U.S. AIR FORCE
(Defenselink -- 9 September 2005) Rockwell Collins Government Systems, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $5,290,913 firm fixed price contract modification. This contract modification exercises production options for the purchase of an additional 2,148 Defense Advanced Global Positioning Satellite Receivers (DAGRs) and accessories. The DAGR will provide authorized Department of Defense, and Foreign Military Sales users of GPS User Equipment Precise Positioning System, hand-held, dual-frequency, lightweight receiver (less than one pound) that incorporates the next generation, tamper-resistant GPS Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module) security module. The DAGR will serve as a replacement for the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver in integrated platforms as well as for the advanced and basis GPS user. This effort supports foreign military sales to Australia. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by June 2006. The Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (F04701-02-C-0011, P00028).
U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 9 September 2005) Lockheed Martin MS-2 Tactical Systems, Eagan, Minn., is being awarded $10,013,571 for delivery order 1301 under previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00024-98-D-5202) for the replacement or repair of spares that comprise the AN/UYQ-70 Advanced Display System, the Navy's newest generation of display and processor systems for use command and control, target acquisition and tracking, weapons control, theater air defense, anti-submarine warfare, battle-group communication, and airborne surveillance and control applications. This effort combines purchases between the U.S. Navy (95.73 percent) and the governments of Australia (2.3 percent - $230,000); Spain (.88 percent - $88,000); Egypt (.32 percent - $32,000); Japan (.29 percent - $29,000); Taiwan (.28 percent - $28,000); and Korea (.2 percent - $20,000) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Eagan, Minn., and is expected to be completed March 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa. is the contracting activity.
(Defenselink -- 9 September 2005) McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo. is being awarded a $6,947,725 firm-fixed-priced order against a previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-03-G-0009) for the procurement of 43 Combined Interrogator Transponders and 43 KIV-6 Cryptographic Computers for the Kuwaiti Air Force for F/A-18 A/B/C/D aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Greenlawn, N.Y. (95 percent) and St. Louis, Mo. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.