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Pentagon Awards $38 Million for Biometric and Anti-Missile Work

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On Thursday, the Department of Defense announced the award of several small (in defense industry terms) contracts to a handful of companies. Collectively, the awards add up to $38 million in value. Individually, they break down as follows:

  • EADS was awarded a $21 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to supply “security and support mission equipment package production cut-in services” to the U.S. Army. According to DoD, with this modification, the value of EADS‘s initial contract win has risen to $2.26 billion.
  • CACI won a $9.7 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for the provision of “program management and engineering services” supporting DoD biometric programs. The total cumulative face value of the underlying contract has now risen to $43.4 million. 
  • Lockheed Martin was awarded $7.3 million as a modification to its contract to incorporate Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) NexGen Sensors onto HC/MC-130J aircraft Super Hercules transport aircraft. LAIRCM is a laser-based aircraft anti-missile defense mechanism being developed by Northrop Grumman for the Air Force. It involves mounting hi-intensity lasers on an aircraft, which lasers are then used to disable incoming missiles. Lockheed’s work, installing the system on the Super Hercules planes, should be complete by Oct. 15, 2015.

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Pentagon Awards $67.7 Million in Army Contracts

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The Department of Defense announced a series of new defense contracts benefiting the U.S. Army on Wednesday, with publicly traded companies reaping nearly $68 million in awards, including:

  • L-3 Communications‘ National Security Solutions subsidiary was awarded an $8.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide “enterprise service support for the entire National Capital Region.” This contract runs through March 29, 2014.
  • Boeing won a $12.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the “generation three electronic control unit upgrade and the installation of the AVR-2B Laser Warning System.” AVR-2B is a product of Goodrich — now a subsidiary of United Technologies — designed to alert U.S. forces when they have been illuminated by hostile laser rangefinders, target designators, or similar laser-aided targeting systems, and indicate the direction from which the laser designator originated. Boeing’s work on this project is expected to be complete by March 25, 2015.
  • Northrop Grumman‘s Space and Mission Systems division won a $24.4 million time-and-materials contract, extending by one year (through March 25, 2014) its contract to support the U.S. Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS), a system Northrop began bringing on line in 2007.
  • Esterline Technologies subsidiary Armtec Countermeasures Co. was awarded a $22.8 million firm-fixed-price contract to procure additional M206, MJU-7A/B and MJU-10/B infrared countermeasure flares (used to distract enemy anti-aircraft missiles). Armtec will deliver these flares by Feb. 28, 2015.

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Pentagon Awards $23.8 Million in Defense Contracts

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The Department of Defense announced a series of small (in defense contracting terms) contract awards to a handful of publicly traded companies Wednesday.

Among them:

Raytheon was awarded an $8.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to an existing basic ordering agreement. It will perform “program management, design engineering, system engineering, technical analysis, programmatic and technical documentation development, safety-related engineering, and logistic support” on AN/SPS-73(V) surface search radar systems operated by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. This contact runs through April 2015.

United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aerospace Maintenance won an $8.2 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to perform depot-level maintenance on Naval aircraft operated by “adversary squadrons” through June 2013. Adversary squadrons comprise U.S. pilots flying — importantly — either foreign-built planes (such as Russian MiGs), or older U.S. planes no longer in active service, flown in a style similar to those demonstrated by foreign air forces. The unusual “air forces” involved in this training require specialized knowledge in how to maintain their planes.

Rockwell Collins won a $7.3 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract for purchase of ARC electronic radio controls and ancillary equipment for Air Force F-15C/D aircraft. Delivery is expected by March 2014.

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Pentagon Awards $150 Million to Northrop, Orbital, and NMSU

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On Monday, the Department of Defense awarded $150 million to a trio of vendors through a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract, awarded severally to the Physical Science Lab at New Mexico State University, Northrop Grumman , and Orbital Sciences , funds unspecified “theoretical studies and engineering research” work to be performed for U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force research and development programs.

Although not specifically stated in the DOD‘s contract announcement, the contract appears to be an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, inasmuch as it specifies that “work … will be determined with each order.” This suggests the DOD‘s award is actually an umbrella contract under which specified task orders will be put up for bid, at which point NMSU, Northrop, and Orbital will be able to bid to fulfill said task orders.

One curiosity about the contract is that DOD says “four bids were solicited, with four bids received” for the contract. However, only three winners were named.

This contract runs through March 16, 2018.

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Pentagon Awards $45.5 Million in Miscellaneous Defense Contracts

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On Friday, the Department of Defense announced a number of smallish (in defense industry terms) contracts awarded to several publicly traded companies.

  • The largest award went to gas and electric utility Integrys Energy , which won a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract for the direct supply of a maximum of $14.9 million worth of “pipeline quality natural gas” to Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and federal civilian agency customers in the northeast region. This contract runs through March 31, 2015.
  • L-3 Communications was awarded a $12.4 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply spare parts for AN/PVS-15, AN/PVS-18, and AN/PVS-31 model night vision goggles. This contract funds delivery of goggles as ordered through March 2018.
  • The Air Force awarded privately held Sierra Nevada Corp. a $10.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for work on operational systems for “the functional development model.” The contract notification contains no more details than this. It is unclear whether the contract has anything to do with the disputed Sierra Nevada/Embraer contract to supply the Air Force with Super Tucano fighter planes for use by the Afghan Air Force.
  • Last, smallest, and most mysterious, Science Applications International won an $8.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to perform work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. What kind of work remains a mystery, however, because as the DOD contract specifies: “this effort is classified.”

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