U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 17 December 2004) MANTECH Advanced Development Group, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $39,179,412 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a cost plus fixed fee pricing arrangement in support of the SPAWAR Institute for Naval C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence) Systems Training Products and Related Services. Services will include training systems documentation, development, C4ISR (C4I, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems training, support equipment, joint systems and foreign military system acquisition and life-cycle support; and systems operator and maintainer technical training concurrent with warfighter operational capabilities. This five-year contract includes eight potential six-month award term incentives, which if awarded, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $75,582,968. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed December 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited on an unrestricted basis via the Commerce Business Daily’s website, the Federal Business Opportunities and the SPAWAR e-Commerce Central websites. Nine offers were received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-05-D-0014).
(Defenselink -- 17 December 2004) Northrop Grumman Corp., Air Combat Systems, El Segundo, Calif., is being
awarded a $33,684,344 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-02-C-3043) for the procurement of 51 Center Barrel Replacement Plus (CBR+) kits and associated center barrel loose parts for the U.S. Navy (40) and the Royal Australian Air Force (11) in support of the Service Life Extension Program for the F/A-18A/B/C/D. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. (75.2 percent), Amityville, N.Y. (14.4 percent), and 5 other locations (10.4 percent total), and is expected to be completed in January 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($26,762,032; 79.4 percent) and the Royal Australian Air Force ($6,922,312; 20.6 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.