Security Cooperation News -- 22 July 2004

U.S. AIR FORCE

(Defenselink -- 22 July 2004) Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $9,674,645 firm fixed price contract to support equipment and spare parts for one year of Level 1 depot in Egypt for F100PW220E engine applicable to F16 aircraft. This effort support foreign military sales to Egypt. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by November 2005. Solicitation began October 2003 and negotiations were completed June 2004. The Headquarters Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8104-04-C-0109)


(Defenselink -- 22 July 2004) McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a definitized firm fixed price contract to provide for C-17 fleet sustainment. C-17 product support will be managed through a long term performance-based partnership between Boeing and the Air Force, which places all performance risk on the contractor or provide sustainment support at continuously raised benchmarked levels. Boeing will be contracted to provide Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR), making Boeing responsible for all contracted sustainment actions to include parts/item management and depot level repair of airframe and sub-components. Boeing will adhere to 6 contract performance metrics, which will ultimately increase C-17 aircraft availability of the war fighter every year. In addition to TSSR, Boeing will partner with the Air Force by making $62M contractual investment commitments into the Air Logistics Centers (ALCs). Boeing investment in the ALCs will allow increased work to migrate from currently performed commercial repair sources to being performed at the ALCs. At a minimum, Boeing will partner with the Air Logistics Centers for Core designated workloads, and additional partnering on non-Core workloads is highly encouraged when the Air Logistics Centers are deemed best value. This action definitizes the letter contract that was issued Oct. 1, 2003 and subsequently extended on Dec. 23, 2003 and Feb. 27, 2004. This action also implements the long-term sustainment strategy for the C-17 weapons system by incorporating four priced annual Options (Fys 05 through 08) and three unpriced annual Options (FY’s 09 through 11). This effort supports foreign military sales to the United Kingdom. Locations of performance are McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif. and Pratt and Whitney, Cheshire, Conn. At this time, $85,052,538 has been obligated. Solicitation began January 2003 and negotiations were completed November 2003. The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004, PZ0021). 


(Defenselink -- 22 July 2004) McDonnell Douglas Corp., Saint Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $17,461,828 firm fixed price modification to provide for 840 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guided vehicles. The JDAM is a strap-on kit with inertial navigation system/global positioning system capability that provides the user with an improved aerial delivery capability for existing 500, 1000 and 2000-pound bombs. This effort supports foreign military sales to Israel. The locations of performance are McDonnell Douglas, Saint Louis, Mo., and Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. This work will be complete by November 2005. The Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08635-02-C-0060,
P00018).