MILITARY CONTRACTS April 9, 2009

NAVY
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $41,200,000 modification to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-09-C-0010) for long lead materials and effort associated with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Air System Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot IV procurement of three additional Navy Carrier Variant Air Systems (CVs) and one United Kingdom Short Take Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) Air System. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, (35 percent); El Segundo, Calif., (25 percent); Warton, United Kingdom, (20 percent); Orlando, Fla., (10 percent); Nashua, N.H., (5 percent); and Baltimore, Md., (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in Jan. 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.

The Boeing Co., Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $33,888,986 cost plus incentive fee, cost plus fixed fee contract to provide the following efforts for the TRIDENT II (D5) Navigation Subsystem: (1) engineering support services, and problem investigations for US and UK owned Electro-statically Supported Gyro Navigator (ESGN) navigation inertial equipment, (2) modification, refurbishment, and repair of U.S., and UK ESGN instruments and components, (3) TRIDENT II (D5) shipyard overhaul field engineering, (4) US Fleet Documentation, Surveillance Program, and Training, and (5) US/UK Stable Platform Housing Refurbishment. Work will be performed in Anaheim, Calif., (90 percent) and Heath, Ohio, (10 percent), and work is expected to be completed Jun. 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $25,360,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting agency (N00030-09-C-0002).

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $15,392,819 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-07-C-5432 for production support and technical engineering support for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM). Technical engineering support will include tasks needed to support missile production, which are not directly associated with the manufacture of missile hardware. These tasks include missile improvement, support equipment improvement, software engineering and improvement, reliability monitoring, system safety monitoring, quality assurance, risk management, test equipment, parts control, obsolete materials, configuration management, production verification inspection, manufacturing qualification, logistics impacts, and other activities needed to support the engineering of an effective ESSM missile for the NATO SEASPARROW Consortium. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., (45 percent); Australia, (11 percent); Andover, Mass., (10 percent); Germany, (8 percent); Canada, (7 percent); The Netherlands, (6 percent); Norway, (5 percent); Spain, (3 percent); Camden, Ark., (2 percent); Denmark, (1 percent); Greece, (1 percent); and Turkey, (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed Apr. 2010. 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.

Canadian Commercial Corp., General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada (GDLS-C), Ontario, Canada, is being awarded a $15,368,759 firm fixed priced modification to delivery order #0004 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5028) for the purchase of technical manuals for the RG31 MRAP Mk5 family of vehicles. Work will be performed in London, Ontario, Canada, and is expected to be completed Dec. 9, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Kilgore Flares Co., Toone, Tenn., is being awarded a $15,114,324 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for manufacture of new MJU-38A/B airborne expendable countermeasures decoy flares. Work will be performed at Toone, Tenn., and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2014. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured, with two proposals solicited and two offers received. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-09-D-K093).

Armtec Defense Products, Coachella, Calif., is being awarded a $14,661,754firm fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for manufacture of new MJU-38A/B airborne expendable countermeasures decoy flares. Work will be performed at Milan, Tenn., and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2014. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured, with two proposals solicited and two offers received. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-09-D-K092).

Oceaneering International, Inc., Hanover, Md., is being awarded $7,759,913 for task order #0003 under a previously awarded cost plus fixed fee (completion) contract (N00014-07-D-0908) to build on the technology development completed in the previous Task Order for Close-in Precision Dynamic Positioning. Oceaneering International will perform the required analysis, scale model testing, full scale demonstration and sea trials to advance Wave Feed Forward theory. Work will be performed in Hanover, Md., and work is expected to be completed Sept. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at end of current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured under solicitation N00014-06-R-0004 dated Mar. 2006. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.

ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Annapolis, Md., is being awarded a $6,303,559 indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, cost plus fixed fee contract to provide support for the Navigation Sensor System Interface (NAVSSI) to process data from the Global Positioning System and other ship navigation sensors in the distribution of real-time data to combat systems, command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence terminals (C4I). This requirement directly supports the Department of Defense and C4I mission critical systems. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific), Marine Navigation Division, is the Central Engineering Activity for evolutionary development of NAVSSI. This three-year contract includes two, one-year options which, if exercised, would bring the potential, cumulative value of this contract to $10,896,950. All work will be performed in San Diego, Calif. and work is expected to be completed Apr. 8, 2012. 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 website and posting to the SPAWAR e-Commerce Central website. SSC Pacific is the contracting activity (N66001-09-D-0038).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Hutchinson Industries, Inc., Trenton, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $36,918,570 firm fixed price, sole source contract for pneumatic tire wheel. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is the Army. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Mar. 15, 2010. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency (DSCC-ZG), Warren, Mich., (SPRDL1-09-C-0036).

AIR FORCE
Today the Air Force is modifying a time and material, cost contract with Accenture National Security Services, LLC, King of Prussia, Penn., for an estimated $15,781,064. This action will provide for AFMSTT; a non-commercial, government-owned simulation system used to train the Joint Forces Commander, (JFC), Joint Force Air Component Commander, (JFACC) and their battle staff in multiple federation environments. At this time, $1,955,866 has been obligated. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8731-06-C-0001, P00024)

Today the Air Force is modifying a firm fixed price contract with Insight Technology Incorporated, Londonderry, New Hampshire for an estimated $6,932,663. This action will procure Panoramic Night Vision Goggles (PNVG); Low Rate Initial Production III. At this time, the entire amount has been obligated. 641 AESS/SYKA, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity (FA8607-04-C-2752, P00016).