Friday, May 27, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated May 27, 2011

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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated May 27, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - May 27, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued May 27, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $744,129,956 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2229) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of two mobile landing platform ships. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif. (62 percent); Mobile, Ala. (7 percent); Pittsburgh, Pa. (6 percent); Beloit, Wis. (5 percent); Crozet, Va. (2 percent); Chesapeake, Va. (2 percent); and Belle Chasse, La. (1 percent), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the United States (8 percent) and outside the United States (7 percent). Work is expected to be complete by February 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $26,823,812 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-2100) for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (93.7 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (6.3 percent). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. No completion date or additional information is provided on naval nuclear propulsion program contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

The PM2i, Inc.*, Austin, Texas, is being awarded $14,074,624 for firm-fixed-price task order #0002 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N69450-10-D-0773) for construction of operational facilities for T-6 Texan fixed wing turbo prop trainer aircraft at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. The work to be performed provides for construction including a single-story fire station/crash crew facility at Outlying Landing Field Goliad, Texas. The facility has three apparatus bays, an office, storage/laundry room, dayroom/galley, restroom/shower, fitness room, bunkrooms and pilot lounge. Construction includes a new emergency generator building, runway lighting to include approach path indicators, tie-downs, grounding system, pavement markings, repair to access road, utilities and site improvements, security fencing around the new facilities and demolition of existing control tower and site improvements. Repair of existing runway includes milling of pavement, leveling, installation of reinforced fabric, repairing cracks, overlay and striping. Repair project also includes partial demolition and renovation of existing fire station to house support vehicles. Work will be performed in Goliad, Texas, and is expected to be completed by June 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Four proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity.

ARMY

Global Fleet Sales, Inc., Southfield, Mich., was awarded on May 24 a $146,018,060 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of 1,788 Cargo Transport II trucks; 3,955 police trucks; and 55 mobile maintenance trucks. Work will be performed in Chonburi, Thailand, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 31, 2012. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with three bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-11-C-0338).

TCI Architects/Engineers/Contractor, La Crosse, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0025).

MDM Construction Supply, LLC, La Crosse, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0017).

Fowler & Hammer, Inc., La Crosse, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0024).

Kraemer Brothers, LLC, Plain, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0020).

Platt Construction, Inc., Franklin, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0018).

C3T, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0021).

De Artega-Miron, JV, LLC, Neenah, Wis., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0022).

L.S. Black Constructors, Inc., Saint Paul, Minn., was awarded on May 24 a $24,999,999 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, eight-vendor contract. The award will provide for the construction, maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. Work will be performed in Fort McCoy, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 17, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 21 bids received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, Wis., is the contracting activity (W911SA-11-D-0023).

Anderson Commercial, Davenport, Iowa, was awarded on May 24 an $8,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of concrete machine mounting pads. Work will be performed in Rock Island, Ill., with an estimated completion date of May 24, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with six bids received. The Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W9098S-11-D-0033).

Goetz Concrete, Milan, Ill., was awarded on May 24 an $8,000,000 firm-fixed price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of concrete machine mounting pads. Work will be performed in Rock Island, Ill., with an estimated completion date of May 24, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with six bids received. The Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W9098S-11-D-0034).

CPI of the Midwest, Rock Island, Ill., was awarded on May 24 an $8,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of concrete machine mounting pads. Work will be performed in Rock Island, Ill., with an estimated completion date of May 24, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with six bids received. The Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W9098S-11-D-0035).

AIR FORCE

Raytheon Missile Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $82,972,665 firm-fixed-price contract modification for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy low rate initial production lot four. Work will be performed at Tucson, Ariz. AAC/EBJM, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (FA8682-10-C-0007, PO0019).

Riverside Research Institute, New York, N.Y., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $49,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for graduate-level technical services and expertise for the Air Force Institute of Technology, for the Center for Measurement and Signature Intelligence and for the Center for Systems Engineering. Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and a local contractor facility within ten miles. At this time, $434,649 has been obligated. ASC/PKESI, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8604-11-D-7980).

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DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Pakistani Military Worried About Collaborators

Asian Defense News: DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Pakistani Military Worried About Collaborators
(NSI News Source Info) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - May 27, 2011: Embarrassed by the Osama bin Laden raid and by a series of insurgent attacks on high-security sites, top Pakistani military officials are increasingly concerned that their ranks are penetrated by Islamists who are aiding militants in a campaign against the state.

Those worries have grown especially acute since the killing of bin Laden less than a mile from a prestigious military academy. This week’s naval base infiltration by heavily armed insurgents in the megacity of Karachi — an attack widely believed to have required inside help — has only deepened fears, military officials said.

Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who like the civilian government has publicly expressed anger over the secret U.S. raid, was so shaken by the discovery of bin Laden that he told U.S. officials in a recent meeting that his first priority was “bringing our house in order,” according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official, citing personal conversations with Kayani.

“We are under attack, and the attackers are getting highly confidential information about their targets,” the intelligence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Pakistan’s top military brass claimed to have purged the ranks of Islamists shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Since then, the nation’s top officials have made repeated public assurances that the armed forces are committed to the fight against extremists, and that Pakistan’s extensive nuclear arsenal is in safe hands.

But U.S. officials have remained unconvinced, and have repeatedly pressed for a more rigorous campaign by Pakistan to remove elements of the military and intelligence services that are believed to cooperate with militant groups.



U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a surprise visit to Islamabad on Friday, emphasized U.S. demands for greater cooperation in the war against al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other violent Islamist organizations that have taken root in Pakistan. Standing beside Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Clinton said the United States would be looking “to the government of Pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead.”

It is unclear how authentically committed Kayani and other top military leaders are to cleansing their ranks. U.S. officials and Pakistani analysts say support by the nation’s top military spy agency for insurgent groups, particularly those that attack in India and Afghanistan, is de facto security policy in Pakistan, not a matter of a few rogue elements.

But Kayani is under profound pressure, both from a domestic population fed up with the constant insurgent attacks and from a suspicious international community, which views the bin Laden hideout as the strongest evidence yet that Pakistan is playing a double game.

U.S. officials say they have no evidence that top Pakistani military or civilian leaders knew about bin Laden’s redoubt, though they are still examining intelligence gathered during the raid. Some say they doubt Kayani or Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, head of the military’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, had direct knowledge; others find it hard to believe they did not, particularly because Kayani was head of the ISI in 2005, when bin Laden is believed to have taken refuge in Abbottabad.

“I think he was in protective custody,” one former U.S. official who worked closely on Pakistan issues said of bin Laden.

Pakistan strenuously denies that. But military officials acknowledge that members of the services have cooperated with militants. One senior military official said military courts have in recent years convicted several soldiers for roles in attacks on security installations — convictions that have not been made public. Four naval officers previously arrested on suspicion of links with militants were questioned this week in connection with the assault on the naval base in Karachi, another security official said.

The senior military official said belief in militant jihad — long glorified in the national education curriculum — is prevalent in the rank and file, making screening for it a daunting task that the military has been loath to perform.

The ISI is believed to have an entire branch — known as the “S Wing” — devoted to relationships with militant organizations. Some analysts believe the wing operates with relative independence, whether by design or default, that gives top brass plausible deniability when cooperation between the spy service and insurgents comes to light.

U.S. officials, for example, say they do not believe Pasha or Kayani knew about Pakistani militants’ plans to attack Mumbai in 2008. But federal prosecutors have implicated the ISI in a trial underway in Chicago, where the star witness has said he was paid by the spy agency to help arrange the siege.

U.S. officials have emphasized since the bin Laden raid that billions of dollars in U.S. assistance could end if Pakistan is found to have harbored the al-Qaeda leader. Pakistani officials said that pressure has included demands that the military purge Islamists in its ranks and identify agents connected to bin Laden.

“We take the Pakistanis at their word that they’re committed to an aggressive fight against militants and to the investigations they’ve announced. But it’s way too early to say that their actions are honoring their stated commitments,” one U.S. official said.

Working against any reform effort is the fervent anti-Americanism felt throughout Pakistan, including within the armed forces. Some Pakistani officials and soldiers accuse the United States of using the bin Laden raid to embarrass the nation into doing American bidding. This week, talk-show pundits condemned the navy’s security lapse at the Karachi base but also brimmed with conspiracy theories about CIA orchestration of the siege.

“Any public action on the part of the military at this point will be seen as capitulating to U.S. demands,” said Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Washington-based Atlantic Council.

One Pakistani security official said the Karachi attack had prompted the military to begin a “thorough overhauling” of the armed forces. But, he asked: “If someone is helping the militants from inside the forces, why are they doing it? And the answer, to us, is their disdain for the U.S. and anger at Pakistanis cooperating with Americans.”


Special correspondents Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar and Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad contributed to this report. Staff writer Greg Miller contributed from Washington.


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DTN News - SWEDEN DEFENSE NEWS: Sweden’s Armed Forces Would Be Coptering With 15 BLACK HAWK By End 2012

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Sweden’s Armed Forces Would Be Coptering With 15 BLACK HAWK By End 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 27, 2011:
The U.S. Department of Defense issued/notification # 439 dated May 25, 2011 to

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded on May 23, 2011., a $207,133,531 firm-fixed-price contract.


The award will provide for the procurement of 15 UH-60M aircraft for the Sweden’s armed forces and government furnished equipment to contractor furnished equipment. Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2012. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, AMCOM Contracting Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-08-C-0003).


Sikorsky has press releases on May 18, 2011 in conjunction with the aforemention aspect and the captioned is "Sweden Becomes 1st European Nation To Procure UH-60M Helicopters" and the article is as follows;

May 18, 2011

STRATFORD, Connecticut - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced that the U.S. Government has agreed to sell 15 Sikorsky UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopters to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (or FMV, which is the Swedish acronym) for operation by the Swedish Armed forces. The transaction will take place under the U.S. Government’s Foreign Military Sales program, and represents the introduction of the latest and most technologically advanced BLACK HAWK model into Europe. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).


The Swedish Armed Forces will use the aircraft for medical evacuation, utility, and search and rescue missions. Sikorsky is slated to deliver six of the helicopters in 2011 and the remaining nine in 2012 under an accelerated production schedule.

Sweden is a member of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

“We’re honored to support the Swedish Armed Forces, and we congratulate them for being the first European Union nation to choose this highly evolved UH-60M aircraft, which is part of a lineage of aircraft that have proven themselves countless times under the most extreme conditions all over the world,” said Mick Maurer, President of Sikorsky Military Systems.

The UH-60M helicopter is the latest version in the long and highly successful BLACK HAWK family. It is flown by the U.S. Army and provides additional payload and range, advanced digital avionics, improved handling qualities and situational awareness, active vibration control, and improved survivability compared with the predecessor UH-60L model.

The BLACK HAWK helicopter is well known for its ruggedness, survivability and mission flexibility, having logged more than 9 million flight hours since the first model was introduced in 1978. Worldwide, approximately 2,700 are in operation today. Sweden will become the 26th nation to operate BLACK HAWK helicopters and only the second in Europe, where Austria operates UH-60L models. U.S. forces have flown various BLACK HAWK models for 1.2 million flight hours to date in Afghanistan and Iraq without a single material failure.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture and service. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.



























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