Skyhook Technologies Inc., Draper, Utah, was awarded on Dec. 5, 2000, a $7,154,456 task order amount as part of firm-fixed-price contract DAAA09-99-D-0014, for 100 Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) A-Kits for the CH-47D Chinook helicopter engine. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2003. This is a sole source contract initiated on June 14, 2000. The U.S. Operations Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0014).
Lockheed Martin, which had faced a much larger lawsuit involving 3,000 Burbank, Calif., residents, said Monday that approval of the agreement under which the company will pay $5 million to 300 of the residents shows "the justice system works."
Universal Propulsion Co., Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., was awarded on Dec. 6, 2000, $5,250,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide for Phase I of the Joint Ejection Seat Program. The Phase I effort includes trade studies and limited risk reduction testing. The work will be performed at Universal Propulsion, Phoenix, Ariz. and IBP Aerospace Group, Inc., East Hartford, Conn. The work is expected to be completed November 2001. There was one proposal received. Solicitation began September 2000; negotiations were completed November 2000.
Sabre and Skyfish.com are building on a strategic alliance announced earlier this summer, focused on developing the aerospace e-marketplace. According to the latest announcement, Sabre also plans to take a minority stake in Skyfish.com. The agreement features a "broad revenue sharing arrangement" between the two companies. The exchange will provide direct and indirect procurement, decision and support technology, information services, supply chain management and ASP-hosted software. Skyfish.com e-marketplace is currently beta testing with a few select customers.
Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif. is being awarded a $22,000,000 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide for engineering and technical services for Pacific Air Forces Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence and Wargaming Systems. Funds will be obligated as individual delivery orders are issued. Solicitation issue date was May 2000; negotiations were completed October 2000. There were two proposals received. Pacific Air Forces Command, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (F64605-01/D-0001).
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co., King of Prussia, Pa., is being awarded a $17,000,000 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for seven Interim Retrofit Crosslink Transponder Data Units for the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block IIR satellite (vehicles 01 and 04 through 09). This retrofit will minimize false detection of signal due to ultra-high frequency (UHF) interference. The work will be performed at Lockheed Martin, King of Prussia, Pa. (63%), and ITT Aerospace/Communication Div., Clifton, N.J. (37%).
Despite U.S. efforts to institute laws to safeguard online privacy, the efforts have only made a messy legislative environment messier. Furthermore, "the maze of new rules" will only up the costs for businesses - without making consumers feeling more protected, according to a new study by Forrester Research Inc. Privacy law, the study says, will become more "entangled" as lawyers try to keep a handle on the "myriad exceptions" to the privacy rules.
The latest version of Boeing's MyBoeingFleet.com has hit the Web. With the updated version - the second within six weeks - users can access fleet reliability statistics, product standards, a loadable software information site, and more maintenance documents features. MyBoeingFleet.com contains 79,000 maintenance documents, flight manuals, 5.6 million engineering and tooling drawings and access to the Boeing Web-based spare parts ordering system, the PART Page.
SAFE FOR SEA: Reacting to comments from U.S. Navy pilots who fault the single-engine JSF because "you cannot dead-stick on a carrier" (DAILY, Oct. 30), the Navy test pilot for Boeing's JSF says the new JSF engines will be safer and more robust than engines previously used by carrier aircraft. Cdr.
Alliant Techsystems won a $34 million contract from Boeing to produce the solid propulsion systems and warhead for the U.K.'s Brimstone anti-armor missile system. "ATK Missile Products Company has more than 50 years of experience in the design, development and production systems, warheads and metals parts for tactical missile systems," said Alex Priskos, president of the unit. "We are pleased to carry on this tradition with the Brimstone system, which is destined to become a mainstay in the United Kingdom's tactical missile arsenal."
GOSS' GOODBYE: Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, won't seek re-election in 2002, a spokeswoman told The DAILY Friday. Goss, 62, plans to retire from the House because he would like to pursue other things, and because he can run the Intelligence committee for only two more years due to term limits on committee chairmen, the spokeswoman said. Goss has chaired the Intelligence panel for four years and was first elected to the House in 1988.
Rockwell International Corp.'s planned spin-off of the Rockwell Collins business unit, announced Friday, won't break the unit's stride in terms of making acquisitions.
Engine failure caused the Aug. 31 crash of an F-16 Fighting Falcon, according to an official accident investigation report released Friday by the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command. The engine failure occurred after a turbine blade separated and caused damage to the oil system and other parts of the engine, the investigators found. The incident began when the pilot, from the 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, felt the fighter vibrating and suddenly slowing. The engine compressor stalled and the oil pressure went to zero.
SMDC HOLD: Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.) plans to block the nomination of Major Gen. Joseph Cosumano to be commander of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command until he's satisfied that SMDC has the right team in place to manage the kinetic energy anti-satellite program (KE-ASAT), a spokeswoman says. Smith doesn't have a "comfort level" with the program's current personnel, the spokeswoman adds.
TABLE TAP: Adm. Vern Clark, who has held the position of Chief of Naval Operations for about four months, has been vocal that today's readiness is ahead of future readiness on his priority list - a departure from the position of former CNOs and chiefs of the other services.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence says he will try to restore language in the fiscal 2001 intelligence authorization bill that would require the National Reconnaissance Office to handle satellite launching contracts separately from the Air Force.
The German Air Force's Surface-to-Air Missile Operations Center (SAMOC), which allows coordination of such air defense systems as Patriot, Hawk and Roland, demonstrated full functionality in a recent quality assurance inspection, according to the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS). The milestone, EADS said, puts SAMOC a step closer to operational service.
Aerojet said its data fusion and ground processing business will play a role in the U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) program. The program, potentially valued at about $1.5 billion to the Lockheed Martin team, is intended to modernize the Air Force's air, missile and space IT infrastructure, integrating about 40 systems into a "virtual command center" that will provide real-time data to commanders and warfighters.
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS received a $6 million grant for Phase III development of the ARGUS Explosive Detection System (EDS) from the Federal Aviation Administration. Phase III is slated to be completed by November 2001.
NAVY E-BIZ SETS SAIL: The Navy e-Business Operations Office, chartered only in October, is off to strong start with over $20 million in funding in this year to explore e-business pilot projects. The office's first call for ideas netted more than 300 proposals from across the Navy and Marine Corps. Typical marks of winning candidate projects broad application, quick implementation and a price which typically does not exceed $1 million. Charles Nemfakos, deputy under secretary of the Navy, said the office could reasonably handle about 50 projects in the first year.
A Japanese sounding rocket carried a Canadian instrument in Dec. 4 launch from Spitzbergen, Norway. The instrument, the Thermal Suprathermal Analyzer (TSA), is designed to analyze the complexities of ion composition and distribution in the upper atmosphere, according to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Rep. Julian Dixon (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, died Friday of an apparent heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 66. House colleagues praised Dixon, an Army veteran, as a quiet but hard-working and effective lawmaker who was dedicated to national security issues and looked out for his congressional district's defense and aerospace industrial base.
The first Russian RD-180 engine destined to power Lockheed Martin's new Atlas V booster on its inaugural flight has been delivered to the company's Denver facility and will be installed in January.
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP., Stratford, Conn., won a $14.6 million fixed-price U.S. Navy contract for services supporting the Special Progressive Aircraft Rework associated with the VH-3D and VH-60 Presidential helicopters, the Pentagon said Friday. It said work will be carried out at the company's Stratford, Conn., facilities, and is expected to be completed by September 2001. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was awarded by Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md.
TETRA TECH INC., Pasadena, Calif., announced that it was awarded $37.5 million in two new contracts to support environmental management efforts at Dept. of Defense sites. The contracts cover Wright-Patterson AFB and all Army Materiel Command bases, the company said yesterday. Both contracts are five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity agreements that will begin immediately.
