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April 7, 2013
San Diego Police Sgt. Dan Sayasane looks on as a small radio controlled quadcopter to simulate a drone lands in the hand of CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin during an anti-drone protest in front of the La Jolla home of James Neal Blue, CEO of General Atomics, makers of drones used by the military. The drone was confiscated as it violated an ordinance requiring a permit to fly. It was returned with the understanding it wouldn't fly again without a permit.
Anti-drone protests hit CEO's home
By Mark Walker12:40 p.m.
April 5, 2013
San Diego's "drone zone" manufacturing hub is under fire from groups opposed to unmanned aerial vehicles carrying out deadly overseas strikes and their use as a furtive eye in the sky.
A series of small protests that began Thursday continued Friday and culminate Saturday afternoon at the USS Midway Museum on Harbor Drive.
The demonstrations are part of a nationwide effort by activist groups seeking to focus attention on a growing debate over the technology and come as a business and military group seeks to have the region declared one of five national test zones for drones, which generate more than $1 billion a year in the local economy.
Early Friday, about 40 protesters organized by the group CodePink descended on an upscale La Jolla neighborhood to stage a street demonstration in front of the home of Neal Blue, chief executive officer of General Atomics, which manufactures the Predator drone.
Anti-drone protests hit CEO's home
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/05/drones-protest/?stSan Diego Police Sgt. Dan Sayasane looks on as a small radio controlled quadcopter to simulate a drone lands in the hand of CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin during an anti-drone protest in front of the La Jolla home of James Neal Blue, CEO of General Atomics, makers of drones used by the military. The drone was confiscated as it violated an ordinance requiring a permit to fly. It was returned with the understanding it wouldn't fly again without a permit.
Anti-drone protests hit CEO's home
By Mark Walker12:40 p.m.
April 5, 2013
San Diego's "drone zone" manufacturing hub is under fire from groups opposed to unmanned aerial vehicles carrying out deadly overseas strikes and their use as a furtive eye in the sky.
A series of small protests that began Thursday continued Friday and culminate Saturday afternoon at the USS Midway Museum on Harbor Drive.
The demonstrations are part of a nationwide effort by activist groups seeking to focus attention on a growing debate over the technology and come as a business and military group seeks to have the region declared one of five national test zones for drones, which generate more than $1 billion a year in the local economy.
Early Friday, about 40 protesters organized by the group CodePink descended on an upscale La Jolla neighborhood to stage a street demonstration in front of the home of Neal Blue, chief executive officer of General Atomics, which manufactures the Predator drone.
April 7, 2013
Veterans groups divided over claims backlog, VA leadership
TOM PHILPOTT
Published: April 6, 2013 at 12:05 a.m. PDT
With the backlog of compensa-tion claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs having ballooned in recent years, one would expect major veterans service organizations to be among the VA’s harshest critics.
If so, they would join a rising chorus. Network news programs have turned cameras and commentary on the mountain of 598,000 overdue claim decisions pending, suggesting bureaucratic neglect of returning ill and injured vets from Iraq and Afghanistan. Time magazine columnist Joe Klein even asked VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
~snip~
But most veteran service organizations aren’t joining that chorus, for perhaps two major reasons. One, they believe they understand better than the loudest critics why the backlog has grown so. Some contributing factors are things these groups actually fought for.
Two, criticism of Shinseki and his team rings hollow to many veterans groups given the administration’s support over the past four years for robust funding of the VA, unprecedented cooperation with vet advocates, and the depth of its commitment to reform a paper-driven claims process.
Veterans groups divided over claims backlog, VA leadership
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/04/06/2545670/veterans-groups-divided-over-claims.htmlVeterans groups divided over claims backlog, VA leadership
TOM PHILPOTT
Published: April 6, 2013 at 12:05 a.m. PDT
With the backlog of compensa-tion claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs having ballooned in recent years, one would expect major veterans service organizations to be among the VA’s harshest critics.
If so, they would join a rising chorus. Network news programs have turned cameras and commentary on the mountain of 598,000 overdue claim decisions pending, suggesting bureaucratic neglect of returning ill and injured vets from Iraq and Afghanistan. Time magazine columnist Joe Klein even asked VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
~snip~
But most veteran service organizations aren’t joining that chorus, for perhaps two major reasons. One, they believe they understand better than the loudest critics why the backlog has grown so. Some contributing factors are things these groups actually fought for.
Two, criticism of Shinseki and his team rings hollow to many veterans groups given the administration’s support over the past four years for robust funding of the VA, unprecedented cooperation with vet advocates, and the depth of its commitment to reform a paper-driven claims process.
April 7, 2013
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Radioactive Water 'Escapes' from Fukushima Tank
- Common Dreams staff
Published on Saturday, April 6, 2013 by Common Dreams
Up to 120 tonnes of radioactive water may have "escaped" from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, an official announced Saturday.
"We are transferring the remaining water from the tank to others," said a Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) spokesman. The company claims that it is "unlikely" any of the contaminated water found its way into the ocean.
The contaminated water may have leaked from one of the seven underground reservoir tanks which stores water previously used to cool down the nuclear reactors, AFP reports.
The news follows reports Friday that one of the plant's cooling systems had failed temporarily, the second outage in a matter of weeks.
Radioactive Water 'Escapes' from Fukushima Tank
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/06The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Radioactive Water 'Escapes' from Fukushima Tank
- Common Dreams staff
Published on Saturday, April 6, 2013 by Common Dreams
Up to 120 tonnes of radioactive water may have "escaped" from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, an official announced Saturday.
"We are transferring the remaining water from the tank to others," said a Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) spokesman. The company claims that it is "unlikely" any of the contaminated water found its way into the ocean.
The contaminated water may have leaked from one of the seven underground reservoir tanks which stores water previously used to cool down the nuclear reactors, AFP reports.
The news follows reports Friday that one of the plant's cooling systems had failed temporarily, the second outage in a matter of weeks.
April 7, 2013
Afghanistan Attacks Leave 6 Americans, Afghan Doctor Dead
By MIRWAIS KHAN and PATRICK QUINN
04/06/13 04:31 PM ET EDT AP
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
The violence – hours after the U.S. military's top officer arrived for consultations with Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials – illustrates the instability plaguing the nation as foreign forces work to pull nearly all their combat troops out of the country by the end of 2014.
The attacks came just days after insurgents stormed a courthouse, killing more than 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks of the war, now in its 12th year.
The three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were killed when the group was struck by an explosion while traveling to donate books to students in a school in the south, officials and the State Department said.
Afghanistan Attacks Leave 6 Americans, Afghan Doctor Dead
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/diplomat-dead-afghanistan_n_3029745.htmlAfghanistan Attacks Leave 6 Americans, Afghan Doctor Dead
By MIRWAIS KHAN and PATRICK QUINN
04/06/13 04:31 PM ET EDT AP
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
The violence – hours after the U.S. military's top officer arrived for consultations with Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials – illustrates the instability plaguing the nation as foreign forces work to pull nearly all their combat troops out of the country by the end of 2014.
The attacks came just days after insurgents stormed a courthouse, killing more than 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks of the war, now in its 12th year.
The three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were killed when the group was struck by an explosion while traveling to donate books to students in a school in the south, officials and the State Department said.
April 7, 2013
Nek Muhammad, center, was a Pashtun militant who was killed in 2004, in the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan.
A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood
By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 6, 2013
~snip~
On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of the many reporters who regularly interviewed him on how he had fought and humbled Pakistan’s army in the country’s western mountains. He asked one of his followers about the strange, metallic bird hovering above him.
Less than 24 hours later, a missile tore through the compound, severing Mr. Muhammad’s left leg and killing him and several others, including two boys, ages 10 and 16. A Pakistani military spokesman was quick to claim responsibility for the attack, saying that Pakistani forces had fired at the compound.
That was a lie.
Mr. Muhammad and his followers had been killed by the C.I.A., the first time it had deployed a Predator drone in Pakistan to carry out a “targeted killing.” The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani ally of the Taliban who led a tribal rebellion and was marked by Pakistan as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the C.I.A. had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to airspace it had long sought so it could use drones to hunt down its own enemies.
A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/world/asia/origins-of-cias-not-so-secret-drone-war-in-pakistan.html?_r=0Nek Muhammad, center, was a Pashtun militant who was killed in 2004, in the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan.
A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood
By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 6, 2013
~snip~
On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of the many reporters who regularly interviewed him on how he had fought and humbled Pakistan’s army in the country’s western mountains. He asked one of his followers about the strange, metallic bird hovering above him.
Less than 24 hours later, a missile tore through the compound, severing Mr. Muhammad’s left leg and killing him and several others, including two boys, ages 10 and 16. A Pakistani military spokesman was quick to claim responsibility for the attack, saying that Pakistani forces had fired at the compound.
That was a lie.
Mr. Muhammad and his followers had been killed by the C.I.A., the first time it had deployed a Predator drone in Pakistan to carry out a “targeted killing.” The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani ally of the Taliban who led a tribal rebellion and was marked by Pakistan as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the C.I.A. had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to airspace it had long sought so it could use drones to hunt down its own enemies.
April 6, 2013
A special interactive report helps us understand the barbarity of Guantanamo.
The Guantanamo Effect: A Constant Reminder of America's Role in Perpetrating a Global War
Creative Time Reports
By Mariam Ghani, Chitra Ganesh
April 5, 2013 | The U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has, over the last 11 years, become much more than a place. In the sphere of U.S. domestic politics, it is an irresolvable problem over which pitched partisan battles have been fought. Its continued existence is a snarl in the larger geopolitical fabric, an irritant that constantly recalls the role of the United States in theorizing and proliferating a state of global war.
At the same time, the camp at Guantanamo and the people imprisoned within it have become bargaining chips used by the United States in structuring its informal state-to-state relationships. For example, in 2005, the United States paid for the construction of a new block of Afghanistan’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison in return for the Afghan government’s agreement to imprison and try detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Afghanistan. Most important, Guantanamo, which originally served the Department of Defense and other government agencies as a “battle lab” where new strategies for the “global war on terror” could be tested, has developed into a set of principles that are now enshrined in U.S. law. This doctrine visibly surfaces in a now-declassified appendix of the U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogation (rewritten in 2006 to reflect experiments with new methods at Guantanamo), but remains hidden in the classified JTF-GTMO Standard Operating Procedures that have nonetheless influenced detention operations everywhere from Bagram to Abu Ghraib to the Indiana Supermax prison known half-jokingly as “Guantanamo North.” This emergent code of conduct deploys covert and extralegal surveillance, imprisonment, torture and killing to persistently separate and mark out a particular group of people from the rest of humanity. The Guantanamo code has proliferated like a self-replicating virus in various permutations across the globe, ultimately circling back to spread within our own borders through the tandem expansion of drone strikes and surveillance based on “imminent threat” rationales, and extreme isolation programs in domestic prisons.
While specific debates over the territory of Guantanamo and the fates of the people still imprisoned there remain urgent, larger discussions of Guantanamo qua policy or politics must admit the broader reach and influence of Guantanamo the idea.
In this commissioned web project for Creative Time Reports,the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared—our collaborative, ongoing exploration of the costs of post-9/11 detention, secrecy and disappearance—provides a portal into some of its current research, centered around Guantanamo as both a reality in place and an idea in circulation. Like the physical archive maintained by Index of the Disappeared, this web project uses idiosyncratic categories and descriptors to trace new relationships between existing documents, and pays close attention to slippages in usage of language and definition of terms as well as omissions, ruptures or oddities in the records. A given strand of research might highlight anything from the assurances against torture proffered by the Ben-Ali and Qaddafi governments in order to secure individual transfer agreements for Tunisian and Libyan detainees, to the link between three reported suicides at Guantanamo in 2006 and an affidavit about “dryboarding” filed at a Charleston naval brig during the same period, to the refusal of Democratic senators to sign a Senate Armed Services Committee report on recidivism.
The Guantanamo Effect: A Constant Reminder of America's Role in Perpetrating a Global War
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/guantanamo-effect-constant-reminder-americas-role-perpetrating-global-war?paging=offA special interactive report helps us understand the barbarity of Guantanamo.
The Guantanamo Effect: A Constant Reminder of America's Role in Perpetrating a Global War
Creative Time Reports
By Mariam Ghani, Chitra Ganesh
April 5, 2013 | The U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has, over the last 11 years, become much more than a place. In the sphere of U.S. domestic politics, it is an irresolvable problem over which pitched partisan battles have been fought. Its continued existence is a snarl in the larger geopolitical fabric, an irritant that constantly recalls the role of the United States in theorizing and proliferating a state of global war.
At the same time, the camp at Guantanamo and the people imprisoned within it have become bargaining chips used by the United States in structuring its informal state-to-state relationships. For example, in 2005, the United States paid for the construction of a new block of Afghanistan’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison in return for the Afghan government’s agreement to imprison and try detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Afghanistan. Most important, Guantanamo, which originally served the Department of Defense and other government agencies as a “battle lab” where new strategies for the “global war on terror” could be tested, has developed into a set of principles that are now enshrined in U.S. law. This doctrine visibly surfaces in a now-declassified appendix of the U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogation (rewritten in 2006 to reflect experiments with new methods at Guantanamo), but remains hidden in the classified JTF-GTMO Standard Operating Procedures that have nonetheless influenced detention operations everywhere from Bagram to Abu Ghraib to the Indiana Supermax prison known half-jokingly as “Guantanamo North.” This emergent code of conduct deploys covert and extralegal surveillance, imprisonment, torture and killing to persistently separate and mark out a particular group of people from the rest of humanity. The Guantanamo code has proliferated like a self-replicating virus in various permutations across the globe, ultimately circling back to spread within our own borders through the tandem expansion of drone strikes and surveillance based on “imminent threat” rationales, and extreme isolation programs in domestic prisons.
While specific debates over the territory of Guantanamo and the fates of the people still imprisoned there remain urgent, larger discussions of Guantanamo qua policy or politics must admit the broader reach and influence of Guantanamo the idea.
In this commissioned web project for Creative Time Reports,the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared—our collaborative, ongoing exploration of the costs of post-9/11 detention, secrecy and disappearance—provides a portal into some of its current research, centered around Guantanamo as both a reality in place and an idea in circulation. Like the physical archive maintained by Index of the Disappeared, this web project uses idiosyncratic categories and descriptors to trace new relationships between existing documents, and pays close attention to slippages in usage of language and definition of terms as well as omissions, ruptures or oddities in the records. A given strand of research might highlight anything from the assurances against torture proffered by the Ben-Ali and Qaddafi governments in order to secure individual transfer agreements for Tunisian and Libyan detainees, to the link between three reported suicides at Guantanamo in 2006 and an affidavit about “dryboarding” filed at a Charleston naval brig during the same period, to the refusal of Democratic senators to sign a Senate Armed Services Committee report on recidivism.
April 6, 2013
Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 214-13
April 05, 2013
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
Jacobs Technology, Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., is being awarded a $128,450,000 indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract modification (FA9200-12-D-0085). The total estimated cumulative face value of the contract is $263,950,000. This modification provides for the exercise of an option for additional diverse engineering, technical and acquisition support services being provided under the basic contract. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., with an expected completion date of April 19, 2014. This is an IDIQ contract with multiple funding appropriations at the task order level; the contract is not multiyear. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012 and 2013. The contracting activity is AFTC/PZZ, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This contract involves foreign military sales.
UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, is being awarded a $22,745,000 contract modification (FA8650-10-D-5226 P00007) for metallic and ceramic materials research. The contract modification is to increase the ceiling amount of the original indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $45,490,000. Work will be performed at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Research Site, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio with an expected completion date of Dec. 21, 2015. No funds will be obligated with this contract action. Funds will be obligated on task orders issued. The contracting activity is AFRL/RQKMC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $9,444,423 contract modification (FA8625-09-D-6485, Order 0020) for C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engining Program interim contractor support. Work will be performed at Marietta, Ga., with an expected completion date of March 31, 2014. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is AFLCMC/WLSK,Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base, Ohio.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
FujiFilm Medical Systems USA, Inc., Stamford, Conn., has been awarded a maximum $98,024,868 modification exercising the first option year on a two year base contract with one two-year option and one, one-year option for digital imaging network-picture archive communication system. The modification is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Connecticut with an April 10, 2015 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2015 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM2D1-11-D-8307/P00004).
NAVY
StandardAero (San Antonio), Inc., San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded a $29,877,590 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to overhaul 30 C-130 T-56A-16 engines for the government of Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program, including required support equipment. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas (75 percent) and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2014. Foreign Military Sales contract funds in the amount of $29,877,590 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-4. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-13-C-0123).
Leebcor Services, LLC*, Williamsburg, Va., is being awarded a $7,890,405 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of a one story Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, including a vehicle maintenance facility in Memphis, Tenn. The building has steel framed structure with concrete foundation, concrete floor, masonry walls, a specially constructed weapons storage area, vehicle maintenance bay, vehicle lubrication system, staging areas, classrooms, drill hall with bleachers, locker and shower rooms and workshops. The contract also contains one unexercised option, which if exercised would increase cumulative contract value to $8,340,405. Work will be performed in Memphis, Tenn., and is expected to be completed by October 2014. Fiscal 2012 Military Construction, Navy Reserve contract funds in the amount of $7,890,405 are being obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 24 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Midwest, Great Lakes, Ill., is the contracting activity (N40083-13-C-0019).
*Small Business
Military Contracts Awarded On 4.5.2013
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=5013Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 214-13
April 05, 2013
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
Jacobs Technology, Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., is being awarded a $128,450,000 indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract modification (FA9200-12-D-0085). The total estimated cumulative face value of the contract is $263,950,000. This modification provides for the exercise of an option for additional diverse engineering, technical and acquisition support services being provided under the basic contract. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., with an expected completion date of April 19, 2014. This is an IDIQ contract with multiple funding appropriations at the task order level; the contract is not multiyear. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012 and 2013. The contracting activity is AFTC/PZZ, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This contract involves foreign military sales.
UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, is being awarded a $22,745,000 contract modification (FA8650-10-D-5226 P00007) for metallic and ceramic materials research. The contract modification is to increase the ceiling amount of the original indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $45,490,000. Work will be performed at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Research Site, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio with an expected completion date of Dec. 21, 2015. No funds will be obligated with this contract action. Funds will be obligated on task orders issued. The contracting activity is AFRL/RQKMC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $9,444,423 contract modification (FA8625-09-D-6485, Order 0020) for C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engining Program interim contractor support. Work will be performed at Marietta, Ga., with an expected completion date of March 31, 2014. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is AFLCMC/WLSK,Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base, Ohio.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
FujiFilm Medical Systems USA, Inc., Stamford, Conn., has been awarded a maximum $98,024,868 modification exercising the first option year on a two year base contract with one two-year option and one, one-year option for digital imaging network-picture archive communication system. The modification is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Connecticut with an April 10, 2015 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2015 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM2D1-11-D-8307/P00004).
NAVY
StandardAero (San Antonio), Inc., San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded a $29,877,590 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to overhaul 30 C-130 T-56A-16 engines for the government of Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program, including required support equipment. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas (75 percent) and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2014. Foreign Military Sales contract funds in the amount of $29,877,590 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-4. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-13-C-0123).
Leebcor Services, LLC*, Williamsburg, Va., is being awarded a $7,890,405 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of a one story Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, including a vehicle maintenance facility in Memphis, Tenn. The building has steel framed structure with concrete foundation, concrete floor, masonry walls, a specially constructed weapons storage area, vehicle maintenance bay, vehicle lubrication system, staging areas, classrooms, drill hall with bleachers, locker and shower rooms and workshops. The contract also contains one unexercised option, which if exercised would increase cumulative contract value to $8,340,405. Work will be performed in Memphis, Tenn., and is expected to be completed by October 2014. Fiscal 2012 Military Construction, Navy Reserve contract funds in the amount of $7,890,405 are being obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 24 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Midwest, Great Lakes, Ill., is the contracting activity (N40083-13-C-0019).
*Small Business
April 6, 2013
Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 210-13
April 04, 2013
CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Landoll Corp., * Marysville, Kan., has been awarded a maximum $177,500,000 contract for procurement of commercial type trucks and trailers. The award is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Kansas with an April 3, 2018 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2018 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPE8EC-13-D-0009).
Foster Caviness Inc.,* Colfax, N.C., has been awarded a maximum $49,800,000 contract for fresh fruit and vegetable support for customers in the North Carolina zone. The award is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is North Carolina with an Oct. 3, 2014 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Department of Agriculture school customers. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2014 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM300-13-D-P198).
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., has been awarded a modification of a sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HQ0276-13-C-0001). The total value of this effort is $49,946,254,increasing the total contract value from $3,500,000 to $53,446,254. Under this modification, the contractor will perform Standard Missile-3 Block IB sustaining engineering support. The work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. The performance period is from date of award through Dec. 31, 2013. Fiscal 2013 Defense Wide Procurement funds will be used to incrementally fund this effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.
ARMY
Primal Innovation LLC, Sanford, Fla., was awarded a $47,295,671 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for road repair services, to include various cleaners, chemicals, containers and spare parts. Work location will be determined with each order. Type of appropriation will be determined with each order. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-13-D-0081).
EADS North America, Herndon, Va., was awarded a $20,994,308 modification (No. P00675), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W58RGZ-06-C-0194), for security and support mission equipment package production cut-in services. The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $2,260,811,397. Work will be performed in Columbus, Miss. Fiscal 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., was awarded a $20,615,112 modification (No. P00003), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W31P4Q-12-C-0265), to procure tube-launched optically-tracked wireless-guided missiles. The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $202,887,036. Work will be performed in Tucson and in Farmington, N.M. Combinations of fiscal 2012 and 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
Professional Contract Services Inc., Austin, Texas, was awarded a $14,172,355 modification (No. P00011), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W91151-10-D-0001), to procure food and dining facility attendant support services at Fort Hood, Texas. The total cumulative value of this contract is now $70,078,788. Funds will be obligated upon task order issuance. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Hood, Texas, is the contracting activity.
Dutra Dredging Co., San Rafael, Calif., was awarded a $10,008,000 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging services in Oregon, Washington and California. Fiscal 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Ore., is the contracting activity (W9127N-13-C-0008).
CACI-CMS Information Systems Inc., Chantilly, Va., was awarded a $9,705,666 modification (No. P00026), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W91QUZ-09-F-0125), to provide program management and engineering services in support of Department of Defense biometric programs. The total cumulative face value of this contract is now $43,357,840. Work will be performed in Alexandria, Va., combinations of fiscal 2013 Operations and Maintenance, Army; and fiscal 2012 and 2013 Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity.
TSI Corp., Las Vegas, Nev., was awarded an $8,448,352 modification (No. P00004), to a previously awarded fixed-price-award-fee contract (W9124J-12-D-0012), to provide support services to the Directorate of Public Works in Fort Hood, Texas. The total cumulative face value of this contract is now $16,260,566. Type of appropriation will be determined with each task order. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Hood, Texas, is the contracting activity.
NAVY
Aviation Ground Equipment Corp.*, Freeport, N.Y., is being awarded a $11,362,906 fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the engineering change proposal to upgrade the Static Frequency Converter (SFC) production units in order to meet the more stringent and newer electrical power requirements of the F-35 aircraft. In addition, this contract includes the updating of the technical and logistics data that includes the SFC technical manual. Work will be performed in Moraine, Ohio (80 percent) and Freeport, N.Y. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2017. Fiscal 2013 Aircraft Procurement, Navy contract funds in the amount of $809,692 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-13-D-0011).
AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp.,Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $7,340,724 contract modification (FA8625-11-C-6597 P00197) for incorporation of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) NexGen Sensors onto HC/MC-130J aircraft. Work will be performed in Marietta, Ga., and is expected to be completed by Oct.15, 2015. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012. The contracting activity is AFLMC/WISK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
*Small Business
Military Contracts Awarded On 4.4.2013
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=5012Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 210-13
April 04, 2013
CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Landoll Corp., * Marysville, Kan., has been awarded a maximum $177,500,000 contract for procurement of commercial type trucks and trailers. The award is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Kansas with an April 3, 2018 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2018 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPE8EC-13-D-0009).
Foster Caviness Inc.,* Colfax, N.C., has been awarded a maximum $49,800,000 contract for fresh fruit and vegetable support for customers in the North Carolina zone. The award is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is North Carolina with an Oct. 3, 2014 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Department of Agriculture school customers. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2014 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM300-13-D-P198).
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., has been awarded a modification of a sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HQ0276-13-C-0001). The total value of this effort is $49,946,254,increasing the total contract value from $3,500,000 to $53,446,254. Under this modification, the contractor will perform Standard Missile-3 Block IB sustaining engineering support. The work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. The performance period is from date of award through Dec. 31, 2013. Fiscal 2013 Defense Wide Procurement funds will be used to incrementally fund this effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.
ARMY
Primal Innovation LLC, Sanford, Fla., was awarded a $47,295,671 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for road repair services, to include various cleaners, chemicals, containers and spare parts. Work location will be determined with each order. Type of appropriation will be determined with each order. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-13-D-0081).
EADS North America, Herndon, Va., was awarded a $20,994,308 modification (No. P00675), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W58RGZ-06-C-0194), for security and support mission equipment package production cut-in services. The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $2,260,811,397. Work will be performed in Columbus, Miss. Fiscal 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., was awarded a $20,615,112 modification (No. P00003), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W31P4Q-12-C-0265), to procure tube-launched optically-tracked wireless-guided missiles. The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $202,887,036. Work will be performed in Tucson and in Farmington, N.M. Combinations of fiscal 2012 and 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.
Professional Contract Services Inc., Austin, Texas, was awarded a $14,172,355 modification (No. P00011), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W91151-10-D-0001), to procure food and dining facility attendant support services at Fort Hood, Texas. The total cumulative value of this contract is now $70,078,788. Funds will be obligated upon task order issuance. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Hood, Texas, is the contracting activity.
Dutra Dredging Co., San Rafael, Calif., was awarded a $10,008,000 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging services in Oregon, Washington and California. Fiscal 2013 Other Procurement, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Ore., is the contracting activity (W9127N-13-C-0008).
CACI-CMS Information Systems Inc., Chantilly, Va., was awarded a $9,705,666 modification (No. P00026), to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (W91QUZ-09-F-0125), to provide program management and engineering services in support of Department of Defense biometric programs. The total cumulative face value of this contract is now $43,357,840. Work will be performed in Alexandria, Va., combinations of fiscal 2013 Operations and Maintenance, Army; and fiscal 2012 and 2013 Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, Army contract funds are being obligated on this award. The Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity.
TSI Corp., Las Vegas, Nev., was awarded an $8,448,352 modification (No. P00004), to a previously awarded fixed-price-award-fee contract (W9124J-12-D-0012), to provide support services to the Directorate of Public Works in Fort Hood, Texas. The total cumulative face value of this contract is now $16,260,566. Type of appropriation will be determined with each task order. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Hood, Texas, is the contracting activity.
NAVY
Aviation Ground Equipment Corp.*, Freeport, N.Y., is being awarded a $11,362,906 fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the engineering change proposal to upgrade the Static Frequency Converter (SFC) production units in order to meet the more stringent and newer electrical power requirements of the F-35 aircraft. In addition, this contract includes the updating of the technical and logistics data that includes the SFC technical manual. Work will be performed in Moraine, Ohio (80 percent) and Freeport, N.Y. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2017. Fiscal 2013 Aircraft Procurement, Navy contract funds in the amount of $809,692 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-13-D-0011).
AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp.,Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $7,340,724 contract modification (FA8625-11-C-6597 P00197) for incorporation of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) NexGen Sensors onto HC/MC-130J aircraft. Work will be performed in Marietta, Ga., and is expected to be completed by Oct.15, 2015. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012. The contracting activity is AFLMC/WISK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
*Small Business
April 6, 2013
Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 207-13
April 03, 2013
CONTRACTS
NAVY
Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services, LLC, Annapolis, Md. (N65236-13-D-4910); Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va. (N65236-13-D-4911); CACI, Inc. – Federal, Chantilly, Va. (N65236-13-D-4912); Centurum Information Technology, Inc., Marlton, NJ (N65236-13-D-4913); Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va., (N65236-13-D-4914); Glotech, Inc., Rockville, Md. (N65236-13-D-4915); Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., Columbia, Md. (N65236-13-D-4916); Engility Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. (N65236-13-D-4917); Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, Herndon, Va. (N65236-13-D-4918); M.C. Dean, Inc., Dulles, Va. (N65236-13-D-4919); Qinetiq North America, Inc., Services and Solutions Group, Fairfax, Va. (N65236-13-D-4920); Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va. (N65236-13-D-4921); Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va. (N65236-13-D-4922); Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta (N65236-13-D-4923); and ManTech Systems Engineering Corp., Fairfax, Va. (N65236-13-D-4974) are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance based multiple award contract with provisions for fixed-price-incentive (firm target) and firm-fixed-price task orders. The contracts are for the procurement of Decision Superiority support services including the entire spectrum of non-inherently governmental services and solutions (equipment and services) associated with the full system lifecycle support including research, development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of sustainable, secure, survivable, and interoperable command, control, communication, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C5ISR), information operations, enterprise information services and space capabilities. The cumulative, estimated ceiling value of the base year is $179,957,600. These contracts include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative ceiling value of these contracts to an estimated $899,788,000. Work will be performed worldwide. Work is expected to be completed by March 2014. If all options are exercised, work could continue until March 2018. Fiscal 2013 SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic Navy Working Capital funds in the amount of $25,000 will be obligated at the time of award as the minimum guarantee and will be split among the 15 awardees; these funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The multiple award contractswere competitively procured by full and open competition via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center e-Commerce Central website and the Federal Business Opportunities website, with 16 offers received. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.
Dragados USA, Inc., New York, N.Y., was awarded on April 2, 2013, a $20,072,022 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N40085-12-C-7714) to exercise option items one, two and three which provides for the construction of a road, borrow pits, two bridges, foundation piling and pile load testing at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed under option item one provides for construction of: (1) a fully designed and permitted four lane divided roadway from Brewster Boulevard to Wallace Creek as part of the base entry road project; (2) borrow pits managed and in full compliance. The project also includes construction of two bridges; (3) a bridge crossing at Wallace Creek; (4) a bridge crossing over Stone Street. The work to be performed under option item two provides for construction of foundation piling to support the work performed in option item one. The work to be performed under option item three provides for pile load testing to support the work performed in option item one. The total contract amount after exercise of these options will be $61,240,000. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by April 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $20,072,022 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
The Boeing Co., Boeing Defense, St. Charles, Mo., is being awarded a $19,214,763 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) Air Launch Accessory (ALA) assets and equipment as well as associated engineering services and support. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $47,034,172. Work will be performed in St. Charles, Mo., and is expected to be completed by April 2016. Contract funds in the amount of $9,759,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Funding in the amount of $14,200,000 will be obligated at the time of the award. This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via FedBizOpps and three offers were received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-13-C-6402).
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Hologic, Inc., Bedford, Mass., has been awarded a maximum $94,182,807 modification exercising the fourth option year on a one year base contract with seven one year options for radiology systems, subsystems and components. The modification is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Massachusetts with an April 6, 2014 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2014 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM2D1-09-D-8334/P00015).
Military Contracts Awarded On 4.3.2013
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=5011Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 207-13
April 03, 2013
CONTRACTS
NAVY
Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services, LLC, Annapolis, Md. (N65236-13-D-4910); Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va. (N65236-13-D-4911); CACI, Inc. – Federal, Chantilly, Va. (N65236-13-D-4912); Centurum Information Technology, Inc., Marlton, NJ (N65236-13-D-4913); Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va., (N65236-13-D-4914); Glotech, Inc., Rockville, Md. (N65236-13-D-4915); Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., Columbia, Md. (N65236-13-D-4916); Engility Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. (N65236-13-D-4917); Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, Herndon, Va. (N65236-13-D-4918); M.C. Dean, Inc., Dulles, Va. (N65236-13-D-4919); Qinetiq North America, Inc., Services and Solutions Group, Fairfax, Va. (N65236-13-D-4920); Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va. (N65236-13-D-4921); Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va. (N65236-13-D-4922); Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta (N65236-13-D-4923); and ManTech Systems Engineering Corp., Fairfax, Va. (N65236-13-D-4974) are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance based multiple award contract with provisions for fixed-price-incentive (firm target) and firm-fixed-price task orders. The contracts are for the procurement of Decision Superiority support services including the entire spectrum of non-inherently governmental services and solutions (equipment and services) associated with the full system lifecycle support including research, development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of sustainable, secure, survivable, and interoperable command, control, communication, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C5ISR), information operations, enterprise information services and space capabilities. The cumulative, estimated ceiling value of the base year is $179,957,600. These contracts include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative ceiling value of these contracts to an estimated $899,788,000. Work will be performed worldwide. Work is expected to be completed by March 2014. If all options are exercised, work could continue until March 2018. Fiscal 2013 SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic Navy Working Capital funds in the amount of $25,000 will be obligated at the time of award as the minimum guarantee and will be split among the 15 awardees; these funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The multiple award contractswere competitively procured by full and open competition via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center e-Commerce Central website and the Federal Business Opportunities website, with 16 offers received. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.
Dragados USA, Inc., New York, N.Y., was awarded on April 2, 2013, a $20,072,022 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N40085-12-C-7714) to exercise option items one, two and three which provides for the construction of a road, borrow pits, two bridges, foundation piling and pile load testing at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed under option item one provides for construction of: (1) a fully designed and permitted four lane divided roadway from Brewster Boulevard to Wallace Creek as part of the base entry road project; (2) borrow pits managed and in full compliance. The project also includes construction of two bridges; (3) a bridge crossing at Wallace Creek; (4) a bridge crossing over Stone Street. The work to be performed under option item two provides for construction of foundation piling to support the work performed in option item one. The work to be performed under option item three provides for pile load testing to support the work performed in option item one. The total contract amount after exercise of these options will be $61,240,000. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by April 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $20,072,022 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.
The Boeing Co., Boeing Defense, St. Charles, Mo., is being awarded a $19,214,763 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) Air Launch Accessory (ALA) assets and equipment as well as associated engineering services and support. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $47,034,172. Work will be performed in St. Charles, Mo., and is expected to be completed by April 2016. Contract funds in the amount of $9,759,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Funding in the amount of $14,200,000 will be obligated at the time of the award. This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via FedBizOpps and three offers were received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-13-C-6402).
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Hologic, Inc., Bedford, Mass., has been awarded a maximum $94,182,807 modification exercising the fourth option year on a one year base contract with seven one year options for radiology systems, subsystems and components. The modification is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Massachusetts with an April 6, 2014 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2014 Defense Working Capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM2D1-09-D-8334/P00015).
April 6, 2013
Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 202-13
April 02, 2013
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
EMC Corp., Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a $21,985,876 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for support and development services for instrumentation support for instrumentation loading, integration, analysis and display (ILIAD), Enterprise Test Data Management System (ETDMS), Odyssey, and supplies to Air Force test customers. Work will be performed in Irvine, Calif., with an expected completion date of April 2, 2017. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is AFTC/PZIEA, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (FA9302-13-D-0002).
CORRECTION (dollar amount corrected from 29 March release)
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $8,936,283 contract modification (FA8811-10-C-006 and P00043) for additional systems engineering and integration support for launch test and range system programs. Work will be performed at Los Angeles Air Force Base and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.; Peterson Air Force Base Colo., and Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., with an expected completion date of Dec. 2, 2013. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is SMC/RNK, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
American Medical Depot (AMD)*, Opa Locka, Fla., was awarded a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a maximum $49,800,000 for stretchers and beds. Locations of performance are Florida and Michigan with a March 19, 2018 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal year 2013 Defense Working Capital Funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM2DH-13-D-8206)
*Small Business
Military Contracts Awarded On 4.2.2013
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=5010Contracts valued at $6.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m. Contract announcements issued within the past 30 days are listed below. Older contract announcements are available from the contract archive page. Contract announcements are also available by e-mail subscription. Go to DOD News for more information and for links to other news items.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 202-13
April 02, 2013
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
EMC Corp., Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a $21,985,876 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for support and development services for instrumentation support for instrumentation loading, integration, analysis and display (ILIAD), Enterprise Test Data Management System (ETDMS), Odyssey, and supplies to Air Force test customers. Work will be performed in Irvine, Calif., with an expected completion date of April 2, 2017. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is AFTC/PZIEA, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (FA9302-13-D-0002).
CORRECTION (dollar amount corrected from 29 March release)
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $8,936,283 contract modification (FA8811-10-C-006 and P00043) for additional systems engineering and integration support for launch test and range system programs. Work will be performed at Los Angeles Air Force Base and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.; Peterson Air Force Base Colo., and Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., with an expected completion date of Dec. 2, 2013. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2013. The contracting activity is SMC/RNK, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
American Medical Depot (AMD)*, Opa Locka, Fla., was awarded a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a maximum $49,800,000 for stretchers and beds. Locations of performance are Florida and Michigan with a March 19, 2018 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal year 2013 Defense Working Capital Funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM2DH-13-D-8206)
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