Navy awards target contract
Filed under: Alliant Techsystems, CEi, Contract Awards, U.S. Navy, development program, training
The Navy uses a variety of targets to test new systems and also to train ship’s crew. Alliant Techsystems and CEi were awarded a contract to build the Multi-Stage Supersonic Target (MSST). This will simulate anti-ship surface-to-surface missiles. The press release says it cruises at sub-sonic speeds, but the name implies that at some point it is going over Mach 1. These kind of missiles are a dangerous threat to ships and they fly at low altitude and their speeds reduce reaction time by the air defense systems.
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House marks appropriations bill
Filed under: Bell, Boeing, Congress, Contract Awards, EADS, Federal Budget Process, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., development program, logistics, production program
The House Appropriations Committee marked the FY09 budget before taking their August recess. See a story here. The Army’s struggling Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) program was marked to delete 13 aircraft, and the Navy’s Presidential Helo was also decremented. The House also ordered that consideration of jobs would be a criteria for the source selection of the KC-45 tanker. Boeing won its protest of the award to Northrop-Grumman and EADS and forced DoD to reconsider the contract. The Senate needs to also mark the bill and then there will be a Conference mark up as well.
Navy continues CEC work
Filed under: Contract Awards, IT, Raytheon, U.S. Navy, development program
Raytheon was awarded a contract today to continue work on Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC). See a press release here. CEC is a natural development of the work the Navy has done with datalinks for the last 50 plus years. By the Nineties the Navy was able to share the sensor picture from one ship with others over a tactical data link. Even during the Gulf War this was not good enough for targeting. CEC’s goal is to develope a netted sensor grid that will support providing a fire control solution good enough that one ship can guide a missile launched from another. The Navy was installing CEC on selected ships by the end of the Twentieth Century. For more on CEC see this.
Navy orders training systems for the V-22
Filed under: Bell, Boeing, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, U.S. Navy, development program, logistics, production program
The Navy ordered from the Boeing-Bell team manufacturing the V-22 Osprey training devices and related equipment today. The contract is worth about $78 M. See a story here. The Osprey has just finished a successful deployment in Iraq where it carried out heavy lift missions, usually for logistics purposes. The contract will pay for the development and production of training equipment.
Navy awards environmental remidiation contract
The Navy awarded the Shaw Group Inc a contract for up to 5 years that could be worth $150 M. See the press release here. This is the fourth award for this type of work to the company. They will do environmental remediation at various Navy and USMC bases on the East Coast. Similar contracts have or will be awarded for the other geographical areas of the country. Once again this demonstrates that the US military spends a great deal of money on things other then weapons and soldiers. Military bases are dirty places that have in cases decades of dirt to clean up, not to talk about spills or accidents that occur due to current operations. Work of this type is critical to keep the bases functioning.
Kratos wins Navy target support contract
Filed under: Contract Awards, Kratos, SETA, U.S. Navy, missile defense
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions won a contract to support the Navy’s missile test ranges. See the press release here. Along with its team member, Systems Applications & Technologies, Inc, Kratos will support surface and aerial target operations. This includes mission planning as well as target maintenance and launch. Kratos continues its support of the various services in the area of target production and support. The contract is worth $59 M.
Northrop Grumman wins BAMS SD&D contract
Filed under: Australia, Boeing, Contract Awards, Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Navy, development program
As reported yesterday the BAMS DAB was held. The Navy awarded the contract to Northrop Grumman for a version of the Global Hawk long range, large UAV. See a story here. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were the losing bidders. On top of the KC-45 contract this can be seen as a blow to Boeing by Northrop Grumman. Read more
Navy ready to award BAMS contract
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Navy, development program
According to this article the Navy had a successful DAB for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program. The system was approved to go into System Design and Development (SDD) phase and a prime contractor will be chosen to perform that work. Once that phase is completed then Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) can start. The BAMS is for a unmanned surveillance aircraft to replace the P-3 Orion in some of its missions. The Navy is also pursuing the P-8 aircraft based on the Boeing 737 to replace the P-3 in its Anti-Submarine Warfare role. Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are bidders.
Boeing gets next V-22 production option
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, production program
The US Air Force and Navy gave Boeing and its team a contract for another 167 V-22 aircraft. See the story here. The contract is worth over $10 B and will also provide necessary support services. The V-22 is deployed to Iraq and conducting heavy lift cargo and personnel transport missions.
Defense Contract Awards for March 26, 2008
NAVY
URS Group Inc, Santa Ana, Calif.; CDM Constructors Inc., Carlsbad, Calif.; Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Inc., San Diego, Calif.; Tetra Tech EC Inc., San Diego, Calif.; Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, and Weston Solutions Inc., Walnut Creek, Calif., are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity environmental multiple award contract for environmental remediation services on Navy and Marine Corps installations at various locations and other DOD installations nationwide. The total aggregate amount for all contracts combined is not to exceed $100,000,000. Work will be performed at various federal sites within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest area of responsibility including, but not limited to Calif., (80 percent), Ariz., (10 percent), Ala.,(2 percent), Nev.,(2 percent), Wash.,(2 percent), N.M.(1 percent), Ore.,(1 percent), Utah (1 percent), and nationwide (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2009 (Mar. 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was issued as an unrestricted procurement on the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with 10 proposals received. These six contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-D-8820/8821/8822/8823/8824/8825).
Read moreNavy awards AEGIS contract
Filed under: Contract Awards, General Dynamics, MDA, SETA, U.S. Navy, development program, missile defense, production program
General Dynamics won an engineering support contract from the Navy for support to the AEGIS missile system. See the story here. They will support the sea-based system that recently shot down the wayward spy satellite. The contract is worth $191 M.
Air Force to decide on F-35 depot
Filed under: Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, U.S. Air Force, development program, logistics
An interesting part of the entry of any new equipment into service is where to have its depot? If the military is using their traditional three level maintenance program the system will require a depot. According to this short article in The Salt Lake Tribune it sounds like the Air Force’s depots, here Hill in Utah, are competing to get the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) work. Read more
Australian government cancels the SH-2 contract
Filed under: Australia, Kaman Corp, Military Aviation, Restructuring, production program
In 1997 Australia decided to buy 11 upgraded SH-2 aircraft from Kaman to outfit their Navy. Unfortunately the work required to integrate the helicopters with the newer generation of equipment that the Navy possessed was harder and more complicated then originally thought. Imagine that? Anyway ten years and millions of dollars later the program is still not complete. According to this article the new liberal government has decided to axe the contract. There will obviously be some termination costs involved, and now they are back to square one on the aircraft. Perhaps they will look at the US Navy’s MH-60?
Marines order training devices
Filed under: Contract Awards, L-3, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, logistics
L-3 Communications won a contract from the Navy to provide video and audio capture devices. See the article at Forbes here. These will be used to support pre-deployment training at various sites in the US. The contract is worth $326 M. The devices are quite sophisticated as the price indicates.
Services ask Congress for things not in the budget
Filed under: Congress, Department of Defense, Federal Budget Process
In early February the President submits his budget to Congress. The three Services submitted theirs in October - November. The President, really the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and DoD can, and will, change the Services’ request. Congress then allows the Navy, Army and Air Force to submit lists of things that they want funded, but weren’t in the President’s Budget. Looking at this article on Wired.com, they did that. Read more
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