Friday, August 19, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 19, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 19, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - August 19, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued August 19, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Island Pacific Energy, L.L.C.*, Honolulu, Hawaii (N62742-11-D-1191); Pacific Energy Solutions, L.L.C.*, Honolulu, Hawaii (N62742-11-D-1192); and Photon Finance, L.L.C.*, Mountain View, Calif. (N62742-11-D-1196), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for the purchase of reliable locally generated solar alternating current power from Solar Power Generation Systems at military installations for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific area of responsibility (AOR). The work to be performed provides for installation of Solar Power Generation Systems on roofs, parking shade structures, and vacant parcels of land. The installations will purchase solar alternating current power only, and will not construct, own, or maintain any generation assets. The maximum dollar value, including the base period and four option years, for all three contracts combined is $500,000,000. No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed in the NAVFAC Pacific AOR, state of Hawaii. The installations include, but are not limited to, the following Oahu facilities: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam; Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Schofield Barracks; Wheeler Army Airfield; Tripler Army Medical Center; Fort DeRussy; the Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies; Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station; Naval Magazine West Loch; the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai; and the Army Reserve Center on Maui. The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of August 2016. Contract funds in the amount of $15,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website,with 13 proposals received. These three contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. Task orders issued under the contract are contemplated to be for a period of up to 30 years pursuant to the statutory authority of 10 U.S. Code 2922a. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $135,000,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for the engineering, manufacturing, and development of the F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track System, a long-wave infrared detection system that targets airborne vehicles in a radar-denied environment. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. (57 percent); Orlando, Fla. (35 percent); Santa Ana, Calif. (4 percent); and Irvine, Calif. (4 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-C-0036).

NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corp.*, Warminster, Pa., is being awarded an $84,702,930 firm-fixed-priced, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research project under Topics N92-170, entitled “Laser Detection & Ranging Identification Demonstration,” and N94-178, entitled “Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe.” This Phase III award provides for the production, validation, and delivery of the Gondola avionic sensor packages for the Army. In addition, this contract provides for field service representative support; delivery, installation, operation, and maintenance of hardware; continued testing; engineering services; modeling, simulation, analysis; systems engineering and integration in support of the Persistent Ground Surveillance Program. Work will be performed in Afghanistan (75 percent); Elizabeth City, N.C. (20 percent); Patuxent River, Md. (3 percent); and Warminster, Pa. (2 percent). Work is expected to be completed in August 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $60,000,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This Phase III contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-5. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-11-C-0214).

Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $21,027,297 modification to the previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2100) for continued procurement of common missile compartment prototype material, manufacturing and test. The contract will be for manufacturing and testing equipment to be used in the manufacture of the common missile compartment for the Ohio Replacement Program. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn., and is scheduled to be completed by May 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Louisville, Ky., is being awarded a $13,502,273 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. The technical instruction is to inspect and verify the configuration of MK 45 Mod 2/4 gun compatibility kits. The contractor shall provide material and services required to overhaul and upgrade the gun mount to the MK 45 Mod 4 Baseline “E” configuration. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (80 percent), and Minneapolis, Minn. (20 percent), and is expected to complete by September 2013. 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.

CMS Toltest, Inc.*, Bargersville, Ind., is being awarded $13,401,318 for firm-fixed-price task order #0003 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N69450-10-D-1271) for construction of a waterfront emergency generator building at Naval Submarine Station Kings Bay. The work to be performed provides for construction of a ballistically hardened emergency generator building which will house and support two emergency generators, required systems, generator controls, underground power distribution and site improvements. Work will be performed in Kings Bay, Ga., and is expected to be completed by May 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity.

The AGVIQ-CH2M Hill, J.V. III*, Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a $12,500,000 cost-plus-award-fee modification to increase the maximum dollar value of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N62470-08-D-1006) for environmental remedial action services on Navy and Marine Corps installations at sites in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic area of responsibility. The work to be performed provides for environmental restoration services at environmentally contaminated sites, predominately comprehensive environmental response, compensation and liability act sites, contaminated by solvents, petroleum, oil and lubricants, metals, acids, bases, reactives, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides and other related activities associated with returning various sites to safe and acceptable levels of contamination in support of the Navy’s Environmental Restoration Program, Munitions Response Program, and other similar programs. After award of this modification, the total cumulative contract value will be $112,500,000. Work will be performed primarily in Florida (40 percent); Mississippi (20 percent); Alaska (5 percent); areas of the Caribbean (5 percent); Georgia (5 percent); Oregon (5 percent); Puerto Rico (5 percent); South Carolina (5 percent); Texas (5 percent); and Washington (5 percent). Work is expected to be completed by March 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.

Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded an $11,919,072 cost-plus-fixed-fee order under previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-10-G-4304) to support submarine repair work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. This contract is for skilled tradesmen support to four chief of naval operations submarine maintenance availabilities scheduled to be performed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Ships scheduled to undergo repairs include USS San Juan (SSN 751); USS Pasadena (SSN 752); USS Miami (SSN 755); and USS Virginia (SSN 774). Work will be performed in Portsmouth, N.H., and is scheduled to be completed by September 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $11,919,072 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Louisville, Ky., is being awarded a $6,755,696 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order to previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-07-G-5438) for material and services required to inventory, verify configuration, re-manufacture and convert, perform ordnance alteration and upgrade, inspect, test and prepare for shipment the components and major assemblies for a MK 45 gun mount. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (80 percent), and Minneapolis, Minn. (20 percent), and is expected to complete by February 2013. 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.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, with an award value of $150,000,000. Under this contract (HQ0147-11-D-0052), Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory will work with MDA to provide technology development for electro-optic sensor systems, space rated instrument and payload development data, essential engineering, research, and development capabilities and services in the development of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory is a university affiliated research center sponsored by MDA as designated by the director of defense research and engineering. This contract was a sole-source award and the work will be performed at one of the following locations: Logan, Utah; Huntsville, Ala.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Fort Belvoir, Va., from August 2011 through August 2016. Fiscal 2011 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,070,442 will be used to incrementally fund the first task orders under this effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is not a foreign military sale acquisition. The MDA, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

Alaska Aerospace Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a $48,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide launch spaceport services for the Space Launch Division within the Space and Missile Systems Center/Space Development and Test Directorate. SMS/SDTD/PKT, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA8818-11-D-0026; Task Order 0001).

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Kirkham Way, Calif., is being awarded an $11,563,779 cost-plus-incentive and firm-fixed-price contract to purchase MQ-9 Reaper; development of aircraft structural improvement program master plan; left set synthetic aperture radar; and high definition integrated sensor control system. ASC/WIIK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-05-G-3028-0049-19).

Ft. Mohave Construction/Rock Gap Engineering, J.V., Mohave Valley, Ariz., is being awarded a $9,512,375 firm-fixed-price contract to provide electrical construction work. CONS/LGCB, Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., is the contracting activity (FA4887-11-D-0010)

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Dexis, L.L.C., Des Plaines, Ill., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $26,250,000 for dental imaging systems, software licenses, computers, technical support, maintenance and accessories. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The date of performance completion is Aug. 18, 2016. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2D1-11-D-8383).

Dentsply Professional, York, Pa., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $6,250,000 for distribution of general dental supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The date of performance completion is Sept. 25, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2DE-11-D-7456).

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DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Honest Japanese Return $78 Million In Cash Found In Quake Rubble

DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Honest Japanese Return $78 Million In Cash Found In Quake Rubble
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 19, 2011: The earthquake and tsunami that walloped Japan left much of its coastline ravaged, but left one thing intact: the Japanese reputation for honesty.
In the five months since the disaster struck, people have turned in thousands of wallets found in the debris, containing $48 million in cash.
More than 5,700 safes that washed ashore along Japan's tsunami-ravaged coast have also been hauled to police centers by volunteers and search and rescue crews. Inside those safes officials found $30 million in cash. One safe alone, contained the equivalent of $1 million.
The National Police Agency says nearly all the valuables found in the three hardest hit prefectures, have been returned to their owners.
"In most cases, the keyholes on these safes were filled with mud," said Koetsu Saiki with the Miyagi Prefectural Police. "We had to start by cutting apart the metal doors with grinders and other tools."
Determining who the safes belonged to, proved to be the easy part. Saiki says most kept bankbooks or land rights documents inside the boxes, containing their names and address. Tracking the owners down, was much more challenging.
Total of $78 Million Was Returned to Owners in Wake of Japan Catastrophe
"The fact that these safes were washed away, meant the homes were washed away too," he said. "We had to first determine if the owners were alive, then find where they had evacuated to."
Saiki says Miyagi police fanned out across the region, searching for names of residents posted at evacuation centers, digging through missing person reports at town halls, sorting through change of address forms at the post office, to see if the owner had moved away. When they couldn't find the documents, police called listed cell phone numbers, met with mayors or village leaders to see if they recognized the names.
The number of safes continued to increase as the clearing of tsunami debris led to more discoveries. Police stations struggling to find space for them housed the valuables in parking garages and meeting rooms.
Saiki says 20 percent of the 2,450 safes found in Miyagi turned out to be empty. But, the remaining 250 boxes contained much more than cash. Some included bars of gold, antiques, even crafted boxes containing a child's umbilical cord, a common memento of child birth. Police had to delicately comb through the keepsakes, since many of the items were damaged, after being soaked in seawater and mud for days or weeks.
The stashing of cash in safes isn't a unique problem in Japan, where many people prefer to keep their money at home, but Saiki says the number of boxes is especially high in the coastal region where fishermen make up a large part of the population. Fisheries companies prefer cash transactions, and keep employee salaries in safes, he said.
The number of lost items recovered has declined with every month, but Saiki says his department continues to receive a handful of safes a week.
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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Kabul Attack - Taliban In Six-Hour Gun Battle At British Compound

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Kabul Attack - Taliban In Six-Hour Gun Battle At British Compound
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 19, 2011: At least eight Afghan police and one foreigner are believed to have been killed after the Taliban marked the anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain with an elaborate, multi-phased attack on the British Council building in Kabul.
The assault on the compound in the west of the city began when a suicide car bomber detonated a vehicle at the front gate of the compound.
Witnesses in nearby shops said several heavily armed insurgents then rushed out of a side street shouting, firing in the air and racing towards to the open gate. Afghan officials believed the number of attackers was between two and four.
All British nationals affected by the attack on the British Council in Kabul are now safe, said the Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt.
Jumadin, a worker at a nearby petrol station, said the force of the initial blast was enough to throw him across the ground. "I thought I was going to die," he said.
"When the policemen rushed to the area from the police district at least three were shot dead near the building."
At midday the relatively upscale Kabul neighbourhood resembled a war zone.
Six hours after the beginning of the attack, fighting continued between the attackers and security forces, including British troops. Loud explosions and long bursts of gunfire could be heard from within the building, circling helicopters released counter-missile flares and a medical evacuation helicopter briefly landed and then departed again just 50m from the site.
After an initial period when the fighting appeared to have ended, a volley of machine-gun fire sent British soldiers ducking behind their armoured vehicles.
Afghan officials said at least one attacker was still at large in the compound.
With the injured rushed to a variety of different hospitals and the building still not cleared, estimates of the number killed and wounded varied wildly. The interior minister said it thought 12 people had been injured and eight killed, all of whom were either police or private security guards.
The heavily fortified compound is usually protected by a mixed force of Afghan and Nepali guards.
"It is a sad fact that once again an attack aimed at the international community has killed Afghans," Burt said.
"This attack, against people working to help build a better future for Afghanistan, will not lessen the UK's resolve to support the Afghan people."
British soldiers rushed to the UK government's cultural and educational mission in the country, joining Afghan police, soldiers and the New Zealand SAS.
The area hosts not only the British Council, but also two of the country's top politicians – the leader of the opposition and one of Hamid Karzai's vice-presidents.
Despite the assistance of the Afghan and international forces an insurgent was still at large in the compound more than six hours after the attack.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman reached by phone, said the target was both the British Council and a guesthouse that he claimed, it would appear incorrectly, was located in the same compound.
"We attacked the buildings because we want to remind the British that we won our independence from them before and we will do it again," he said.
Although Afghanistan was not a formal colony of Britain at the time, the country celebrates the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan war in 1919, a small-scale affair compared with the preceding conflicts, when the country won the right to pursue a foreign policy independent of the British Raj.
The Afghan government, which has in the past tried to restrict the live coverage of terrorist attacks, appeared to put restraints on at least one television channel called Afghan News, which abruptly dropped its reporting to switch to patriotic songs.
Journalists were also ordered to stop taking photos when what appeared to be a seriously wounded New Zealand special forces soldier was stretchered out of the building and loaded on to the medevac helicopter.
New Zealand's SAS, which runs a quick reaction force for Kabul, also suffered casualties during June's siege of the Intercontinental Hotel. One soldier suffered a chest would while the other broke his jaw in the fighting.
New Zealand special forces also insisted photographers stop taking photos. They said it was to protect the identities of the wounded being removed from the building, although special forces also try to avoid being photographed.
Even as fighting continued President Karzai, senior officials and some diplomats marked the anniversary with a small ceremony inside the walls of his massively fortified palace compound on the other side of Kabul.
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DTN News - STEALTH HELICOPTER: China Denies Inspecting US Helicopter In Pakistan

DTN News - STEALTH HELICOPTER: China Denies Inspecting US Helicopter In Pakistan
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 19, 2011: China has denied a report that Pakistan gave it access to the wreckage of a US "stealth" helicopter used in the covert raid to kill Osama Bin Laden in May.
"Those reports are entirely groundless and very ridiculous," the Chinese defence ministry said in a statement.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate also denied the reports.
The Financial Times said the ISI gave access to the Chinese military to the modified Blackhawk helicopter and let a sample of its special "skin" be taken.
The helicopter, one of two used by a team of US Navy Seals, was said to have been modified to allow it to enter Pakistani airspace undetected by radar.
The Navy Seals tried to destroy the aircraft after it crash-landed, but part of the tail remained intact.
US officials have said there is reason to believe that Pakistan let the Chinese inspect the aircraft, but they cannot confirm whether it happened.
Relations between Washington and Islamabad were severely strained by the operation on 2 May, during which Bin Laden was killed at a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad where he had apparently been living for several years.
Pakistan enjoys a close relationship with China, which is a major investor in telecommunications, ports and infrastructure.

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