Alliant Techsystems Incorporated, Hopkins, Minnesota, was awarded a $20,840,651 cost plus fixed fee contract. This contract provides for development of eight Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser Kits. These kits will correct the effects of wind on dispenser type munitions. Contract is expected to be [completed] September 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Forty bids were solicited and eight proposals were received. The solicitation was issued October 1994 and negotiations were completed January 1995.
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, New York, is being awarded a letter contract with a ceiling value of $17,486,000 to retrofit two E-2C aircraft from a Group I configuration to a Group II configuration. This effort will remove outdated avionics boxes from the E-2C aircraft and replace them with newer avionics boxes. Work will be performed in St. Augustine, Florida (75%), Bethpage, New York (24%), and Milledgeville, Georgia (1%), and is expected to be completed by July 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The White House yesterday unveiled plans to reduce the defense share of research and development spending to 52% in fiscal 1996, bringing the Clinton Administration closer to its goal of equalizing defense and civilian R&D expenditures by FY '98.
NASA's fiscal 1996 budget request Here is a breakout of NASA's fiscal 1996 budget request, released yesterday as part of the Clinton Administration's proposed spending package. While the FY '96 figure is only slightly below this year's levels, deeper cuts are coming in the out years (see story page 187 of the hardcopy of this issue). Amounts are in millions of dollars. FY 1995 FY 1996 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT 5,514.9 5,509.6
Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, California, is being awarded a $31,581,578 modification to a fixed price contract for a low rate initial production option for 10 Ground Based Sensors. Work will be performed in Forest, Mississippi (90%), and Fullerton, California, (10%), and is expected to be completed by July 31, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 7 bids solicited for the basic contract in June, 1989l and 7 bids received. The contracting activity is the U.S.
Jamieson Science and Engineering Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, is being awarded a $5,000,000 cost plus fixed fee contract for independent scientific and engineering research. The government's best expectation of the total value of the award, including all options, is $13,300,000. The contract provides the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) independent scientific and engineering research that pertains to surveillance technologies in areas where sensor, weapon and phenomenologies affect missile defense systems.
The House Intelligence Committee has finalized the membership of its subcommittees. The subcommittee on human intelligence, analysis, and counterintelligence will be chaired by Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), as was previously announced. Other Republicans on the panel will be Reps. C.W. (Bill) Young (R-Fla.), Porter Goss (R-Fla.), Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) and Michael Castle (R-Del.)
Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems Inc., Waco, Texas, is being awarded a $95,490,292 cost plus award fee contract to modify six E-6A TACAMO aircraft to the E-6B configuration. This modification will allow the Navy to meet its Joint Chiefs of Staff operational requirements by consolidating nuclear command and control into a single airborne platform. Work will be performed in Waco, Texas, and is expected to be completed by July 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured.
NASA is in for a "profound" restructuring in an effort to absorb a $5 billion budget hit in the fiscal 1996 budget request ordered by the Clinton White House, with "significant" layoffs beyond the 2,500 civil service slot already targeted for elimination by the end of the century, top agency managers said yesterday.
The U.S. Air Force fired a reconfigured Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., to the Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall Islands Feb. 1 in the second test of its Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System (REACT).
Martin Marietta Technologies Incorporated, Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $9,482,929 cost plus fixed fee contract. This contract provides for development of eight Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser Kits. These kits will correct the effects of wind on dispenser type munitions. Contract is expected to be completed July 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Forty bids were solicited and eight proposals were received. The solicitation was issued October 1994 and negotiations were completed January 1995.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $239,000,000 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract for the components, parts and materials needed to support production of 72 F-15S aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed in April 1995. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F333657-90-C-2254, P00048).
A new Dept. of Energy report recommends shifting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's activities in nuclear materials development and production to Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of a way to downsize the national laboratory system and generate savings.
Allied Signal Aerospace, Allied Signal Engines, Phoenix, Arizona, is being awarded a $6,117,767 (Estimated) fixed price contract. This contract provides for various spare parts for gas turbine engines and secondary power systems in support of the F-15 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed February 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited and one proposal was received. The solicitation was issued June 1994 and negotiations were completed January 1995.
TRW Data Technologies Division, Systems Integration Group, Carson, California, is being awarded a $5,776,923 face value increase to a fixed price incentive firm contract for action to restructure the Command Center Processing and Display System Replacement (CCPDSR) Block B Schedule to conform with the Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade Replan.
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Ronald Fogleman said Thursday that he wants to cut the service's travel budget to put a stop to the excessive number of trips AF officials make to contractor facilities. Citing one unnamed aerospace plant that hosted 12,000 AF visitors last year, Fogleman said, "We're just somebody dropping in to see how things are going, like tourists. And we can't afford to run a tourist agency."
A U.S.-built atmospheric ozone-measuring instrument launched in 1991 aboard a Russian polar orbiting satellite has failed and apparently can't be revived despite the best efforts of Russian ground controllers, NASA reported.
Despite yesterday's seemingly good news for the procurement and R&D accounts on which the aerospace industry depends for its revenues and profits, aerospace stocks saw only minor gains in trading on the New York Stock Exchange, reflecting analysts' belief that this budget is only the beginning.
President Clinton's fiscal 1996 defense budget continues a scaled-back version of national missile defense (NMD) efforts, putting the Administration on a collision course with congressional Republicans calling for rapid deployment of both a national and theater missile defense (TMD). The budget, which goes to Capitol Hill today, proposes $2.91 billion for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) in FY '96, most of which is oriented toward development of a theater defense against ballistic missiles.
The Japanese government's 1995 space budget proposal calls for a 5.1% increase for departments involved in space development. The $2.285 billion space budget request still requires parliamentary approval. Recent failures in Japan's space program have dampened parliamentary enthusiasm for space developments. The Diet is expected to vote on the budget in March or April.
The Pentagon today will reveal a no-surprises $246 billion fiscal 1996 spending proposal that emphasizes quality of life and readiness, cries out for supplemental funding to cover FY '95 contingencies, and echoes the modernization changes that Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch announced in December.
DOD budget authority by title. Dept. of Defense budget authority numbers by title are listed in the following table, released by DOD. Dollars are in billions. FY 96 FY 97 FY 98 FY 99 FY00 FY 01 Military Personnel 68.7 67.5 68.2 69.6 70.9 72.3 Operation&Maintenance 91.9 90.6 89.9 92.7 94.8 98.1 Procurement 39.4 43.5 51.4 54.2 62.3 67.3
Defense program acquisition costs by weapon system. Fiscal year 1996 program acquisition costs by weapon system are detailed in the following table, released by the Dept. of Defense. Dollar figures are in millions. AIRCRAFT FY 1995 FY 1996 FY 1997 Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior 223.3 78.0 12.3 RAH-66 Comanche 488.6 199.1 298.6
The U.S. Air Force's $72.6 billion spending request for fiscal 1996 cuts Non-Development Airlift Aircraft funding to $183.8 million-enough to cover continued strategic airlift studies, engineering assessments and maybe some advanced procurement, according to senior defense officials. "We can't say what we'll buy with the $184 million," one official told reporters during a background briefing Friday. He added that some commercial airliners being studied by the Air Force don't have strong enough floors to carry military cargo and some need extra doors.
National defense topline budget figures National defense topline budget numbers are detailed in the following table, released by the Dept. of Defense. The numbers are in billions. 1995 1996 1997 1998 BUDGET AUTHORITY DoD military - 051 252.6 246.0 242.8 249.7 DoE&other 10.9 11.8 10.6 9.9 Total national defense 263.5 257.8 253.4 266.3
