Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, Calif., is being awarded a $5,781,866 cost- plus-fixed-fee contract for SURTASS/J-AOS block upgrade system software maintenance. This effort will provide for Surveillance Towed Array Sensor (SURTASS) and Japanese Auxiliary Oceanographic System (J-AOS) block upgrade system software maintenance, testing, Land Based Test Site (LBTS)/Program Generation Center (PGC) operations and maintenance, on-site support, engineering services and related data and technical manuals.
Logicon, Inc., San Pedro, Calif., is being awarded a $9,913,043 cost-plus- award-fee contract to provide for development of the Aircraft/Weapons/Electronics software module applicable to the B-1 aircraft. This software will serve as the link between the aircraft and the Air Force Mission Support System. Contract is expected to be completed March 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. At this time, $3,001,000 of the contract funds have been obligated.
The Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization says there will be a few years between the time Iran tests a medium range ballistic missile and the time it actually fields the missile, allowing the U.S. to deploy a defensive system in the theater, according to Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre.
EDO CORP., New York, won a $1.9 million add-on contract from Sparton Corp. to supply piezoelectric ceramic components for the U.S. Navy's AN/SSQ-62C sonobouy program. Deliveries are scheduled from EDO's Ceramic Products unit, Salt Lake City, through 1998. The add-on increases EDO's awards from Sparton to $8.5 million.
Textron Systems, Corp., Wilmington, Mass., is being awarded a $144,528,730 contract to provide for 550 CBU-97A/B Sensor Fused Weapons and associated warranties. Contract is expected to be completed March 2000. There was one firms solicited and one proposal received. Solicitation began June 1997; negotiations were completed February 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Eglin AFB, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08626-98/C-0002).
General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems, Inc., Greensboro, N.C., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $19,718,070 letter contract for Extending the Littoral Battlespace Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ELB ACTD). Work will be performed in Greensboro, N.C., and is expected to be completed by September 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through a Broad Agency Announcement with four offers received.
TRW Inc. said Philip Odeen has been elected executive VP and general manager of the new Systems&Integration Technology Group, and that John Stenbit has been named executive VP, telecommunications. Odeen headed BDM International, which was acquired by TRW in December 1997. The Systems&Technology Integration Group, a consolidation of TRW's System Integration Group and the operations of BDM International, will have combined sales of more than $3 billion. Stenbit had been president of the System Integration Group.
Final Analysis Inc. and Lockheed Martin Management&Data systems have "established a framework" for a joint effort to develop a 32-satellite "Little LEO" low Earth orbit communications satellite network, the companies announced yesterday. Under the arrangement, the Lockheed Martin unit will be sole-source provider of network system engineering and integration for the Little LEO network to be built by Final Analysis, a privately held aerospace company in Lanham, Md., that has launched two commercial satellites aboard Russian launch vehicles.
Smiths Industries, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $9,616,980 indefinite-quantity contract for 435 electron tubes, a component of the multi-purpose color display used on F/A-18 and AV-8B aircraft. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $13,264,800. Work will be performed in Beaverton, Ore., and is expected to be completed by March 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. This contract combines purchases for the U.S.
ELECTRONIC DESIGNS INC., Westborough, Mass., won a $6 million contract from Honeywell's Space and Aviation Control business for display and backlight assemblies for a Honeywell Multi-Function Control Display Unit (MCDU). Prototypes are scheduled for delivery in 1998 with full production following.
The U.S. State Dept. halted a proposed sale of Swedish Gripen fighters to South Africa because of the plane's large American content, including the engine, which is a license-built version of General Electric's F404, powerplant of the F/A-18 Hornet. Britain markets the Gripen through British Aerospace on behalf of Swedish builder Saab, and the countries have based their joint effort to win part of a South African arms order on an offer of 36 Gripens worth about $2.6 billion (DAILY, Dec. 12, 1997 and Jan. 12).
Raytheon Systems Co. named new vice presidents in the Air/Missile Defense Systems and Naval and Maritime Systems operations of its Defense Systems Segment. Stephen R. Stanvick has been named vice president in the Air/Missile Defense Systems, Bedford, Mass. Stanvick, a 30-year veteran of Raytheon, has been manager of Missile and Air Defense Systems for Raytheon Electronic Systems since 1994. From 1990 to 1994 he was responsible for managing all engineering effort for Raytheon's Missile Systems Division Laboratories.
VIASAT INC., Carlsbad, Calif., received a $2.5 million order for its STAR portable satellite terminals from Tracor Enterprise Solutions Inc., its teaming partner for the integration of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (IC4I) contract with the U.S. Air Force.
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP., Falls Church, Va., won a competitive task order contract to provide software and hardware engineering support to the U.S. National Security Agency.
TRW Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $8,600,000 indefinite- delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide for concepts definition, simulation, and development in support of the Integrated Test Bed (ITB) program. The ITB is intended to be a multipurpose, integrated, modular facility to test and evaluate advanced avionics systems from design through integration and evaluation. Funds will be obligated as individual orders are issued. Contract is expected to be completed January 2003. There were 20 firms solicited and one proposal received.
NASA has started running an airborne shuttle between Houston and Moscow to accommodate the growing steam of engineers and managers working on the International Space Station program. The U.S. space agency has piggybacked on the Pentagon's Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) in a six-month trial to see if it is cheaper to fly regular charters between the two centers of Station activity than to use commercial airlines, according to Tom Cremins, the No. 2 official for human spaceflight programs with Russia under Johnson Space Center Director George Abbey.
BOEING won a $147.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the service's fiscal 1998 buy of five F-15Es. It is the last planned AF procurement of F-15s. The fighters are to be delivered by January 2000.
The second "Big LEO" global mobile low Earth orbit communications satellite networks got off the ground Saturday with the launch of the first four Globalstar platforms aboard a Boeing Delta II launcher. Another four Globalstars are scheduled for a second Delta II launch April 24, followed by three flights of 12 each aboard Ukrainian Zenit rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome beginning in July. By the end of the year Globalstar hopes to have 44 satellites in low Earth orbit.
Serv Air, Inc., of Greenville, Texas, is being awarded a $100,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract, DAAB07-92-Z-B506, which supports the Special Operations Forces Support Activity (SOFSA). This modification will allow continuance of work, primarily in Lexington, Ky. The United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting office.
Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces orbited a photographic reconnaissance satellite yesterday which is intended to take 2-meter pictures of U.S. territory not only for the Russian military but for U.S. commercial customers as well.
Northrop Grumman, Linthicum, Md., is being awarded a $20,927,696 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for 16 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sets and two SAR spares. Work will be performed in Linthicum, Md., and is expected to be completed by March 30, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on Nov. 18, 1997. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, N.J. (DAAB07-97- C-J738).
Boeing Defense and Space Group, Seal Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $6,509,708 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for support equipment for the production of Block 11F Global Positioning System Satellites. Contract is expected to be completed April 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles, Calif. is the contracting activity (F04701-96/C09925, P00033).
Lockheed Martin wants to expand its prime vendor support responsibility beyond the U.S. Air Force's C-5 airlifter and is making a pitch to be put in charge of managing support of the service's C-130s and C-141s. The company is already working under an $86 million, 18-month contract to support C-5 programmed depot maintenance at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Ga., and wants to extend that to support the C-130s and C-141s.
Raytheon Systems Company (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company), is being awarded a $5,131,620 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for 215 Bradley Eye Laser Range Finder (BELRF) Kits. Work will be performed in LaGrange, Ga., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract solicited on June 25, 1996. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (DAAHo1-97-C-0089).
After a decade of preliminary technology investment, Pratt&Whitney plans within three years to certify a geared medium-thrust turbofan derived from the Advanced Ducted Prop program for the 120- to 180-passenger narrowbody jetliner market.
