Electronic Warfare Associates, Herndon, Va., is being awarded a $3,000,000 increment as part of a $14,062,818 cost-plus-fixed-fee/firm-fixed-price contract for Single Source Processor (SSP)-Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) (SSP-S), the interim system for the All Source Analysis System (ASAS) SIGINT capability at echelons above corps.
RAYTHEON TI SYSTEMS, McKinney, Tex., won a $28.6 million subcontract from United Defense LP for the Commander's Independent View (CIV) subsystem for the modernization of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) M2/M3A3 program. The low rate initial production award is for 53 systems for fiscal years 1997 and 1998. Pre-Production Qualification Test-Government (PPQT-G) will continue through 1998.
Logicon Syscon, Inc., Dahlgren, Va., is being awarded a $30,945,582 cost- plus-fixed-fee contract for test and evaluation of the Aegis Combat System and Aegis Weapon System software. This contract combines support for the U.S. Navy (95%) and the governments of Japan (4%), and Spain (1%), under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $187,953,294. Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (86%), Wallops Island, Va. (10%), and Arlington (Crystal City), Va.
AIRCRAFT BRAKING SYSTEMS CORP., Akron, Ohio, will provide main wheels and carbon brakes for British Midland's 12 new A-320s and eight new A-321s. ABSC supplies the wheels and brakes for 70% of the A-320s and A-321s ordered.
Two of 193 Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW) systems in the U.S. tested by the FAA in the wake of the crash of a Korean Air 747 on Guam were not working properly and have been fixed, the agency said. MSAWs at Fayetteville, N.C., and Florence, S.C., were recertified, as were the other 191 systems, the agency said. The system at the Aspen/Pitkin, Colo., airport, while certified, is not in service because of false low-altitude alerts in the mountainous terrain, FAA said.
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery skipped a landing opportunity yesterday because of predicted fog at its Kennedy Space Center, Fla., landing site, giving its six-member crew another day in its mixed bag science mission. Weather forecasters cautioned that early morning haze at KSC could turn to fog by the time Discovery arrived, so the mission was extended a day for safety. As it turned out, the fog didn't develop. The next landing attempt will come today at 7:08 a.m. EDT.
Aerospace/Defense Stock Box As of closing August 18, 1997 Closing Change UNITED STATES Closing as of Aug. 18 DowJones 7803.36 + 108.70 NASDAQ 1569.52 + 7.49 S&P500 912.49 + 11.68 AARCorp 34.125 - .375 AlldSig 85.125 - 1.00
The latest version of the MiG-29 fighter will be on display when the Moscow International Air Show opens today, Itar-Tass reported. The president of Moscow Aircraft Production Association (MAPO), Anatoly Manuyev, said the company would have about 20 new aircraft at the MAKS-97 show. The new MiG-29, with greater range, new cockpit and modernized armament, is MAPO's top priority, along with the MiG-AT trainer. Itar-Tass also reported that:
EVANS&SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORP., Salt Lake City, won a contract from Air China to provide three complete visual systems for the airline's new 777- 200 and 737-800 full-flight simulators and the 777-200 flight training device. The visual systems will be integrated into flight simulators being built by CAE Electronics, Montreal. The completed units will be installed in the Air China Training Center in Beijing.
A brake problem during the first taxi test of the F-22 fighter Saturday at Marietta, Ga., delaying further tests until next week, according to a Lockheed Martin spokesman. Jeff Rhodes said one of the brakes locked up in the 30-knot taxi test at Robins Air Reserve Base, where Lockheed Martin is testing the aircraft. The company had planned to do a new software load on the aircraft, and will now simply add new software to fix the brake glitch, he said.
Russia orbited a classified military satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Friday, which, based on parameters of its orbit, is probably an early warning spacecraft or a secure communications platform. The four-stage Proton-K launcher lifted off at 0:49 Moscow Daylight Time (4:49 p.m. EDT Aug. 14). The satellite was successfully inserted into a nearly synchronous orbit, and officially designated Cosmos 2345.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will produce color displays of a backup air traffic control system if Raytheon Co. misses the December 1998 deadline for delivering the initial version of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS). Lockheed Martin has received a $500,000 FAA contract for the work, but the agency is "still convinced Raytheon has the ability to do this job," Dave Ford, FAA integrated product team leader for terminal automation, told DAILY affiliate ATC Market Report.
LUNN INDUSTRIES, Glen Cove, N.Y., said its Alcore Inc. subsidiary agreed to license its phosphoric acid anode technology for corrosion resistance of aluminum to Japan's Showa Aircraft. Use of the technology is being expanded at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, and Showa will be working towards a full qualification at Boeing by the fourth quarter of 1997.
DRS PRECISION ECHO INC., Santa Clara, Calif., won a $2 million contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command for more WRR-818 Cockpit Video Recording Systems for F/A-18s. The award is an exercise of an option on an existing, multi-year contract awarded in 1994. The new award brings the total value to about $9 million.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Fla., is being awarded $11,025,000 as part of a not-to-exceed $14,700,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the design and production of 282 modified Optical Relay Tube Assemblies for the AH-64 Apache A and D model aircraft. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., and is expected to be completed by April 30, 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on April 21, 1997. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (Prov.), St. Louis, Mo.
The value of global arms transfer agreements totaled $31.8 billion in 1996 - the first increase in any year since 1992, the Congressional Research Service reported. The U.S. was No. 1, making agreements valued at nearly $11.3 billion, up from $9.2 billion in 1995, CRS said in "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1989-1996." The U.K. ranked second with $4.8 billion in agreements, up from $1 billion in 1995.
EMULTEK INC., Herndon, Va., will join SPC International Corp., a defense and aerospace consulting firm in Arlington, Va., to market Emultek's rapid- prototyping and simulation software for embedded systems.
LOCKHEED MARTIN SANDERS, Nashua, N.H., won a $12 million contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command to design, develop and make advanced common electronic modules (ACEMs) that will reduce equipment life cycle costs aboard ships and aircraft. Delivery of three prototype systems and flight testing aboard an SH-60 helicopter are expected to be completed by September 2001.
An internal spacewalk to restore power on Russia's shaky Mir orbital station, originally set for tomorrow, has been pushed back to no earlier than Friday after a computer crash yesterday knocked out the station's primary attitude control system. Mir's main computer shut down as a Progress supply capsule was approaching the Kvant-1 docking port under automatic control. Cosmonaut Anatoli Solovyev took manual control of the craft and guided it to a safe docking at 8:53 a.m. EDT, according to a NASA spokesperson at Johnson Space Center, Tex.
Orbital Sciences Corp. completed its purchase of CTA Inc. on Friday, boosting its expectation for revenues in 1997 to about $600 million with the addition of CTA's small-satellite backlog. Orbital will also gain about 300 engineers and other employees under the deal announced last month, which saw the Dulles, Va.-based space company acquiring CTA for $12 million in cash and an assumption of liabilities (DAILY, July 15).
A unit of Hughes Aircraft Co. is suing the Australian government for awarding an air traffic control system to Thomson-CSF. Hughes Aircraft Systems International filed a $266 million suit in federal court in Canberra on Friday, saying that the government's Airservices Australia denied it the contract to develop The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS) in February 1994.
Paced by production deliveries from its airborne systems segment, Elbit Systems Ltd., Haifa, Israel, earned $5.1 million on revenues of $87.2 million in its 1997 second quarter. In the same period a year ago, the company said it earned $4.3 million on sales of $74 million. Operating income climbed 38% from $5.7 million to $7.8 million. Elbit's backlog stands at $636 million, up from $614 million from the end of 1996. The company said that about 79% of the orders come from outside Israel. Also reporting were:
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $5,218,254 firm-fixed-price contract to fabricate and install communications, navigation, survivability production kits for three VH-60N helicopters. Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn., and is expected to be completed by July 2000. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00019-97-C-0030).
Boeing Defense and Space Group, Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $20,035,042 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for 291 BRU-44B/A bomb racks applicable to the B-2 aircraft and upgrade of 226 BRU-44A/A racks to the B/A configuration. This effort includes 12,500 ejector cartridges to support the B/A configuration. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657- C/0011, P00001).
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $13,098,462 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for five line items of modification kits to retrofit the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15S aircraft with the High Pressure Water Separator. Total number of kits will be eighty. This acquisition also includes one line item of special-tooling kits in support of the modification kits; one line item of commodity kits (quantity : 102) and one line of technical data. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
