Marvin Engineering Company, Incorporated, Inglewood, California, is being awarded a $25,981,545 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to provide for 1680 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Rail Launchers applicable to the F-15, F-16, F-18 and F-22 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed December 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort supports foreign military sales to Finland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece and Denmark.
Defense Secretary William Perry put the Army's Nautilus laser program on the fast-track for completion by the end of 1997, ordering it designated an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration following Hezbollah guerrillas' recent shelling of Israel.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $6,222,051 cost plus award fee contract to provide for 4 Mission Planning Subsystem Suites applicable to the Air Force Mission Support System. Contract is expected to be completed August 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Solicitation began November 1995; negotiations were complete March 1996. This effort supports foreign military sales to Israel. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (F19628-96/C-0072).
Raytheon Systems Development Company/Electronic Systems Division, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $2,250,650 increment of a $6,300,000 cost plus fixed fee delivery order contract for research and development services, Joint Precision Strike Demonstration (JPSD) Program Support. The Joint Air/Land/Sea Precision Strike Demonstration Program is a research and development effort designed to develop and demonstrate an Army all-weather, day/night, end-to-end, sensor to shooter precision strike capability.
AT&T Communications Service Gulf States, Incorporated, Greensboro, North Carolina, is being awarded a $18,925,330 firm fixed price contract to provide for design, construction, installation and test of fiber optic communication links between radar sites in northern Saudi Arabia and the existing fiber optic system. Contract is expected to be completed March 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort supports foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia.
Senate and House Intelligence Committees, in their respective fiscal year 1997 intelligence authorization bills, add $10 million to the Administration's budget to integrate data from the Air Force's Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) into key Navy systems. Both panels criticized the Administration for not requesting funding for such an initiative. The Pentagon request included no funding to enable naval forces to receive, process or use data from the Joint STARS moving target indicator (MTI) synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
Negotiators for McDonnell Douglas and the Machinists' union returned to the bargaining table yesterday afternoon, a day after some 94% of voting workers in the St. Louis area approved strike plans that could result in a walkout as early as next week over now familiar non-wage issues like job security and benefits.
Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles, Orlando, Florida, was awarded on May 13, 1996, an $11,000,000 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to provide for 2 Navigation Pods and 2 Sharpshooter Pods applicable to the Low Altitude Navigation Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) system on the F-15 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed November 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort supports foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia.
ORBITAL SCIENCES CORP.'S Pegasus air-launched booster carried the MSTI-3 satellite into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., Thursday night at 7:44 p.m. PDT. Early tests indicated that the satellite's main systems are working as planned. More detailed information about the health of the payloads and instruments will be available in about week, OSC said.
Rockwell International Corporation, Seal Beach, California, is being awarded a $27,975,775 face value increase to a cost plus award fee contract to provide for planing and evaluation effort for the Computer Upgrade/Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser Integration Program in support of the B-1 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed January 1997. 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 (F33657-94/C-0001, P00025).
Analytical Systems Engineering Corporation, Burlington, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $21,953,261 firm fixed price contract to provide for route survey, system design, cable and equipment installation, checkout and test in support of extension of fiber optic communication links from the existing fiber optic system to radar sites in northern Saudi Arabia. Contract is expected to be completed March 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort supports foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia.
Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour watched deployment of an inflatable Mylar structure simulating an antenna from the Spartan free- flyer yesterday, one day after their on-time launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The Senate on Friday passed without objection a bill authorizing the Air Force to enter a multi-year procurement (MYP) contract with McDonnell Douglas for the C-17 airlifter. The plan is also included in the Senate Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 1997 defense authorization bill, which could come before the Senate this week. Senate and House appropriators okayed the MYP plan earlier, but have pressed the Administration to ensure it can achieve greater savings with the accelerated production schedule for the remaining buy of 80 C-17s.
Flush with success from a 500-unit launch order in December from American Airlines, Honeywell and Trimble yesterday extended a year-old alliance on GPS equipment to cover the fast-growing business jet and regional carrier markets.
Rockwell International Corporation, Seal Beach, California, is being awarded a $20,000,000 time and materials contract to provide for emergency repair services as required on the B-1B aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed September 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one firm solicited and one proposal received. Solicitation began October 1994 and negotiations were complete December 1995. Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (F34601-96/D-0164).
Hughes Technical Services Company, Long Beach, California, was awarded on May 2, 1996, a $3,842,850 increment as part of a $7,702,650 firm fixed price contract (includes one option) for upgrade and repair of 150 thermal receiving units in support of the M1, M1IP, M1A1 Abrams Tank. Work will be performed in Long Beach, California, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on August 8, 1995. The contracting activity is the U.S.
U.S. AIR FORCE's 50th Space Wing, Falcon AFB, Colo., issued a presolicitation notice on Space Operations and Maintenance (SOM) acquisition, under which industry will "provide services required for satellite operations, operations support, maintenance and training for the 50th Space Wing and other users of the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) under the cognizance of Air Force Space Command." A May 10 Commerce Business Daily notice said the tentative milestones are: release of final RFP on Sept. 13; site tour, Sept. 16-21; pre-proposal conference on Sept.
The House Intelligence Committee has directed the U.S. Air Force to study the feasibility of leasing Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and determine if it's possible "to pursue immediately" a lease arrangement. In the interplay between the armed services and intelligence committees of the House and Senate, the language, in the committee's fiscal 1997 defense bill report, appears to constitute a strong step toward leasing.
Hughes Aircraft recently received a $665,000 contract from the U.S. Army for a six-month program to provide 24 DirecPC laptops to the service's Battle Labs for trial tests, Mark Levedahl, program manger for DirecPC, tells The DAILY. Ten of the laptops, which link to commercial satellites for data distribution, will be ruggedized for combat scenario testing, he says. The company also has a separate contract to provide 10 of the systems to the Army's Task Force XXI demonstration.
Staff members of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees will continue a jurisdictional dispute this week that could hold up Senate debate on the fiscal year 1997 defense authorization bill until mid-July, aides from the committees said. As of Friday, staffs of the committees hadn't reached a compromise, threatening to keep the Senate leadership from taking the defense bill to the floor before Congress breaks for Memorial Day recess at the end of the week.
Michael B. Targoff was appointed president and chief operating officer. He was senior vice president of Loral Corp. prior to the combination of Loral's defense businesses with Lockheed Martin.
The U.S. Navy's decision last year to deploy the Advanced Self- Protection Jammer on F/A-18 fighters flying over Bosnia could pay dividends to the ASPJ contractors if a Senate Armed Services Committee recommendation to buy additional systems becomes part of the fiscal '97 defense bill. The SASC, in its report on the fiscal '97 defense budget request, recommended adding $50 million "to buy 36 ASPJ systems, including aircraft interface units (racks), spares and additional integrated logistics support for three deployed F/A-18C/D squadrons."
Norman Y. Mineta, head of Lockheed Martin IMS' transportation business, has been awarded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of his contributions to NASA during his 21 years in Congress
During a recent visit to Kubinka air base and other military facilities, Japanese defense chief Hideo Usui and several high- ranking military officers reportedly talked seriously with Russian officials about an "expanded information exchange" with Russia, to include even buying Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters, officials say. A Japan Defense Agency official points out the potential, however, for at least one delicate issue. "If we purchase a Russian fighter and dismantle it, we might find a lot of Japanese-assembled semiconductors," he says.
FAA said it plans to conduct a competition for technical engineering services and program management support for satellite and satellite augmentation systems. Services will be provided to FAA's Satellite Navigation program office on a task order basis for up to seven years, including options. The agency said it will issue an initial screening information request on or about May 24 to prequalify companies to participate as prime contractors.
