Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $14,218,159 face value increase to a fixed price incentive contract to adjust the billing price to conform to actual costs of Low Rate Initial Production for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Lot 1 (Aircraft P2). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, Mass., is the contracting activity (F19628-92/C-0035, P00055).
Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, Microwave Electronics Division, Nashua, N.H., is being awarded a $10,498,517 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the design, development, and demonstration of an X-Ray Stepper, X-Ray point source, and beamline interface design capable of connecting the stepper and source to form a point source lithography system which will be used to further reduce the size of microelectronics. Work will be performed in Waterbury, Vt. (51%); Somerville, Mass. (27%); Nashua, N.H. (17%); and Madison, Wis.
The People's Republic of China will buy five Canadair Corporate Jetliners for about $116 million ($155 million Cdn.), Bombardier said yesterday. It said the order for the 50-seat planes was the largest ever placed by Beijing for this type of aircraft, and one of the largest it has ever signed. It was the second major order for Canadair Regional Jets in two weeks. Atlantic Southeast Airlines, an Atlanta-based Delta Connection carrier, ordered 30 of the planes and placed options for 60 more. The two orders total $716 million ($957 million Cdn.).
McDonnell Douglas Training Systems, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $9,828,318 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to provide for integration of Global Positioning System into 62 T-1 aircraft and 2 T-1 flight simulators. The work will be performed at McDonnell Douglas Training Systems, St. Louis, Mo., and Raytheon Aerospace, Madison, Miss. Contract is expected to be completed January 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
On Jan. 20 Khrunichev State Space Center and the International Moscow Bank signed a credit agreement which will provide Khrunichev $35 million to finance its space projects. Khrunichev Director Anatoliy Kiselyov said the International Moscow Bank loan will enable Khrunichev subcontractors to purchase materials and equipment necessary to build new rockets.
Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been named chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on science, technology and space, with jurisdiction over NASA. Elected in 1994, Frist is a heart transplant surgeon who has not previously served on the Commerce Committee. A committee aide said membership of all the panel's subcommittees should be completed by early next week.
Lockheed Martin Vought Systems Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $72,535,653 increment of a $30,450,000 modification to a $160,895,220 basic with FY 98 IOT&E option of $19,409,780 cost-plus- incentive-fee contract for the continued development of the Army Tactical (Army TACMS) Missile System Block II Guided Missile and Launching Assembly. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 1999. This is a sole-source contract initiated on Oct. 28, 1994. The contracting activity is the U.S.
Sweden's Saab and British Aerospace yesterday extended an offset agreement with Hungary on the Gripen multi-role fighter. They said they hope the move will convince Budapest to buy the plane. The original agreement was signed in late 1995, when Hungary was expected to decide in 1996 which of several fighters to buy. Since then, however, it has deferred the decision until this year (DAILY, June 3, 1996).
Lockheed Martin Vought Systems, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a $13,175,951 modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract for the 1997 engineering services to the Army Tactical System (Army TACMS). Work will be performed in Dallas, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 1996. Of the total contract funds, $2,327,572 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on April 29, 1996. The contracting activity is the U.S. Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (DAAH01-92-C-0038).
Lockheed Martin Electro-Optical Systems, Incorporated, Pomona, Calif., is being awarded a $14,497,494 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 376 Simulated Area Weapons Effect/Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System II (SAWE/MILES II) devices for the U.S. Army. Work will be performed in Pomona, Calif. (80%), and La Mesa, Mexico (20%), and is expected to be completed by April 1998. Contract funds in the amount of $24,090 would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured.
RUSSIA'S ROSVOORUZHENIE will supply 10 Mi-17 military transport helicopters to the Colombian Army under a deal signed last month in Bogota. Rosvooruzhenie reported it will receive $42 million in U.S. dollars for the helicopters.
The U.S. Navy is looking to improve its aircraft recovery monitoring and display system used aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships under a multi-year development program.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) yesterday put the National Missile Defense Act on the Republican agenda for action in this Congress. If it is enacted, President Clinton would probably veto it. Lott told a Capitol Hill news conference that Senate Republicans had reserved the low numbered bill, S.7, for missile defense. It was to be introduced in the Senate yesterday.
Lockheed Martin credited its acquisition of Loral's defense electronics and system integration businesses in April with an 18% climb in its 1996 sales. Lockheed Martin sales for the year stood at $26.9 billion, up from $22.9 billion in 1995. Sales in C3I&Systems Integration grew 173%, and Electronics sales jumped 54%. Sales in Space&Strategic Missiles remained nearly the same, while Aeronautics saw a 15% drop. Lockheed Martin posted $1.21 billion in earnings in 1996, an 8% growth over 1995 totals.
While he doesn't expect Defense Secretary-designate William S. Cohen to have any difficulty winning Senate confirmation, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday that Republicans have "some problems" with the Clinton defense budget. The Senate Armed Services Committee begins hearings on the Cohen nomination today. The former Republican senator was nominated by President Clinton as defense secretary last month.
Last week's launch failure of a Delta II booster has thrown an ambitious flight schedule for the workhorse rocket into turmoil, with the first launch of the Iridium low-Earth orbit telecommunications network the first casualty.
HUGHES DELCO SYSTEMS OPERATIONS, Goleta, Calif., won a development and production award to provide electric-drive turrets for the Canadian Forces' new Armored Personnel Carrier. The contract with prime contractor Diesel Div. of General Motors calls for HDSO to provide turrets for 240 vehicles with options for as many as 651. With options, the contract could be worth about $500 million.
The Pentagon's Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office has selected Lockheed Martin to develop a low-band signals intelligence system for use on Army, Navy, and Air Force reconnaissance aircraft. Lockheed Martin's Sanders unit was named winner of a $70.7 million contract to design, develop and build the system, the Defense Dept. announced yesterday. Lockheed Martin teamed with TRW, Applied Signal and Radix to beat out Hughes and Raytheon E-Systems for the award.
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to return to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., this morning after a 10-day mission to Russia's Mir space station. Landing at the KSC Shuttle runway was scheduled for 7:46 a.m. EST. Atlantis undocked from Mir without incident on Monday after five-days of linked operations that saw almost 6,000 pounds of food, water and equipment transferred to Mir from the double Spacehab module in the Shuttle's cargo bay.
First carrier landing of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18E/F strike fighter was made Saturday off the coast of Virginia, marking the start of sea trials for the Super Hornet. One of a pair of two-seat F/A-18Fs in the flight test program, F-1, landed aboard USS John C. Stennis at 10:01 a.m. of Cape Charles and Cape Henry, according to Capt. Joe Dyer, the Naval Air Systems Command F/A-18 program manager.
Britain's GKN Westland EH101 Merlin helicopter has flown for the first time with its full mission equipment package, the company reported. The flight took place last week at GKN Westland's Yeovil airfield where the helicopter is built. Four flights were made. "The aircraft handled exceptionally well and all four flights were completed as scheduled in the pre-flight program," said Colin Hague, the company's chief test pilot. Before the flights, the EH101 logged 4,500 hours.
BOEING CO. received a $23 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for kits to convert nine KC-135R tankers to the Multipoint Refueling System (MPRS) configuration. The order brings the total number of production kits under contract to 11. The improvement allows simultaneous refueling of two aircraft.
Raytheon Co., which plans to buy the defense businesses of Hughes Electronics and Texas Instruments, says programs of the companies break down this way: Aircraft and Related Systems Raytheon: Hawker 1000, Hawker 800XP, Beechjet, Premier I, Beech 1900D, King Air, Bonanza, Baron, JPATS, Jayhawk, C-12, RC-12, U-125A, electronics and flight control systems, P-3C airframe refurbishment, reconnaissance and intelligence ground systems, 747SP stratospheric observatory, mission computer for E-2C Radar
Japan has consolidated operations of five military intelligence offices in one organization that began operations this week. The new organization is expected to grow to more than 1,600 employees, according to an official at the Japanese embassy in Washington. It will report to Japan's military joint staff and replace intelligence activities previously undertaken by the army, navy, air force, the joint staff and the Japan Defense Agency.
