The U.S. Air Force successfully tracked a test missile using the Hughes Sea Lite laser as part of a demonstration that the service says is crucial to the Airborne Laser program.
TAIWAN would get 300 U.S. M60 tanks and related equipment for $223 million, assuming Congress approves. The Dept. of Defense said Monday it has notified Congress of the sale, which involves M60A3 tanks with 105mm guns and thermal sights; 30 spare engines; 315 PVS-7B night vision goggles; 330 M240 machine guns; smoke grenade launchers and support.
The U.K. Cabinet's Overseas Policy and Defense Committee is expected within days to endorse the Defense Ministry's reported choice of the British Aerospace Nimrod 2000 upgrade for the Replacement Maritime Patrol Aircraft, or RMPA, program, sources told The DAILY. The Defense Ministry's Equipment Approvals Committee recommended the BAe program to refurbish and upgrade up to 28 of the RAF's 31 existing Nimrod MR.2s over plans for new or upgraded Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion patrol aircraft.
HUGHES TRAINING INC., Arlington, Tex., received an $8.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center for an upgrade of the Infinite Reality Graphics Subsystem.
Alliant Techsystems will produce 120 rounds of the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) munition under a $9.6 million contract from Aerojet, its partner on the program. Alliant said yesterday that the contract is an option on a $10.9 million low-rate initial production award for 110 rounds. Full-rate production on the $400 million program is expected to begin in 1999.
Delta Airlines will let Pratt&Whitney's newly created Fleet Management unit handle repair and replacement of critical spare engine parts under a new material management program whose provisions cover a term of up to a decade, P&W's top aftermarkets executive told DAILY affiliate Aerospace Propulsion.
The Senate unanimously passed an amendment yesterday calling for a new comprehensive defense strategy review to replace the existing Bottom Up Review as lawmakers continued debate on the fiscal 1997 defense authorization bill. Senators worked on the defense bill last night with the intention of wrapping up debate on the measure before the end of the week.
AEROJET GENERAL CORP., Sacramento, Calif., received a $70,000 increment as part of a $5.1 million contract for a Combined Effect Warhead (CEW) technology integration program. The Dept. of Defense announce the contract June 11 and said it was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.
HITECH INC., East Camden, Ark., won a $5.9 million contract June 14 from U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command for X-ray inspection of Hydra 70 rockets.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will drop its probe of McDonnell Douglas' handling of accounting issues stemming from the C-17 airlifter and now-dead A-12 attack plane programs, but the company will pay $500,000 in civil penalties under an agreement reached yesterday with securities regulators. Along with consent to a final judgment barring McDonnell Douglas from future violations, the payment settles an investigation into C-17 accounting opened in 1993. SEC is dropping the A-12 investigation, launched in 1991, without action.
PEAC AIRBORNE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., St. Paul, Minn., will produce an airborne radar system capable of detecting land mines of all types and other buried items and substances, according to Power Spectra, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif., technology company, and EAC Helicopters Inc., an aerial survey firm based in St. Paul.
CUBIC DEFENSE SYSTEMS, San Diego, received an $18.8 million increase to a contract for final ground and airborne hardware components, system integration and testing for the Nellis Air Combat Training System. The contract, from the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center, was awarded June 19.
Optical Sciences Company, Anaheim, California, is being awarded a $14,707,687 cost plus fixed fee contract to provide a manpower support contract to provide analysis, development and simulation as well as scientific evaluation and technical assistance. Contract is expected to be completed June 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 35 sources solicited and two proposals received. Solicitation was issued February 1996 and negotiations were complete June 1996.
DBA Systems, Incorporated , Melbourne, Florida, is being awarded a $3,420,000 increment as part of a $12,654,617 modification to a $40,485,867 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide services to modify current Modern Imagery Exploitation System to bring the system into conformance with the Common Imagery Ground/Surface System Acquisition Standards. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Florida, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This a sole source contract initiated on January 23, 1996.
TRACOR subsidiary GDE Systems has been awarded a 30-month, $9.35 million contract by the U.S. Army to design, build and test a hand-held standoff mine detection system.
A House defense appropriations amendment that would wipe out present law permitting defense contractors to write off the restructuring cost of a merger or acquisition faces a rough road in the fiscal 1997 defense appropriations conference, with the two appropriations subcommittee chairmen who will head the conference apparently opposed to the action. One of the chairman, Rep. C.W. (Bill) Young (R-Fla.), who heads the House Appropriations national security subcommittee, has said he would like to see the amendment altered even before conference.
Lockheed Martin this week stepped up its effort to sell the F-16 fighter to Poland, sending 35 representatives to Warsaw for a week-long meeting with government, industry and military officials. The goal of the group, split into six separate survey teams, is to "discuss potential industrial participation by Polish companies in the manufacture and maintenance of F-16 aircraft, engines, systems and electronics," Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems said yesterday. The officials are from Lockheed Martin and F-16 supplier companies.
General Atomics, San Diego, California, is being awarded an $8,422,488 cost plus fixed fee contract to provide an Intelligent Metacomputing Testbed to provide the government with research and development associated with the computer science of distributed metacomputing and super computing environments to handle data-intensive and numerically intensive application of metacomputing concepts to electronic commerce with federal government activities. Contract is expected to be completed December 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded a $460,545,554 modification to previously awarded contract N00019-95-C-0015 for the advanced acquisition contract for the procurement of long lead items in order to produce ten 1996 F/A-18C and eight F/A-18D weapon systems and associated supplies and data. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri (67%), and Hawthorne, California (33%), and is expected to be completed by September 1998. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year.
TRW, Incorporated, Electronic Systems and Technology Division, Redondo Beach, California, is being awarded an increment of a $9,000,000 modification to a time and materials contract for Battlefield Combat Identification System (BCIS) Contractor Logistics Support (CLS), repair and maintenance in support of Task Force XXI. Work will be performed at Fort Hood, Texas (75%), Redondo Beach, California (10%), various continental United States sites (10%), and outside the continental United States (5%), and is expected to be completed by July 31, 1999.
The University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio, was awarded on May 14, a $9,416,742 cost reimbursement contract to provide for experimental and theoretical studies of materials for use in electronic and optical devices. Contract is expected to be completed June 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One proposal was received. Solicitation began January 1996 and negotiations were complete May 1996. Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33615-95/C-5445).
HARRIS CORP.'s R.F. Communications Group, Rochester, N.Y., will engineer, furnish, install, make operational and maintain 15 Rear Link Communication Systems, and provide training, spares, and technical support for the Saudi Arabian National Guard under a $15 million increment of a $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, N.J.
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $15,262,858 face value increase to a time and materials contract to provide for Requirements Planning and Development for upgrade of the Modular Mission Computer on the F-16 Block 40 Aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed June 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-P00014).
Texas Instruments, McKinney, Texas. Is being awarded a $23,624,450 firm fixed price contract to provide 502 modification sets foe the Guided Bomb Unit 24/27, the Paveway III Laser Guided Bomb Program. The work will be performed at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Defense Systems&Electronics, Sherman Texas Contract is expected to be completed December 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (F42630-96-C0002-P00001).
The first block of flight control software for the F-22 fighter was evaluated in series of test flights using the F-16/VISTA airplane, paving the way to first flight of the plane in about a year. Three contractor teams logged 26.8 hours of flight time with the software, Lockheed Martin said.
