Wednesday, August 10, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 10, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 10, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - August 10, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued August 10, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND

Federal Express, Washington, D.C. (HTC711-12-D-C001); Polar Air Cargo, Purchase, N.Y. (HTC711-12-D-C002); and United Parcel Service, Louisville, Ky. (HTC711-12-D-C003), are three World Wide Express-5 offerors that has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price award. This program has an overall five-year maximum ceiling value of $853,321,156 with a contract guaranteed minimum award amount of $2,500 per awardee. The contract is for international commercial express package service (shipments up to and including 300 pounds) for the federal government to include all civilian agencies/organizations. Work will be performed internationally and the base year performance period is from Oct. 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012, with four one-year option periods from Oct. 1, 2012 to Sept. 30, 2016. Contract funds will expire at the end of fiscal 2012. Five proposals were received. The U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity

NAVY

CACI Technologies, Inc., Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a $24,162,560 modification to previously awarded contract (N63394-04-D-1262) for systems engineering services in support of integrated ship self defense. This procurement is to provide professional engineering, technical, training, software, project service, logistics services, fleet modernization, internal communication systems, combat system switchboard and other in-service engineering agent products necessary to support the Ship Self Defense System of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, Port Hueneme, Calif. Services will be required at shore sites, land-based test facilities, shipyards, and aboard ships in port and at sea. This contract modification exercises an option that brings the cumulative value of this contract modification to $48,325,119. Work will be performed in Port Hueneme, Calif. (35 percent); Wallops Island, Va. (10 percent); Norfolk, Va. (5 percent); Crystal City, Va. (10 percent); San Diego, Calif. (5 percent); Little Creek, Va. (5 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (5 percent); and other shore and afloat sites (25 percent). Work is expected to be completed by February 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $2,295,443 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme, Calif., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments, L.P., Armament Systems Division, Louisville, Ky., is being awarded a $15,615,747 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order to previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-07-G-5438) for two MK 45 Mod 2 gun mount upgrades to the Mod 4 configuration. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (75 percent), and Minneapolis, Minn. (25 percent), and is expected be completed by May 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., St Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $9,340,141 firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-10-G-0012) for organizational level peculiar support equipment in support of emerging F/A-18E/F aircraft squadron stand-ups (VFA-25, VFA-146, VFA-192, and VFA-151). Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed in July 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $9,340,141 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity.

Tetra Tech EC, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $8,422,440 firm-fixed-price modification to increase the maximum dollar value of task order #0004 under a previously awarded environmental multiple award contract (N62473-10-D-0809) for basewide radiological support at Hunters Point Shipyard. The work to be performed provides for basewide radiological support under the contractor’s U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission broad-scope radioactive material license to enable contractors to complete both chemical and radiological removal and remediation work. The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, engineering, materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies and transportation to perform all work described in the request for proposal. After award of this modification, the total cumulative task order value will be $23,515,789. Work will be performed in San Francisco, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Aug. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

Tecolote Research, Inc., Goleta, Calif., is being awarded a $22,649,797 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide specialized cost services advisory and assistance services to the Electronic Systems Center. Work will be performed at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., and other geographically-separated units. ESC/CAA, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8721-11-D-0001).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

BRS Aerospace*, South St. Paul, Minn., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum $9,628,245 for high velocity parachutes. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Army. The date of performance completion is Feb. 4, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Richmond, Va., is the contracting activity (SPM4A7-11-C-0618).

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DTN News - LONDON RIOTS NEWS: As Rioting Spreads UK's Cameron Vows Crackdown

DTN News - LONDON RIOTS NEWS: As Rioting Spreads UK's Cameron Vows Crackdown
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / LONDON, U.K. - August 10, 2011:

Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday "a fight back is under way" to restore law and order to Britain's streets but rioting, looting and arson by gangs of youths spread from London to other cities overnight.

Youths fought running battles with police in the northern cities of Manchester and Liverpool as well as in the Midlands.

They smashed shop windows, carted off televisions and designer clothes, and torched buildings as police armed with shields and batons struggled to maintain control.

A boosted police presence meant London itself was relatively quiet after three days of violent unrest that shocked the nation and raised questions about the divided state of modern Britain.

About 16,000 police officers patrolled London's streets on Tuesday night but with shops, pubs and businesses in many areas closing early and boarding up windows, the city which hosts the Olympic games next summer, had the air of a town under siege.

"We needed a fight back and a fight back is under way," Cameron said after a meeting Wednesday of the government's COBRA committee that deals with national security crises.

"Whatever resources police need they will get."

This included baton rounds and water cannon, Cameron said.

The prime minister branded the unrest, which erupted in poor, inner-city areas of London at the weekend, as nothing more than criminality and made no reference to social and economic conditions which community leaders say sparked the problems.

"There are pockets of our society that are not just broken but frankly sick," said Cameron, who made fixing "broken Britain" a cornerstone of his premiership.

But the spread of the unrest to other cities including Birmingham, Britain's second biggest, means the crisis is anything but over.

Gangs of youths in hooded tops battled police in Manchester, smashing windows and looting shops, and setting fire to a clothes shop.

In nearby Salford, rioters threw bricks at police and set fire to buildings. TV pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars, and plumes of black smoke billowing across roads.

"These people have nothing to protest against -- there is no sense of injustice or any spark that has led to this," Assistant Chief Constable Gary Shewan said.

"It is, pure and simple, acts of criminal behavior which are the worst I have seen on this scale."

In Liverpool's Toxteth district, rioters attacked two fire engines and a fire officer's car, police said. Earlier, some 200 youths throwing missiles wrecked and looted shops.

Police said they had arrested 113 people in Manchester and Salford, and 50 in Liverpool.

Cars were burned and stores looted in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton in central England; and in Nottingham a gang of young men set fire to a police station. There were also disturbances in Birmingham and Leicester in central England, and Milton Keynes north of London.

The police -- already facing manpower losses due to public spending cuts -- are at full stretch. With thousands of reinforcements sent from regional forces to London, other cities might find their own police ranks depleted.

VIGILANTES

In Birmingham, police launched a murder inquiry after three Muslim men died after being run over by a car in the mayhem there. A friend of the men told BBC radio they had been part of a group of British Asians protecting their area from looters after attending Ramadan prayers at a mosque.

"The car swerved toward them. It was cold-blooded murder," the friend said. The father of one of the men tried to save his dying son with CPR.

Shopkeepers and local residents in districts of London and other cities were reported to be organizing vigilante groups to protect their property.

The violence has appalled many Britons who have watched television pictures of rioters attacking individuals and raiding family-owned stores as well as targeting big business.

But it has also prompted some soul-searching.

Community leaders said the violence in London, the worst for decades in the multi-ethnic capital of 7.8 million people, was rooted in growing disparities in wealth and opportunity.

"This disturbing phenomenon has to be understood as a conflagration of aggression from a socially and economically excluded underclass," the liberal Independent newspaper said.

"These youths live in the heart of British cities but they do not feel part of them. Far too little has been done by successive generations of politicians and public servants to integrate these individuals into normal society. The fuse for this explosion has been burning down for many years."

The right-wing Daily Telegraph took a harder line.

"The thugs must be taught to respect the law the hard way. These riots have shamed the nation and the government must be held to account."

"If Mr. Cameron gets it wrong and the rioting is still in full spate at the weekend, he may struggle to recover," it said.

GREED IS GOOD

Critics say government policies of chopping public spending and raising taxes to cut a huge budget deficit have aggravated the plight of urban youth as the economy struggles to grow and unemployment rises.

The awarding of huge bonuses to bankers has become emblematic of a culture of flashy consumption for the elite.

Corruption scandals within London's police force and a 2009 scandal over parliamentarians' expenses have also fueled the notion that greed is a motivating factor across the spectrum of British society.

"Everyone's heard about the police taking bribes, the members of parliament stealing thousands with their expenses. They set the example. It's time to loot," a youth in the riot-torn London district of Hackney told Reuters.

Police said they had arrested a total of 770 people -- one as young as 11 -- in London since the unrest began Saturday, and had charged 167 suspects, mainly with burglary and public order offences.

Officers would be out in force again Wednesday night, said Stephen Kavanagh, deputy assistant commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police.

"Tonight we are going to plan for the worst again, that is what London deserves," he told BBC radio.

(Additional reporting by Tim Castle, Paul Hoskins, Adrian Croft, Avril Ormsby, Jon Hemming, Sonya Hepinstall, Jon Boyle, Stefano Ambrogi, Peter Griffiths and Georgina Prodhan; Writing by Angus MacSwan: Editing Peter Millership)

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Launches Sea Trials Of Its First Carrier

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Launches Sea Trials Of Its First Carrier
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / BEIJING, China- August 10, 2011:

China's first aircraft carrier swept through fog-shrouded waters Wednesday to open sea trials that underline the country's big naval ambitions and fuel concerns about its growing military strength amid regional territorial disputes.

The ship is former Soviet craft that China acknowledged a month ago it was rebuilding for research and training, in a strong indication that it plans to start building aircraft carriers of its own.

China has been investing heavily in modernizing its military for at least the last decade, and having its own carrier will add prestige to that expansion, which has accompanied a rise in nationalism in the country.

The carrier left Dalian port in northeast Liaoning province early Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Xinhua said the first sea trial was in line with the country's schedule to rebuild the carrier. China has spend the better part of a decade refurbishing the former Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag after it was towed from Ukraine in 1998, the report said, citing unnamed military sources.

China's carrier ambitions have sparked concern among neighbors amid heightened tensions over territorial disputes around Taiwan and in the South China Sea.

Over the past year, China has seen a flare-up in territorial spats with Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam and had its relations strained with South Korea — all of which have sought support from Washington, long the pre-eminent naval power in Asia.

Xinhua said refitting and test work would continue on the carrier when it returns from its short sea trial.

The Varyag, yet to be officially renamed, was towed from Ukraine as an empty shell without engines, weapons systems or other crucial equipment.

Defense experts say China plans up to four carriers in all, with preparations under way at a Shanghai shipyard.

The Xinhua report did not say how long the sea trial would last. But a statement posted on the website of the Liaoning Maritime Safety Authority said "all vessels will be barred from entering" a small section of the sea off Dalian until 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Sunday.

There had been earlier online reports in China that the test was set to start last weekend, but it may have been delayed by a tropical storm that swept through the area.

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