DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 8, 2010

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 8, 2010 Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 809-10 September 8, 2010 (NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - September 11, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued September 8, 2010 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency is pleased to announce the award of advisory and assistance services contracts to Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Va (HQ0147-10-D-0018); Computer Sciences Corp., Huntsville, Ala. (HQ0147-10-D-0019); Paradigm Technologies, Inc., Arlington, Va. (HQ0147-10-D-0020); and Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Wakefield, Mass. (HQ0147-10-D-0021). Each firm is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the Business Financial Management Organization (DOB). The contractors will assist the DOB directorate in providing financial management services in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense system. This procurement is managed by the Missile Defense Agency Engineering and Support Services Program Office. This program office is responsible for centrally managing the acquisition of advisory and assistance services for the Agency. These contracts are being competitively awarded under the full and open, unrestricted, Request for Proposal HQ0147-09-R-0002. Each contract has a not-to-exceed ordering ceiling of $374,800,000. The companies will have the opportunity to bid on each individual task order. Work under these contracts will be performed in Huntsville, Ala.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Dahlgren, Va.; Arlington, Va.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Columbus, Ohio. The performance period is through August 2015. Obligations will be made by task orders using research, development, test and evaluation funds.

Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee with technical/schedule performance incentive contract with a total value of $165,288,359 under contract HQ0276-10-C-0005. Under this contract, Raytheon will perform Preliminary design review efforts including, but not limited to, engineering services and material for systems engineering, design and development support, and initial hardware fabrication for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile. The work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2011. Research, development, test and evaluation funds for fiscal 2010 will be used to for this effort with initial incremental funding in the amount of $40,000,000.

NAVY

The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $136,598,000 modification to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-09-C-0022) to procure long-lead materials in support of P-8A low-rate initial production II aircraft. Work will be performed in Seattle, Wash. (63.8 percent); Greenlawn, N.Y. (11.7 percent); Baltimore, Md. (10.9 percent); North Amityville, N.Y. (8.3 percent); and McKinney, Texas (5.3 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2013. 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.

CKY, Inc.*, Hagatna, Guam (N40192-10-D-0004); Donaldson Enterprises, Inc.*, Waikoloa, Hawaii (N40192-10-D-0005); Environet, Inc.*, Honolulu, Hawaii (N40192-10-D-0006); and Unitek Environmental Guam*, Barrigada, Guam (N40192-10-D-0007), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for remediation services at various locations in Guam and the Pacific Ocean area. The work to be performed provides for munitions response and incidental environmental remediation at sites which potentially contain munitions and explosives of concern and material potentially presenting an explosive hazard at various locations in Guam and the Pacific Ocean area. The maximum dollar value, including the base period and four option years, for all four contracts combined is $50,000,000. No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed in Guam and the Pacific Ocean area. The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of September 2015. 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 five proposals received. These four contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Marianas, Guam, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $37,329,835 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the designing, building and testing of an upgrade of an existing variant of the AN/AAS-53 Common Sensor Payload, including enhanced high definition/target location accuracy imaging capability. This contract shall provide engineering to surface issues relating to the development or integration of the high definition detectors into the AN/AAS-53 Common Sensor Payload to enhance high definition/target location accuracy imagining capability. Raytheon shall deliver a quantity of eight Common Sensor Payload high definition/target location configuration systems. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and is expected to be completed by December 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-06-G-8555-0071).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Sensors, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,077,448 modification to the previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee VH-71 system development and demonstration contract (N00019-05-C-0030), which was terminated for the convenience of the government. This modification provides funding for post-termination related expenses, including, but not limited to, the physical inventory of contractor acquired property, proposal preparation, security, disposition of contract inventory, subcontractor settlement costs, and termination management activities. Work will be performed in Owego, N.Y. (36 percent), and at various subcontractor facilities (64 percent) located in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. Work is expected to be completed by September 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $10,077,448 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Computer Sciences Corp., Washington, D.C., is being awarded a $6,659,408 firm-fixed-price contract for the design, fabrication, installation and testing of the Full Mission Bridge (FMB) 2 trainer, for the modification of FMB-2 from functionality currently existing in Conning Officer Virtual Environment (COVE) FMB-1, and for the modification of the existing COVE training systems located at the Surface Warfare Officers School Command in Newport, R.I. Work will be performed in the District of Columbia (65 percent) and Newport, R.I. (35 percent). Work is expected to be completed in September 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $478,267 will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity (N61339-10-C-0038).

Sunland Builders, Inc.*, Newport, N.C., is being awarded $6,600,700 for firm-fixed-price task order #0003 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N40085-09-D-9027) for the repair of concrete which includes air field surfaces 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 at Marine Corps Air Station New River. The work to be performed provides for the repair of damaged concrete located on the aircraft parking aprons. These air field surfaces are used for the parking, loading, and maintaining of rotary wing aircraft. The sealant between the concrete sections shall also be replaced. Aircraft tie-downs, storm drains, and expansion joints encased within the existing slabs shall also be replaced. The task order also contains one unexercised option which, if exercised, would increase cumulative task order value to $7,952,650. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by August 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Officer in Charge of Construction Marine Corps Installations East, Camp Lejeune, N.C., is the contracting activity.

Kalman & Co., Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded $6,528,722 for task order #0031 under previously awarded contract (M67854-03-A-5158) to provide business and analytical support to the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense systems. Objectives of this initiative include risk analyses supporting enterprise-wide efforts and current programs of record, leading to concise business case analyses that identify cost and performance projections, schedule impacts, and sustainment/ lifecycle considerations. Work will be performed in Falls Church, Va. (95 percent); MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. (4 percent); and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (1 percent). Work is expected to be completed in September 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

JE Hurley Construction, Colorado Springs, Colo., was awarded a $25,000,000 contract which will provide roofing repair and replacement at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. At this time, $50,000 has been obligated. 10 CONS/LGCA, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., is the contracting activity (FA7000-10-D-0013).

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, was awarded a $23,788,531contract which will assess and report on Marine Corps Protection, Mission Assurance, Homeland Defense and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear programs relative to readiness, viability, condition, procedures, and protocols; analyze assessment results for trends and identify corrective actions; and develop training and support documents to enhance readiness and protection. At this time, $700,000 has been obligated. 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-3180; Delivery Order 676).

*Small business

DTN News: Pakistan TODAY September 11, 2010 - Musharraf Plans To Return To Pakistan With New Party

DTN News: Pakistan TODAY September 11, 2010 - Musharraf Plans To Return To Pakistan With New Party

Source: DTN News / BBC News By Owen Bennett Jones

(NSI News Source Info) LONDON, UK - September 11, 2010: The former military ruler

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of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf has said he is forming a new political party with a view to returning to politics in the country.

He said he will be going back to Pakistan before the next elections which are due in 2013.

Pervez Musharraf who now lives in London has for some months been talking about the possibility of returning but now his plans are firming up.

He said he will be standing for a seat in the next parliament.

From there he hopes to become either prime minister or president.

"I believe very strongly that it's better to try and fail rather than not try and go down without trying," he said.

"At this moment we see darkness all over in Pakistan, we have to show light, we have to show an alternative, a viable alternative where the people see light and gain some confidence."

Low standing

Asked whether he had already has his chance and that it was time to give others an opportunity to lead he said last time he lacked legitimacy internationally because he was in uniform.

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A time has come in Pakistan when we need to introduce a new political culture, a culture which can take Pakistan forward on a democratic path”

Pervez Musharraf

"I cant be sure of becoming President again but I believe there is a good chance of my winning" he said.

He dismissed his low standing in the opinion polls saying that polls can be manipulated and that his popularity is increasing.

The retired general acknowledged that if he did go back he would have to face some legal cases and he said there would be risk of his being killed.

But he said he would answer every allegation against him.

"A time has come in Pakistan when we need to introduce a new political culture, a culture which can take Pakistan forward on a democratic path, on a correct democratic path, not on an artificial, make-believe democratic path," he said.

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DTN News: Singapore TODAY September 11, 2010 - The Grand Master Lee Kuan Yew, Days Of Reflection For Man Who Defined Singapore

DTN News: Singapore TODAY September 11, 2010 - The Grand Master Lee Kuan Yew, Days Of Reflection For Man Who Defined Singapore

Source: DTN News / The New York Times By Seth Mydans - Published: September 10, 2010

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - September 11, 2010: “SO, when is the last leaf falling?” asked Lee Kuan Yew, the man who made Singapore in his own stern and unsentimental image, nearing his 87th birthday and contemplating age, infirmity and loss.

Sam Kang Li for the International Herald Tribune

Lee Kuan Kew at his office in Singapore.

“I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality,” said Mr. Lee, whose “Singapore model” of economic growth and tight social control made him one of the most influential political figures of Asia. “And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that’s life.”

In a long, unusually reflective interview last week, he talked about the aches and pains of age and the solace of meditation, about his struggle to build a thriving nation on this resource-poor island, and his concern that the next generation might take his achievements for granted and let them slip away.

He was dressed informally in a windbreaker and running shoes in his big, bright office, still sharp of mind but visibly older and a little stooped, no longer in day-to-day control but, for as long as he lives, the dominant figure of the nation he created.

But in these final years, he said, his life has been darkened by the illness of his wife and companion of 61 years, bedridden and mute after a series of strokes.

“I try to busy myself,” he said, “but from time to time in idle moments, my mind goes back to the happy days we were up and about together.” Agnostic and pragmatic in his approach to life, he spoke with something like envy of people who find strength and solace in religion. “How do I comfort myself?” he asked. “Well, I say, ‘Life is just like that.’ ”

“What is next, I do not know,” he said. “Nobody has ever come back.”

The prime minister of Singapore from its founding in 1965 until he stepped aside in 1990, Mr. Lee built what he called “a first-world oasis in a third-world region” — praised for the efficiency and incorruptibility of his rule but accused by human rights groups of limiting political freedoms and intimidating opponents through libel suits.

His title now is minister mentor, a powerful presence within the current government led by his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The question that hovers over Singapore today is how long and in what form his model may endure once he is gone.

Always physically vigorous, Mr. Lee combats the decline of age with a regimen of swimming, cycling and massage and, perhaps more important, an hour-by-hour daily schedule of meetings, speeches and conferences both in Singapore and overseas. “I know if I rest, I’ll slide downhill fast,” he said. When, after an hour, talk shifted from introspection to geopolitics, the years seemed to slip away and he grew vigorous and forceful, his worldview still wide ranging, detailed and commanding.

And yet, he said, he sometimes takes an oblique look at these struggles against age and sees what he calls “the absurdity of it.”

“I’m reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it’s an effort, and is it worth the effort?” he said. “I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It’s become my habit. I just carry on.”

HIS most difficult moments come at the end of each day, he said, as he sits by the bedside of his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, 89, who has been unable to move or speak for more than two years. She had been by his side, a confidante and counselor, since they were law students in London.

“She understands when I talk to her, which I do every night,” he said. “She keeps awake for me; I tell her about my day’s work, read her favorite poems.” He opened a big spreadsheet to show his reading list, books by Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling and Lewis Carroll as well as the sonnets of Shakespeare.

Lately, he said, he had been looking at Christian marriage vows and was drawn to the words: “To love, to hold and to cherish, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse till death do us part.”

“I told her, ‘I would try and keep you company for as long as I can.’ That’s life. She understood.” But he also said: “I’m not sure who’s going first, whether she or me.”

At night, hearing the sounds of his wife’s discomfort in the next room, he said, he calms himself with 20 minutes of meditation, reciting a mantra he was taught by a Christian friend: “Ma-Ra-Na-Tha.”

The phrase, which is Aramaic, comes at the end of St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, and can be translated in several ways. Mr. Lee said that he was told it means “Come to me, O Lord Jesus,” and that although he is not a believer, he finds the sounds soothing.

“The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts,” he said. “A certain tranquillity settles over you. The day’s pressures and worries are pushed out. Then there’s less problem sleeping.”

He brushed aside the words of a prominent Singaporean writer and social critic, Catherine Lim, who described him as having “an authoritarian, no-nonsense manner that has little use for sentiment.”

“She’s a novelist!” he cried. “Therefore, she simplifies a person’s character,” making what he called a “graphic caricature of me.” “But is anybody that simple or simplistic?”

The stress of his wife’s illness is constant, he said, harder on him than stresses he faced for years in the political arena. But repeatedly, in looking back over his life, he returns to his moment of greatest anguish, the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965, when he wept in public.

That trauma presented him with the challenge that has defined his life, the creation and development of a stable and prosperous nation, always on guard against conflict within its mixed population of Chinese, Malays and Indians.

“We don’t have the ingredients of a nation, the elementary factors,” he said three years ago in an interview with the International Herald Tribune, “a homogeneous population, common language, common culture and common destiny.”

Younger people worry him, with their demands for more political openness and a free exchange of ideas, secure in their well-being in modern Singapore. “They have come to believe that this is a natural state of affairs, and they can take liberties with it,” he said. “They think you can put it on auto-pilot. I know that is never so.”

The kind of open political combat they demand would inevitably open the door to race-based politics, he said, and “our society will be ripped apart.”

A political street fighter, by his own account, he has often taken on his opponents through ruinous libel suits.

He defended the suits as necessary to protect his good name, and he dismissed criticisms by Western reporters who “hop in and hop out” of Singapore as “absolute rubbish.”

In any case, it is not these reporters or the obituaries they may write that will offer the final verdict on his actions, he said, but future scholars who will study them in the context of their day.

“I’m not saying that everything I did was right,” he said, “but everything I did was for an honorable purpose. I had to do some nasty things, locking fellows up without trial.”

And although the leaves are already falling from the tree, he said, the Lee Kuan Yew story may not be over yet.

He quoted a Chinese proverb: Do not judge a man until his coffin is closed.

“Close the coffin, then decide,” he said. “Then you assess him. I may still do something foolish before the lid is closed on me.”

DTN News: Boeing Vigilare Enters Service With RAAF After Successful Multinational Air Combat Exercise

DTN News: Boeing Vigilare Enters Service With RAAF After Successful Multinational Air Combat Exercise

Source: DTN News / Boeing

(NSI News Source Info) BRISBANE, Queensland,- September 8, 2010: Vigilare, the Boeing [NYSE: BA] Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S) developed for the Commonwealth of Australia, has entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) after excelling in a major multinational air combat exercise. On Sept. 2, the RAAF began using the Vigilare Northern Regional Operations Centre (NROC) at RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, for surveillance and battlespace management operations across Australia. “With the acceptance into operational service for NROC, the RAAF and Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) have concluded that the enhanced capability provided by Vigilare provides a robust Air Defence Command and Control (C2) system for Australia,” said Tim Malone, DMO project director for Project Air 5333 - Vigilare. “NROC is now correlating a myriad of data feeds from sensors and information across Defence, civil and foreign sources providing directed air surveillance and air battle management capabilities for the RAAF. In my opinion, this capability, especially the sophisticated Tactical Data Link implementation, is arguably world-class.” “We’re extremely pleased with the way Vigilare has transitioned into operational service at NROC,” said Steve Parker, vice president and general manager of Network and Space Systems for Boeing Defence Australia. “It’s indicative of the considerable engineering and project management rigor we’ve applied and the pragmatic relationship between Boeing, our supplier partners and our Australian Defence Materiel Organisation and RAAF customers. Vigilare has set the benchmark for future complex systems integration within the Australian Defence Force by bringing several disparate systems together to create a true systems-of-systems environment.” Prior to service entry, Vigilare participated in “Pitch Black 2010” -- one of the RAAF’s largest and most complex air combat exercises, which also involved the air forces of Singapore, Thailand and New Zealand. During the exercise, held July 16-Aug. 6, NROC was used as the central C2 node, providing continuous surveillance and battlespace management for offensive counter-air and offensive air-support operations. The system interacted with multiple assets, including RAAF F/A-18 Hornets, F-111s, Hawks, forward air control PC-9s, and AP-3C Orions; Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) and Royal Thai Air Force F-16s; an RSAF E2-C Hawkeye Airborne Warning and Control aircraft, and other air mobility and air-to-air refueling assets. “We proved at Pitch Black that Vigilare is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the skies above in a coalition environment,” said Parker. “This system is a game changer for the RAAF because of its fully integrated data link capabilities, multi-level communications, multisource correlator tracking, and advanced system management capabilities.” Vigilare is on track for final system acceptance in mid-2011. The next major milestone leading up to this is completion of the Eastern Regional Operations Centre at RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales. NC3S works by combining information in near real-time from a wide range of platforms, sensors, tactical data links and intelligence networks to deliver tactical and strategic surveillance operations and battlespace management in the air and joint domains. The live inputs from these sources present a unified operational picture to the operator at single or multiple control centers. NC3S is currently part of a broader offering from Boeing to other countries, including the United Arab Emirates. Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company and a business unit of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, is a leading Australian aerospace enterprise. With a world-class team of more than 1,500 employees at 14 locations throughout Australia and two international sites, Boeing Defence Australia supports some of the largest and most complex defense projects in Australia. A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $34 billion business with 68,000 employees worldwide.

Contact: Jenny Waller

Boeing Defence Australia

+1 (61) 7 3306 3148

jenny.l.waller@boeing.com

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DTN News: Russia Delays Delivery Of Two Sukhoi Fighter Jets To Indonesia — Source

DTN News: Russia Delays Delivery Of Two Sukhoi Fighter Jets To Indonesia — Source

Source: DTN News / RIA Novosti

(NSI News Source Info) MAKASSAR. Indonesia - September 8, 2010: Russia will deliver two of its contracted Su fighter jets to Indonesia on Thursday, which is two days later comparing to the previously announced date, a source close to negotiations said. Russia's An-124 transport plane was to deliver two Su-27SKM planes to the air base in the city of Makassar in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province on Tuesday. The source said that the delivery was postponed due to technical reasons but Russia would meet the earlier announced deadline and the last contracted Su-27SKM plane will be delivered to the same base on September 16. Under a $300 million contract, signed in 2007, Russia is to complete the delivery of three Su-30MK2 and three Su-27SKM fighters to Jakarta by the end of 2010 in addition to two Su-27SK and two Su-30MK fighters purchased in 2003. On the whole, Russia sends the planes to Indonesia earlier than scheduled following a request by the Indonesian military authorities, who would like the aircraft to take part in a military parade dedicated to Armed Forces Day on October 5. Indonesia earlier said it needed at least one squadron equipped with 16 Sukhoi fighters to replace part of the outdated fleet of U.S. F-16 fighters.

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DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated September 8, 2010

DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated September 8, 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 8, 2010: Comprehensive daily news related to Aerospace/Defense for the world of TODAY.

*Comprehensive daily news related on Aerospace/Defense for the world of TODAY.

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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 7, 2010

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 7, 2010 Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 804-10 September 7, 2010 (NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - September 8, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued September 7, 2010 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Triton Marine Construction Corp., Bremerton Wash. (N44255-10-D-5017); Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Wash. (N44255-10-D-5018); Nova Group, Inc., Napa, Calif. (N44255-10-D-5019); Reyes Construction, Inc., Pomona, Calif. (N44255-10-D-5020); and Watts Constructors, LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii (N44255-10-D-5021), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award design build construction contract to provide new construction, renovation, alteration, demolition, and repair work, including any necessary design, for marine/waterfront projects at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Northwest area of responsibility (AOR). The maximum dollar value, including the base period and four option years, for all five contracts combined is $97,000,000. Triton Marine Construction Corp. is being awarded task order #0001 at $1,254,000 for the design and construction to upgrade 12KV Loop Feed Circuits 401 and 425 at Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Wash. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by Jul. 2011. All work on this contract will be performed primarily within the NAVFAC Northwest AOR which includes Wash. (92 percent), Ore. (2 percent), Alaska (2 percent), Idaho (1 percent), Mont. (1 percent), and Wyo. (1 percent), and may also be performed in the remainder of the U.S. (1 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of Sept. 2015. Contract funds for task order 0001 will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 10 proposals received. These five contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity.

SSFM International, Inc.*, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a maximum $40,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a for construction management services on Guam. The work to be performed provides for construction oversight and quality assurance services to support construction projects and associated effort undertaken by Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas. No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed in Guam, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 2014. 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 15 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Marianas, Guam, is the contracting activity (N40192-10-D-0002).

The Boeing Company, Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a $23,654,354 task order #0002 Phase IB under a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery order contract (N00014-09-D-0354) for the critical design of a 100-kW class Free Electron Laser (FEL) device which can be used to demonstrate scaleability of the necessary FEL physics and engineering for an eventual MW class Free Electron Laser (FEL) device. Under this effort, this Navy FEL Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) Program will encompass the transition from a demonstrated 14 kW FEL capability, currently at hand, to a weapon class 100-kW class capability. This 100 kW FEL effort is intended to provide the physics and engineering information needed to support a MW class FEL device development. The desired outcome of this effort is to transfer laboratory capability to Industry and to assess potential industrial roles in supporting the procurement program for FEL weapon systems. The Navy also wishes to gain insight into industry's longer term interest in participating in the follow-on integration, at a government test facility, or elsewhere, of the FEL device into a complete naval weapon system test bed to validate the concept for shipboard use. Work will be performed in Albuquerque, N.M. (45 percent); Medford, N.Y. (20 percent) and various government labs and subcontractor locations (35 percent), and work is expected to be completed Dec. 3, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.

T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $16,818,418 for firm-fixed price task order #0004 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-10-D-5412) for design and construction of new recruit field barracks for Ranges 501 and 505, 31 Area at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. This project consists of a single-story facility and includes field barracks, drill instructor huts, and supporting facilities. The task order also contains one planned modification for furniture, fixtures, and equipment, which if issued would increase cumulative task order value to $17,391,489. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Eight proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Inc., Newport News, Va., a sector of Northrop Grumman Corp. is being awarded a $12,048,638 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to the previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2116) for procurement of additional long lead time materials in support of the construction preparation efforts for the second aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN 79). Work provides for necessary research studies; engineering; design; related development efforts; advanced planning; advanced procurement for detailed design and procurement of long lead material; logistics data; and other data to support the anticipated fiscal year 2013 ship detail design and construction of CVN 79. This contract modification provides for additional specific long lead materials in support of these preparation efforts. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by October 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-09-C-2116).

HydroidInc., Pocasset, Mass., is being awarded an $8,435,742 cost-plus incentive-fee contract for Littoral Battlespace Sensing (LBS) Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs), and associated support equipment. This contract will provide the Program Executive Office-Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Space, Navy Communications Program Office, PMW-120 a technology for meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) data collection, processing, and data/product dissemination. This contract includes five option periods, which if exercised, will bring the contract value to $77,668,315. Work will be performed in Pocasset, Mass., and is expected to be completed by March 2012. If all options are exercised, deliveries of LBS-AUV will continue through FY 2017. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract wascompetitively procured with using full and open competitive procedures via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center E-commerce website, with three offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-09-C-0085).

BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Rockville, Md., is being awarded an $8,002,910 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed price, cost-reimbursable line items contract (N00604-08-C-0002) to exercise option year three to provide operation and maintenance support for facilities operating under Naval Computer and Telecommunication Area Master Station, Pacific, Hawaii. Work will be performed in Lualualei, Hawaii (40 percent); Wahiawa, Hawaii (40 percent), and Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (20 percent), and work will be completed in September 2011. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three offers were received in response to the solicitation. Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is the contracting activity.

Rome Research Corporation, Rome N.Y., is being awarded a $7,005, 643 contract modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable line items contract (N00604-08-C-0001) to provide operation and maintenance support for facilities operating under Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Guam. Work will be performed in Finegayan, Guam (90 percent) and Barrigada, Guam (10 percent), and work will be completed in September 2011. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three offers were received in response to the solicitation. Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $5,936,034 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed price contract (N00604-06-C-0018) to exercise option year four to provide ammunition storage, handling and management services for Navy Munitions Command, East Asia Division Detachment Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Work will be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and work will be completed in September 201. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two offers were received in response to the solicitation. Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, Virginia, is being awarded a $6,403,252.00 cooperative agreement (HR0011-10-2-0004) for administration and management of the DARPA App Store as part of the Transformative Apps Program. Work will be performed in Reston, Va. (100 percent). The work is expected to be completed by September 2012. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.

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