Army assault ladders — headed to Afghanistan soon

[unhappycamper]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/army-assault-ladders--headed-to-afghanistan-soon/2013/02/26/e7c83008-805d-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_blog.html

Army assault ladders — headed to Afghanistan soon
By Al Kamen
Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 02/27/2013

The U.S. footprint in Afghanistan is scheduled to wind down considerably over the next couple of years, but anti-Taliban efforts are proceeding apace.

In fact, the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force — Afghanistan is looking for fast delivery of “150 lightweight assault ladders,” to be at Bagram Air Field just 30 days after a contract is signed “for immediate deployment for current missions.”

~snip~

Clearly this is a special type of ladder. Allred is the only one that makes these, the Army says. Sounds like these might be expensive items.

Well, the Army says the “total estimated value” of the contract is only $ (deleted).



unhappycamper comment: I looked at defense contracts (contracts over $6.5 million dollars - http://www.defense.gov/contracts/) for the last thirty days and did not see any contracts being awarded to Allred and Associates.

While perusing thru defense contracts, I found out the Navy is paying $25 million dollars to cut the USS guardian off Tubbataha Reef:

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4972

FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 061-13
February 05, 2013

CONTRACTS

NAVY

SMIT Salvage, Singapore, was awarded on Feb. 1, 2013, a $24,889,904 delivery order against previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00024-12-D-4120) to provide support for emergency response and recovery operations for the USS Guardian (MCM 5) grounding on Tubbataha Reef, Sulu Sea, Philippines. Support will include personnel, vessels and equipment required for assessment, planning, stabilization, oil removal and vessel recovery. Work will be performed in the vicinity of the Tubbataha Reef, Philippines, (72 percent); Palawan, Philippines, (15 percent); Singapore, SG, (10 percent); Washington, D.C., (1 percent); Rotterdam, The Netherlands, (1 percent); and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2013. Fiscal 2013 Operations and Maintenance, Navy funds in the amount of $24,889,904 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity.

And this one:

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4974

FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 069-13
February 07, 2013

CONTRACTS

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a sole-source-cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-award-fee contract modification under contract number (HQ0276-10-C-0001). The value of this contract modification is $30,226,670, increasing the total contract value from $1,286,203,768 to $1,316,430,438. Under this modification, the contractor will conduct the installation, test, and checkout of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Baseline 4.0.1 Weapon System aboard three Navy Destroyers. The work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J.; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; San Diego, Calif., and Norfolk, Va. The performance period is from the date of award through March 15, 2015. Fiscal 2013 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds will be used to incrementally fund this initial effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.


.... Lockheed Martin.... $1.3 billion dollars.....

[wercal]

1. That's Billion...not Trillion

[unhappycamper]

2. Updated OP.

Thanks!