U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 27 September 2004) Planning Consultants Inc. (PCI), Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded a $55,118,253 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for engineering services in support of Research and Development (R&D), Total Ship System Engineering, and Combat System Engineering (CSE) initiatives in the introduction of advanced combat system advanced technology and modernization of current combat systems for surface ship combatants. Engineering tasking shall include computing plant architecture, requirements management, ship integration, safety analysis, interoperability assessment, spiral design development, and baseline strategy development. Surface combatant ships supported will include DDX, CGX, LCS, DDG, AEGIS CG 47 and DD51 Class, carriers, amphibious ships, and combatant systems. Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (90 percent) and Virginia Beach, Va. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $176,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was competitively procured and advertised via the Internet, with one offer received. This contract combines support of the U.S. Navy (99 percent), and the Governments of Japan (0.7 percent), Norway (0.1 percent), South Korea (0.1 percent), and Spain (0.1 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity (N00178-04-C-2004).
(Defenselink -- 27 September 2004) Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Poulsbo, Wash., is being awarded a $32,000,000 fixed-price Performance Based Logistics (PBL) award fee requirements contract for support of the AN-SLQ-48 (Mine Neutralization) and AN/SQQ-32 (Minehunting Sonar) Weapon Systems. Work will be performed at Norfolk, Va. (98 percent), and Portsmouth, Rhode Island (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by October 2009. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the fiscal year. This contract combines requirements for the U.S. Navy (99 percent) and the Countries of Japan (.5 percent) and Spain (.5 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-05-D-L001).
(Defenselink -- 27 September 2004) BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (IESI), Communications, Navigation, Identification & Reconnaissance, Greenlawn, N.Y., is being awarded a not to exceed $9,989,900 ceiling price order against a Basic Ordering Agreement (N00383-03-G-038B) for newly manufactured F/A 18 combined interrogator transponder (CIT) components for the Foreign Military Sales Finland Upgrade Program. Work will be performed at Greenlawn, N.Y. Work is to be completed by September 2006. Funds will not expire by the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point the contracting activity (Order 5035).
(Defenselink -- 27 September 2004) Anteon Corp., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $5,759,568 option under previously awarded contract (N00178-02-C-2001) for continuing technical and administrative support for Surface Combat System Configuration Management for surface combatant ships. This contract option will procure continued technical and administrative support for surface ship combat system configuration management support for surface combatants such as Aegis cruisers and destroyers, amphibious ships, aircraft carriers and the next-generation destroyer (DD(X)). The programs being supported involve combat systems for U.S. Navy ships (both under construction and operational) and land-based sites, ships being built in foreign shipyards in which the United States provides elements of the combat systems, and ships being built in the United States for Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The option combines support for the U.S. Navy (99.7 percent and the country of Japan (.3 percent) under the FMS Program. The work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (71 percent); Bath, Maine (13 percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (13 percent); and Moorestown, N.J. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2005. Contract funds in the amount of $43,000 expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.