Tuesday, July 26, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 26, 2011....NSI News Source Info # 2268

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 26, 2011....
NSI News Source Info # 2268

(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - July 26, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued July 26, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Cubic Defense Applications, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $49,530,355 firm-fixed-priced/indefinite-delivery contract to incrementally replace the Marine Corps’s Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) and include the training systems of the Instrumented-Tactical Engagement Simulation System Increment I (I-TESS II) and additional weapon training system capabilities. I-TESS II equipment will be used to support direct force-on-force and force-on-target training. The I-TESS II system will consist of no less than the following components: small arms transmitter (SAT); man-worn detection system (MDS); command and control, mobile and portable versions; and Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) building instrumentation, vehicle tracking, engagement, and association systems, hand grenade simulators, and simulated battlefield effects interface modules. The SAT will be used on the M9 pistol; M4, M16, M40, and AK-47 type rifles; the M249 squad automatic weapon; and M2 and M240G machine guns. Rocket propelled grenade and AT-4 simulators, vehicle tracking, engagement and association systems will be used to track and/or engage vehicles and fixed structures such as towers, bridges, and facilities. The MDS and range equipment will be used to instrument the individual Marine for direct force-on-force, and force-on-target engagement adjudication and will include the ability to support instrumentation functions such as position location information reporting. The I-TESS II system will be used in MOUT facilities and non-live fire maneuver ranges located at various Marine Corps bases and installations. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed in July 2016. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited and three offers received. Marine Corps Systems Command, supporting Program Manager for Training Systems, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity (M67854-11-D-8100).

AIR FORCE

The Boeing Co., Defense, Space and Security - Global Mobility Systems, Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded an $11,131,261 contract modification which provides funding for the fiscal 2011 C-17 material improvement projects which support repair of safety of flight and other, non-emergency type deficiencies. The C-17 Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership is designed to provide total C-17 weapon system sustainment responsibility under a single prime contractor with the goal of achieving improvements in logistics support and mission readiness while reducing operating and support costs. ASC/WLMK, C-17 Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004 PO0425).

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