By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
Oct. 27, 2008 - If the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center is a national treasure, as its commandant said, then its students are the jewels. "The students are some of the best and the brightest that [the Defense Department] has," said Army Col. Sue Ann Sandusky, a 1992 graduate of DLI's French program. "They learn a language to a standard that the vast majority of university languages don't even come close to achieving in a four-year program."
The need for more linguists in what DLI officials consider "Category IV" languages -- Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, Korean and Japanese -- requires students to be at the top of their games. Learning these, and the Category III languages, which include Dari, Pashto, and Persian Farsi, are no walk in the park.
It takes a student 64 weeks of intensive study to meet DLI's proficiency standards in a Category IV language. Those weeks are filled with a minimum of six to eight hours of instruction in the language and its culture a day, plus weekend assignments. Students also must maintain military fitness standards.
Those studying Category I languages -- Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese -- or Category II languages -- German and Indonesian -- don't have it any easier just because the languages aren't considered as complicated. They have to achieve the same proficiency in fewer weeks.
"They [all] have to work very hard when they get here. There are no free rides," Sandusky said. "[You can't just] eat your language jelly beans and suddenly come out speaking at a [proficient] level."
In fact, on a four-point grading scale, an A-minus isn't worthy of the dean's list or honor roll, she said.
"A 3.5 is almost the minimum you need to really ensure success," she said. "You have to be aiming for very close to perfection."
Of the roughly 3,000 DLI students from all the services, 92 percent are studying Category III and IV languages.
"[The students] are pretty precious resources," said retired Army Col. Donald Fischer, DLI provost and past commandant. "They're probably among the smartest of American youth. [They achieve] very high levels of proficiency in a very short amount of time."
While the students, of course, have a distinct role in their success, exceptionally qualified instructors, the curriculum, and technology play vital roles as well.
Nearly all of the more than 1,700 international faculty members are native speakers who hail from 100 countries to teach the 24 different languages offered at the institute. This mix of ethnicities and cultures provides not only invaluable resources for the students but contributes to the rich diversity in the city of Monterey, known as the "Language Capital of the World."
Combining instructor experience with technology takes the experience to the next level for the students, who walk the campus with tablet computers and iPods, both of which are loaded with language lessons. Other technologies, including "smart boards" in the wireless classrooms, contribute to an interactive learning environment, Fischer said.
"That marriage of teacher and student and curriculum and resources, and the impact of group around [the students] can really motivate a person," Fischer said. "They come out of here a much different person."
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Language Institute Remains Responsive, Adaptable to Nation's Needs
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
Oct. 24, 2008 - After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Defense Department's premier language school, like many of the more visible elements of national security, underwent major changes. As it became clear that future U.S. foreign policy would become increasingly linked to the Middle East, the area where the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives germinated, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center here responded to the nation's need for regional experts and linguists.
"For years, we taught the same languages; we had a pretty steady population, our budget was flattening," said Clare Bugary, deputy chief of staff for operations at the institute. "And all that changed in 2001."
Post-9/11 restructuring at the Defense Language Institute, or DLI, turned the institute from a basic language school for professional linguists into a closed military post. It boosted the number of Arabic and Dari students and instructors and began implementing rigorous training that would aid those deploying as part of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DLI also established the Emerging Language Task Force, which is responsible for adapting to national security directions as dictated by the Defense Department and the service branches, and dropped some less-critical languages from its course offerings.
"There was a sense over the years that we were a sleepy little school on the hill in Monterey in our Ivory Tower," Bugary said. "And the truth is that we are pounding the pavement."
One of the more conspicuous changes is the influx of funding the institute received. Its fiscal 2001 budget was $77 million. It now boasts a projected fiscal 2015 budget of $345 million, an increase of more than 400 percent.
Currently, the institute trains about 3,000 students representing all military services and employs more than 1,700 international faculty members, 98 percent of whom are native speakers, and with about half holding advanced degrees. DLI generally teaches 24 languages at any given time – a figure that is subject to change depending on department requirements.
The precursor to DLI began in 1941 as a Japanese language school with a flagship training program that taught native- and heritage-speakers of Japanese, known as the Nisei linguists. This select group of Japanese-Americans trained at the military Intelligence Service's Language School near San Francisco. There, they learned how to interrogate prisoners, intercept messages, translate captured documents and infiltrate enemy lines during World War II.
The school moved to Monterey in 1946 and began teaching Russian and Eastern European languages, plus German, French and Spanish -- tongues that were deemed valuable during the Cold War. This ability to adapt to national security needs continues to be one of the school's hallmarks, said Army Col. Sue Ann Sandusky, commandant of the institute.
"DLI is requirements-driven with regard to the languages we teach," Sandusky said. "That's how we keep up with the changing, geo-strategic times."
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Eastern European and Warsaw Pact language programs shrunk and made way for languages essential to the Persian Gulf War, the current operations in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, which demands mainly Dari and Pashto. The institute also added languages of South and Central Asia, and continues to maintain robust Korean training that began with the Korean War.
Sandusky said DLI anticipates that the U.S. Africa Command, which recently stood up as the newest combatant command, will generate its own language requirements, which it will pass to the service branches and eventually become institute curriculum.
A former Africa foreign area officer, Sandusky said she expects these requests to come in the form of the "big three" languages on the continent: Arabic, French and Portuguese. Though Africans speak thousands of languages and dialects, 95 percent of African nations use at least one of those languages as their official language, she said.
Another change that occurred at DLI in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent budget increases was a ramped-up effort to develop cutting-edge technology to administer the institute's unique curriculum.
One major contrast between DLI and academia is that courses taught at the institute deal in some languages that are obscure to native English speakers, so often no training materials exist. This is where DLI's department of curriculum development, in an arrangement with instructors, steps in to create the coursework from scratch.
"This is much more difficult than in academia, because you can't go out and buy the books," said Steve Koppany, dean of curriculum development. "You need the buy-in from the professors."
The nature of the training at DLI emphasizes instruction that is geared toward job-specific language and relevant cultural exposure that will assist graduates as they pursue defense-related jobs after leaving the institute. This philosophy helps to drive the way curriculum is developed.
"So if you have literature on advanced crocheting or transporting weaponry," Koppany said, "you are going to take the latter and push the other aside."
In courses beyond the basic level, lessons are administered through electronic media instead of textbooks. This format offers the obvious advantage of reducing overhead, but it also provides the added benefit of allowing the material to stay fresh by letting instructors update it regularly with relevant material.
One of these digitally based programs is the Global Language Online Support System, or GLOSS, which is accessible to both students and the general public. This Web-based technology comprises more than 5,000 hours of language training, conveyed in hour-long chunks. Sessions can be organized by topic, difficulty, modality -- speaking, listening and writing -- and by specific areas of language.
Other curricula offered include language survival kits: pocket-size booklets with audio CDs in more than 30 languages that outline common greetings, military commands, medical vocabulary and other useful phrases in the native tongue of the students' destination. DLI has shipped a million of these products to troops overseas.
The institute also offers Headstart language DVD programs that use cutting-edge technology and computer animation to teach 80 hours of self-paced lessons and are designed to teach survival phrases in Iraqi Arabic and in Afghan Dari and Pashto.
"With these things, they can put their DVD into a laptop and get basic greetings and basic interactions," said Donald Fischer, provost of DLI. He added that the institute is working on similar products for Chinese, Spanish, French and others.
"Once you have that," he said, referring to basic language foundation, "you can be empathetic to the people you're dealing with."
American Forces Press Service
Oct. 24, 2008 - After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Defense Department's premier language school, like many of the more visible elements of national security, underwent major changes. As it became clear that future U.S. foreign policy would become increasingly linked to the Middle East, the area where the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives germinated, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center here responded to the nation's need for regional experts and linguists.
"For years, we taught the same languages; we had a pretty steady population, our budget was flattening," said Clare Bugary, deputy chief of staff for operations at the institute. "And all that changed in 2001."
Post-9/11 restructuring at the Defense Language Institute, or DLI, turned the institute from a basic language school for professional linguists into a closed military post. It boosted the number of Arabic and Dari students and instructors and began implementing rigorous training that would aid those deploying as part of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DLI also established the Emerging Language Task Force, which is responsible for adapting to national security directions as dictated by the Defense Department and the service branches, and dropped some less-critical languages from its course offerings.
"There was a sense over the years that we were a sleepy little school on the hill in Monterey in our Ivory Tower," Bugary said. "And the truth is that we are pounding the pavement."
One of the more conspicuous changes is the influx of funding the institute received. Its fiscal 2001 budget was $77 million. It now boasts a projected fiscal 2015 budget of $345 million, an increase of more than 400 percent.
Currently, the institute trains about 3,000 students representing all military services and employs more than 1,700 international faculty members, 98 percent of whom are native speakers, and with about half holding advanced degrees. DLI generally teaches 24 languages at any given time – a figure that is subject to change depending on department requirements.
The precursor to DLI began in 1941 as a Japanese language school with a flagship training program that taught native- and heritage-speakers of Japanese, known as the Nisei linguists. This select group of Japanese-Americans trained at the military Intelligence Service's Language School near San Francisco. There, they learned how to interrogate prisoners, intercept messages, translate captured documents and infiltrate enemy lines during World War II.
The school moved to Monterey in 1946 and began teaching Russian and Eastern European languages, plus German, French and Spanish -- tongues that were deemed valuable during the Cold War. This ability to adapt to national security needs continues to be one of the school's hallmarks, said Army Col. Sue Ann Sandusky, commandant of the institute.
"DLI is requirements-driven with regard to the languages we teach," Sandusky said. "That's how we keep up with the changing, geo-strategic times."
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Eastern European and Warsaw Pact language programs shrunk and made way for languages essential to the Persian Gulf War, the current operations in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, which demands mainly Dari and Pashto. The institute also added languages of South and Central Asia, and continues to maintain robust Korean training that began with the Korean War.
Sandusky said DLI anticipates that the U.S. Africa Command, which recently stood up as the newest combatant command, will generate its own language requirements, which it will pass to the service branches and eventually become institute curriculum.
A former Africa foreign area officer, Sandusky said she expects these requests to come in the form of the "big three" languages on the continent: Arabic, French and Portuguese. Though Africans speak thousands of languages and dialects, 95 percent of African nations use at least one of those languages as their official language, she said.
Another change that occurred at DLI in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent budget increases was a ramped-up effort to develop cutting-edge technology to administer the institute's unique curriculum.
One major contrast between DLI and academia is that courses taught at the institute deal in some languages that are obscure to native English speakers, so often no training materials exist. This is where DLI's department of curriculum development, in an arrangement with instructors, steps in to create the coursework from scratch.
"This is much more difficult than in academia, because you can't go out and buy the books," said Steve Koppany, dean of curriculum development. "You need the buy-in from the professors."
The nature of the training at DLI emphasizes instruction that is geared toward job-specific language and relevant cultural exposure that will assist graduates as they pursue defense-related jobs after leaving the institute. This philosophy helps to drive the way curriculum is developed.
"So if you have literature on advanced crocheting or transporting weaponry," Koppany said, "you are going to take the latter and push the other aside."
In courses beyond the basic level, lessons are administered through electronic media instead of textbooks. This format offers the obvious advantage of reducing overhead, but it also provides the added benefit of allowing the material to stay fresh by letting instructors update it regularly with relevant material.
One of these digitally based programs is the Global Language Online Support System, or GLOSS, which is accessible to both students and the general public. This Web-based technology comprises more than 5,000 hours of language training, conveyed in hour-long chunks. Sessions can be organized by topic, difficulty, modality -- speaking, listening and writing -- and by specific areas of language.
Other curricula offered include language survival kits: pocket-size booklets with audio CDs in more than 30 languages that outline common greetings, military commands, medical vocabulary and other useful phrases in the native tongue of the students' destination. DLI has shipped a million of these products to troops overseas.
The institute also offers Headstart language DVD programs that use cutting-edge technology and computer animation to teach 80 hours of self-paced lessons and are designed to teach survival phrases in Iraqi Arabic and in Afghan Dari and Pashto.
"With these things, they can put their DVD into a laptop and get basic greetings and basic interactions," said Donald Fischer, provost of DLI. He added that the institute is working on similar products for Chinese, Spanish, French and others.
"Once you have that," he said, referring to basic language foundation, "you can be empathetic to the people you're dealing with."
Monday, September 29, 2008
MILITARY CONTRACTS September 26, 2008
Navy
VT Halter Marine, Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $393,722,502 firm fixed price not-to-exceed modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2212) for the detail, design and construction of three Fast Missile Crafts for the Egyptian Navy. The mission of the Fast Missile Craft is to conduct independent and joint operations primarily against surface shipping and armed surface adversaries in the littoral by fulfilling the role of coastal patrol, surveillance, interdiction, surface strike, and naval battle group support for the Egyptian Navy for the 21st century. Work will be performed at Pascagoula, Miss., (23 percent); Manassas, Va., (12 percent); Detroit, Mich., (11 percent); Baltimore, Md., (8 percent); Pittsburgh, Pa., (1 percent); Philadelphia, Pa., (2 percent); Camden, N.J., (1 percent); New Orleans, La., (3 percent); Thibodaux, La., (3 percent); Boca Raton, Fla., (2 percent); and other sites (34 percent), and work is expected to be completed Apr. 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.
Nova Group, Incorporated - Underground Construction Co., Incorporated, a joint venture, Napa, Calif., is being awarded a $139,142,212 firm fixed price contract for the construction to replace the Defense Fuel Storage Facility tanks at Defense Fuel Support Point, Naval Base Point Loma. The work to be performed for provides for six new 125,000 barrel above ground fuel storage tanks for 750,000 barrels of fuel storage capacity. The project supporting facilities include pump house, distribution piping, dispensing system, and fuel oil reclamation for a complete and usable facility. The project also demolishes or closes existing aboveground and underground storage tanks and provides extensive remediation of contaminated soil. The contract is incrementally funded with the first increment of $52,443,176 being allocated at the time of award. Future increments will be funded in FY 09 at $3,973,949, in FY 10 at $78,845,337, in FY 11 at $2,304,750 and in FY 12 at $1,575,000. The contract also contains eight options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $167,531,234. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Jul. 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $1,846,513) will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with two proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-C-7501).
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $117,080,058 cost plus award fee fixed fee contract for Aegis Combat Systems Engineering to support the Government of Spain under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Government of Spain selected the U.S. Navy/Lockheed Martin Aegis Combat System (ACS) for its F-100 Class Flight II Shipbuilding Program. These requirements include the necessary combat systems engineering, computer program development, ship integration and test, logistics technical services and staging support to deliver a variant of the U.S. Navy Aegis Weapon System Cruiser Modernization Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Refresh 2 (CGM CR2) Computer Program and equipment to support the construction of the Spanish F-105 Frigate. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $125,039,679. Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., (92 percent), and the Government of Spain, (8 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jul. 2012. 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 Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-08-C-5100).
Armag Corp., Bardstown, Ky., is being awarded a $49,900,000 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for procurement of wood-lined steel armories, freight, and accessories for portable weapon storage capability. This acquisition is for the procurement of wood-lined steel armories that provides the means to transport weapons and ancillary equipment for deployment, or as a means for secure weapon storage outside as a stand-alone facility. Work will be performed in Bardstown, Ky., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $8,294,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Federal Business Opportunities, Navy Electronic Commerce Online and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane website, with four offers received. NSWC, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-08-D-GQ10).
Glover Contacting Company, Inc.*, Pleasant Hill, N.C., is being awarded a $48,556,500 firm fixed price contract for construction of the Municipal Solid Waste Landfill at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for the construction of three new composite, line, sanitary landfill cells comprising 12 acres of additional waste disposal area and extension of existing leachate collection and electrical systems for the existing landfill cells. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2008. 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 one proposal received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-08-C-1413).
URS-IAP, LLC, Austin, Texas, is being awarded a $46,984,493 cost reimbursement task order #0008 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62470-06-D-6009) for design and construction of facility improvements at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti. The work to be performed provides for design and construction of new taxiways, water production facility, fuel farm, dining facility, and network infrastructure expansion. Work will be performed in Djibouti, Africa, and is expected to be completed by Oct. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $32,716,160 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-05-C-4403 for fuel oil compensation, ship alterations, and related work items for the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) FY09 Docking Phased Maintenance Availability (DPMA). The following work items will be accomplished: fuel oil compensation stability improvement modifications, production trade supervision and support, crane, rigging, and forklift service. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Va., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $32,716,160 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $26,295,379 cost plus fixed fee order against a previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (N00019-08-D-0004) for engineering technical services required to identify the solution to an in-production emergent obsolescence issue in the Type 3 Advanced Mission Computer for the F/A-18E/F/G Super Hornet. Work will be performed in Minneapolis, Minn., (50 percent) St. Louis, Mo., (25 percent) and Albuquerque, N.M., (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 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.
Night Vision Systems LLC (NVS), Allentown, Pa., is being awarded a $26,141,540 firm fixed price, indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity contract for Multipurpose Thermal Sights (MTS). The MTS is a thermal image device that can be used as either a hand-held detector or a weapon mounted detector. Work will be performed in Allentown, Pa., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $1,039,492 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This action was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with three offers received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded a $22,924,909 fixed price delivery order #0062 under a previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (M67854-04-D-5016) for the purchase of an additional 199 reducible height armor protection kits and 211 fuel fire protection kits for Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement vehicles. Work will be performed in Israel, (63 percent) and Oshkosh, Wis.,(37 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $21,385,000 for firm fixed price task order #0007 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) for design and construction of a Marine Logistics Group operations center and armory at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. The contract also contains two options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $24,885,000. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Chugach Industries, * Anchorage, Ala., is being awarded $16,734,180 to exercise the third option period under a combination firm fixed price, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (N44255-05-D-7100) with award options for base operations support services in the Navy Region Northwest, North Sound area. The work to be performed provides for, but is not limited to, all management and administration, public safety, supply, housing, facilities support (excluding grounds and janitorial services), utilities, base support vehicles and equipment, and environmental services to provide base operations and support services. The cumulative total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $112,408,376. Work will be performed at various installations in the Navy Region Northwest area of responsibility, and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $13,554,527 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-04-C-0014) for incorporation of Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) 6318 "Incorporation of upgraded Solid State Recorder (USSR)" to provide high fidelity recording of the 14 F/A-18E, 9 F/A-18F, and 22 EA-18G 8 x 10 display that retains and expands on the current Solid state Recorder capabilities. This modification/order combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($7,554,527; 56 percent) and the Governments of Switzerland $3,000,000 (22 percent) and Finland ($3,000,000; 22 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed in Nov. 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.
Advanced Ceramics Research*, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $13,366,035 cost plus fixed fee contract for services in support of the development and integration of Electro-Optical, Radio-Frequency, and acoustic sensors on various unmanned aerial vehicles. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., (85 percent); Kuwait, (10 percent), and Patuxent River, Md., (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $100,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via a Broad Agency Announcement. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-08-C-0474).
Alloy Surfaces, Co., Aston, Pa., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract in the amount of $13,158,485 for infrared countermeasures in support of the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing, Ogden, Utah. This contract includes a base period and one potential option period, which if exercised, would bring the total estimated value of the contract to $34,370,328. Work will be performed at Aston, Pa., and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2009. The contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $12,634,999 order against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) for the upgrade of one AV-8B Day Attack configured aircraft to a modified Night Attack configuration for use as a single seat trainer in the Fleet Readiness Squadron (FRS). Work will be performed at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C., and is expected to be completed in Mar. 2011. 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.
Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an $11,107,627 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity with cost reimbursement and fixed price ordering provisions contract for student, faculty and fellows engineering and technical support services in support of the U.S. Joint forces Command. This contract includes two two year option periods which, if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $35,630,918. Work will be performed in Suffolk, Va., (70 percent) and Norfolk, Va., (30 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was awarded through full and open competition. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia Division is the contracting activity.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,736,496 modification to a previously awarded cost plus incentive fee contract (N00019-03-C-0057) for procurement of Aircraft Change Directives in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) Pilot Production Aircraft, under the E-2D AHE System Development and Demonstration Program. Work will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y., (71.2 percent); and St. Augustine, Fla., (28.8 percent) and is expected to be completed in Jun. 2009. 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.
Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $10,298,600 for firm fixed price task order #0010 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) for design and construction of a new administrative facility for the 1st Marine Regiment and the 5th Marine Regiment to serve as battalion headquarters at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The task order also contains three options, which if exercised, would increase the cumulative task order value to $11,460,600. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Four proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $10,187,507 firm fixed price order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) for the procurement of 703 F/A-18 Cockpit Pressure Warning System kits for the U.S. Navy, (590) and the Governments of Finland, (66), Kuwait, (39) and Malaysia, (8). This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy, ($7,929,654; 77.8 percent) and the Governments of Finland, ($994,999; 9.8 percent); Kuwait, ($863,000; 8.5 percent); and Malaysia ($399,854; 3.9 percent); under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., (85 percent) and Mesa, Ariz., (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $3,851,100 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
ACG Systems, Inc., Annapolis, Md., is being awarded a $10,000,000 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for procurement of Motorola branded repeaters, radios and accessories in support of the Shipwide Integrated Wireless Communication System (SIWCS). This acquisition is for the procurement of Motorola Portable Radios and fixed radio equipment in support of the Shipboard Physical Security Program, SIWCS, AN/SRC-59. Work will be performed in Annapolis, Md., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $54,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with four offers being received via the FEDBIZOPS, NECO and the NSWC Crane website. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.
HITT Contracting, Inc., North Charleston, S.C., is being awarded a $9,780,000 firm fixed price contract for design and construction of a Child Development Center at Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston. Project also includes playground and food service equipment, comprehensive interior design, and demolition of pavement. The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, engineering, materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies and transportation to perform all work described in the request for proposal. Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. 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 six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (N69450-08-C-1775).
UBC, Inc.*, Tampa, Fla., is being awarded a $9,752,561 firm fixed price, time and material, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for 112 Steerable Antenna Systems (SAS) units and four AST-9 Couplers. This contract will also include engineering and technical support and repair services for the SAS units. Work will be performed in Tampa, Fla., and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $482,670 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured by an electronic request for proposals with one offer received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Point Mugu, Calif., is the contracting activity (N68936-08-D-0024).
Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn., is being awarded a $9,159,980 cost plus fixed fee, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for the furnishing of services in support of the Oxygen Generating Plant Gas Management System, Electrolytic Chlorine Generator Central Atmospheric Monitoring System Integrated Low Pressure Electrolyzer installed on the SSN-21, SSN-774, SSN-688 and SSN-726 Class Submarines. Work will be performed in Bremerton, Wash., (10 percent); New London, Conn., (10 percent); Philadelphia, Pa.,(10 percent); San Diego, Calif., (10 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, (10 percent); Groton, Conn., (10 percent); Pomona, Calif., (10 percent); Windsor Locks, Conn., (10 percent); Norfolk, Va., (10 percent); and Bangor, Maine, (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jan. 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $30,723 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship Systems Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-08-D-0022).
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $9,124,902 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-2100) for the procurement of vendor services to provide three complete main propulsion shafts to be used as rotatable pool spares. The main propulsion shafts will be used to support the SSN775, SSN777, and SSN778 Extended Dry-docking Selected Restricted Availability. Work will be performed in Erie, Pa., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $9,124,902 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.
Solpac Construction, Inc., dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $8,770,000 for firm fixed price task order #0008 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) to renovate galley, Building 300 at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The work to be performed provides for design and renovation of the Enlisted Dining Facility. This project will repair deteriorating floors, walls, ceiling, interior and exterior doors and windows. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Walton Construction Co., LLC, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded $7,685,000 for firm fixed price task order #0010 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62467-05-D-0184) for construction to Hangar 1048. The work to be performed provides for hangar addition, seat shop addition and supporting facilities. The project will modify an existing/functioning fighter squadron hangar into a hangar capable of housing a cargo/passenger plane. The main bay will have to be extended onto the existing apron with a new hangar door. Work involves cutting a new storm water trench drain and modifying the existing apron for hangar maintenance work. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity.
Marshall Communications Corp.*, Ashburn, Va., is being awarded a $7,676,268 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for digital video broadcast-return channel via satellite user subscriber suites, production subscriber suites, and associated spare parts. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to an estimated $23,593,937. The work for the contract will be performed in Ashburn, Va., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009 (Sept. 2011 with options exercised). Contract funds in the amount of $121,500 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (N65236-08-D-5159).
Solpac Construction, Inc., dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $7,163,100 for firm fixed price task order #0009 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) to construct a new Navy Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) security building at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The task order also contains three options, which if exercised would increase cumulative contract value to $9,472,170. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a firm fixed price delivery order contract in the amount of $6,383,699 for spares for the H-1 aircraft. Work will be performed at Fort Worth, Texas, and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2011. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.
Pro Construction, Inc.*, Jacksonville, N.C., is being awarded $6,361,000 for firm fixed price task order #0035 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contact (N40085-07-D-1911) for major interior exterior repairs to Bachelor Enlisted Quarters HP275 and HP285 at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Navy Electronic Online website with four proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Inc.*, Concord, Calif., is being awarded a $6,197,136 firm fixed price contract for vertical and lateral expansion of landfill at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The work to be performed provides for design and construction of an eight acre lateral expansion to the existing municipal solid waste landfill. The project consists of landfill design, environmental permitting, excavation, and construction of geosynthetic liner, leachate and methane collection systems, and a support building. Work will be performed in Twentynine Palms, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. 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 two proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-C-2203).
Knik Construction Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded $6,179,817 for firm fixed price task order #0002 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity paving and resurfacing construction contract (N69450-08-D-1272) at U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay. The work to be performed provides for base wide road repairs. Work will be performed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the contracting activity.
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $5,906,479 firm fixed price contract modification under previously awarded contract (N00604-06-C-0018) for ammunition 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 is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009. The contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through Navy Electronic Commerce Online, with two offers received. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is the contracting activity.
Armor Group North America, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $5,874,156 firm fixed price, indefinite quantity modification under a previously awarded contract (N33191-07-D-1357) to exercise an option for provision of security guard services at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The work to be performed provides for all managerial, supervision, labor, tools, materials, equipment and transportation necessary to provide security guards and administrative support. The total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $11,355,049. Work will be performed in Manama, Bahrain, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Facilities Engineering Acquisition Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Europe and Southwest Asia, Manama, Bahrain, is the contracting activity.
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded a $5,188,708 fixed price delivery order #0061 under previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (M67854-04-D-5016) for the purchase of 161 engines, 161 engine containers, and preservation & packaging for each engine for Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) vehicles. Work will be performed in Mossville, Ill., and work is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Army
AM General LLC, South Ben, Ind., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $734,983,443 firm fixed price contract for 4,853 High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles to contract. Work will be performed in Mishawaka, Mich., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2009. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (DAAE07-01-C-S001).
Raytheon- Integrated Defense Systems, Andover, Mass., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $77, 529, 675 firm fixed fee price contract for Patriot "Pure Fleet" Tactical Assets. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., with an estimated completion date of Apr. 30, 2011. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. US Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-07-C-0151).
J. Kokolakis Contracting Inc, Rocky Point, N.Y., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $62,803,500 firm fixed fee price contract to construct an Armed Forces Reserve Center, 25 Baiting Place Road, Farmingdale, N.Y., 200,000 square feet vehicle maintenance facility, 2 -level Concrete Parking Deck. Work will be performed in Farmingdale, N. Y., with an estimated completion date of Oct. 1, 2010. Twenty bids were solicited and four bids were received. National Guard Bureau, Latham, N.Y., is the contracting activity (W912PQ-08-C-0021).
Bristol Construction Services LLC, Anchorage, Ala., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $29,989,024 firm fixed fee price construction contract to provide labor, materials and equipment to repair/upgrade the access rail line and on-post rail system (increasing turning radiuses and track gauges)at the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny point (MOTSU), Southport, N.C. Work will be performed in Military Ocean Terminal at Southport, N.C., with an estimated completion date of Jul. 31, 2010. One was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM-LCMC is the contracting activity (W912HN-08-C-0072).
BAE Systems, York, Pa., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $18,774,179 firm fixed price contract. This effort is for an Undefinitized Contract Action for 476 Bradley Heat Abatement Vehicles. Work will be performed in York, Pa., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2010. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-05-G-0005).
J.F. Brennan, Lacrosse, Wis., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $8,538,506 firm fixed price contract for repair and replacement of roller and trainer gate chains, installation of new pocket wheels, remove and replace 1 tainter gate trunnion pins and bushing removal of timber bridge planking and installation of steel grating, storage yard fencing, operating houses architectural repairs, miscellaneous mechanical and electrical work. Work will be performed in Dubuque, Iowa, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 24, 2009. Bids solicited were via the www.fbo.gov and three bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W912EK-08-C-0208).
The Wormick Company, Cincinnati, Ohio is being awarded a maximum $123,767,718 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in Hamilton, Ohio. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z217).
Ameriqual Group, LLC, Evansville, Ind.*, is being awarded a maximum $84,810,460 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in same. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z214).
Labatt Food Co., San Antonio, Texas* is being awarded a maximum $43,622,907 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in Dallas, Texas. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z216).
Cytyc Corp., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a maximum $7,000,000 firm fixed price, sole source, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for medical supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, and Air Force. This proposal was originally Web solicited with one response. The original contract has a one-year base and four one-year option periods and is currently exercising the fourth option period. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM200-05-D-7201).
UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
Federal Express Corp., of El Segundo Ca., 90245-4318, is being awarded an estimated $58,710,291 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500.00. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5025).
Miami Air International, Inc., of Miami FL, 33142-3225 is being awarded an estimated $54,638,798 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5026).
National Air Cargo, Inc. dba Murray Air, of Ypsilanti, MI 48198-899 is being awarded an estimated $54,300,723 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5027).
US Airways, of Phoenix AZ, 85281-2880 is being awarded an estimated $45,764,631 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5028).
Air Transport International, of Little Rock Ar., 72202-2046 is being awarded an estimated $50,091,251 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5021).
Atlas Air, Inc. of Purchase NY, 10577-2543 is being awarded an estimated $9,860,202 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5022).
Continental Airlines Inc., of Houston, Texas, 77002-7362 is being awarded an estimated $57,565,780 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5023).
Evergreen International Airlines, of McMinnville of OR, 97128-8940 is being awarded an estimated $57,328,577 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5024).
Air Force
The Air Force is modifying a firm fixed price contract by exercising an option with Lear Siegler Services Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., for $46,459,000. This action is to exercise option year two of the contract for contractor logistics support for the C-26B aircraft for the Army National Guard and the RC-26B aircraft for the Air National Guard, consisting of maintenance, repair, and support functions for the period of 1 Oct. 2008 through 30 Sept. 2009. At this time no funds have been obligated. Oklahoma City Air Logistic Center, 727 ACSG/PKC, Tinker AFB, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8106-07-C-0004-P00037).
Moog Aircraft Group of East Aurora, N.Y., is being awarded a firm fixed price supply contract for $34,144,616. This action provides for C-5 Leading Edge Slat Actuator Shop Replacement Units. A modification will be issued to incorporate negotiated prices for option I. At this time $24,509,071 has been obligated. AFGLSC, 448 SCMG/PKHEA, Robins AFB, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8524-07-D-0009-0002).
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $33,412,727. This action provides for 40 sets of Group B applicable to the AN/APN 241 Radar on the C-130 aircraft, and various C-130J Replenishment Spares. At this time all funds have been obligated. 330 ACSG/GFKA, Robins AFB, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8504-08-C-0003).
The Air Force is modifying a cost plus fixed fee contract with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics of Fort Worth, Texas, for $28,518,789. This action will provide additional sustainment activities including the replenishment of Readiness Spares packages (RSPs) one, two, and three, and additional Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) projects. At this time all funds have been obligated. 478 AESW/PK, WPAFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8611-08-C-2897 P0005).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $24,966,612. This action will provide Survivability/Vulnerability Strategic Planning, Research and Analysis for the Intelligence, Operations, and Synchronization for United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Center for Special Operations (CSO). At this time $4,830,918 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0288).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $18,356,261. This action will provide Non-Kinetic Operations Intelligences Analysis to US Network Warfare and Critical Infrastructure Protection. At this time $289,866 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0286).
Northrop Grumman System Corporation Electronics Systems Section of Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded a time and materials, requirement type contract for an estimated $16,121,521. This action will provide for catastrophic level repair services for Programmable Signal processors (PSP) in support of the F-16 APG-68 Radar System. At this time no funds have been obligated. Department of the Air Force, 448 SCMS PKAB, Hill AFB, Utah is the contracting activity (FA8212-08-D-0005).
MW Clearing and Grading, Inc., of Blacksburg, S.C., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for a maximum of $10 million. This action will provide the road paving projects to support Charleston AFB Civil Engineering. At this time no funds have been obligated. 437th Contracting Squadron. LGCB, Charleston AFB, S.C., is the contracting activity (FA4418-08-D-0001).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $7,702,092. The action will provide Homeland Security mission blueprint implementation, technical operations and incident management analysis, and contingency planning to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Operations Coordination and Planning. At this time $1 million has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0293).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $7,249,134. This action will provide Information Operations (IO) support to Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC). At this time $386,473 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0290).
The Air Force is modifying a firm fixed price contract with Ahntech, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., for $6,115,872. This action provides for Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS). At this time all funds have been obligated. AETC CONS/LGCU, Randolph AFB, Texas, is the contracting activity (F41689-02-D-0044, P00043).
MAPCO, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for $5,928,777. This action will provide a construction project at Laughlin AFB, Texas, to repair the airfields rows Y and CC. At this time all funds have been obligated. AFRL/PKSR, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-08-D-1465 (IDIQ)).
Missile Defense Agency Contract Award
BAE Systems Technical Solutions & Services, Inc. of Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $73,109,229 (maximum) indefinite- elivery, indefinite quantity fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at BAE Systems Technical Solutions & Services, Inc., Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0002). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $4,444,898 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
DMD, L.L.C. of Huntsville, AL, is being awarded a $40,306,960 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at Huntsville, AL and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, AL is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0004). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $244,000 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
Teledyne Solutions Inc. of Huntsville, Al., is being awarded a $155,628,079 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by Sept. 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0006). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $1,583,747 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order. L-3 Communication Corp., L-3 System Co., of Camden, N.J., is being awarded a $19,377,606 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, sole source contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at L-3 Communications, Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0005). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $350,000 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
TRICARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY
United Concordia Co., Inc., Harrisburg, Pa., has been awarded a fixed price contract for the TRICARE Active Duty Dental Program (ADDP) effective Sept. 26, 2008, with dental healthcare services beginning Aug. 1, 2009. The contract provides dental coverage for Active Duty Service Members referred from Military Dental Treatment Facilities for civilian care, and dental coverage for ADSMs under the Remote Active Duty Dental Program. The performance period includes a base year and five one-year option periods. The phase-in base period is Sept. 26, 2008 through Jul. 31, 2009. The options provide five full years of service. The contract includes associated administrative services such as customer service, provider reimbursement, and education. The value of the awarded phase-in base period is $7,062,033. The total estimated contract value for the base period and all unexercised options is $667,698,420. This contract was competitively procured via the TRICARE Management Activity e-solicitation Web site with three offers received. The Department of Defense, TRICARE Management Activity, is the contracting activity. The contract number is H94002-08-C-0004.
VT Halter Marine, Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $393,722,502 firm fixed price not-to-exceed modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2212) for the detail, design and construction of three Fast Missile Crafts for the Egyptian Navy. The mission of the Fast Missile Craft is to conduct independent and joint operations primarily against surface shipping and armed surface adversaries in the littoral by fulfilling the role of coastal patrol, surveillance, interdiction, surface strike, and naval battle group support for the Egyptian Navy for the 21st century. Work will be performed at Pascagoula, Miss., (23 percent); Manassas, Va., (12 percent); Detroit, Mich., (11 percent); Baltimore, Md., (8 percent); Pittsburgh, Pa., (1 percent); Philadelphia, Pa., (2 percent); Camden, N.J., (1 percent); New Orleans, La., (3 percent); Thibodaux, La., (3 percent); Boca Raton, Fla., (2 percent); and other sites (34 percent), and work is expected to be completed Apr. 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.
Nova Group, Incorporated - Underground Construction Co., Incorporated, a joint venture, Napa, Calif., is being awarded a $139,142,212 firm fixed price contract for the construction to replace the Defense Fuel Storage Facility tanks at Defense Fuel Support Point, Naval Base Point Loma. The work to be performed for provides for six new 125,000 barrel above ground fuel storage tanks for 750,000 barrels of fuel storage capacity. The project supporting facilities include pump house, distribution piping, dispensing system, and fuel oil reclamation for a complete and usable facility. The project also demolishes or closes existing aboveground and underground storage tanks and provides extensive remediation of contaminated soil. The contract is incrementally funded with the first increment of $52,443,176 being allocated at the time of award. Future increments will be funded in FY 09 at $3,973,949, in FY 10 at $78,845,337, in FY 11 at $2,304,750 and in FY 12 at $1,575,000. The contract also contains eight options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $167,531,234. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Jul. 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $1,846,513) will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with two proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-C-7501).
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $117,080,058 cost plus award fee fixed fee contract for Aegis Combat Systems Engineering to support the Government of Spain under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Government of Spain selected the U.S. Navy/Lockheed Martin Aegis Combat System (ACS) for its F-100 Class Flight II Shipbuilding Program. These requirements include the necessary combat systems engineering, computer program development, ship integration and test, logistics technical services and staging support to deliver a variant of the U.S. Navy Aegis Weapon System Cruiser Modernization Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Refresh 2 (CGM CR2) Computer Program and equipment to support the construction of the Spanish F-105 Frigate. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $125,039,679. Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., (92 percent), and the Government of Spain, (8 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jul. 2012. 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 Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-08-C-5100).
Armag Corp., Bardstown, Ky., is being awarded a $49,900,000 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for procurement of wood-lined steel armories, freight, and accessories for portable weapon storage capability. This acquisition is for the procurement of wood-lined steel armories that provides the means to transport weapons and ancillary equipment for deployment, or as a means for secure weapon storage outside as a stand-alone facility. Work will be performed in Bardstown, Ky., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $8,294,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Federal Business Opportunities, Navy Electronic Commerce Online and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane website, with four offers received. NSWC, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-08-D-GQ10).
Glover Contacting Company, Inc.*, Pleasant Hill, N.C., is being awarded a $48,556,500 firm fixed price contract for construction of the Municipal Solid Waste Landfill at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for the construction of three new composite, line, sanitary landfill cells comprising 12 acres of additional waste disposal area and extension of existing leachate collection and electrical systems for the existing landfill cells. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2008. 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 one proposal received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-08-C-1413).
URS-IAP, LLC, Austin, Texas, is being awarded a $46,984,493 cost reimbursement task order #0008 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62470-06-D-6009) for design and construction of facility improvements at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti. The work to be performed provides for design and construction of new taxiways, water production facility, fuel farm, dining facility, and network infrastructure expansion. Work will be performed in Djibouti, Africa, and is expected to be completed by Oct. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $32,716,160 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-05-C-4403 for fuel oil compensation, ship alterations, and related work items for the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) FY09 Docking Phased Maintenance Availability (DPMA). The following work items will be accomplished: fuel oil compensation stability improvement modifications, production trade supervision and support, crane, rigging, and forklift service. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Va., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $32,716,160 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $26,295,379 cost plus fixed fee order against a previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (N00019-08-D-0004) for engineering technical services required to identify the solution to an in-production emergent obsolescence issue in the Type 3 Advanced Mission Computer for the F/A-18E/F/G Super Hornet. Work will be performed in Minneapolis, Minn., (50 percent) St. Louis, Mo., (25 percent) and Albuquerque, N.M., (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 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.
Night Vision Systems LLC (NVS), Allentown, Pa., is being awarded a $26,141,540 firm fixed price, indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity contract for Multipurpose Thermal Sights (MTS). The MTS is a thermal image device that can be used as either a hand-held detector or a weapon mounted detector. Work will be performed in Allentown, Pa., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $1,039,492 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This action was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with three offers received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded a $22,924,909 fixed price delivery order #0062 under a previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (M67854-04-D-5016) for the purchase of an additional 199 reducible height armor protection kits and 211 fuel fire protection kits for Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement vehicles. Work will be performed in Israel, (63 percent) and Oshkosh, Wis.,(37 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $21,385,000 for firm fixed price task order #0007 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) for design and construction of a Marine Logistics Group operations center and armory at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. The contract also contains two options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $24,885,000. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Chugach Industries, * Anchorage, Ala., is being awarded $16,734,180 to exercise the third option period under a combination firm fixed price, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (N44255-05-D-7100) with award options for base operations support services in the Navy Region Northwest, North Sound area. The work to be performed provides for, but is not limited to, all management and administration, public safety, supply, housing, facilities support (excluding grounds and janitorial services), utilities, base support vehicles and equipment, and environmental services to provide base operations and support services. The cumulative total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $112,408,376. Work will be performed at various installations in the Navy Region Northwest area of responsibility, and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $13,554,527 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-04-C-0014) for incorporation of Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) 6318 "Incorporation of upgraded Solid State Recorder (USSR)" to provide high fidelity recording of the 14 F/A-18E, 9 F/A-18F, and 22 EA-18G 8 x 10 display that retains and expands on the current Solid state Recorder capabilities. This modification/order combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($7,554,527; 56 percent) and the Governments of Switzerland $3,000,000 (22 percent) and Finland ($3,000,000; 22 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed in Nov. 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.
Advanced Ceramics Research*, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $13,366,035 cost plus fixed fee contract for services in support of the development and integration of Electro-Optical, Radio-Frequency, and acoustic sensors on various unmanned aerial vehicles. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., (85 percent); Kuwait, (10 percent), and Patuxent River, Md., (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $100,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via a Broad Agency Announcement. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-08-C-0474).
Alloy Surfaces, Co., Aston, Pa., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract in the amount of $13,158,485 for infrared countermeasures in support of the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing, Ogden, Utah. This contract includes a base period and one potential option period, which if exercised, would bring the total estimated value of the contract to $34,370,328. Work will be performed at Aston, Pa., and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2009. The contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $12,634,999 order against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) for the upgrade of one AV-8B Day Attack configured aircraft to a modified Night Attack configuration for use as a single seat trainer in the Fleet Readiness Squadron (FRS). Work will be performed at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C., and is expected to be completed in Mar. 2011. 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.
Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an $11,107,627 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity with cost reimbursement and fixed price ordering provisions contract for student, faculty and fellows engineering and technical support services in support of the U.S. Joint forces Command. This contract includes two two year option periods which, if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $35,630,918. Work will be performed in Suffolk, Va., (70 percent) and Norfolk, Va., (30 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was awarded through full and open competition. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia Division is the contracting activity.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,736,496 modification to a previously awarded cost plus incentive fee contract (N00019-03-C-0057) for procurement of Aircraft Change Directives in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) Pilot Production Aircraft, under the E-2D AHE System Development and Demonstration Program. Work will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y., (71.2 percent); and St. Augustine, Fla., (28.8 percent) and is expected to be completed in Jun. 2009. 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.
Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $10,298,600 for firm fixed price task order #0010 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) for design and construction of a new administrative facility for the 1st Marine Regiment and the 5th Marine Regiment to serve as battalion headquarters at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The task order also contains three options, which if exercised, would increase the cumulative task order value to $11,460,600. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Four proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $10,187,507 firm fixed price order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-05-G-0026) for the procurement of 703 F/A-18 Cockpit Pressure Warning System kits for the U.S. Navy, (590) and the Governments of Finland, (66), Kuwait, (39) and Malaysia, (8). This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy, ($7,929,654; 77.8 percent) and the Governments of Finland, ($994,999; 9.8 percent); Kuwait, ($863,000; 8.5 percent); and Malaysia ($399,854; 3.9 percent); under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., (85 percent) and Mesa, Ariz., (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $3,851,100 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
ACG Systems, Inc., Annapolis, Md., is being awarded a $10,000,000 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for procurement of Motorola branded repeaters, radios and accessories in support of the Shipwide Integrated Wireless Communication System (SIWCS). This acquisition is for the procurement of Motorola Portable Radios and fixed radio equipment in support of the Shipboard Physical Security Program, SIWCS, AN/SRC-59. Work will be performed in Annapolis, Md., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $54,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with four offers being received via the FEDBIZOPS, NECO and the NSWC Crane website. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.
HITT Contracting, Inc., North Charleston, S.C., is being awarded a $9,780,000 firm fixed price contract for design and construction of a Child Development Center at Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston. Project also includes playground and food service equipment, comprehensive interior design, and demolition of pavement. The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, engineering, materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies and transportation to perform all work described in the request for proposal. Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. 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 six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (N69450-08-C-1775).
UBC, Inc.*, Tampa, Fla., is being awarded a $9,752,561 firm fixed price, time and material, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for 112 Steerable Antenna Systems (SAS) units and four AST-9 Couplers. This contract will also include engineering and technical support and repair services for the SAS units. Work will be performed in Tampa, Fla., and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $482,670 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured by an electronic request for proposals with one offer received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Point Mugu, Calif., is the contracting activity (N68936-08-D-0024).
Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn., is being awarded a $9,159,980 cost plus fixed fee, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for the furnishing of services in support of the Oxygen Generating Plant Gas Management System, Electrolytic Chlorine Generator Central Atmospheric Monitoring System Integrated Low Pressure Electrolyzer installed on the SSN-21, SSN-774, SSN-688 and SSN-726 Class Submarines. Work will be performed in Bremerton, Wash., (10 percent); New London, Conn., (10 percent); Philadelphia, Pa.,(10 percent); San Diego, Calif., (10 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, (10 percent); Groton, Conn., (10 percent); Pomona, Calif., (10 percent); Windsor Locks, Conn., (10 percent); Norfolk, Va., (10 percent); and Bangor, Maine, (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jan. 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $30,723 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship Systems Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-08-D-0022).
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $9,124,902 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-2100) for the procurement of vendor services to provide three complete main propulsion shafts to be used as rotatable pool spares. The main propulsion shafts will be used to support the SSN775, SSN777, and SSN778 Extended Dry-docking Selected Restricted Availability. Work will be performed in Erie, Pa., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $9,124,902 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.
Solpac Construction, Inc., dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $8,770,000 for firm fixed price task order #0008 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) to renovate galley, Building 300 at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The work to be performed provides for design and renovation of the Enlisted Dining Facility. This project will repair deteriorating floors, walls, ceiling, interior and exterior doors and windows. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Walton Construction Co., LLC, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded $7,685,000 for firm fixed price task order #0010 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62467-05-D-0184) for construction to Hangar 1048. The work to be performed provides for hangar addition, seat shop addition and supporting facilities. The project will modify an existing/functioning fighter squadron hangar into a hangar capable of housing a cargo/passenger plane. The main bay will have to be extended onto the existing apron with a new hangar door. Work involves cutting a new storm water trench drain and modifying the existing apron for hangar maintenance work. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity.
Marshall Communications Corp.*, Ashburn, Va., is being awarded a $7,676,268 indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract for digital video broadcast-return channel via satellite user subscriber suites, production subscriber suites, and associated spare parts. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to an estimated $23,593,937. The work for the contract will be performed in Ashburn, Va., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009 (Sept. 2011 with options exercised). Contract funds in the amount of $121,500 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (N65236-08-D-5159).
Solpac Construction, Inc., dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $7,163,100 for firm fixed price task order #0009 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-08-D-8609) to construct a new Navy Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) security building at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The task order also contains three options, which if exercised would increase cumulative contract value to $9,472,170. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a firm fixed price delivery order contract in the amount of $6,383,699 for spares for the H-1 aircraft. Work will be performed at Fort Worth, Texas, and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2011. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.
Pro Construction, Inc.*, Jacksonville, N.C., is being awarded $6,361,000 for firm fixed price task order #0035 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contact (N40085-07-D-1911) for major interior exterior repairs to Bachelor Enlisted Quarters HP275 and HP285 at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 2010. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Navy Electronic Online website with four proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Inc.*, Concord, Calif., is being awarded a $6,197,136 firm fixed price contract for vertical and lateral expansion of landfill at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The work to be performed provides for design and construction of an eight acre lateral expansion to the existing municipal solid waste landfill. The project consists of landfill design, environmental permitting, excavation, and construction of geosynthetic liner, leachate and methane collection systems, and a support building. Work will be performed in Twentynine Palms, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2010. 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 two proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-C-2203).
Knik Construction Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded $6,179,817 for firm fixed price task order #0002 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity paving and resurfacing construction contract (N69450-08-D-1272) at U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay. The work to be performed provides for base wide road repairs. Work will be performed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the contracting activity.
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $5,906,479 firm fixed price contract modification under previously awarded contract (N00604-06-C-0018) for ammunition 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 is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009. The contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through Navy Electronic Commerce Online, with two offers received. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is the contracting activity.
Armor Group North America, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $5,874,156 firm fixed price, indefinite quantity modification under a previously awarded contract (N33191-07-D-1357) to exercise an option for provision of security guard services at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The work to be performed provides for all managerial, supervision, labor, tools, materials, equipment and transportation necessary to provide security guards and administrative support. The total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $11,355,049. Work will be performed in Manama, Bahrain, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Facilities Engineering Acquisition Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Europe and Southwest Asia, Manama, Bahrain, is the contracting activity.
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded a $5,188,708 fixed price delivery order #0061 under previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (M67854-04-D-5016) for the purchase of 161 engines, 161 engine containers, and preservation & packaging for each engine for Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) vehicles. Work will be performed in Mossville, Ill., and work is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
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AM General LLC, South Ben, Ind., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $734,983,443 firm fixed price contract for 4,853 High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles to contract. Work will be performed in Mishawaka, Mich., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2009. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (DAAE07-01-C-S001).
Raytheon- Integrated Defense Systems, Andover, Mass., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $77, 529, 675 firm fixed fee price contract for Patriot "Pure Fleet" Tactical Assets. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., with an estimated completion date of Apr. 30, 2011. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. US Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-07-C-0151).
J. Kokolakis Contracting Inc, Rocky Point, N.Y., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $62,803,500 firm fixed fee price contract to construct an Armed Forces Reserve Center, 25 Baiting Place Road, Farmingdale, N.Y., 200,000 square feet vehicle maintenance facility, 2 -level Concrete Parking Deck. Work will be performed in Farmingdale, N. Y., with an estimated completion date of Oct. 1, 2010. Twenty bids were solicited and four bids were received. National Guard Bureau, Latham, N.Y., is the contracting activity (W912PQ-08-C-0021).
Bristol Construction Services LLC, Anchorage, Ala., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $29,989,024 firm fixed fee price construction contract to provide labor, materials and equipment to repair/upgrade the access rail line and on-post rail system (increasing turning radiuses and track gauges)at the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny point (MOTSU), Southport, N.C. Work will be performed in Military Ocean Terminal at Southport, N.C., with an estimated completion date of Jul. 31, 2010. One was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM-LCMC is the contracting activity (W912HN-08-C-0072).
BAE Systems, York, Pa., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $18,774,179 firm fixed price contract. This effort is for an Undefinitized Contract Action for 476 Bradley Heat Abatement Vehicles. Work will be performed in York, Pa., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2010. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. TACOM, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-05-G-0005).
J.F. Brennan, Lacrosse, Wis., was awarded on Sept. 24, 2008, a $8,538,506 firm fixed price contract for repair and replacement of roller and trainer gate chains, installation of new pocket wheels, remove and replace 1 tainter gate trunnion pins and bushing removal of timber bridge planking and installation of steel grating, storage yard fencing, operating houses architectural repairs, miscellaneous mechanical and electrical work. Work will be performed in Dubuque, Iowa, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 24, 2009. Bids solicited were via the www.fbo.gov and three bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W912EK-08-C-0208).
The Wormick Company, Cincinnati, Ohio is being awarded a maximum $123,767,718 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in Hamilton, Ohio. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z217).
Ameriqual Group, LLC, Evansville, Ind.*, is being awarded a maximum $84,810,460 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in same. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z214).
Labatt Food Co., San Antonio, Texas* is being awarded a maximum $43,622,907 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for subsistence. Other location of performance is in Dallas, Texas. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. There were originally nine proposals solicited with nine responses. This contract is exercising the second option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-04-D-Z216).
Cytyc Corp., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a maximum $7,000,000 firm fixed price, sole source, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for medical supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, and Air Force. This proposal was originally Web solicited with one response. The original contract has a one-year base and four one-year option periods and is currently exercising the fourth option period. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM200-05-D-7201).
UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
Federal Express Corp., of El Segundo Ca., 90245-4318, is being awarded an estimated $58,710,291 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500.00. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5025).
Miami Air International, Inc., of Miami FL, 33142-3225 is being awarded an estimated $54,638,798 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5026).
National Air Cargo, Inc. dba Murray Air, of Ypsilanti, MI 48198-899 is being awarded an estimated $54,300,723 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5027).
US Airways, of Phoenix AZ, 85281-2880 is being awarded an estimated $45,764,631 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5028).
Air Transport International, of Little Rock Ar., 72202-2046 is being awarded an estimated $50,091,251 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5021).
Atlas Air, Inc. of Purchase NY, 10577-2543 is being awarded an estimated $9,860,202 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5022).
Continental Airlines Inc., of Houston, Texas, 77002-7362 is being awarded an estimated $57,565,780 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5023).
Evergreen International Airlines, of McMinnville of OR, 97128-8940 is being awarded an estimated $57,328,577 indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, fixed price contract with a minimum guarantee of $2,500. The contract is for time definite, door-to-door transportation service for full pallet, less than full pallet, and outsized/oversized cargo shipments weighing 1-300 lbs (non WWX eligible) and other general, refrigerated, and HAZMAT cargo 300 lbs and above. Work will be performed internationally and the performance period is from 1 Oct. 2008 to 30 Sept. 2012. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic proposals were solicited and eight proposals received. The contracting activity is United States Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill 62225, (HTC711-08-D-5024).
Air Force
The Air Force is modifying a firm fixed price contract by exercising an option with Lear Siegler Services Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., for $46,459,000. This action is to exercise option year two of the contract for contractor logistics support for the C-26B aircraft for the Army National Guard and the RC-26B aircraft for the Air National Guard, consisting of maintenance, repair, and support functions for the period of 1 Oct. 2008 through 30 Sept. 2009. At this time no funds have been obligated. Oklahoma City Air Logistic Center, 727 ACSG/PKC, Tinker AFB, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8106-07-C-0004-P00037).
Moog Aircraft Group of East Aurora, N.Y., is being awarded a firm fixed price supply contract for $34,144,616. This action provides for C-5 Leading Edge Slat Actuator Shop Replacement Units. A modification will be issued to incorporate negotiated prices for option I. At this time $24,509,071 has been obligated. AFGLSC, 448 SCMG/PKHEA, Robins AFB, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8524-07-D-0009-0002).
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $33,412,727. This action provides for 40 sets of Group B applicable to the AN/APN 241 Radar on the C-130 aircraft, and various C-130J Replenishment Spares. At this time all funds have been obligated. 330 ACSG/GFKA, Robins AFB, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8504-08-C-0003).
The Air Force is modifying a cost plus fixed fee contract with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics of Fort Worth, Texas, for $28,518,789. This action will provide additional sustainment activities including the replenishment of Readiness Spares packages (RSPs) one, two, and three, and additional Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) projects. At this time all funds have been obligated. 478 AESW/PK, WPAFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8611-08-C-2897 P0005).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $24,966,612. This action will provide Survivability/Vulnerability Strategic Planning, Research and Analysis for the Intelligence, Operations, and Synchronization for United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Center for Special Operations (CSO). At this time $4,830,918 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0288).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $18,356,261. This action will provide Non-Kinetic Operations Intelligences Analysis to US Network Warfare and Critical Infrastructure Protection. At this time $289,866 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0286).
Northrop Grumman System Corporation Electronics Systems Section of Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded a time and materials, requirement type contract for an estimated $16,121,521. This action will provide for catastrophic level repair services for Programmable Signal processors (PSP) in support of the F-16 APG-68 Radar System. At this time no funds have been obligated. Department of the Air Force, 448 SCMS PKAB, Hill AFB, Utah is the contracting activity (FA8212-08-D-0005).
MW Clearing and Grading, Inc., of Blacksburg, S.C., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for a maximum of $10 million. This action will provide the road paving projects to support Charleston AFB Civil Engineering. At this time no funds have been obligated. 437th Contracting Squadron. LGCB, Charleston AFB, S.C., is the contracting activity (FA4418-08-D-0001).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $7,702,092. The action will provide Homeland Security mission blueprint implementation, technical operations and incident management analysis, and contingency planning to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Operations Coordination and Planning. At this time $1 million has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0293).
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $7,249,134. This action will provide Information Operations (IO) support to Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC). At this time $386,473 has been obligated. 55th Contracting Squadron, 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, DO: 0290).
The Air Force is modifying a firm fixed price contract with Ahntech, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., for $6,115,872. This action provides for Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS). At this time all funds have been obligated. AETC CONS/LGCU, Randolph AFB, Texas, is the contracting activity (F41689-02-D-0044, P00043).
MAPCO, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for $5,928,777. This action will provide a construction project at Laughlin AFB, Texas, to repair the airfields rows Y and CC. At this time all funds have been obligated. AFRL/PKSR, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-08-D-1465 (IDIQ)).
Missile Defense Agency Contract Award
BAE Systems Technical Solutions & Services, Inc. of Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $73,109,229 (maximum) indefinite- elivery, indefinite quantity fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at BAE Systems Technical Solutions & Services, Inc., Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0002). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $4,444,898 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
DMD, L.L.C. of Huntsville, AL, is being awarded a $40,306,960 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at Huntsville, AL and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, AL is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0004). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $244,000 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
Teledyne Solutions Inc. of Huntsville, Al., is being awarded a $155,628,079 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity fixed price contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by Sept. 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0006). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $1,583,747 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order. L-3 Communication Corp., L-3 System Co., of Camden, N.J., is being awarded a $19,377,606 (maximum) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, sole source contract for specialized technical and programmatic, advisory and assistance services. Work will be performed at L-3 Communications, Huntsville, Al., and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2009. This is a sole source contract award. The contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Al., is the contracting activity (HQ0147-08-D-0005). Fiscal Year 2008 research and development funds will be used. The contract will be incrementally funded, and will obligate $350,000 FY-08 research and development funds on the first Task Order.
TRICARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY
United Concordia Co., Inc., Harrisburg, Pa., has been awarded a fixed price contract for the TRICARE Active Duty Dental Program (ADDP) effective Sept. 26, 2008, with dental healthcare services beginning Aug. 1, 2009. The contract provides dental coverage for Active Duty Service Members referred from Military Dental Treatment Facilities for civilian care, and dental coverage for ADSMs under the Remote Active Duty Dental Program. The performance period includes a base year and five one-year option periods. The phase-in base period is Sept. 26, 2008 through Jul. 31, 2009. The options provide five full years of service. The contract includes associated administrative services such as customer service, provider reimbursement, and education. The value of the awarded phase-in base period is $7,062,033. The total estimated contract value for the base period and all unexercised options is $667,698,420. This contract was competitively procured via the TRICARE Management Activity e-solicitation Web site with three offers received. The Department of Defense, TRICARE Management Activity, is the contracting activity. The contract number is H94002-08-C-0004.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sesame Street Coaches Kids Through Parent's Deployments, Returns
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
April 29, 2008 - Following a workshop that helped children cope with a military parent's deployment, the familiar, furry denizens of Sesame Street are starring in a new program focusing on multiple deployments and family adjustments upon a parent's return. Sesame Workshop, the makers of Sesame Street, today released "Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployment, Homecoming, Changes," a video workshop that aims to aid children in understanding and unbundling the tangle of complex emotions many feel in the midst of a mother's or father's tours of duty away from home, and even broaches the difficult subject of dealing with a parent's debilitating war injury.
"This follow-on DVD to talk about the changes, dealing with new medical injuries -- living in the 'new normal' -- is tremendously important," Army Col. Loree K. Sutton, chief of the newly created Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, said here during the workshop launch at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
More than 80 percent of those surveyed said the first installment of Sesame Workshop's military outreach effort -- which covered all phases of deployment -- was incredibly effective, Gary E. Knell, president and chief executive officer of Sesame Workshop. "And they really wanted us to also go to the next step to deal with two issues," he added, referring to multiple deployments and changes, especially mental or physical injuries parents suffer while deployed.
To help keep the program authentic to children's experience, an advisory committee composed of members of military families and advocacy groups, child psychologists, educators and other experts offered perspective to Sesame Street creators throughout production.
The show's creators also vetted the program through "real world" military families and adapted it according to their feedback, said Jeanette Betancourt, vice president for content design at Sesame Workshop's education and outreach division.
In the original script, for instance, writers used broad strokes to paint an effusive reunion between Elmo, a red, furry and perpetually 3-year old character, and his fresh-from-the-front-lines father. After seeing a rough cut of the scene, the advisors recommended tweaking the script to reflect a greater emotional range.
Leslye A. Arsht, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy, said the first treatment failed to capture the emotional complexity of the reunion.
"In the original version, they had [Elmo] all excited and enthusiastic and happy. It's sort of what you expect if you really don't know how hard it is when somebody's been gone for a while and you're so anticipating their returning," Arsht said in an interview. "And yet there's this (worry), 'Is he going to be the same?' You know, all those mixed emotions."
The creators heeded their feedback and re-wrote the scene to be more three-dimensional and true-to-life, through what she described as "powerful adjustments" in the script. The effects of such realism are evident, she said: "You cannot watch these DVDs without crying."
Arsht said the anxiety arises, in part, because children feel ambivalent about the growth and progress they make in the midst of their parent's absence.
"The child has been growing; they can do things they couldn't do before. They don't know whether to be proud about that, or to think that the dad's going to feel bad that he didn't get to see that happening," Arsht said, describing a common reaction of 3- to 5-year olds, the show's target demographic.
According to statistics, some 700,000 children of military members are under the age of 5. Through Sesame Street's lovable characters, the program manages to teach young children about painful subjects in a medium that speaks to them.
In one scene, Rosita, a cheerful, bilingual blue monster from Mexico, sees her servicemember father return home in a wheelchair after an injury he suffered during deployment.
"Initially she's angry. Her emotions emerge. And what Sesame Street is able to do is turn the conversation to what is the same, what the parent can do," Arsht said. "If he can't kick the ball -- which he couldn't -- he can catch the ball.
"It's elementary," she continued. "But it carries a much bigger message than the words themselves convey."
Elmo and Rosita are the best venues for relaying such tender messages because they are trusted by young audience members, said Barbara Thompson, the director of DoD's military community and family policy office and advisory board member.
"The children will listen and resonate with their message," she said. "Sesame Workshop captured the right message and how to say it in a very sensitive way. It's a well-done resource for our families."
Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit education effort, has been doing these special projects since its inception in 1968. The group has done outreach projects on subjects like early literacy, asthma, lead poisoning, going to the doctor and school readiness.
Performed in English and Spanish, the workshop will not air on television but will be distributed free to schools, child care programs and family support centers, thanks to a gift from Wal-Mart stores and other sponsors. The DVD kit or downloadable video is available at the Military OneSource Web site, www.militaryonesource.com.
The previous Sesame Street workshop, a broader installment entitled "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families Cope with Military Deployment," covered all phases of deployment, from predeployment to homecoming. A separate Sesame Street program, "When Parents Are Deployed," was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.
American Forces Press Service
April 29, 2008 - Following a workshop that helped children cope with a military parent's deployment, the familiar, furry denizens of Sesame Street are starring in a new program focusing on multiple deployments and family adjustments upon a parent's return. Sesame Workshop, the makers of Sesame Street, today released "Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployment, Homecoming, Changes," a video workshop that aims to aid children in understanding and unbundling the tangle of complex emotions many feel in the midst of a mother's or father's tours of duty away from home, and even broaches the difficult subject of dealing with a parent's debilitating war injury.
"This follow-on DVD to talk about the changes, dealing with new medical injuries -- living in the 'new normal' -- is tremendously important," Army Col. Loree K. Sutton, chief of the newly created Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, said here during the workshop launch at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
More than 80 percent of those surveyed said the first installment of Sesame Workshop's military outreach effort -- which covered all phases of deployment -- was incredibly effective, Gary E. Knell, president and chief executive officer of Sesame Workshop. "And they really wanted us to also go to the next step to deal with two issues," he added, referring to multiple deployments and changes, especially mental or physical injuries parents suffer while deployed.
To help keep the program authentic to children's experience, an advisory committee composed of members of military families and advocacy groups, child psychologists, educators and other experts offered perspective to Sesame Street creators throughout production.
The show's creators also vetted the program through "real world" military families and adapted it according to their feedback, said Jeanette Betancourt, vice president for content design at Sesame Workshop's education and outreach division.
In the original script, for instance, writers used broad strokes to paint an effusive reunion between Elmo, a red, furry and perpetually 3-year old character, and his fresh-from-the-front-lines father. After seeing a rough cut of the scene, the advisors recommended tweaking the script to reflect a greater emotional range.
Leslye A. Arsht, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy, said the first treatment failed to capture the emotional complexity of the reunion.
"In the original version, they had [Elmo] all excited and enthusiastic and happy. It's sort of what you expect if you really don't know how hard it is when somebody's been gone for a while and you're so anticipating their returning," Arsht said in an interview. "And yet there's this (worry), 'Is he going to be the same?' You know, all those mixed emotions."
The creators heeded their feedback and re-wrote the scene to be more three-dimensional and true-to-life, through what she described as "powerful adjustments" in the script. The effects of such realism are evident, she said: "You cannot watch these DVDs without crying."
Arsht said the anxiety arises, in part, because children feel ambivalent about the growth and progress they make in the midst of their parent's absence.
"The child has been growing; they can do things they couldn't do before. They don't know whether to be proud about that, or to think that the dad's going to feel bad that he didn't get to see that happening," Arsht said, describing a common reaction of 3- to 5-year olds, the show's target demographic.
According to statistics, some 700,000 children of military members are under the age of 5. Through Sesame Street's lovable characters, the program manages to teach young children about painful subjects in a medium that speaks to them.
In one scene, Rosita, a cheerful, bilingual blue monster from Mexico, sees her servicemember father return home in a wheelchair after an injury he suffered during deployment.
"Initially she's angry. Her emotions emerge. And what Sesame Street is able to do is turn the conversation to what is the same, what the parent can do," Arsht said. "If he can't kick the ball -- which he couldn't -- he can catch the ball.
"It's elementary," she continued. "But it carries a much bigger message than the words themselves convey."
Elmo and Rosita are the best venues for relaying such tender messages because they are trusted by young audience members, said Barbara Thompson, the director of DoD's military community and family policy office and advisory board member.
"The children will listen and resonate with their message," she said. "Sesame Workshop captured the right message and how to say it in a very sensitive way. It's a well-done resource for our families."
Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit education effort, has been doing these special projects since its inception in 1968. The group has done outreach projects on subjects like early literacy, asthma, lead poisoning, going to the doctor and school readiness.
Performed in English and Spanish, the workshop will not air on television but will be distributed free to schools, child care programs and family support centers, thanks to a gift from Wal-Mart stores and other sponsors. The DVD kit or downloadable video is available at the Military OneSource Web site, www.militaryonesource.com.
The previous Sesame Street workshop, a broader installment entitled "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families Cope with Military Deployment," covered all phases of deployment, from predeployment to homecoming. A separate Sesame Street program, "When Parents Are Deployed," was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.
Friday, April 25, 2008
JCOC Delivers School Supplies, Soccer Balls to Hondurans
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
April 25, 2008 - As Chris Camacho passed out soccer balls yesterday to a smiling group of local children in a dusty village just down the road from here, he thought of his father, who grew up in an impoverished area of Guadalajara, Mexico, and used to play soccer using a tube sock stuffed with rolled-up newspapers. "It took me back to him telling stories about his life growing up and of when they would have people bring them gifts," Camacho said. "When I was looking at the balls we were ready to distribute, it was definitely a moving experience, and I wanted to jump out there and just knock the ball around a little bit to see the joy on their face."
Camacho is president and chief executive officer of the Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation in Yuma, Ariz. He is here as part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, a Defense Department outreach program that exposes business and community leaders to the U.S. military around the world. This JCOC, the 75th in the series, is spending the week touring U.S. Southern Command's area of operations.
Exercising both his Spanish and his soccer skills, Camacho -- a former NCAA All-American soccer player -- kicked up the dust in a sparse, makeshift field for a few minutes with a handful of children as others in his group finished giving away school supplies.
In their stop here, Camacho and the 47 other JCOC participants delivered school supplies, soccer balls, and other recreational equipment to local children while just down the road, U.S. Army soldiers were preparing the ground for the foundation of a new school.
"These kids were smiling ear to ear like it was Christmas," Camacho said. "I haven't seen a set of kids that were more thankful and happy than those today. And having the opportunity to see them smile and run around with them was truly moving. I just wish we could do more for them."
Camacho's father came to the United States at age 11 and went on to play professional soccer for the Rochester Lancers in the North American Soccer League. He once played against Pele, the Brazilian soccer star generally regarded as the sports all-time greatest player, who played in the United States late in his career. Camacho learned the game as soon as he could "walk and talk and run around," he said.
Camacho played in college, and then trained for a year with the St. Louis Steamers, but then decided to go into business. He still coaches and gives individual training sessions for soccer players.
With a 5-month-old son at home, the smiles on the children's faces struck a chord with Camacho, he said.
"What moved me most was these kids were extremely happy, even though they live in the area they do," Camacho said. "I saw kids 5 months to 5 years old, and the fact that they were so thankful and grinning and talking to us, it just couldn't be a more incredible experience."
This is the first time a JCOC has toured SouthCom. Though most previous trips have exposed participants to U.S. military might, this JCOC group is seeing more of the U.S. military's humanitarian assistance and other aid-oriented missions, known as "soft power."
Today's stop included a briefing about Joint Task Force Bravo, which covers operations from Belize and Guatemala to Panama. It involves humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and counter-narcoterrorism, and provides an intermediate staging base and forward operating base in the region.
U.S. officials value the region because 40 percent of U.S. trade is with Latin America and Canada. Three of the four largest contributors to U.S. oil imports are countries in the Western Hemisphere, and 90 percent of all drugs entering the United States transit Central America, officials here said.
About half of Joint Task Force Bravo's 1,200 personnel are U.S. servicemembers, and civilian contractors make up the other half.
Army forces in the region provide water purification and distribution, as well as initial disaster response and assessment teams. They deploy search-and-rescue and communications teams.
The Air Force bases 10 UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters in the region, along with four other Black Hawks for medical evacuation missions. They also operate four CH-47D Chinook helicopters used for cargo and passengers.
A medical team runs a mobile surgical unit, an operating and emergency room, a small hospital ward and offers ambulance, dental and pharmacy services. There is also a 24-hour fire-protection unit and a joint security unit.
The servicemembers at the base volunteer to support the local communities. About 800 children are supported by donations to five orphanages, and Bravo servicemembers so far have donated 700 backpacks and 35,000 pounds of school supplies in the region and 900 pairs of shoes to local orphanages.
Beyond the Horizon, a U.S. Army South-led multiservice exercise, links U.S. and Honduran engineers and medical personnel together for construction projects and missions to provide medical, dental and veterinary services for Hondurans. Plans are to renovate three schools and to build two new schools and four water towers in Honduran towns. In 2007, Joint Task Force Bravo provided $1.4 million worth of surgical services to local Hondurans.
JCOC participant Dr. Frank McGrew, vice president of Stern Cardiovascular Center in Germantown, Tenn., toured the mobile medical unit and talked with its staff.
"I've been very impressed with the people and the medical facilities," he said. "And their ability to liaison with the local medical facilities, I think, is an excellent idea, not only to provide emergency specialist care for our troops, but also to help the local population."
McGrew said he always has had an interest in foreign affairs and political science.
"I think we are in the business of building nations, one person at a time," McGrew said. "Regardless of what you do on a military basis, you have to win the hearts and minds of the people, too. So much of the stability of a country and their relationship with the United States really depends on their personal perception of the United States."
McGrew said nothing can build a closer relationship with a country like delivering medical care to the people, because there is an immediate manifestation of the benefit.
Installing adequate water and sewage systems still takes time to eradicate diseases, he noted, and education can take half a generation to yield results. Political stability also takes a while to demonstrate benefits, he added.
"But if you set a guy's broken leg, the next day he knows what happened. He knows who did that. There's no doubt about that," McGrew said.
McGrew said he believes no agency is better suited to provide the logistical, medical and communications support for disaster and humanitarian relief than military operations such as Joint Task Force Bravo operating continuously in a region.
"They have to have an excellent relationship with the local people to do what they do, to get the kind of things they need done," he said. "I can't think of anything better than humanitarian missions to cement that relationship.
"Also, they're here all the time," he continued. "Aid missions come and go; they're not designed to be here all the time. The military mission is here all the time. They have the capability of providing continuing influence."
McGrew said he was impressed with the facilities and the staff of the medical team. But it is more than equipment and education that makes them stand out, he said.
"The facilities are good, the equipment is good, but the dedication and the quality of the service people at all levels ... I think is just incomparable. It makes me feel really good about the future," he said. "I was impressed with them at all levels, from the corpsmen to the chief of medicine."
American Forces Press Service
April 25, 2008 - As Chris Camacho passed out soccer balls yesterday to a smiling group of local children in a dusty village just down the road from here, he thought of his father, who grew up in an impoverished area of Guadalajara, Mexico, and used to play soccer using a tube sock stuffed with rolled-up newspapers. "It took me back to him telling stories about his life growing up and of when they would have people bring them gifts," Camacho said. "When I was looking at the balls we were ready to distribute, it was definitely a moving experience, and I wanted to jump out there and just knock the ball around a little bit to see the joy on their face."
Camacho is president and chief executive officer of the Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation in Yuma, Ariz. He is here as part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, a Defense Department outreach program that exposes business and community leaders to the U.S. military around the world. This JCOC, the 75th in the series, is spending the week touring U.S. Southern Command's area of operations.
Exercising both his Spanish and his soccer skills, Camacho -- a former NCAA All-American soccer player -- kicked up the dust in a sparse, makeshift field for a few minutes with a handful of children as others in his group finished giving away school supplies.
In their stop here, Camacho and the 47 other JCOC participants delivered school supplies, soccer balls, and other recreational equipment to local children while just down the road, U.S. Army soldiers were preparing the ground for the foundation of a new school.
"These kids were smiling ear to ear like it was Christmas," Camacho said. "I haven't seen a set of kids that were more thankful and happy than those today. And having the opportunity to see them smile and run around with them was truly moving. I just wish we could do more for them."
Camacho's father came to the United States at age 11 and went on to play professional soccer for the Rochester Lancers in the North American Soccer League. He once played against Pele, the Brazilian soccer star generally regarded as the sports all-time greatest player, who played in the United States late in his career. Camacho learned the game as soon as he could "walk and talk and run around," he said.
Camacho played in college, and then trained for a year with the St. Louis Steamers, but then decided to go into business. He still coaches and gives individual training sessions for soccer players.
With a 5-month-old son at home, the smiles on the children's faces struck a chord with Camacho, he said.
"What moved me most was these kids were extremely happy, even though they live in the area they do," Camacho said. "I saw kids 5 months to 5 years old, and the fact that they were so thankful and grinning and talking to us, it just couldn't be a more incredible experience."
This is the first time a JCOC has toured SouthCom. Though most previous trips have exposed participants to U.S. military might, this JCOC group is seeing more of the U.S. military's humanitarian assistance and other aid-oriented missions, known as "soft power."
Today's stop included a briefing about Joint Task Force Bravo, which covers operations from Belize and Guatemala to Panama. It involves humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and counter-narcoterrorism, and provides an intermediate staging base and forward operating base in the region.
U.S. officials value the region because 40 percent of U.S. trade is with Latin America and Canada. Three of the four largest contributors to U.S. oil imports are countries in the Western Hemisphere, and 90 percent of all drugs entering the United States transit Central America, officials here said.
About half of Joint Task Force Bravo's 1,200 personnel are U.S. servicemembers, and civilian contractors make up the other half.
Army forces in the region provide water purification and distribution, as well as initial disaster response and assessment teams. They deploy search-and-rescue and communications teams.
The Air Force bases 10 UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters in the region, along with four other Black Hawks for medical evacuation missions. They also operate four CH-47D Chinook helicopters used for cargo and passengers.
A medical team runs a mobile surgical unit, an operating and emergency room, a small hospital ward and offers ambulance, dental and pharmacy services. There is also a 24-hour fire-protection unit and a joint security unit.
The servicemembers at the base volunteer to support the local communities. About 800 children are supported by donations to five orphanages, and Bravo servicemembers so far have donated 700 backpacks and 35,000 pounds of school supplies in the region and 900 pairs of shoes to local orphanages.
Beyond the Horizon, a U.S. Army South-led multiservice exercise, links U.S. and Honduran engineers and medical personnel together for construction projects and missions to provide medical, dental and veterinary services for Hondurans. Plans are to renovate three schools and to build two new schools and four water towers in Honduran towns. In 2007, Joint Task Force Bravo provided $1.4 million worth of surgical services to local Hondurans.
JCOC participant Dr. Frank McGrew, vice president of Stern Cardiovascular Center in Germantown, Tenn., toured the mobile medical unit and talked with its staff.
"I've been very impressed with the people and the medical facilities," he said. "And their ability to liaison with the local medical facilities, I think, is an excellent idea, not only to provide emergency specialist care for our troops, but also to help the local population."
McGrew said he always has had an interest in foreign affairs and political science.
"I think we are in the business of building nations, one person at a time," McGrew said. "Regardless of what you do on a military basis, you have to win the hearts and minds of the people, too. So much of the stability of a country and their relationship with the United States really depends on their personal perception of the United States."
McGrew said nothing can build a closer relationship with a country like delivering medical care to the people, because there is an immediate manifestation of the benefit.
Installing adequate water and sewage systems still takes time to eradicate diseases, he noted, and education can take half a generation to yield results. Political stability also takes a while to demonstrate benefits, he added.
"But if you set a guy's broken leg, the next day he knows what happened. He knows who did that. There's no doubt about that," McGrew said.
McGrew said he believes no agency is better suited to provide the logistical, medical and communications support for disaster and humanitarian relief than military operations such as Joint Task Force Bravo operating continuously in a region.
"They have to have an excellent relationship with the local people to do what they do, to get the kind of things they need done," he said. "I can't think of anything better than humanitarian missions to cement that relationship.
"Also, they're here all the time," he continued. "Aid missions come and go; they're not designed to be here all the time. The military mission is here all the time. They have the capability of providing continuing influence."
McGrew said he was impressed with the facilities and the staff of the medical team. But it is more than equipment and education that makes them stand out, he said.
"The facilities are good, the equipment is good, but the dedication and the quality of the service people at all levels ... I think is just incomparable. It makes me feel really good about the future," he said. "I was impressed with them at all levels, from the corpsmen to the chief of medicine."
Outreach Program Participant Revisits Past
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
April 24, 2008 - It's been more than three decades since Tim Hudson bounced across this country's back roads in an old Bluebird bus and ended up in this historic coastal town. Yesterday, riding in a much nicer bus and rounding the bend of the "old city" banked by colonial-era, stone-fortified walls, Hudson saw something he didn't recognize -- a new part of the city built in the last decade, with high-rises and condos that service the booming tourism industry.
"None of that was here before," he said.
Hudson returned to Colombia this week as part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, a Defense Department outreach program that exposes business and community leaders to the U.S. military around the world. This conference, the 75th in the JCOC series, is spending the week touring a handful of countries in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations.
Now the president of the University of Houston-Victoria, in Victoria, Texas, Hudson first traveled to Colombia when he was 21 after finishing his undergraduate degree in history. After college, he said, he a few buddies decided to head here to learn Spanish. They met some local people their age and decided to ditch the classroom Spanish lessons, choosing instead to travel the countryside, going town to town learning the language "sobre la mesa" and "en la calle," or on the table and in the street, he said.
With a rucksack carrying a change of clothes and a few dollars stuck in their shoes, Hudson and his friends boarded rickety old buses that took them across the diverse countryside he grew to love.
"We were riding on these old buses," Hudson said, "so we didn't really have control over our itinerary, and it would take the long route over the mountains and zigzag roads, and I saw things that I really wasn't expecting to see -- all sorts of species of birds and animals, changes in geography in short distances from the ocean to the snow-capped mountains. The array of landscapes here is really spectacular."
Hudson said he didn't worry too much about his safety traveling then.
"I guess I was just too young to be scared," he said. "I remember being scared I would run out of money, scared I'd run out of water, scared I wouldn't get to a place that I really wanted to see, but not frightened for any other reason."
Hudson and his buddies spent about 10 days in this northern coastal town.
They walked on the beach, took rides on the fishing boats, did some shrimping, hung out in the plaza and talked with the local people. He lived in a small room on the beach, with a ceiling fan spinning off-rhythm and a bathroom that didn't function all the time.
"It's such a wonderful place. At that time you could get a little beachside room very inexpensively. [It is a] fantastic, beautiful part of Colombia," he said.
Today he toured the Colombian naval base and coast guard headquarters here. He stepped on the wooden deck of the historic sailing ship "Gloria," the Colombian navy flagship that serves as the first training ship for Colombian sailors.
Along with the other 47 JCOC participants, Hudson also toured a modern warship docked here, and the group was given a demonstration of the high-speed "Midnight Express" patrol boats used to chase down narcoterrorists. The majority of the Colombian navy's ships are gunboats used for patrolling the country's rivers and coastlines.
Hudson said his trip to Colombia after college catapulted him into a career in international relations. He returned to the United States to earn a doctorate in geography and later worked for the U.S. State Department, where he "used the heck out of" his Spanish.
"It just really transformed my world view in a way that was very positive, because I met so many wonderful people," he said. "Seeing it, smelling it, tasting it, meeting the people in all these small communities in Colombia, a place with just spectacular geography, made me realize I wanted a career and a life in international affairs."
He has since traveled to 60 different countries, but this region remains among his favorites, he said.
"Colombia is full of wonderful people who are very smart, very giving, very open. They have a wonderful view of life," Hudson said. "People always say, 'What's your favorite place?' I say that's not the right question, because it's all about the people in that place."
Hudson said he came on the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference because he is curious about the role the U.S. military is going to play going forward in the broad sweep of U.S. foreign relations.
"I know a lot about it in the past -- the good, bad and indifferent. But I'm really curious about what that role is going to look like in the 50 years ahead of us when we genuinely live in a globalized economy," he said. "I came to learn about how people are thinking about their interactions with other parts of the world. I'm really gaining a lot of insight into that."
Hudson said he believes the support here by the U.S. military is good for both countries in the long run.
"From what I've seen, I think that's a very positive relationship and probably a win-win. It's good for both parities, good for both countries to develop the trust relationships to work together on what is essentially a mutual problem," he said.
Besides the tours, briefings and equipment Hudson has seen on the trip, he also has had the opportunity to talk to the young Colombian soldiers.
"I think they genuinely appreciate the training, the equipment and the ability to really get on top of [the drug trafficking problem] they feel has done Colombia a disservice as a country and marked them in a way that's inappropriate for what this place really is," Hudson said.
Hudson also was able to talk with some businessmen who are seeing a different side of Colombia as a land of opportunity, a place that's going to continue to improve, and a country where investment is worthwhile.
"To me that's all positive, particularly if it leads to social development," he said.
During his stop yesterday, though, Hudson made time to sit on the steps of an old church he remembered from his travels to feed the pigeons alongside a small local child. He struck up a conversation with a woman who was selling silver in the old town square.
The downtown is a little cleaner, he recalled, maybe a little more modernized. Some of the old buildings have been restored.
But, he said, what he remembers most has not changed.
"The people are the same -- fantastic people [who are] just so easy to talk to, [with a] wonderful, kind of view of life and the world. That is pure Colombia, and that hasn't changed. Thank goodness," he said.
American Forces Press Service
April 24, 2008 - It's been more than three decades since Tim Hudson bounced across this country's back roads in an old Bluebird bus and ended up in this historic coastal town. Yesterday, riding in a much nicer bus and rounding the bend of the "old city" banked by colonial-era, stone-fortified walls, Hudson saw something he didn't recognize -- a new part of the city built in the last decade, with high-rises and condos that service the booming tourism industry.
"None of that was here before," he said.
Hudson returned to Colombia this week as part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, a Defense Department outreach program that exposes business and community leaders to the U.S. military around the world. This conference, the 75th in the JCOC series, is spending the week touring a handful of countries in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations.
Now the president of the University of Houston-Victoria, in Victoria, Texas, Hudson first traveled to Colombia when he was 21 after finishing his undergraduate degree in history. After college, he said, he a few buddies decided to head here to learn Spanish. They met some local people their age and decided to ditch the classroom Spanish lessons, choosing instead to travel the countryside, going town to town learning the language "sobre la mesa" and "en la calle," or on the table and in the street, he said.
With a rucksack carrying a change of clothes and a few dollars stuck in their shoes, Hudson and his friends boarded rickety old buses that took them across the diverse countryside he grew to love.
"We were riding on these old buses," Hudson said, "so we didn't really have control over our itinerary, and it would take the long route over the mountains and zigzag roads, and I saw things that I really wasn't expecting to see -- all sorts of species of birds and animals, changes in geography in short distances from the ocean to the snow-capped mountains. The array of landscapes here is really spectacular."
Hudson said he didn't worry too much about his safety traveling then.
"I guess I was just too young to be scared," he said. "I remember being scared I would run out of money, scared I'd run out of water, scared I wouldn't get to a place that I really wanted to see, but not frightened for any other reason."
Hudson and his buddies spent about 10 days in this northern coastal town.
They walked on the beach, took rides on the fishing boats, did some shrimping, hung out in the plaza and talked with the local people. He lived in a small room on the beach, with a ceiling fan spinning off-rhythm and a bathroom that didn't function all the time.
"It's such a wonderful place. At that time you could get a little beachside room very inexpensively. [It is a] fantastic, beautiful part of Colombia," he said.
Today he toured the Colombian naval base and coast guard headquarters here. He stepped on the wooden deck of the historic sailing ship "Gloria," the Colombian navy flagship that serves as the first training ship for Colombian sailors.
Along with the other 47 JCOC participants, Hudson also toured a modern warship docked here, and the group was given a demonstration of the high-speed "Midnight Express" patrol boats used to chase down narcoterrorists. The majority of the Colombian navy's ships are gunboats used for patrolling the country's rivers and coastlines.
Hudson said his trip to Colombia after college catapulted him into a career in international relations. He returned to the United States to earn a doctorate in geography and later worked for the U.S. State Department, where he "used the heck out of" his Spanish.
"It just really transformed my world view in a way that was very positive, because I met so many wonderful people," he said. "Seeing it, smelling it, tasting it, meeting the people in all these small communities in Colombia, a place with just spectacular geography, made me realize I wanted a career and a life in international affairs."
He has since traveled to 60 different countries, but this region remains among his favorites, he said.
"Colombia is full of wonderful people who are very smart, very giving, very open. They have a wonderful view of life," Hudson said. "People always say, 'What's your favorite place?' I say that's not the right question, because it's all about the people in that place."
Hudson said he came on the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference because he is curious about the role the U.S. military is going to play going forward in the broad sweep of U.S. foreign relations.
"I know a lot about it in the past -- the good, bad and indifferent. But I'm really curious about what that role is going to look like in the 50 years ahead of us when we genuinely live in a globalized economy," he said. "I came to learn about how people are thinking about their interactions with other parts of the world. I'm really gaining a lot of insight into that."
Hudson said he believes the support here by the U.S. military is good for both countries in the long run.
"From what I've seen, I think that's a very positive relationship and probably a win-win. It's good for both parities, good for both countries to develop the trust relationships to work together on what is essentially a mutual problem," he said.
Besides the tours, briefings and equipment Hudson has seen on the trip, he also has had the opportunity to talk to the young Colombian soldiers.
"I think they genuinely appreciate the training, the equipment and the ability to really get on top of [the drug trafficking problem] they feel has done Colombia a disservice as a country and marked them in a way that's inappropriate for what this place really is," Hudson said.
Hudson also was able to talk with some businessmen who are seeing a different side of Colombia as a land of opportunity, a place that's going to continue to improve, and a country where investment is worthwhile.
"To me that's all positive, particularly if it leads to social development," he said.
During his stop yesterday, though, Hudson made time to sit on the steps of an old church he remembered from his travels to feed the pigeons alongside a small local child. He struck up a conversation with a woman who was selling silver in the old town square.
The downtown is a little cleaner, he recalled, maybe a little more modernized. Some of the old buildings have been restored.
But, he said, what he remembers most has not changed.
"The people are the same -- fantastic people [who are] just so easy to talk to, [with a] wonderful, kind of view of life and the world. That is pure Colombia, and that hasn't changed. Thank goodness," he said.
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