DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 1, 2010
Source: U.S. DoD issued March 1, 2010
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - March 1, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued March
1, 2010 are undermentioned;
CONTRACTS
ARMY
~Weeks Marine, Inc., Covington, La., was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010, a $58,509,050 firm-fixed-price contract for work consisting of mechanical and hydraulic construction of containment levees requiring deep excavation to minus-70 feet, shoreline protection, and spillbox rehab to increase the capacity of Placement Areas 14 and 15; and maintenance and new work dredging of the Houston Galveston Navigation Channel Bayport to Morgans Point with four options. Work is to be performed at Harris County, Texas, and Chambers County, Texas, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2012. Thirty-four bids were solicited with four bids received. U.S. Army Engineer District Galveston, Texas, is the contracting activity (W912HY-10-C-0016).
~Watterson Construction Co., Anchorage, Alaska, was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010, a $26,451,500 firm-fixed-price contract for a Warrior Transition Complex that is a design-build construction project. Work is to be performed at Fort Richardson, Alaska (91.2 percent), and Anchorage, Alaska (8.8 percent), with an estimated completion date of Dec. 26, 2011. Bids were solicited on the Web with 10 bids received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, is the contracting activity (W911KB-10-C-0011).
~Davis Constructors & Engineers, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010, a $19,839,494 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of the Air Force aero-medical services/mental clinic. Work is to be performed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 26, 2012. Bids were solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site with nine bids received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, is the contracting activity (W911KB-10-C-0012).
~Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Orlando, Fla., was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010 a $14,869,000 firm-fixed price contract, Task Order Number #0001, for construction of Battalion Dining Facilities. The project consists of a standard design two battalion 1,300 person, stand-alone dining facilities for a Training Battalion Complex. Install intrusion detection system (IDS) and connect energy monitoring and control system (EMCS). Supporting facilities include electrical, water, sewer, and natural gas services; security lighting; exterior communications; fire protection; storm sewer system and detention structure; paving, striping, curb and gutter, and sidewalks; site preparation, erosion control/grassing, landscaping; and signage. Work is to be performed at Fort Benning, Ga., with an estimated completion date May 20, 2011. Four bids were solicited and four bids received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, Ga., is the contracting activity (W912HN-07-D-0050).
~Hensel Phelps Construction, Co., Orlando, Fla., was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010, a $14,850,000 firm-fixed-price contract, task order #0002, for construction of battalion dining facilities. The project consists of standard-design, two-battalion, 1,300 person stand-alone dining facilities for a training battalion complex with the installation of an intrusion detection system and a connect energy monitoring and control system. Supporting facilities include electrical, water, sewer and natural gas services; security lighting; exterior communications; fire protection; storm sewer system and detention structure; paving, striping, curb and gutter, and sidewalks; site preparation, erosion control/grassing, landscaping; and signage. Work is to be performed at Fort Benning, Ga., with an estimated completion date of May 20, 2011. Four bids were solicited and four bids received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, Ga., is the contracting activity (W912HN-07-D-0050).
NAVY
~Koam Engineering Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a potential $51,146,913 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for tactical data link (TDL) systems support of a range of Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Foreign Military Sales Programs including airborne tactical data systems; ballistic missile defense; command and control processor; common link integration processing; dynamic net management; joint tactical radio system; tactical systems (engineering, integration, test, evaluation, fleet) support; and associated subsystems, network, process, and capability maturity model integration support. Support efforts include the maintenance and modification of the TDL computer programs; life cycle functions of systems; research and requirements analysis; systems engineering; software design and engineering; configuration management; modeling and simulation; and human factors engineering. This contract is one of three contracts awarded; all awardees will compete for task orders during the ordering period. All work will be performed at government and contractor sites in the San Diego area, and is expected to be completed Feb. 28, 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site and posting to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems e-Commerce Central Web site, with three viable offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-10-D-0027).
~Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Wakefield, Mass., is being awarded a $47,788,003 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for tactical data link (TDL) systems support of a range of Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Foreign Military Sales Programs including airborne tactical data systems; ballistic missile defense; command and control processor; common link integration processing; dynamic net management; joint tactical radio system; tactical systems (engineering, integration, test, evaluation, fleet) support; and associated subsystems, network, process, and capability maturity model integration support. Support efforts include the maintenance and modification of the TDL computer programs; life cycle functions of systems; research and requirements analysis; systems engineering; software design and engineering; configuration management; modeling and simulation; and human factors engineering. This contract is one of three contracts awarded; all awardees will compete for task orders during the ordering period. All work will be performed at government and contractor sites in the San Diego area, and is expected to be completed Feb. 28, 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site and posting to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems e-Commerce Central Web site, with three viable offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-10-D-0028).
~Computer Sciences Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a potential $46,911,088 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for tactical data link (TDL) systems support of a range of Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Foreign Military Sales Programs including airborne tactical data systems; ballistic missile defense; command and control processor; common link integration processing; dynamic net management; joint tactical radio system; tactical systems (engineering, integration, test, evaluation, fleet) support; and associated subsystems, network, process, and capability maturity model integration support. Support efforts include the maintenance and modification of the TDL computer programs; life cycle functions of systems; research and requirements analysis; systems engineering; software design and engineering; configuration management; modeling and simulation; and human factors engineering. This contract is one of three contracts awarded; all awardees will compete for task orders during the ordering period. All work will be performed at government and contractor sites in the San Diego area, and is expected to be completed Feb. 28, 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site and posting to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems e-Commerce Central Web site, with three viable offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-10-D-0026).
~Insight Technology, Inc., Londonderry, N.H., is being awarded a $34,080,706 firm-fixed-price contract for the Fusion Goggle System Version 4 (FGS V4). U.S. Special Operations Command requires the FGS V4 for special operations force elements currently engaged in the overseas contingency operations. The application for this item is combined thermal imaging and image intensification which provides increased situational awareness. Work will be performed in Londonderry, N.H., and is expected to be completed by March 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-10-D-JQ58).
~Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a $14,700,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-6238) for the production of five TB-29A thin line towed arrays (TLTA). The TB-29A TLTA is a passive underwater acoustic sensor utilizing a thin line towed body. Work will be performed in Syracuse, N.Y. (62 percent); Salt Lake City, Utah (15 percent); Millersville, Md. (15 percent); Mauldin, S.C. (4 percent); and Cambridge, Mass. (4 percent). Work is expected to be completed by March 2012. 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.
~Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $12,303,065 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-06-G-0001) to provide systems engineering and program management services in support of the H-1 upgrade production program. Work will be performed in Hurst, Texas (70 percent), Amarillo, Texas (15 percent), and New Bern, N.C. (6 percent). Work is expected to be completed in December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
~SmithGroup, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., is being awarded a $6,046,433 modification to increase the maximum dollar value under a firm-fixed-price architect-engineer contract (N62742-10-C-0001) for design and engineering services for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Hickam Air Force Base. The work to be performed provides for design and engineering services, environmental field investigation, soil investigation, and topographic survey to develop design-bid-build documents for construction of a multi-story facility which includes a central identification laboratory, administrative office spaces, and a warehouse. After award of this modification, the total cumulative contract value will be $7,120,509. Work will be performed in Oahu, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.
~The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $5,820,084 firm-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) to provide integrated logistics services in support of Harpoon and SLAM-ER programs for the Navy and for the governments of Korea, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Egypt, Japan, Turkey, Pakistan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Israel, Singapore, Canada, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Chile, Malaysia, Oman, and Bahrain.. Work will be performed in St. Charles, Mo., and is expected to be completed in November 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $2,083,931 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($2,083,931; 35.8 percent) and the governments of Korea ($694,901; 11.9 percent); United Kingdom ($283,542; 4.9 percent); Taiwan ($279,606; 4.8 percent); Egypt ($262,530; 4.5 percent); Japan ($245,231; 4.2 percent); Turkey ($234,045; 4.0 percent); Pakistan ($200,610; 3.5 percent); Australia ($195,660; 3.4 percent); Saudi Arabia ($190,438; 3.3 percent); Greece ($174,978; 3.0 percent); Israel ($166,927; 2.9 percent); Singapore ($163,710; 2.8 percent); Canada ($136,710; 2.3 percent); Thailand ($116,168; 2 percent); UAE ($88,178; 1.5 percent); Kuwait; $64,890; 1.1 percent); Chile ($62,415; 1.1 percent); Malaysia ($60,683; 1.0 percent); Oman ($59,445; 1.0 percent); and Bahrain ($55,486; 1.0 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
~Crowley Liner Services, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a sole-source letter contract to obtain emergency port related services in Haiti. The contract has a not-to-exceed amount of $22,000,000. The contract is for services required to restore cargo delivery capability and support Haiti port operations at Port-au-Prince. Services include surveying damaged ports and beaches; establishment of beach landing operations; cargo lightering operations to establish a link between deep draft cargo vessels and beach landing facilities; warehousing; cargo consolidation; trucking; placement of docking barges with cranes to function as temporary piers and removal of various obstructions in the water, to include a large gantry crane. Work will be performed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the performance period is from Jan. 16, 2010, to April 15, 2010. This was a sole-source procurement executed under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-2, Unusual and Compelling Urgency. The U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity (HTC711-10-C-W001).
Source: DTN News / Lockheed Martin
(NSI News Source Info) PALO ALTO, Calif., - March 2, 2010: The Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] at its Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is ready for flight. 
The GOES satellite. Mainly a weather satellite but the X-ray sensor (The SXI instrument) is always pointed at the sun. The Solar X-ray Imager is being developed by the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL). SXI will provide near real-time imaging of the Solar Corona in the spectral range of 6 Å to 60 Å (~0.2 to 2KeV) allowing investigation of solar features such as active regions, magnetic loops and coronal holes. SXI is being developed for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and will fly on the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) N and O satellites. It is anticipated that images from SXI will contribute towards improving our understanding of how the behaviour of the Sun can affect the "space weather" and its subsequent impact on the Earth.
LMSAL will be using CCDs developed by Marconi Applied Technologies (formerly EEV) in Chelmsford, UK. LMSAL have placed a subcontract with MSSL both to manage the procurement of these devices and to perform some characterisation on them additional to the characterisation provided by Marconi.
The CCD used in the SXI imager is the Marconi CCD 64, some of the key features of which are as follows:
512 x 580 active pixel imaging area;
Back illuminated to maximise quantum efficiency in the low energy X-ray region;
*16 µm square pixels;
*Anti blooming facility to improve the dynamic range by preventing charge spilling into adjacent pixels;
*On-chip temperature sensors;
*Two output amplifiers (for redundancy);
*Dump gate and drain for windowing.
Built for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., SXI is awaiting launch – scheduled for March 2 – on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-P spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. SXI is one of a suite of instruments that resides on the current generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES).
“It is enormously satisfying to have our third SXI instrument ready for launch and we look forward to seeing it operating on-orbit,” said George Koerner, SXI program manager at the ATC. “While the other GOES instruments provide near-constant viewing of the Earth, SXI is designed to view the Sun and provide vital information regarding solar activity.”
The SXI will be used to aid NOAA and U.S. Air Force personnel in issuing forecasts and alerts of space weather conditions, and in developing a better understanding of Sun-related phenomena that affect the Earth's environment. Turbulent space weather can affect radio communication on Earth, induce currents in electric power grids and long distance pipelines, cause navigational errors in magnetic guidance systems, upset satellite circuitry and expose astronauts to increased radiation.
SXI will observe solar flares, coronal mass ejections, coronal holes and active regions in the X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. These features are the dominant sources of disturbances in space weather that lead to, for example, geomagnetic storms. SXI will also examine flare properties, newly emerging active regions, and X-ray bright points on the Sun. SXI will provide continuous, near real-time observation of the Sun's corona, acquiring a full-disk image every minute. The images cover a 0.7 degree field of view with 0.0014 degree pixels.
The solar disk, as viewed from Earth, is approximately 0.5 degrees in diameter. By recording solar images every minute, NOAA observers will be able to detect and locate the occurrence of solar flares. This is the name given to the explosive releases of vast amounts of magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere. Since scientists are not yet able to predict the occurrence, magnitude or location of solar flares, it is necessary to continually observe the Sun to know when they are happening.
When a flare erupts, it throws out large clouds of ionized, or electrically charged, gas. A small fraction of the cloud is very energetic and can reach the Earth within a few minutes to hours of the flare being observed. These energetic particles pose a hazard to both astronauts and spacecraft.
Coronal mass ejections, which are often associated with flares, take several days to reach the Earth. Fast, powerful ejections give rise to geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt radio transmissions and induce large currents in power transmission lines and oil pipelines. They have resulted in large-scale failures of the North American power grid and greatly increased pipeline erosion. SXI also will monitor coronal holes -- persistent sources of high-speed solar wind. As the Sun rotates every 27 days, these sources spray across the Earth like a lawn sprinkler and cause recurring geomagnetic storms.
NOAA’s environmental satellite system is composed of two types of satellites: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) for national, regional, short-range warning and “now-casting”; and Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) for global, long-term forecasting and environmental monitoring. Lockheed Martin and its heritage companies built all of the POES satellites going back to the very first weather satellite launch on April 1, 1960, and is currently developing the next generation GOES-R satellite system, with a first launch set for 2015. Both GOES and POES are necessary for providing a complete global weather monitoring system. Both also carry search and rescue instruments to relay signals from people in distress.
The ATC has a 47-year-long heritage of spaceborne solar instruments including the Soft X-ray Telescope on the Japanese Yohkoh satellite, the Michelson Doppler Imager on the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, the solar telescope on NASA’s Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, the Solar X-ray Imager on the GOES-N and O environmental satellites, the Focal Plane Package on Hinode and an Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on each of the two spacecraft in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. The laboratory also conducts basic research into understanding and predicting space weather and the behavior of the Sun including its impacts on Earth and climate.
The ATC is the research and development organization of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC). LMSSC, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, designs and develops, tests, manufactures and operates a full spectrum of advanced-technology systems for national security and military, civil government and commercial customers. Chief products include human space flight systems; a full range of remote sensing, navigation, meteorological and communications satellites and instruments; space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft; laser radar; ballistic missiles; missile defense systems; and nanotechnology research and development. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.
Singh, who signed the Riyadh Declaration with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Sunday, said that his dialogue with the monarch and his meetings with the other leaders had led to the reaffirmation of close bilateral ties and common interests. He pointed out that the Delhi Declaration that he signed with King Abdullah in 2006 enshrined the shared vision of a new relationship. "Our two countries pledged to work, not just for the development and prosperity of our peoples, but for the security and peace of the region as a whole."
The premier said: “India regards Saudi Arabia as a pillar of stability in the Gulf region. Under the enlightened and sagacious leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the Kingdom has taken rapid strides toward modernization. Its influence today extends far beyond the region.”
"As I stand before you, I am conscious of the wealth of history behind us, and the promise of new partnerships ahead of us," he said, recalling that Indian Muslim scholars had gone to Makkah to learn Islamic theology while Arab Muslim scholars came to India to learn mathematics, science, astronomy and philosophy.
Saudi Arabia is home to the largest Indian community abroad, numbering about 1.8 million. "Indian workers and professionals have participated in the extraordinary development of this region. Indeed, it would be difficult to identify a major project in this region with which Indians have not been involved in some way or the other," he noted, pointing out that around 165,000 Indian pilgrims perform Haj annually.
"Both our countries are today threatened by extremism and violence. The pursuit of terror in the name of religion or any other cause or grievance cannot be acceptable to civilized societies. It has no sanction in any religion," he said.
Speaking on regional issues, the Indian leader said the people of Palestine had been denied for far too long their just, legitimate and inalienable rights, including the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian state.
Turning to the Indian Subcontinent, the prime minister said India wishes to live in peace and friendship with its neighbors. "I believe that all countries of South Asia should work to realize a common vision of peace and inclusive development for the region. We seek cooperative relations with Pakistan. Our objective is permanent peace because we recognize that we are bound together by a shared future. If there is cooperation between India and Pakistan, vast opportunities will open up for trade, travel and development that will create prosperity in both countries and in South Asia as a whole.
“But to realize this vision, Pakistan must act decisively against terrorism. If Pakistan cooperates with India, there is no problem that we cannot solve and we can walk the extra mile to open a new chapter in relations between our two countries," he said.
At the conclusion of his visit, King Saud University conferred an honorary doctorate on Singh. University Rector Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al-Othman presented the degree. A memorandum of understanding for cooperation was signed between the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and King Saud University in the presence of the prime minister.
Speaking to community members at a reception held at the Indian Embassy later, Singh said that Indians are the largest overseas community in Saudi Arabia and that this was proof of the respect they have earned and the confidence put in them by the government and people of Saudi Arabia. "What is special and unique are the values that every Indian stands for which are the product of a 5000-year-old civilization. An Indian knows the meaning of respecting other's beliefs, customs and faiths. Pluralism and diversity are second nature to us. All this makes Indians tolerant and naturally inclined to harmonious peaceful coexistence. I have no doubt that you reflect these lofty values in your workplaces, homes and in social interactions." He concluded by saying, " I am returning to India confident that our relations with Saudi Arabia have been placed on a even sounder footing."
