Security Cooperation News -- 28 September 2006

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(Defenselink -- 28 September 2006) Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Defense Mission Systems Division, Dahlgren, Va., is being awarded an $11,977,731 modification under previously awarded contract (N00178-04-C-2020) to exercise an option for continued training tools integration, development, maintenance, documentation, and operation for the Aegis Training and Readiness Center/Center for Surface Combat Systems. Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (55 percent); Norfolk, Va. (22 percent); San Diego, Calif. (12 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (8 percent); Mayport, Fla. (2 percent); and Everett, Wash. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2007.Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines support of the U.S. Navy (90 percent) and the governments of Japan (3 percent), Norway (3 percent), South Korea (3 percent), and Spain (1 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.

 

 (Defenselink -- 28 September 2006) Communication & Power Industries, Microwave Power Products Division, Palo Alto, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $6,199,440 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for performance-based engineering services to support for the Continuous Wave Illuminator Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) and Simplified Driver TWT used in the Aegis AN/SPY-Radar Systems. The services will include efforts to increase reliability, improve performance, reduce acquisition costs or transition engineering efforts into production of existing TWT designs. The contract combines support for the U.S. Navy (20 percent) and the governments of Korea (20 percent), Spain (20 percent), Australia, (20 percent), and Japan (20 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Palo Alto, Calif., and is expected to be completed by September 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was non-competitively procured in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1.The procurement was synopsized on Federal Business Opportunities website, the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Acquisition Division website, and the Request For Proposal was posted on the NSWC Crane Acquisition Division website with one offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-06-D-8958).

 

(Defenselink -- 28 September 2006) General Dynamics - Ordnance and Tactical Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $5,286,000 not-to-exceed contract for the procurement of spare parts for the Pakistani Army's MI-17 helicopters under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The MI-17 aircraft parts are required to meet the operational requirements for the Pakistan Army in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, Fla., and is expected to be completed in October 2007.Contract funds in the amount of $5,286,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-06-C-0125).