DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 1, 2011....NSI News Source Info # 1646

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 1, 2011....NSI News Source Info # 1646

Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 160-11 March 1, 2011

(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - March 1, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued March 1, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of a sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (HQ0147-09-C-0007, P00031) to The Boeing Co., Huntsville, Ala. The total award value is $109,900,000. Under this contract, Boeing will continue performing operation and sustainment services for two MDA programs: ground missile defense (GMD) and sensors (SN). The GMD portion of the award is $72,000,000 and the SN portion is for $37,900,000. The work will be performed in Fort Greely, Alaska, and Colorado Springs, Colo. The performance period for the GMD portion of the work is from March 2011 through August 2011, and for the SN portion of the work is from March 2011 through December 2011. Fiscal 2011 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be used to incrementally fund this effort in the amount of $10,500,000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity (HQ0147).

U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

Raytheon, McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $48,000,000 maximum value, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide life cycle contractor support for sustainment of the Forward Looking Infrared Radar System (FLIR) and Electro-Optical Sensor System (EOSS) in support of U.S. Special Operations Command, Technology Applications Program Office. The resulting contract will provide life cycle contractor support to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) as well as the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine components, for FLIR and EOSS systems, and subsystems for ancillary equipment. The work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and El Segundo, Calif. The contract performance period ends Feb. 28, 2015. This contract was awarded through sole source procedures in accordance with FAR 6.302-1. Technical Applications Contracting Office is the contracting activity (H92241-11-D-0002).

NAVY

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $26,949,460 modification to previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00024-07-D-5222) for the production of the Navy’s Common Display System (CDS), a commercial, off-the-shelf-based, Grade A shock-qualified, display system in support of various Navy platforms. The CDS equipment procurement provides a family of display systems that support the Navy’s implementation of open architecture for Navy combat systems. The CDS is designed around commercially available hardware and software and will provide computer displays to support combat systems on various Navy ships, submarines, and aircraft, with potential for U.S. Marine Corps and allied use. The CDS will meet the computer display requirements of other programs of record, including Aegis modernization. Work will be performed in Fairfax, Va. (61 percent); Tallman, N.Y. (18 percent),; Freemont, Calif. (15 percent); and Smithfield, Pa. (6 percent). Work is expected to be completed by June 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

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