Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $13,642,444 face value increase to a time and materials cost contract to provide for review of technical orders supporting the F-16 aircraft for procedures and materials that result in hazardous material and development of remedial action where required. Contract is expected to be completed July 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity (F33657-93-C-2374-P00043).
CTA SPACE SYSTEMS, McLean, Va., will design, build and launch a military research satellite designed to test laser links for infrared imagery under a $25 million contract awarded by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The Tri-Service Experiments Mission 5 platform will include a new digital infrared imager and laser-based data link to capture Earth images and transmit them to ground stations for processing. The satellite will also test a variety of advanced electronic components in space.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Long Beach, California, is being awarded an $8,000,000 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to convert the C-17 aircraft Lot VII production line items from Fixed Price Incentive Firm contract type to Firm Fixed Price. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,is the contracting activity (F33657-93/C- 0036, P00026).
AMERICAN MOBILE SATELLITE Corp. has received $225 million in bank financing to bridge its capital gap until the company can support itself with cash flow from its satellite telecommunications services, which went into operation in January. The five-year term loan and revolving credit facility is underwritten by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and Toronto Dominion Bank, with guarantees from Hughes Electronics, Singapore Telecommunications Lt. and Baron Capital Partners L.P., the satellite company's three largest investors.
Boeing Defense and Space Group, Seattle, Washington, is being awarded a $37,000,000 face value increase to a time and material contract to provide for CY1996 sustaining engineering services for the Offensive Avionics System and Defensive Management System on the B-1B aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed December 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma is the contracting activity (F34601-94/C- 0121, P00090).
GTE Government Systems Corporation, Needham Heights, Mass., is being awarded a $27,995,000 cost plus award fee contract to provide for design and development of the Defense Improved Emergency Message Automated Transmission System (IEMATS) Replacement Command and Control Terminal (DIRECT). Contract is expected to be completed October 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (F19628- 96/C-0126).
Jeffrey K. Harris, the former National Reconnaissance Office director who brought the black agency into the white world only to be fired when the NRO couldn't account for some $3.8 billion, has been named president of Space Imaging Inc.
Raytheon Aircraft Co. has received a $43.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy and Air Force to build and deliver three Beech Mk. II aircraft the second lot of the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) program. The contract calls for the Wichita-based unit of Raytheon Co to deliver the planes in early 1999. It also will deliver technical manuals, associated data, and Aircraft Structural Integrity and Engine Structural Integrity airframes to be used in cyclic testing, Raytheon said yesterday.
Lehman Chambers, Chambersburg, Pa., is being awarded a $5,820,452 firm fixed price contract to provide for design and construction of an anechoic chamber at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., to conduct electrical testing of the nose radome of the MC-130H aircraft. The work will be performed at Lehman Chambers, Chambersburg, Pa. (23%), Warner-Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., and Flam and Russell, Horsham, Pa. (47%). Contract is expected to be completed January 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
Hughes Electronics Corp. said its second quarter earnings increased 6.3% from the $288.4 million reported in the second quarter of 1995 due to higher commercial satellite manufacturing sales, continued DirecTV subscriber growth and increased sales of cellular communications equipment. Hughes reported second quarter earnings, before the effects of purchase accounting adjustments related to General Motors' acquisition of Hughes Aircraft Co., of $306.6 million or $0.77 per share. Earnings per share increased 6.9% from $0.72 per share in 1995.
Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company, St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded a $76,702,000 modification to a cost plus fixed fee contract for T800-LHT-801 growth engine development, flight test engines and spares. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana (50%), and Phoenix, Arizona (50%), and is expected to be completed by March 30, 1999. Of the total contract funds, $76,702,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on May 23, 1996. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command, St.
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the Army failed yesterday in their third attempt to intercept a simulated ballistic missile with the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile. "An intercept was not achieved" during a test yesterday at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to a statement released by the Army program executive office for missile defense.
GTE Government Systems Corporation, Communication Systems Division, Taunton, Massachusetts, is being awarded a cost plus award fee/time and materials, and firm fixed price contract (appropriation number and dollar value will be issued with each delivery order) with an estimated cumulative total not-to-exceed $148,234,682 (estimated total 5 year requirements) for technical services for support of AN/TTC-39 and AN/TYC-39 tactical communications switches.
Space Systems/Loral and the Boeing-led Sea Launch international consortium have signed a five-flight deal for launches in 1998-2001, when launch capacity worldwide will be stretched thin.
NASA'S DC-XA missed its fourth test flight Friday when winds at its White Sands test facility failed to reach the 3- to 5-knot speed necessary to prevent hydrogen vapor from accumulating at the rocket's base. Range scheduling conflicts prevented a quick retry, giving McDonnell Douglas time to reinstall the auxiliary propulsion system (APS) pulled last month when metallic particles were found in its turbopump spool (DAILY, July 2, 11).
The U.S. Navy is considering replacement of the infrared sensors on its P-3 patrol planes and will decide later this summer if such a program should be pursued, said Capt. Wally Massenburg, head of the anti-ship weapon system program office for Naval Air System Command.
General Dynamics Land Systems Incorporated, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded on July 10, 1996, a $15,000,000 modification for a first-year call- up of a multi-year letter contract definitized as a firm fixed price multi- year contract for 100 upgraded M1A2 Tanks, 1 ballistic turret and spares and 2 armor test sets, against a projected maximum dollar value of $1,497,805,000, for 580 M1A2 tanks over a 5-year period.
LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSILES&Space will work with Ball Aerospace to build, integrate and test NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The orbiting infrared observatory will include a 0.85-meter telescope and three instruments designed to study celestial regions hidden by cosmic dust and other phenomena best observable in the 3- 180 micron wavelength. A Delta II will place the platform in solar orbit for a two-and-a-half-year mission beginning in 2001.
Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $14,719,744 face value increase to a cost plus fixed fee contract to provide for 97 Mission Planning Subsystem II units applicable to the Air Force Mission Support System. Contract is expected to be completed August 1996. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, New Hampshire is the contracting activity (F19628-93/C-0018, P00118).
Greece will get its first U.S. HARM missiles under a planned $90 million Foreign Military Sales deal that also includes AMRAAM missiles. The Pentagon said last Friday that Greece has asked for 84 AGM-88B High-Speed Anti- Radiation Missiles and launch interface computers, as well as 50 AIM-120B Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles. The transfer would be the first Greek buy of the Texas Instruments HARM, the Pentagon said. The package would also include modification kits to upgrade and enhance the radars of Greek F-16 fighters.
The U.S. Air Force has completed ground testing in challenging conditions of a 250-pound small bomb that could ultimately take on 85% of the targets now assigned to the 2,000 pound BLU-109 bomb.
The House this week is slated to act on the fiscal year 1997 Commerce, State and Justice Appropriations Bill that contains a provision, which could prevent the Administration from implementing a tentative agreement to alter the conditions of the ABM Treaty.
LOCKHEED MARTIN ASTRO Space is slated to start testing soon on the first Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III spacecraft, delivered to the company's Missiles&Space Div. on July 13. The DSCS III program will be incorporated into the company's MILSATCOM programs organization, a new group that will be responsible for both Milstar and DSCS.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, has warned that if Congress doesn't send President Clinton a fiscal 1997 compromise Pentagon money bill before the August recess, the Defense Dept. might have to operate under a continuing resolution starting Oct. 1.
An article in The DAILY of July 9 (page 31) misidentified a U.S. Air Force program. It is the Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS), not the Strategic Missile Tracking System.
