 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS
 

NAVY
 

ERAPSCO, Columbia City, Indiana, is being awarded a $195,217,585 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-14-D-0025) to exercise an option for the procurement of up to 141,500 AN/SSQ series sonobuoys, and 10,000 MK-84 signal underwater sound devices. Work will be performed in De Leon Springs, Florida (51.7 percent), and Columbia City, Indiana (48.3 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2016. No funding will be obligated at time of award, funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
 

General Dynamics, NASSCO-Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, is being awarded an $18,692,168 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-4401) to exercise options for the accomplishment of repairs and alterations for USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) non dry-docking fiscal 2015 chief of naval operations scheduled availability. NASSCO-Norfolk will provide ship repair services such as engine replacement/repairs, ballast tank preservations, habitability upgrades and close-in weapons systems repairs. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by October 2015. Fiscal 2014 and 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $16,804,668 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
 

Intelligent Decisions, Inc., Ashburn, Virginia, is being awarded $8,038,800 for delivery order 0031 on a previously awarded firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-12-D-4104) for a quantity of 4,350 Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets, docking stations, soft briefcases, 22-inch monitors and four-year warranties to support the Marine Corps Recruiting Command. The tablets will enhance mobility and provide Marine Corps recruiters the ability to quickly and efficiently process new recruits. Work will be done in Nashville, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by April 2015. Fiscal 2013 procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $8,038,800 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This delivery order is issued against a base contract which was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
 

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
 

US Foods, Salem Division, Salem, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $183,686,009 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract for prime vendor full-line food service support. This contract was a competitive acquisition and three offers were received. This is a 23-month base contract, with one one-year option and one two-year option periods. Location of performance is Missouri, with a Nov. 6, 2016, performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE300-15-D-3118).
 

Sysco Central Texas, Inc., New Braunfels, Texas, has been awarded a maximum $90,000,000 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for prime vendor food support. This contract was a competitive acquisition and three offers were received. This is a 22-month base contract, with one one-year and one two-year option periods. Location of performance is Texas, with a Nov. 5, 2016, performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE300-15-D-3114).
 

Constellation NewEnergy, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, has been awarded a maximum $44,731,957 firm-fixed-price contract for electricity and ancillary services. This contract was a competitive acquisition and five offers were received. This is a 12-month base contract with no option periods. Locations of performance are Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and Washington, District of Columbia, with a Dec. 31, 2015, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 service funding. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia (SPE600-15-D-8000).
 

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, has been awarded a maximum $24,144,737 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract for aircraft tires. This contract was a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. This is a two-year base contract, with two one-year option periods. Locations of performance are Ohio and Virginia, with a Nov. 6, 2016, performance completion date. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Columbus, Ohio (SPE7LX-15-D-0027).
 

Sysco Eastern Maryland, Pokomoke City, Maryland, has been awarded a maximum $16,000,000 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for prime vendor food and beverage support. This contract was a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. This is a two-year base contract, with one two-year option period. Location of performance is Maryland, with a Jan. 2, 2017, performance completion date. Using military services are Air Force, and Department of Defense customers. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE300-15-D-3116).
 

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, has been awarded a maximum $11,230,049 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract for aircraft tires. This contract was a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. This is a two-year base contract, with two one-year option periods. Locations of performance are Ohio and Virginia, with a Nov. 6, 2016, performance completion date. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Columbus, Ohio (SPE7LX-15-D-0025).
 

AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, California, has been awarded a $62,965,362 modification (P00030) to previously awarded contract FA8810-13-C-0002 for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Survivable Endurable Evolution increment 2 effort. Contractor will provide contractor logistics support and major sustainment modification to the current SBIRS mobile ground system's data processing for both Defense Support Program and SBIRS geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites. In addition, this effort will provide the required operation shelters to the SBIRS mobile ground terminals to perform limited GEO satellite commanding. Work will be performed at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado; Shriever Air Force Base, Colorado; Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado; and in Boulder, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 7, 2018. Fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 other procurement funds in the amount of $38,856,056 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity.
 

Jacobs Technology Inc., Tullahoma, Tennessee, has been awarded a $12,000,000 modification (P00089) to previously awarded contract FA9300-11-C-0001 for research operations support services. Contractor will provide support for non-major-critical subcontracting labor, material, travel, equipment, training and other direct costs associated with the performance work statement under the basic contract. Work will be performed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2016. No funds are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity (FA9300-11-C-0001).

ARMY
 

BAE Ordnance Systems, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee, was awarded a $9,636,247 modification (P00550) to firm-fixed-price contract DAAA09-98-E-0006 for installing an additional waste water clarifier at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant. Fiscal 2014 other procurement funds in the amount of $9,636,247 were obligated at the time of the award. The cumulative total for the contract, with this modification, is $631,808,527. Estimated completion date is July 31, 2017. Work will be performed in Kingsport, Tennessee. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, is the contracting activity.

*Link for This article compiled by K. V. Seth + U.S. DoD issued No. CR-215-14 November 7, 2014 
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 8, 2013

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 8, 2013
Source: U.S. DoD issued No.  496-13 July 8, 2013
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 8, 2013: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  July 8, 2013  are undermentioned;

Contracts

Navy

            Raytheon Co., El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $279,400,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for developmental efforts in support of the Technology Development (TD) Phase of the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) Program, which will replace the aging ALQ-99 tactical jamming system for integration on the EA-18G tactical aircraft.  Developmental efforts will include maturation and demonstration of critical technologies, completion of the system architecture and the requirements derivation and decomposition to subsystems.  The objective of the NGJ TD phase is to develop a cost effective electronic attack system that will provide significantly improved airborne electronic attack capabilities against advanced threats through enhanced agility and precision within jamming assignments, increased interoperability, and expanded broadband capability for greater threat coverage against a wide variety of radio frequency emitters.  Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. (55.99 percent); Ft. Wayne, Ind. (13.36 percent); Dallas, Texas (11.12 percent); Torrance, Calif. (9.94 percent); Clearfield, Utah (2.72 percent), McKinney, Texas (2.36 percent); Tucson, Ariz. (1.56 percent); Marion, Va. (2.37 percent); Goleta, Calif. (0.02 percent); Forest, Miss. (0.18 percent); and Andover, Mass. (0.38 percent) and is expected to be completed in May 2015.  Fiscal 2013 Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Navy contract funds in the amount of $50,030,189 are being obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals and three offers were received.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-13-C-0128). 

            L-3 Communications, Link Simulation & Training Div., Arlington, Texas, is being awarded a $33,174,360 modification to a firm-fixed-price delivery order issued previously against Basic Ordering Agreement N61340-12-G-0001.  This provides for the procurement of 12 tactical operational flight trainer (TOFT) high definition (HD) visual system kits for Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, NAS Lemoore and NAS Whidbey Island; purchase and delivery of HD projectors and mirrors for the six TOFTs at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar; delivery of four TOFT HD visual systems to NAS Whidbey Island; purchase and delivery of uninterrupted power sources for four TOFTs to support the HD visual systems at NAS Oceana; and purchase and delivery of spares kit(s).  In addition, this order provides for the procurement of HD visual systems for two Australian F/A-18E/F Super Hornets TOFTs for the Royal Australian Air Force under the foreign military sales (FMS) program, which includes installation and acceptance testing of four HD9 modification kits, drawing and manual updates, initial spares kits, operator and maintenance training, and overseas crating.  Work will be performed in Arlington, Texas (44 percent); Whidbey, Wash. (16 percent); Oceana, Va. (14 percent); Lemoore, Calif. (13 percent); Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley, Australia (6 percent); Miramar, Calif. (5 percent); and Atsugi, Japan (2 percent); and is expected to be completed in May 2016.  Fiscal 2012 and 2013 Aircraft Procurement Navy and FMS contract funds in the amount of $33,174,360 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($26,357,419; 80 percent) and the Government of Australia ($6,819,941; 20 percent).  The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity. 

            AQUATE Corp., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a $15,313,067 modification to previously awarded contract (N00174-11-C-0037) to exercise option year two to provide engineering and testing; performing modeling and simulation; conducting situational awareness; implementing new equipment and sustainment training; fielding equipment, sustainment, and providing dedicated logistics support to joint program offices and other federal agency customers dependent on critical chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives equipment in support of their missions.  Work will be performed in Quantico, Va. (25 percent); Williamsburg, Va. (20 percent); San Diego, Calif. (15 percent); Edgewater, Md. (15 percent); Suffolk, Va. (15 percent); and Aberdeen, Md. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2014.  Fiscal 2013 Operation and Maintenance, Navy funding in the amount of $606,700 will be obligated at the time of award, and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity. 

            CACI Inc.-Federal, Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a $9,366,730 modification under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00033-09-D-6503) with firm-fixed-price and/or firm-fixed-price level-of-effort task orders for systems development support services in support of Military Sealift Command’s Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems directorate.  Work will be performed in Chantilly, Va. (80 percent); Arlington, Va. (2 percent); Norfolk, Va. (2 percent); Ledyard, Conn. (12 percent), San Diego, Calif. (2 percent) and overseas worldwide (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2014.  Fiscal 2013 Working Capital Funds in the amounts of $9,366,730 will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-09-D-6503). 

Air Force

            Champion Energy Services LLC, Houston, Texas, has been awarded a $729,167 firm-fixed-price modification (D406-08) for a contract (FA3002-08-D-0026) for retail electric service.  The total cumulative face value of the contract is $8,750,000 and it is a multiyear contract.  Work will be performed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2013.  Fiscal 2013 Operations and Maintenance funds in the amount of $8,750,000 are being obligated on this award.  The 82nd Contracting Squadron/LGCB, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, is the contracting activity.

Defense Logistics Agency

            Moog Inc., East Aurora, N.Y., has been awarded a maximum $7,674,650 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract (SPM4AX-07-D-9412 THA1).  The contract is for V-22 aircraft swashplate actuators.  Location of performance is New York with a September 2014 completion date.  Using military service is Navy.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 Navy Working Capital funds.  The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Strategic Acquisitions, Philadelphia, Pa.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources U.S. DoD issued No.  496-13 July 8, 2013
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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

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir - The News, Pakistan

(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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