USA — US Military contracts for FY11

AIR FORCE

            Har­ris Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Ser­vices Corp., Dulles, Va., is being award­ed a $64,660,233 firm-price-incen­tive firm-with-award-fee con­tract mod­i­fi­ca­tion for the net­work and space oper­a­tions and main­te­nance, main­te­nance and logis­tics sup­port to be pro­vid­ed to Air Force Space Command’s 50th Space Wing.  This includes con­fig­u­ra­tion man­age­ment, elec­tri­cal pow­er sys­tems man­age­ment, data­base appli­ca­tions sup­port, 24-hour main­te­nance man­age­ment, indus­tri­al safe­ty, com­mu­ni­ca­tions secu­ri­ty, infor­ma­tion man­age­ment, com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work con­trol cen­ter oper­a­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tions cir­cuit man­age­ment, satel­lite con­trol cen­ter sup­port, com­put­er oper­a­tions sup­port, com­mu­ni­ca­tions-com­put­er sys­tems main­te­nance and oper­a­tions and main­te­nance for the Defense Satel­lite Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Sys­tem, Secure Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Sys­tem, and MILSTAR.  In addi­tion, the net­work and space oper­a­tions and main­te­nance con­tract will pro­vide oper­a­tions, main­te­nance, logis­tics and train­ing sup­port for the Air Force Satel­lite Con­trol Net­work at remote track­ing sta­tions around the world.  Main­te­nance and logis­tics sup­port will also be pro­vid­ed for Glob­al Posi­tion­ing Sys­tem (GPS) ground anten­nas and mon­i­tor­ing sta­tions, soft­ware analy­sis and sup­port for GPS, orbital analy­sis of mil­i­tary satel­lites in orbit in sup­port of mil­i­tary satel­lite con­trollers and secu­ri­ty forces at New Boston Air Sta­tion, N.H.  Work will be per­formed at Col­orado Springs, Colo.  50 CONS/GLCZW, Schriev­er Air Force Base, Colo., is the con­tract­ing activ­i­ty (FA2550-08-C-8011).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY 

            Hamil­ton Sun­strand Corp., Wind­sor Locks, Conn., was award­ed a firm-fixed-price con­tract with a max­i­mum $37,704,099 for con­trol indi­ca­tors.  There are no oth­er loca­tions of per­for­mance.  Using ser­vice is Army.  The date of per­for­mance com­ple­tion is July 29, 2016.  The Defense Logis­tics Agency, Red­stone Arse­nal, Ala., is the con­tract­ing activ­i­ty (SPRRA1-11-D-0064).

NAVY

            Raytheon Co., Tuc­son, Ariz., is being award­ed an $18,346,000 mod­i­fi­ca­tion to pre­vi­ous­ly award­ed con­tract (N00024-07-C-5437) for engi­neer­ing and tech­ni­cal ser­vices in sup­port of the MK15 Pha­lanx Close-In-Weapon Sys­tem.  The Pha­lanx Close-In Weapon Sys­tem is a fast reac­tion ter­mi­nal defense against low- and high-fly­ing, high-speed maneu­ver­ing anti-ship mis­sile threats that have pen­e­trat­ed all oth­er ships’ defens­es.  The Pha­lanx Close-In Weapon Sys­tem is an inte­gral ele­ment of the fleet defense in-depth con­cept and the Ship Self-Defense Pro­gram.  Oper­at­ing either autonomous­ly or inte­grat­ed with a com­bat sys­tem, it is an auto­mat­ic ter­mi­nal defense weapon sys­tem designed to detect, track, engage, and destroy anti-ship mis­sile threats pen­e­trat­ing oth­er defense envelopes.  The Pha­lanx Close-In Weapon Sys­tems are installed on approx­i­mate­ly 187 Navy ships and used by more than 20 for­eign mil­i­taries.  This mod­i­fi­ca­tion will be incre­men­tal­ly fund­ed in the amount of $11,625,546 at time of award.  After award of this mod­i­fi­ca­tion, the total esti­mat­ed con­tract val­ue will be $197,548,604.  This con­tract com­bines pur­chas­es for the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment (82 per­cent), and the gov­ern­ments of Japan, Aus­tralia, New Zealand, and Tai­wan (18 per­cent com­bined) under the For­eign Mil­i­tary Sales Pro­gram.  Work will be per­formed in Tuc­son, Ariz., and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed by April 2012.  Con­tract funds in the amount of $1,547,225 will expire at the end of the cur­rent fis­cal year.  The Naval Sea Sys­tems Com­mand, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., is the con­tract­ing activity. 

            Hunt­ing­ton Ingalls, Inc., New­port News, Va., is being award­ed a $10,000,000 mod­i­fi­ca­tion for planned sup­ple­men­tal work to pre­vi­ous­ly award­ed con­tract (N00024-09-C-2107) for the refu­el­ing com­plex over­haul of the USS Theodore Roo­sevelt (CVN 71).  Work will be per­formed in New­port News, Va., and is expect­ed to com­plete by Feb­ru­ary 2013.  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. 

Source:
U.S. Depart­ment of Defense
Office of the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense (Pub­lic Affairs)