Honeywell, Incorporated, Saint Petersburg, Florida, is being awarded a $9,990,000 face value increase to a Firm Fixed Price contract for 148 Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System units applicable to the Army OH-58D helicopter. Contract is expected to be completed April 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 (F33657-93-C-0002/P00013).
LORAL VOUGHT SYSTEMS, Dallas, Tex., received an additional $14.2 million on an earlier contract to exercise the option for 1996 engineering services for the Army Tactical Missile System. Work under the contract, awarded April 28 by U.S. Army Missile Command, is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 1996, according to the Dept. of Defense.
LITTON ELECTRON DEVICES, Tempe, Ariz., on April 28 got an additional $6.2 million under a multi-year contract from U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command for 11,066 spares for night vision goggles.
Lockheed Fort Worth Company, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $14,577,394 face value increase to a Fixed Price Incentive contract for sustaining support for depot level maintenance equipment, organizational and intermediate level maintenance equipment and for the Improved Avionics Intermediate Shop in support of the F-16 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 (F33657-88-C-0037/P00840).
The U.S. Army Materiel Command asked the General Accounting Office to throw out Olin Ordnance's protest concerning the award of a $123 million contract to Martin Marietta for the production of 400,000 Hydra 70 rockets. AMC's field report to the GAO in response to Olin's protest concludes that "this protest is without merit and should be dismissed or denied, as appropriate." A copy of the AMC report was obtained by The DAILY.
Lockheed Fort Worth Company, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $55,000,000 face value increase to a Fixed Price Incentive contract to extend long lead funding for 80 F-16 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed December 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This efforts supports foreign military sales to Turkey. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-90-C2002/P00382).
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC., Dallas, Tex., on April 28 received $5 million as a modification to an earlier U.S. Army Missile Command contract for TOW Improved Target Acquisition System engineering and manufacturing.
Allison Engine Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, is being awarded a $6,100,000 firm fixed price contract for engineering services to complete certification of 250-C3OR/3 engines for use in the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Helicopter. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed by January 31, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on April 21, 1995. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command, St. Louis, Missouri (DAAJ09-87-G-A005).
The Air Force will keep its current Senior Executive Service (SES) position for deputy assistant secretary for research and engineering after James Mattice, who now holds that post, leaves this summer, the service's acquisition public affairs office said yesterday.
Boeing's third production 777 widebody twin set a speed record for its weight class Sunday in a Bangkok-to-Seattle flight that ended a three-week tour of 10 nations. The aircraft flew 7,850 miles nonstop in 13 hours and 36 minutes. Boeing said it will submit the "speed over a recognized course" record to the National Aeronautic Association and the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for certification.
RAYTHEON CO., Marlborough, Mass., on April 28 received an $8.5 million increment to an earlier $19.8 million contract from U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command for the Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination System (ATNAVICS). The Dept. of Defense said the system will provide air traffic services at Army terminal airfields, landing sites or zones at division, corps and echelons above corps. The award also covers the fixed base Precision Approach Radar (PAR) system, which will provide air traffic services at Army terminal airfields.
Malaysia took delivery Friday of the first four of a planned 18 MiG-29 fighters, marking the beginning of what Russian officials contended would be a string of sales in Southeast Asia. Russia signed the roughly $600 million deal with Malaysia nearly a year ago after months of haggling, agreeing to supply 16 single-seat MiG- 29s and two carrier-capable two-seaters, as well as help setting up a technical service center and facilities to build components and maintain the aircraft (DAILY, June 8, 1994, page 376).
European companies want at least a 50% share in future transatlantic cooperation as a "basic prerequisite for a [weapons] program," a top Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA) official said. Otmar Titus, DASA's international relations vice president, said Friday the Medium Extended Air Defense System's 50/50 split should be mirrored for other cooperative programs until an even better cooperation format is found.
Lockheed Corporation, Marietta, Georgia, is being awarded a $57,200,000 face value increase to a Firm Fixed Price contract for various enhancements to 12 C-130H aircraft (6 Air National Guard, 6 Air Force Reserve), including updates to the radar warning system and the navigation system. Contract is expected to be completed September 1995. 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 (F44657-90-C-0071/P00038).
ITT CORP., Electro Optics Products Div., Roanoke, Va., was awarded $10.7 million April 28 on an earlier contract for 16,996 spares for night vision goggles. The contract was from U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command.
Boeing's moves to cut back jetliner production rates earlier this year, along with generally weak markets, will probably wind up cutting nacelle and aerostructure specialist Rohr's fiscal 1996 sales by about 8%, Rohr management predicted last week. Fiscal 1996-which ends 15 months from now-was supposed to be a good year for Rohr, following years of financial troubles. A major restructuring in 1993 that led to writeoffs in the final quarter of that year was expected to be followed by a "turnaround year" in 1994 (DAILY, April 14, 1994, page 75B).
The Defense Dept. should consider funding the EF-111's System Improvement Program (SIP) until plans for using the EA-6B to fulfill the electronic warfare (EW) mission of the U.S. Navy and Air Force are firm, Joe Cagnazzi, Northrop Grumman's EF-111 SIP director, said. The Air Force intends to cancel the SIP in fiscal 1996 and retire the EF-111 in FY '97 to save money. But the proposed move, including the Air Force's proposal to let EA-6Bs handle all tactical jamming, has come under congressional criticism, (DAILY, Feb. 22, page 275).
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Pico Rivera, California, is being awarded an $89,033,129 face value increase to a Firm Fixed Price contract for acquisition of the Depot Level Automatic Test System for the B-2 avionics system. Contract is expected to be completed March 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 (F33657-87-C-2000/P00523).
U.S. trade negotiators have returned from two days of talks in Kiev aimed at laying the groundwork for an agreement that will allow Ukraine's entry into the Western commercial space launch market. The "preliminary discussions," held April 26 and 27 with officials from Ukraine's space agency, are aimed at reaching an agreement to allow Ukraine to sell launches on two two-stage rockets, Zenit and Tsyklon, according to a U.S. government official familiar with the talks.
Lockheed Fort Worth Company, Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $6,427,593 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract for development of modeling and simulation tools in support of the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program. Forty-nine per cent of the work will be performed at Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company in Marietta, Georgia. Contract is expected to be completed November 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Six proposals were received. The solicitation was issued in January 1995 and negotiations were completed in April 1995.
ITT CORP., Aerospace/Communications Div., Fort Wayne, Ind., on April 28 received a $6.4 million modification to an earlier contract from U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command for the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems Airborne System Improvement Program.
HUGHES MISSILE SYSTEMS CO., Tucson, Ariz., got an additional $3.3 million April 28 under an earlier contract from U.S. Army Missile Command for 342 electronic components for the air-to-air Stinger missile system.
The Pentagon wants to significantly shorten the duration of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations from the current two to four years to just 12-18 months, Lynn says. He's unsure how this will work out, saying it can take six to nine months just to plan out an ACTD. He's waiting for the Joint Requirements Oversight Council to tell him whether they've approved proposed demonstrations for FY '96, including a low life cycle cost helicopter, ship countermeasures to IIR seekers, a mini air- launched decoy, and a biological defense net (DAILY, March 30, page 478).
Managers of the Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle program have until a demonstration in October to solve problems that have troubled the UAV, according to a source close to the program. He said the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) made the demand in a meeting on UAVs at the Pentagon Tuesday. The Hunter's capability is being questioned following accidents and delays. "The time has come to give the system an operational test to prove itself," the source said.
Congressional sources claim efforts to make the F-22 fighter's engine installation more stealthy are partly to blame for continuing vibration problems with the engine. The Pentagon's response to a GAO report on the F-22 (DAILY, April 20, page 105) concedes that "the vibratory levels in the fan and turbine are higher than expected," and sources say screens and baffles designed to hide the engine's face are disturbing flows into the compressor stage. They also contend that the Rockwell B-1B's special inlet design may contribute to lower-than-expected engine life.
