Boeing has demonstrated its Airborne Satellite Television System in Dubai using regional satellite television service providers, adding the Middle East to the regions where the system has been validated. In a demonstration at the company's Dubai Service Center last month, the same suite of equipment that would be installed on an airplane delivered multiple digital broadcasts from regional service providers simultaneously.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on April 2, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS; SUBPART: SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL CLASSCOD: 18-Space Vehicles; OFFADD: Space and Missile Systems Center CWKE, 155 Discoverer Blvd., Suite 1380, Los Angeles AFB, CA 90245 ... SOL N/A POC 11. Contact, Lt. Richard Dawson, 310-363-5244/ PCO SLRSC Ms Nancy Andrews 310-363-0452, PCO RTSC Ms Zoe Sargent 407-494-5580
An Ariane 4 rocket with two solid-fuel boosters orbited the Insat 2E telecommunications and meteorology satellite Friday for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The Ariane 42P lifted off from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou at 5:03 p.m. EST, and the 5,500-pound satellite separated 21 minutes later. Built by ISRO in Bangalore, the satellite will be stationed at 83 degrees East longitude over the Indian Ocean to provide weather and communications services to the Indian subcontinent.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on April 1, 1999; Printed Issue Date: April 5, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS (MODIFICATION) SUBPART: SERVICES; CLASSCOD: A-Research and Development; OFFADD: NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001; SOL 1-047-CG.0017; POC Richard J. Siebels, Contracting Officer, Phone (757)-864-2418, Fax (757) 864-6131, Email [email protected]
The debate on creation of a European Aerospace and Defense Co. took a turn for the worst last week in Stuttgart, when DaimlerChrysler Chairman Juergen Schrempp said it "won't happen." The chairman of the German-American industrial giant, presenting his group's annual results on March 31, said the recent alliance between two British powerhouses, GEC's Marconi and British Aerospace, had "shattered the dreams of creating" an EADC.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on April 2, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS; SUBPART: SERVICES; CLASSCOD: A-Research and Development; OFFADD: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 215, Greenbelt, MD 20771; SYSTEM SOL RFO5-06703-229; POC Suzanne Shaw, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 286-4242, Fax (301) 286-1720, Email [email protected] - Elizabeth Austin, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-6843, Fax (301)286-1720, Email [email protected]
NASA's handling of "sensitive technologies" covered by U.S. export-control laws has been so poorly managed that the agency is at risk of "inappropriately" sending abroad technologies that might be applied "to uses detrimental to U.S. interests," the agency's inspector general has reported.
March 31, 1999 Lockheed Martin Vought Systems, Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $44,254,000 modification to firm-fixed-price contract DAAH01-96-C-0304 for 436 extended range Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets for Norway and Denmark. Work will be performed in Dallas, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on April 30, 1996. The U.S. Army Aviation&Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on April 2, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS; SUBPART: SERVICES; CLASSCOD: A-Research and Development; OFFADD: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 216, Greenbelt, MD 20771...SOL RFO5-09773-206; POC Mary Stevens, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-6993, Fax (301)286-1773, Email [email protected] - Leigh Anne C. Giraldi, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-7464, Fax (301)286-0247, Email [email protected]
Hughes Electronics Corp. has been awarded $154 million by the U.S. government in compensation for infringement on a key satellite patent in a case that is over 25 years old. The award includes $36 million in lost royalties - 1% of the $3.6 billion value of the 81 satellites manufactured for the government by contractors other than Hughes and using the invention. Of the satellites in question, 75% were manufactured for the military. The rest of the award, $118 million, is "delay compensation," the equivalent of accrued interest, on the lost royalties.
In the first use of the Brazilian VS-30 sounding rocket for microgravity experiments, Instrumentation Technology Associates of Exton, Pa., launched two of its Materials Dispersion Apparatuses (MDAs). During the March 15 flight from Brazil's Alcantara launch site, ITA also tested and validated the Acceleration Activated Liquids Mixing Apparatus, a new device to initiate fluid mixing upon launch acceleration.
March 31, 1999 PGSUS Limited Liability Company, Orlando, Fla., is being awarded a $46,223,217 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for a classified quantity of AGM-142 Have Nap standoff attack missiles, five Flight Termination Systems, and associated warranties for Australia, and two spare AGM-142 control sections for Israel. Expected contract completion date is March 2002. Solicitation issue date was April 30, 1997. Air Armament Center, Eglin AFB, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08626-97-C-0125-P00003).
CyberStar has acquired Satellite Network Systems Inc. (SNS) of St. Paul, Minn., a system integrator of business television services. The Loral Space and Communications Ltd. subsidiary plans to use the capabilities of SNS to provide new value-added services to its broadband Internet Protocol (IP) Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) offerings through the Telstar 5 satellite operated by Loral Skynet.
Industry teams competing for the U.S. Air Force's Space Based Infrared System Low (SBIRS Low) program are due to submit their revised proposals to the Pentagon by the end of the week. The AF and the Pentagon terminated the two planned SBIRS Low demonstration programs in mid-January after one reported a cost overrun in FY '99 that exceeded all funds available for the effort for the year.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on March 31, 1999; Printed Issue Date: April 2, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS (MODIFICATION); SUBPART: SERVICES; CLASSCOD: A-Research and Development OFFADD: NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812; SOL 8-1-9-EH-C2599; DUE 051999; POC Glynda H. Meeks, Contract Specialist, Phone (256) 544-0422, Fax (256) 544-4400, Email [email protected] - Valerie N.
U.S. Air Mobility Command, set to participate in a massive NATO effort to transport some 200,000 Kosovar refugees from Macedonia to other countries, has flown about 900 tons of humanitarian supplies into the area in nine flights in the last three days, the command reported yesterday. The supplies are being flown from the U.S. to Italy via C-5 and C-17 airlifters, as well as contracted 747s. In Italy they are off-loaded and broken down for shipment to Tirana, Albania, on C-130s. From there, helicopters disperse the supplies.
From Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on April 1, 1999; Printed Issue Date: April 5, 1999; PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS; SUBPART: SERVICES; CLASSCOD: A-Research and Development; OFFADD: NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001; SOL SDBFORUM; DUE 041699; POC A. Vernon Vann, Small Business Specialist, Phone (757)-864-2456, Fax (757) 864-7898, Email [email protected]
March 29, 1999 Boeing North American, Inc., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $47,102,065 cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for development of software to integrate the Joint Standoff Weapon and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile onto the B-1 aircraft. Expected contract completion date is Aug. 1, 2002. Solicitation issue date was April 2, 1997. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-96-C-2075-P00032).
More than $583,000 has been pledged from a variety of sources to build a new basic research laboratory at the University of Dayton to study the use of electron beams, or e-beams, to cure polymer-composites which have a number of space applications, including rocket casings. E-beams, which operate at atmospheric pressure and room temperature, can significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing structures from polymer composites, a process which normally requires high temperatures and high pressures.
