DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 4, 2012

Asian Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 4, 2012

 Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 005-12 January 4, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 4, 2012: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued January 4, 2012 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

            DRS Systems, Inc., Parsippany, N.J., was awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders for the purchase of Spot on Target in support of U.S. Special Operations Command Procurement Division.  The estimated contract value is $40,218,000.  The work will be performed in Dallas, Texas, and Melbourne, Fla, and ordering will be completed by November 2016.  U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contacting activity (H92222-12-D-0003).

            Dell Marketing, L.P., Round Rock, Texas, was awarded a $20,000,000 General Services Administration delivery order for Microsoft licenses and software assurance in support of U.S. Special Operations Command.  This contract was awarded as a logical follow-on after approval of a justification and approval document as an exception to full and open competition under the authority of FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C).  The original Enterprise Software Initiative General Services Administration order to Dell was competed as mandated in DFARS 208 via the General Services Administration Program.  U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (H92222-12-F-0025).

NAVY

            Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $13,788,820 fixed-price incentive fee modification to previously awarded undefinitized contract action (N00024-03-C-2101) for warranty work on USS New Mexico (SSN 779).  Work will be performed in Groton, Conn. (99 percent), and Quonset Point, R.I. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 2012.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.

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DTN News - INDONESIA DEFENSE NEWS: Australian Surplus Hercules To Be Given To Indonesia

Asian Defense News: DTN News - INDONESIA DEFENSE NEWS: Australian Surplus Hercules To Be Given To Indonesia

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources The Australian
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 5, 2012: AUSTRALIA will hand over four unneeded C-130 Hercules transport planes to Indonesia.

The Royal Australian Air Force transports are understood to have been in storage.

The RAAF's inventory has been boosted by the purchase of six giant C-17 Globemaster II transports, so the smaller and older Hercules are no longer needed. The C-130Hs that will go to Indonesia have been largely superseded in the RAAF by the more powerful J model.

According to the Jakarta Post, Indonesia's Defence Ministry confirmed this week that representatives from the two countries would meet later this month in Jakarta to discuss the handover.

Indonesian officials will visit Australia to examine the aircraft.

As the country of origin of the Hercules, the US has also approved the arrangement.

In 2009, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to increase the military budget after the crash of a C-130 in East Java that killed more than 100 people.

That crash highlighted the urgent need for a boost to the military budget to enable more rigorous aircraft maintenance.

Western security analysts in Jakarta said at the time that the Indonesian Air Force had about 28 Hercules in the early 1980s, but no more than nine were in flying condition at the time of the crash.

Military commentator John Macbeth said: "It's a very small number and they were hugely embarrassed at the time of the 2004 tsunami because they couldn't provide the airlift capability to get aid into Aceh."


The four-engine Hercules has been in almost continuous production for more than 50 years.

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