Tuesday, March 15, 2011

DTN News - MIDDLE EAST UNREST: Latest Developments In Arab World's Unrest

Asian Defense News: DTN News - MIDDLE EAST UNREST: Latest Developments In Arab World's Unrest
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 15, 2011:

Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Arab world from North Africa to the Persian Gulf:


LIBYA:

Moammar Gadhafi's forces hit the rebellion's heartland with airstrikes, missiles and artillery. Rebels rush to the front and send up two rickety airplanes to bomb government ships, as mosques broadcast pleas for help defending a key gateway city to the rebel-held east.

The dramatic turn in Gadhafi's fortunes outpaces French and British efforts to build support for a no-fly zone, which falls apart in the face of German opposition and U.S. reluctance.

BAHRAIN:

Clashes sweep the country a day after a Saudi-led military force arrives to defend its Sunni monarchy from a Shiite-led protest movement demanding political freedoms and equal rights. Hundreds of demonstrators are injured by shotgun blasts and clubs, a doctor says, and the king declares a three-month state of emergency.

One demonstrator is shot in the head and killed, and a Saudi official says one of his country's soldiers is shot dead by a protester.

EGYPT:

Egypt's new interior minister dissolves the country's widely hated state security agency, which was accused of torture and other human rights abuses in the suppression of dissent against ousted President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule. Dismantling the agency was a major demand of the protest movement that led the 18-day uprising.

Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, presses Egypt's transitional leaders to follow through on pledges for democratic reform

YEMEN:

Anti-government tribesmen in the north storm a security building and shoot dead four soldiers in a revenge attack after government troops open fire on opposition protesters calling for the president's ouster, witnesses say. The attack is a significant escalation by the anti-government side in a month of daily street protests in which stone-throwing demonstrators have clashed with security.



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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 15, 2011

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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 15, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - March 15, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued March 15, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $34,111,626 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2300) to exercise options for special studies, analyses, review and Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class services. Lockheed Martin will assess engineering and production challenges and evaluate the cost and schedule risks from affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be performed in Hampton, Va. (31 percent); Marinette, Wis. (25 percent); Washington, D.C. (24 percent); and Moorestown, N.J. (20 percent). Work is expected to be complete by March 2012. 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.

L-3 Communications Systems Field Support, Vertex Aerospace, LLC, Madison Miss., was awarded on March 14 a $25,607,255 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract for aircraft maintenance and logistical life cycle support for 65 Navy C-12 aircraft at 21 global locations. Services to be provided include: scheduled/unscheduled organizational maintenance; aircraft servicing; depot level maintenance; support equipment maintenance; modifications; and engineering support. Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (12 percent), Lincoln, Neb. (34 percent), Winnipeg, Canada (34 percent), and various locations both inside and outside the continental United States (20 percent) including: Naval Air Facility (NAF) Andrews, Md.; Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, S.C.; Joint Reserve Base (JRB) Belle Chase, La.; JRB Fort Worth, Texas; Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Fla.; MCAS Miramar, Calif.; MCAS New River, N.C.; NAS Norfolk, Va.; NAS North Island, Calif.; NAS Patuxent River, Md.; Marine Corp Air Facility (MCAF) Quantico, Va.; JRB Willow Grove, Pa.; MCAS Yuma, Ariz.; Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), Md.; Edwards AFB, Calif.; Elmendorf AFB, Alaska; and Holloman AFB, N.M. Work is expected to be completed in September 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; two offers were received. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-D-0010).

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $19,665,646 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise options for special studies, analyses, review and class- service efforts for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Austal USA will assess engineering and production challenges and evaluate the cost and schedule risks from affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be performed in Mobile, Ala. (83 percent), and Pittsfield, Mass. (17 percent). Work is expected to be completed by March 2012. 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.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Ground Systems Division, York, Pa., is being awarded a $10,820,479 firm-fixed-priced modification to delivery order #0011 under a previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5025) for Skydex flooring, U.S. Special Operations Command armored utility vehicle roof padding, and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle field service representatives and instructors. Work will be performed in York, Pa., and is expected to be completed by December 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Patton Harris Rust Associates, Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a maximum amount $7,500,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for miscellaneous civil/structural design and engineering services with associated multi-disciplinal architectural/engineering support services. Work will be associated with repairs, renovations, alterations, new construction of facilities and site improvements. Task order #0001 is being awarded at $453,118 for demolition of Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Building 25 at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Arlington, Va. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by June 2011. All work on this contract will be performed at various locations in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Washington region (Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.), and is expected to be completed by March 2016. Contract funds for task order #0001 will expire at the end of this current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 25 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N40080-11-D-0496).

Ocean Systems Engineering Corp., Oceanside, Calif., is being awarded $7,400,975 for task order #0083 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9020). The scope of this effort is to provide financial management, systems engineering, acquisition and programmatic, life cycle logistics analysis and technical support, and task management and administrative support to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) command and control (C2) systems (MC2S) program management office and the Digital Fires and Situational Awareness (DFSA) program management office of Product Group 11, Marine Corps Systems Command . This performance work statement (PWS) includes MAGTF C2 situational awareness; joint tactical common operational picture workstation; global command and control system-tactical combat operations system; command operations center; joint combat target identification-ground; and science and technology efforts under the MC2S program management office. This PWS also includes advanced field artillery tactical data system, target location, designation and hand-off system, joint battle command platform, and the Blue Force Tracker family of systems programs under the DFSA program management office. Programs require support through all phases of the acquisition cycle. Work will be performed in Quantico, Va., and is expected to be completed in March 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $4,149,319 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.


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DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated March 15, 2011

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DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated March 15, 2011
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Afghanistan News. net
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 15, 2011: Comprehensive daily news related to Afghanistanfor the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY
Breaking Afghanistan News - Afghanistan News.Net
    • 33 killed in Afghan Army office suicide attack

    Afghanistan News.Net

    Thirty-three Afghans were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside an army recruiting office in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, a provincial spokesman said.

  • Recruits die in Afghan bomb attack

      Recruits die in Afghan bomb attack

    Afghanistan News.Net

    Soldiers and civilians have died in a wave of explosions in war-hit Afghanistan.

    • Attack on Afghan Army Recruiting Center Kills 35

    CNS News

    - A suicide bomber posing as an army volunteer blew himself up outside a military recruiting center in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 35 people and escalating the insurgent campaign

  • Petraeus to face Congress as Afghanistan war doubts grow

    Baltimore Sun

    Afghanistan , he will face a series of pessimistic assessments about the state of the war, including the intelligence community's conclusion that tactical gains achieved by a U.S. troop surge hav

  • Excerpts: Afghan President asks NATO and US to stop their operations in our land. Arab League asks for no-fly zone over Libya 13 March 2011

    IMRA

    Excerpts: Afghan President asks NATO and US to stop their operations in our land. Arab League asks for no-fly zone over Libya 13 March 2011 +++SOURCE: Naharnet [Lebanon] 12 March '11:"End

  • Petraeus urges non-military funding for Afghan war

    News and Sentinel

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gen. David Petraeus, in his first appearance in Washington since taking over as the top war commander in Afghanistan, is laying out a mostly upbeat assessment of military progress t

  • Obama, Petraeus meet to discuss Afghan drawdown

    People's Daily

    U.S. forces commander in Afghanistan David Petraeus. (Xinhua/Sarosh)U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday met with U.S. forces commander in Afghanistan David Petraeus to discuss the war in Afghanistan

  • First to Leave Afghanistan Will Be Noncombat Troops

    International Herald Tribune

    WASHINGTON - The United States military is preparing to start withdrawing, as planned, as many as several thousand troops from Afghanistan in July. But the first Americans to come home this su

  • Afghan, U.S. officials discuss strategic relationship

    People's Daily

    Afghan and U.S. officials have held meeting on establishing long-term strategic relationship, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman Waheed Omar said on Monday."A high-ranking deleg


  • Backgrounder: Major bombing attacks in Afghanistan since start of 2011

    People's Daily

    The following are major bombing attacks in Afghanistan witnessed since the beginning of 2011:Jan. 7: A suicide bomber set off his explosive vest in a public bath killing 17 people and injuring 23 othe

  • Suicide attack kills 35, Taliban claim responsibility

    People's Daily

    Afghan policemen and security personnels inspect the site after a suicide attack at an army recruitment centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, March 14, 2011. The attack killed at least 35 people and injured

  • 35 killed, 33 wounded in N Afghan blast

    People's Daily

    The death toll of the suicide against a army recruitment center Monday here has reached to 35, spokesman for provincial administration Mahboubullah Sayedi said."In the coward terrorist attack aga

  • Suicide attack on army centre kills 37 in Afghanistan

    Irish Times

    Noonan confronted with reality of weak hand he has inherited A suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan killed at least 37 people yesterday, the third major assault in the

  • 'Dressmaker': The next big Afghanistan book?

    USA Today

    Now, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Harper, $24.99) may be poised for similar succes

  • Suicide bomber kills at least 33 in Afghanistan

    Kuwait Times

    Published Date: March 15, 2011 KABUL: A suicide bomber posing as an army volunteer struck an Afghan army recruitment center in the northern province of Kunduz yesterday, killing at least 33 people, A

  • Obama Meets With Rasmussen on Afghanistan

    Defense Link

    By Lisa DanielAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 14, 2011 Â? President Barack Obama today thanked Denmark's prime minister for his country's contributions in Afghanistan and sa

  • Petraeus to give upbeat view of Afghan war

    MSNBC

    WASHINGTON — Gen. David Petraeus, in his first appearance in Washington since taking over as the top war commander in Afghanistan, is laying out a mostly upbeat assessment of military progr

  • Afghan Buddha province hopes to attract skiers

    Kuwait Times

    Published Date: March 15, 2011 Best known for its historic Buddha statues blown up by the Taliban 10 years ago, the Afghan province of Bamiyan has a fresh attraction which it hopes will draw in touri


  • Soldier from Conn. killed in Afghanistan

    The Seattle Times

    HARTFORD, Conn. — A veteran Special Forces soldier from Connecticut has been killed by an enemy attack in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Sgt. 1st Class Daehan Park, who w

  • Taliban blast kills 36

    The Daily Telegraph

    A TALIBAN suicide blast has hit an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan, killing 36 people and wounding another 42 in the second attack on the base in three months.

  • JBLM soldier killed in Afghanistan

    The Seattle Times

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed Saturday in Afghanistan. The Defense Department says 36-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Daehan Park of Watertown, Co

  • Ex-Blackwater contractors convicted of manslaughter for Afghan shootings

    Jurist

    US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] for their role in the May 2009 shooting deaths of two Afghan nationals and the wounding of a third. Prosecutors alleged that t

  • Is a Key Afghan Region Getting an 'Extreme Makeover'?

    Wired News

    embedded in Logar in late 2009, Gukeisen told me NATO would need four years to complete Operation Extreme Makeover. Now, halfway to the deadline, I’m on my way back to the province to check up o

  • Forces Kill, Capture Insurgents in Afghanistan

    Defense Link

    Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, March 14, 2011 Â? Afghan and coalition forces killed several insurgents today in a shootout in the Darah-

  • Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Struggle to Find Jobs

    CNS News

    - The Labor Department says the unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 20.9 percent. Concerns that Guard and Reserve troops will be gone for long stretches and that v


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