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Guard Bureau Chief Praises Efforts in Fighting Fires, Floods By Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith and Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill Special to American Forces Press Service

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 27, 2008 - Assessing the National Guard's California fire and Midwest flood-fighting efforts first-hand yesterday and today, the chief of the National Guard Bureau visited adjutants general and troops in affected states.   Army Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum (left), chief the National Guard Bureau, looks over the wildfire response operations of two North Carolina National Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 145th Airlift Wing with Army Maj. Gen. William Wade, adjutant general of California, at Chico, Calif., June 26, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith, National Guard Bureau   "They're handling very difficult and complex issues in a very competent and professional manner," Army Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum said during a stop in Iowa. "The National Guard response has been generally superb, a benchmark case study in cooperation among the states for mutual support and cooperation during an emergency. They've achieved the correct balance between local, state and federal response in a coordinated and synchronized manner." Blum had been scheduled to talk with officers participating in a Joint Task Force Commanders' Training Course at U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs today. With more than 280 citizen-soldiers and –airmen and 23 National Guard helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft helping California firefighters, and more than 2,100 troops and an abundance of equipment tackling Midwest floods, Blum adjusted his itinerary to assess both missions. "It's important to get eyes-on so that we have a comprehensive operating picture of exactly what is being done and we have a clear understanding of what other personnel or equipment may be necessary to move to the area so that we don't leave the adjutant general or the governor short of any capability presently required or foreseeable to deal with the emergency in the future," Blum said. "We like to stay ahead of the emergency." Blum's questions for the California and Iowa adjutants general as he visited their states included whether they have what they need, how efforts could be improved and what results they are achieving. "In order to save lives, minimize destruction and assist recovery, we need the right capability, in the right quantity, where and when it's needed," Blum said. "The adjutants general assess the situation, identify immediate requirements and send the National Guard's critical capabilities to meet our communities' needs." California faces hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires. Parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin have been inundated with historic Mississippi River flooding. The National Guard has played vital roles in both domestic disasters. The Guard's key contribution to the fires comes from above: OH-58 Kiowa, UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters spot fires and drop water to support civilian firefighters. RC-26 aircraft give state fire managers vital reconnaissance that improves their ability to effectively focus firefighting efforts. C-130 Hercules aircraft drop flame-retardant that halts advancing fire dead in its tracks. In the Midwest, the Guard's contribution is on the ground – sometimes knee-deep in flood water. The Associated Press reported that one Missouri levee was so tenuous that only Guard members and firefighters in life vests could continue sandbagging efforts. Blum's visit to California yesterday included a Sacramento stop for a face-to-face meeting with Maj. Gen. William Wade, the adjutant general. Then, the chief and the adjutant general met with troops and the state firefighters they are assisting at Chico Municipal Airport. The general thanked and debriefed citizen-soldiers and –airmen and their Cal Fire-Butte County counterparts. During Blum's visit, two C-130 Hercules planes were loaded with retardant and took off toward Whiskeytown, Chico's Enterprise Record newspaper reported. Four of eight firefighting C-130s that exist in the United States are now in the Chico area. More are expected to arrive in the next week, Blum told crews. "The MAFFS were pre-positioned and ready," Blum said. "All they need is favorable weather conditions, and they will make a significant impact on the fires. This will not be a case of piecemieling the capabilities – they'll be able to mass the systems against the fire with good effect." MAFFS are Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems. Initially, air crews were grounded by smoke that obscured visibility. When crises happen, Guard states team up to respond. C-130s from North Carolina and Wyoming have joined California's own aircraft to suppress the flames, and the adjutant general was delighted to see the planes and their crews ready to roll. "These planes are as good as gold," Wade said. "They really earn their money for what they do. The same combat skills these pilots accrue in combat are the same skills they use to suppress wildfires – so their techniques, skills and abilities are absolute gold in an environment like this." "There's a lot of fire out there," said Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Christian, 156th Airlift Squadron. "We love to get out here and fly every day and fly as much as we can. That's why we're here." After Chico, it was on to Colorado Springs for Blum, the only stop he had originally planned, where he assessed Joint Incident Site Communications Capability equipment of exactly the kind vital to firefighting and flood responses before addressing officers who are training to command the joint task forces also so critical to domestic disaster responses. "The National Guard is the first military responder during natural disasters in the homeland," Blum said. "The National Guard's unique capabilities enhance the synchronization with Northern Command and the Department of Defense's partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring a unity of effort." Blum spoke to 80 officers being certified and trained to lead National Guard joint task forces on domestic missions like the California fires and Midwest floods. He continued to Iowa today, where he planned to ask Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis, the adjutant general, the same sorts of questions as those he raised in California – only this time targeted at containing water rather than fighting fire. (Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith and Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill serve with the National Guard Bureau. Army Lt. Col. Robert Ditchey and Army Master Sgt. Katherine Perez, both of the National Guard Bureau, and the Chico, Calif., Enterprise Record contributed to this report.)

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., March 28, 2008 - Army Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey became acting chief of U.S. Central Command during a relinquishment-of-command ceremony here today.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates passed the command's flag from outgoing commander Navy Adm. William J. Fallon to Dempsey at this Tampa base where CENTCOM has its headquarters.

Gates, accompanied at the ceremony by Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised Fallon's achievements and cited the positive impact the admiral has made as CENTCOM's commander.

"Under Admiral Fallon's command, the last year in CENTCOM's area of operation has been one of great progress on a number of fronts," Gates said, referring to reduced levels of violence in Iraq compared to a year ago and rollbacks of Taliban influence in Afghanistan from areas they once controlled.

Victories achieved over the past year against al Qaeda in Iraq insurgents during the surge of forces "have allowed us to begin reducing the number of troops in Iraq, easing the stress on the force," Gates pointed out.

Gates saluted Fallon's military abilities and vision, noting that he and President Bush both were impressed and influenced by the admiral's advice and candor.

Fallon has "played a vital role in our discussions and analyses" during recent senior-level meetings on the way ahead in Iraq, Gates said.

The outgoing CENTCOM commander's leadership ability, strategic thinking and diplomatic skills have benefited the Middle East, Gates said. "We can see it in the increasing willingness of the region to extend diplomatic support to Iraq, and to work together to confront shared threats," Gates said of the fruits of Fallon's diplomatic work in the Mideast.

Fallon's energy, ideas and skill will be missed within the department, Gates said, adding that the admiral's work as CENTCOM chief "has advanced America's interests and security" throughout the command's area of operations.

Gates praised Dempsey's ability to command CENTCOM, even if only on a temporary basis. President Bush has nominated and the Senate has confirmed Dempsey, a three-star general, to take command of U.S. Army, Europe, which is a four-star billet, when he leaves CENTCOM. Gates described Dempsey's elevation at CENTCOM to be "a temporary assumption of command."

"I am confident that he is prepared to lead CENTCOM," Gates said of Dempsey. "His extensive experience on the ground there will be of great value in the coming months," Gates said. As a major general, Dempsey commanded the 1st Armored Division there, and as a lieutenant general, he led Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq before he became CENTCOM's deputy commander.

Mullen described Fallon as a friend and as "a warfighter's warfighter." Fallon has always "led from the front," Mullen added, noting his friend's leadership ability is "spectacular."

During his remarks, Fallon praised and thanked President Bush and Gates for their leadership and for providing him the opportunity to serve as CENTCOM's commander. Fallon saluted Multinational Force Iraq commander Army Gen. David H. Petraeus as a superb officer and as "the principal instrument of success in our efforts in Iraq."

The outgoing CENTCOM commander said he's "in awe" of the outstanding teamwork and performance exhibited by the command's servicemembers and civilians.

Fallon described his life's philosophy as: "When you have a job to do, try to make a difference," and to leave things better than when you found them. Of Dempsey, Fallon said: "I can think of no one more qualified to lead CENTCOM."

Dempsey noted that a quarter-million U.S. servicemembers are deployed overseas in CENTCOM's operational region in support of the global war against terrorism.

"The tasks before us remain clear; we are a command at war," Dempsey said. "And, as a command at war, we have a sacred duty to provide the 250,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in the CENTCOM area of responsibility with whatever resources, direction and support they need to prevail on the battlefield."

Fallon succeeded Army Gen. John Abizaid as CENTCOM's commander on March 16, 2007. The admiral resigned his position on March 11 of this year after a controversial Esquire Magazine article inferred that he opposed some aspects of the Bush administration's policy in the Middle East.

Fallon has about 41 years of military service. He is slated to retire May 1.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $10,399,123,179 modification to convert a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-07-C-0001) to a fixed-price-incentive-fee multiyear contract for the manufacture and delivery of 141 MV-22 (Marine variant) and 26 CV-22 (Air Force variant) tiltrotor aircraft, including associated rate tooling in support of production rates. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (50 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (35 percent); and Amarillo, Texas (15 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Oct. 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $24,218,579 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla., is being awarded a $49,989,104 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for production of 16 each AN/AAQ-30 Thermal Sight Systems (TSS). The AN/AAQ-30 TSS provides detection, identification, and targeting capability in day/night operations for the USMC AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopter. AN/AAQ-30 TSS is fully integrated into the AH-1Z Fire Control System providing range and optical line-of-sight data for all weapons including the 20mm gun, Hellfire missile, 2.75 inch rockets and sidewinder missile. TSS has an Automatic Video Tracker and includes a Laser Rangefinder/designator which provides classified coded designation of targets for laser-guided munitions of the tri-service arsenal. Major subcontractors include L3 Communications/Wescam of Ontario Canada, manufacturer of the turret assembly and Kollsman, Inc. of Merrimack, N.H. manufacturer of the Common Laser Designator Range Finder used in the AN/AAQ-30 TSS. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., (86 percent); Ocala, Fla., (9 percent); and Santa Barbara, Calif., (5 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Oct. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Via the Federal Business Opportunities and Navy Electronic Commerce Online websites, one offer was received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-08-C-JQ24).

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Reston, Va., is being awarded a $29,354,004 modification under a previously awarded contract (M67854-06-C-2023) in support of Joint Tactical Common Operational Picture (COP) Workstation (JTCW) Client and Gateway (C&GW) is the software re-architecting of Command and Control Personal Computer (C2PC), a Microsoft Windows-based software tool developed for the Marine Corps by Inter-National Research Institute Inc., in 1994 [now Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems (NGDMS)]. It was initially designed to fulfill the role of a COP client to Tactical Combat Operations (TCO). It quickly became the client software of choice for Global Command and Control System (GCCS) and other Common Operating Environment (COE) systems to better ensure that all users share a common view of the battlespace. C2PC has evolved to satisfy tactical system requirements in other programs such as Data-Automated Computer Terminal (DACT) by being able to operate in a low-bandwidth, intermittent communications environment. The JTCW C&GW is the naming convention chosen for the re-architected C2PC C&GW. The name change was necessary to maintain consistent naming convention with the Marine Corps' end product, in which the C&GW will be a core component. This is not a first-time procurement; it is a follow-on procurement to C2PC Version 6.2 and C2PC Version 7.0. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and work is expected to be completed by Sep. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

L-3 Services Inc., is being awarded $19,517,562 for task order #0054 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9010) to provide on-going acquisition support, financial support, logistic support, fielding support, training support, and managerial support for the Communications, Intelligence and Networking Systems (CINS) Product Group's (PG's) Strategic Business Team (SBT), Operations Officer, Program Manager (PM), Communications and Networking Systems (PM CNS), PM Intelligence Systems (PM INTEL) and PM Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (PM CREW). The Contractor shall be required to interface and coordinate with other contractors supporting PG-12 including those in all the Commercial Enterprise Omnibus Support Services (CEOss) domains. It is the contractor's responsibility to arrange all Non-Disclosure Agreements necessary to interface with other contractors to accomplish the PG12 mission. The Marine Corps Systems Command CINS PG's mission is to act as the central agent for the research, development, acquisition, and life cycle management of communications, intelligence, surveillance, and networking systems throughout the Marine Corps. The PG's assigned mission includes the responsibility of CINS for the Operating Forces and the Support Establishment. The programs within the PG cover all phases of the acquisition process. Work will be performed in Stafford, Va., and work is expected to be completed in Jan. 2009. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

American Bridge Co., Richmond, Va., is being awarded a $14,996,752 firm-fixed-price contract for the vehicular bridge replacement at Naval Station Newport. The work to be performed provides for a two lane reinforced concrete vehicular bridge from Coasters Harbor Island to Coddington Point. The project includes two bridge abutments, caisson piles, pre-cast box beams and decking, connection of bridge to existing roadways, and other incidental related work. Work will be performed in Newport, R.I., and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website,with eight proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-08-C-2121).

Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a $10,068,771 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for services to support the Naval Test Wing Atlantic, Naval Test Wing Pacific, and Air Test and Evaluation Squadrons of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, with operation, scheduling, and aircrew support. The total stimated level of effort for the base period of performance is 599,560 hours, which includes pilots, technicians, and flight test engineers. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md., (90 percent) and Lexington Park, Md., (10 percent) and work is expected to be completed in Mar. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N000421-08-C-0025).

Ocean Systems Engineering Corp., is being awarded $10,020,074 for task order #0041 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9020) to provide the Marine Corps Systems Command, Communications, Intelligence and Networking Systems (CINS) Product Group's (PG's) mission is to act as the central agent for the research, development, acquisition, and life cycle management of communications, intelligence, surveillance, and networking systems throughout the Marine Corps. The PG's assigned mission includes the responsibility of CINS for the Operating Forces and the Supporting Establishment. The programs within the PG cover all phases of the acquisition process. The Contractor will provide engineering and technical support for the CINS PG's Strategic Business Team, PM Communications and Networking Systems (PM CNS), PM Intelligence Systems (PM INTEL) and PM Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (PM CREW). The Contractor will be required to interface and coordinate with other contractors supporting PG-12 including those in all the Commercial Enterprise Omnibus Support Service domains. Work will be performed in Stafford, Va., and work is expected to be completed in Feb. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $773,970 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Systems Application & Technologies, Inc.*, Oxnard, Calif., was awarded a $10,000,000 modification on Mar. 26, 2008, under previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N62473-06-D-3033) to exercise option year two for program management, technical and integrated logistics services to support the Navy's Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) Ashore Program. The work to be performed provides for recommendations for assessments of ATFP effectiveness, standardization, regional systems solutions, enterprise network solutions, performance based logistics, configuration management, and recommended design and technical solutions. The ATFP Program will utilize a total-systems engineering approach to automated and improve the security of Navy shore installations worldwide. The current total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $30,000,000. Work will be performed at Naval installations in various worldwide locations, and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Specialty Center Acquisitions, Port Hueneme, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Robertson Aviation LLC, Tempe, Ariz., is being awarded a $7,548,044 ceiling-priced indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide V-22 Mission Auxiliary Tank Systems and related hardware for the V-22 aircraft for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. Work will be performed in Tempe, Ariz., and work is expected to be completed in Dec. 2008. Contract funds in the amount of $6,177,420 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 (N00019-08-D-0009).

AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions of Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a contract for $766,178,419. The design and development of tactical radio systems for aircraft, ships and fixed installations. The system is modular and capable of operating on several different waveforms currently in use by the armed forces and adaptable to future waveforms and vehicles. The contractor shall develop 42 engineering development models of the small airborne configured system. While the initial engineering development models for the maritime sets will be configured for destroyers and the small airborne sets generically configured, there are options for additional sets configured for additional waveforms and weapons system platforms. The system is intended for the following weapons system/platforms: ch47 helicopter, Blackhawk family of helicopters, apache helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicle class IV, Hercules family of aircraft, USMC operated helicopters and fixed wing aircraft; USN aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines; USAF fixed and deployable ground command and control systems. The contract includes an option for low rate initial production of 45 maritime/fixed stations sets and 104 small airborne sets. Additional options allows for additional sets configured for additional waveforms and other weapons systems/platforms. At this time $75,248,162 has been obligated. Hanscom AFB, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8726-08-C-0008).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems of Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a modified contract for $595,800,000. This contract modification is an Undefinitized Contract Action (UCA) for the procurement of six Indian Foreign Military Sales (FMS) C-130J aircraft pursuant to Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) IN-D-SAA. In addition to aircraft, this UCA provide for C-130J Spares, Support Equipment, Logistics Support, and Development/Integration of Indian-unique capabilities. At this time $297,900,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8625-06-C-6456 P00044).

McDonnell Douglas Corp., A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Boeing Co., of Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a modified contract for $273,320,011. This contract action exercises the FY08 third quarter option for the continued performance of the C-17 Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership. C-17 fleet sustainment and product support will be managed through a long term performance-based partnership between Boeing and the Air Force, which places performance risk on the contractor to provide sustainment support at continuously, raised benchmarked levels. In addition, the contractor logistics support (CLS) for the palletized seat system (PSS) for Air Material Command (AMC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) will be exercised and funded. At this time $273,320,011 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004, P00238).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics of Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a modified contract for $37,500,000. This action is for procurement and development of Developmental Support Equipment (DSE) and Country Standard Technical Orders (CSTOs). This effort supports foreign military sales to Pakistan. At this time $18,750,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8615-07-C-6032 P00005).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., of Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a firm-fixed price contract for $19,800,000. The Government intends to award a letter contract to Northrop Grumman for foreign military sales for one Saudi Head of State aircraft Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure (LAIRCM) system hardware, support equipment and services to include but not limited to: systems engineering program management, logistics, spares as well as installation, installation support, and field service support. At this time $7,500,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8625-08-C-6484).

Alliant Techsystems, Inc., ATK Ordnance and Ground System LLC of Plymouth, Minn., and Thales Missile Electronics, LTD of Basingstoke, Hampshire, are being awarded a contract for $8,737,741. The Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze (HTVSF) Joint Capabilities Test and Demonstration (JCTD) is a 27-month effort under which two contractors will test and demonstrate separate fuze designs under a rolling down-select. Near the end of the JCTD, the Government anticipates selecting one of the two contractors for award of options to deliver four maintenance trainers and 16 residual fuze systems under the JCTD contract. The Government also anticipates awarding a follow-on contract for System Demonstration (SDD) to the selected contractor. The HTVSF will be a cockpit programmable, void sensing fuze system capable of surviving penetration events in hardened targets equivalent from 5,000 to 15,000 pounds per square inch of reinforced concrete. The HTVSF will be compatible with GBU-28E/B and GBU-319V)3/B weapon systems. At this time $1,140,000 (ATK) and $840,000 (Thales) has been obligated. Eglin AFB, Fla., is the contracting activity (FA8681-08-C-0174 (ATK) and FA8681-08-C-0175 (Thales)).

Lear Siegler Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., is being awarded a modified firm fixed price contract for $6,031,644. This action is a contract modification to extend an OCONUS deployment in support of the Air National Guard for three months. At this time $6,031,644 has been obligated. Tinker AFB, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8106-07-C-0004-P00023).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing Co., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a maximum $782,972,706 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery, and indefinite quantity contract for jet fuel. Other locations of performance include Baytown, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. There were 48 proposals originally solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Apr. 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0472).

Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co., San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $48,968,402 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery, and indefinite quantity contract for jet fuel. Other locations of performance include Mandan, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. There were 48 original proposals solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Apr. 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., (SP0600-08-D-0466).

Wolverine World Wide, Rockford, Mich., is being awarded a maximum $7,169,101 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for men's and women's dress leather shoes. Other locations of performance include Jonesboro, Ark.; Big Rapids, Rockford, and Cedar Springs, Mich. Using service is Navy. The original proposal was Web-solicited with six responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Jul. 27, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPO100-06-D-0351).

Weinbrenner Shoe Co., Merrill, Wis., * is being awarded a maximum $9,266,062 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for hot weather boots. Other locations of performance include Merrill, Marshfield and Saint Nazianz, Wis. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The original proposal was Web-solicited with one response. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is May 28, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM1C1-08-D-1040).

ARMY

M W Builders of Texas, Inc., Temple, Texas, was awarded on Mar. 27, 2008 a $17,520 firm-fixed price contract for construction of a co., operations facility and medium tactical equipment maintenance facility. Work will be performed at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Sep. 6, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Oct. 16, 2007, and three bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Little Rock, Ark., is the contracting activity (W9127S-08-C-6002).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded on Mar. 27 2008, a $6,659,602.75 cost-plus fixed fee contract for change order definitization for PAC-3 missile segment enhancement, CLIN 0002 effort, for changes to the PAC-3 MSE master test plan. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jul. 30, 2007. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (DAAH01-03-C-0164).

By Jamie Findlater
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2008 - A rock star is putting a successful music career on hold as he prepares to deploy overseas as a member of the Army Reserve.

"I think it's the pinnacle of life to be able to say, when my country needed me, ... I heeded the call," Sgt. Frank Cavanagh said in an "America Supports You Live" BlogTalkRadio.com interview a week before deploying for training and eventually to Iraq.

Cavanagh was the bass player for the band Filter, and he recently participated in a reunion tour in Kuwait with Operation MySpace. Cavanagh left a successful eight-year music career behind to put his energy into serving his country in the Army Reserve. Now, as the excitement of the reunion tour has died down, he is focusing his excitement on a different type of tour in the U.S. military.

Reflecting on his reception during the March 10 Operation MySpace concert in Kuwait, Cavanagh said that "across the board, all the soldiers and sailors and Marines I talked to wher blown away by my decision (to serve my country)."

But, he added, he always has looked up to other servicemembers, just as they look up to him.

"In your situation, you may look up to someone on stage that's a 'rock star' and think that's what you want to attain. ... Me, I'm looking at what you're doing, and that's what I want to attain. ... I can always go back to music, ... but serving is something that I can only do now."

For Cavanagh, being part of the military is a long-standing family tradition and a matter of pride.

"My father, my grandfather, my brother, my uncle, and my cousin have all served in the military, ... and growing up I was always going to bases," he explained. Later in life, "whenever we were on tour, there would be military recruiters there." He and Filter's lead guitarist Richard Patrick are both big military history buffs, he added.

When the age limit for entering the military was fast approaching, Cavanagh said, he knew he had to take action. "At the time when I joined, the age limit was 35 and I was 34. ... I thought, 'I really want to do something with the military before I can't anymore; I never want to look back and regret it.'"

Cavanagh said it's important for servicemembers to understand what their sacrifice means to America.

"Political or not, if you live in America, it's a country that allows you to express yourself politically," he said. "And the whole reason behind that is the people in the military have made sacrifices so that our country can be what it is."

(Jamie Findlater works in the New Media Branch at American Forces Information Service.)

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Gregory B. Rundell, 21, of Ramsey, Minn., died March 26 in Taji Iraq, of wounds suffered from small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Joseph D. Gamboa, 34, of Yigo, Guam, died Mar. 25 of wounds suffered when he came under indirect fire in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

CONTRACTS

ARMY

General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Mar. 26, 2008, a $151,161,050 cost-plus fixed fee contract for system technical support for the Abrams tank program. Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jun. 8, 2006. TACOM Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-07-C-0046).

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co., LLC, Independence, Mo., was awarded on Mar. 25, 2008, an $85,976,512 firm-fixed price contract for 206,714,800 rounds of small caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jan. 2, 2008. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0016).

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co., LLC, Independence, Mo., was awarded on Mar. 26, 2008, a $43,216,476 firm-fixed price contract for assistance in modernizing and enhancing manufacturing capability of ammunition at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. Work will be performed in Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill. is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0016).

Alliant City Small Caliber Ammunition Co., LLC, Independence, Mo., was awarded on Mar. 26, 2008, a $31,579,030.78 firm-fixed price contract for 146,704,980 rounds of small caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jan. 2, 2008. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (Contract Number).

Cox Construction Co., Vista, Calif., was awarded on Mar. 25, 2008, a $12,960,000 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of Non-Standard Operations Urban Terrain (MOUT) Phase II. Work will be performed at Fort Irwin, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Dec. 14, 2007, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Los Angeles, Calif., is the contracting activity (W912PL-08-C-0007).

Admiral Integration Inc., Cherry Hill, N.J., was awarded on Mar. 26, 2008, a $5,200,000 firm-fixed price contract for refined leads for the U.S. Army recruiting command. Work will be performed in Cherry Hill, N.J., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Oct. 24, 2007, and one bid was received. Army Contracting Agency Southern Region, Fort Knox, Ky., is the contracting activity (W9124D-08-C-0014).

EADS North American Defense, Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm-fixed-price contract for $7,233.737. This contract increases the PY03 Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) hours to ensure continued CLS coverage for the UH-72A. The action also exercises the option for PY03 Procedural Trainer Support Labor to ensure Procedural Trainer support labor coverage is available for maintenance of the Procedural Trainer following acceptance. Performance locations include Fort Irwin, Calif. (33.3 precent), Fort Eustis, Va., (33.3 precent), and Fort Polk, La., (33.3 precent). The estimated completion date is Dec. 31, 2008. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W58RGZ-06-C-0194)

Innovative Concepts, Inc., McLean, Va., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a CPFF contract for $13,488,121. This modification Definitizes contract W58RGZ-06-C-0153. This requirement exists to add engineering services to perform computer software modifications, and system engineering support for the Improved Data Modem (IDM) program. This contract will contain Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) to perform modifications to IDM software to meet Software Block 3 requirements (IDM S/W version 9.1). This contract will have a 14 month period of performance with an estimated completion date of May 14, 2009. The performance location is McLean, Va. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W58RGZ-06-C-0153)

BAE Systems, Survivability Systems, LLC, Fairfield, Ohio, was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a $71,546,085.00 Undefinitized Contractual Action (UCA), which will result in a firm-fixed-price contract. As part of the Objective Gunner's Protection Kit (O-GPK), purchase of 12,519 Battery Powered Motorized Traversing Units (BPMTU), which is used to assist the gunner in rotating the armored turret. To be used on High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), models M1114 and M1151, and the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. One bid was solicited with one bid received for the action that has an estimated completion date of Sep. 30, 2008. All work will be performed in Fairfield, Ohio. The contracting office is TACOM, LCMC, Rock Island, Ill. (W52H09-08-C-0081)

Clark Construction Enterprises, St. Martinville, La., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a $8,978,105.00 firm-fixed-price contract. WBV-14c.1, West Bank and vicinity, New Orleans, La., Hurricane Protection Project, Westwego to Harvey Canal, New Westwego Pumping Station to Orleans Village Levee, Third Enlargement, Jefferson Parish, La. Bids were solicited via FedTeds with 10 bids received. The performance location is Jefferson Parish, La., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 14, 2008. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, New Orleans, La. (W912P8-08-C-0035)

GENERAL DYNAMICS LAND SYSTEMS, INC., Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract for $31,500,000. The contract procures system technical support (STS) for the Abrams tank program to include modification work order (MWO) hardware & installation, blue force tracking support, prototype developmental testing, and Australian tank program aim support. The estimated completion date is Dec. 31, 2011, with work to be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich. One bid was solicited and one bid received. The contracting office is TACOM-Warren, Warren, Mich. (W56HZV-07-C-0046)

Natt McDougall Company, Tualatin, Ore., was awarded on Mar. 13, 2008, a Firm Fixed Price Construction contract for $7,915,500. The contract affects the Elk Creek Fish Passage Corridor. The Dam will be notched to provide a free passage for fish. Currently they are trapped below the Dam and trucked to above the Dam to be released. This also requires some river work and restoration. Bids were solicited on the web with one bid received. Work will be performed at Trail, Jackson County, Ore., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2008. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, Ore. (W9127N-08-C-0009)

RAYTHEON CO., NETWORK CENTRIC SYSTEMS, McKinney, Tex., was awarded on Mar. 13, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $203,272,335. The action is for Improved Target Acquisition System Production for FY2006-FY2010 Option exercise. All work will be performed at McKinney, Tex., with an estimated completion date of October 31, 2012. The contracting office is US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W31P4Q06-C-0490)

Science Applications International Corp., (SAIC), Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar. 13, 2008, a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract for $9,147,000. The proposed contract will fulfill a government requirement for integrating three present independent software stovepipe systems: The Army Flow Model (AFM), Continuous Early Validation (CEaVa), and Force Development Investment Information Systems (FDIIS). The AFM is used to monitor and distribute equipment for the Army, report fleet level assessments (trucks, tanks, rifles, etc.), provides the Army G-8, HQDA staff and the Army with other critical information concerning Army equipping requirements, inventory, priorities, and projections. FDIIS allows the Army G-8 to document equipping resource requirements as fiscal information elements and collect, process and synchronize changes to resources across financial domain. CeaVa is an information management system that facilitates interface with action officers on specific tasks & objectives (looks like an online "chat" or discussion board). The period of performance (POP) is to commence Mar. 16, 2008, for the Base Year with four (four) one year option periods. Estimated completion date is Mar. 15, 2013, with work to be performed at Arlington, Va. The contracting office is the Contracting Center of Excellence, Army Pentagon, Washington, D.C. (W91WAW-08-C-0022)

Burtek, Inc., was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a $27,336.975 firm fixed price contract for ambulance shelters to be manufactured and installed on high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle M1152 chassis. Work will be performed in Chesterfield, Mich., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Sep. 10, 2007, and eight bids were received. TACOM, Warren Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-08-D-0090).

Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., LLC, was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a $14,095,500 firm fixed price contract for the West Coast Hopper Dredge 2008. Work will be performed primarily in the mouth of the Columbia River, Clatsop County, Ore., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Jan. 31, 2008, and three bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Ore., is the contracting activity (W9127N-08-C-0010).

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, was awarded on Mar. 18, 2008, a $5,949,373 firm fixed price contract for 210 Chemical Vapor Sampler Systems over a three-year period. Work will be performed in Battelle Eastern Science and Tech Center, Aberdeen, Md., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 17, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Oct. 9, 2007. Research, Development and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W911SR-08-D-0016).

Raytheon Company, Andover, Mass., was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a $60,165,648 cost plus fixed fee contract for 75 Ground Based Operational Surveillance System, Rapid Aerosate Initial Deployment tower systems and modification kits. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 14, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Feb. 6, 2008. U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Contracting and Acquisition Management Office, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity (W9113M-07-C-0002).

Nan Inc. Ocean House Builders, Honolulu, Hawaii, was awarded on Mar. 18, 2008, a $26,200,000 firm fixed price contract for a high-rise unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing facility for 156 single personnel. Work will be performed at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by Jun. 17, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Oct. 30, 2007, and four bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer Honolulu District, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (W9128A-08-C-0005).

Rome Research Corporation, Rome, N.Y., was awarded on Mar. 18, 2008, a $15,118,684 firm fixed price contract for augmentation support of the operation and maintenance of standardized tactical entry point/teleport facilities. Work will be performed in Camp Roberts, San Miquel, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Jan. 11, 2008, and four bids were received. ACC, Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center – West, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., is the contracting activity (W91RUS-08-C-0015).

NAN, inc. Ocean House Builders, Honolulu, Hawaii, was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a 11,088.00 firm fixed price contract for the design and construction of a 195-child capacity standard design child development center. Work will be performed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 23, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Nov. 17, 2006, and four bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (W9128A-08-C-0006).

Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, Vt., was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for integrated vehicle health management systems kits and associated hardware. Work will be performed in Vergennes, Vt., and is expected to be completed by May 30, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Feb. 13, 2008. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Acquisition Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-08-C-0108).

Raytheon Company, Network Centric Systems, Plano, Texas, was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a $7,411,000 cost plus fixed fee contract for a Sensor Demonstration System with optional enhancements and Advanced Prototype System. Work will be performed in Plano, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Bids were solicited on Aug. 26, 2008, and one bid was received. CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J. is the contracting activity (W15P7-08-C-P203).

Archer Western Contractors, Atlanta, Ga., was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a $90,161,500 firm-fixed price contract for a residuals collection and treatment facility. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Oct. 17, 2007, and five bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Md., is the contracting activity (W912DR-08-C-0015).

Vistas Construction of Illinois, Inc., was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, a $14,622.356.54 firm-fixed price contract for New Orleans, La. Hurricane Protection Project levee enlargement. Work will be performed in Jefferson Parish, La., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 15, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Jan. 25, 2008, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-08-C-0036).

Lakeshore Engineering Services, Inc., was awarded on Mar. 20, 2008, a $11,186,337 firm-fixed price contract for design and build services for a child development center and youth center. Work will be performed at Fort Bliss, Texas, and is expected to be completed by May 31, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Bids solicited on Aug. 4, 2006, and seven bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Little Rock, Ark., is the contracting activity (W9127S-07-D-6002).

DRS Training & Control Systems, Inc., Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., was awarded on Mar. 20, 2008, a $9,381,722 firm fixed price contract for TOW missile launchers. Work will be performed in Ft Walton Beach, Fla., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jan. 24, 2008. U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-08-C-0145).

Ewing Cole, Washington, D.C., was awarded on Mar. 20, 2008, an $8,441,224 firm- fixed price contract for a new facility for the Command Control/Communications Network Transport East. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 1, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 27 bids were solicited on Oct. 24, 2007, and 15 bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (W912BU-08-C-0007).

General Dynamics Land Systems Division, Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Mar. 19, 2008, an $8,118,082.80 cost-no-fee contract for RESET Abrams Integrated Management M1A1 vehicles. Work will be performed primarily in Lima, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by Apr. 30, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Sep. 25, 2007. TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HVZ-06-G-0006).

Weeks Marine, Covington, La., was awarded on Mar. 18, 2008, a $5,700,000 firm-fixed price contract for sediment mining in passes of the Miss. River. Work will be performed in Plaquemines Parish, La., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 1, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Feb. 8, 2008, and three bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-08-C-0039).

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co, LLC, was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $88,250,416 firm-fixed price contract for 169,467,800 rounds of small caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in Lake City AAP, Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jan. 2, 2008. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0016).

B.L. Harbert International, LLC, Birmingham, Ala., was awarded on Mar. 20, 2008, a $25,906,995 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of a special operations facility battalion operations complex. Work will be performed at Fort Campbell, Ky., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 30 bids were solicited on Nov. 15, 2007, and three bids were received. Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Ky., is the contracting activity (W912QR-08-C-0009).

Armtec Countermeasure, Coachella, Calif., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $22,580,526 firm-fixed price contract for M206 and MJU-7A/B infrared countermeasure flares. Work will be performed in Coachella, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two bids were solicited on Aug. 4, 2006, and two bids were received. Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-04-C-0096).

Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Co., Bedford, Mass., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $17,593,901 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the PATRIOT Engineering Services Contract. Work will be performed primarily in Tewksbury, Mass., and is expected to be completed by Jan. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Aug. 26, 2003. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-04-C-0020).

Rapiscan Systems, Torrance, Calif., was awarded on Mar. 20, 2008, a $7,259,420 firm-fixed-price contract for relocatable gamma-ray imaging systems. Work will be performed in Torrance, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 28, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 38 bids were solicited on Apr. 12, 2007, and two bids were received. Army Contracting Agency, White Sands Missile Range, N.M., is the contracting activity (W9124Q-08-F-1044).

TEPA EC LLC, Colorado Springs, Co., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $5,956,204 firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of the Fort Sam Houston Medical Education Training Center Headquarters Administrative Building. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 20, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Feb. 12, 2008. U.S. Army Engineer District, Fort Worth, Texas, is the contracting activity (W9126G-08-C-0008).

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $56,687,872 cost-reimbursement contract for advance procurement of materials, tooling and test equipment for six future combat systems non-line sight cannon vehicles. Work will be performed primarily in Minneapolis, Minn., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Aug. 17, 2007. TACOM-LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-08-C-0146).

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co., LLC, was awarded on Mar. 24, 2008, a $46,216,476 firm-fixed price contract for modernizing and enhancing manufacturing capability for the production of 5.56 mm 7.62 mm and .50-caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0016).

Nammo Talley, Inc., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $26,136,932 firm-fixed price contract for M141 bunker defeat munitions systems. Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 21, 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Sep. 21, 2007. Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15QKN-08-D-0422).

Mid Eastern Builders, Chesapeake, Va., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $18,875,000 firm-fixed price contract for construction of a four-story office wing addition, two-story storage and work area addition, a one-story multipurpose room addition, temporary parking lots, site development, and incidental work at the Defense Commissary Agency. Work will be performed at Fort Lee, Va., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 20 bids were solicited on Oct. 12, 2007, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (W91236-08-C-0033).

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $56,687,872 cost-reimbursement contract for advance procurement of materials, tooling and test equipment for six future combat systems non-line sight cannon vehicles. Work will be performed primarily in Minneapolis, Minn., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Aug. 17, 2007. TACOM-LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-08-C-0146).

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co., LLC, was awarded on Mar. 24, 2008, a $46,216,476 firm-fixed price contract for modernizing and enhancing manufacturing capability for the production of 5.56 mm 7.62 mm and .50-caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in Independence, Mo., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAA09-99-D-0016).

Nammo Talley, Inc., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $26,136,932 firm-fixed price contract for M141 bunker defeat munitions systems. Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 21, 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Sep. 21, 2007. Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15QKN-08-D-0422).

Mid Eastern Builders, Chesapeake, Va., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $18,875,000 firm-fixed price contract for construction of a four-story office wing addition, two-story storage and work area addition, a one-story multipurpose room addition, temporary parking lots, site development, and incidental work at the Defense Commissary Agency. Work will be performed at Fort Lee, Va., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 20 bids were solicited on Oct. 12, 2007, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (W91236-08-C-0033).

Ashber Construction Co., Puyallup, Wash., was awarded on Mar. 25, 2008, a $73,268,083 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of new barracks and demolition of buildings. Work will be performed in Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 15, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Dec. 3, 2007, and four bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer Honolulu District, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (W9128A-08-C-0008).

Structural Associates, Inc., East Syracuse, N.Y., was awarded on Mar. 25, 2008, a $40,779,000 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of 2^nd Brigade Combat Team, Phase II. Work will be performed at Fort Drum, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 15, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Ten bids were solicited on Sep. 28, 2007, and one bid was received. Corps of Engineers, CENAN-CT, New York City, is the contracting activity (W912DS-08-C-0007).

Kilgore Flares Company, LLC, was awarded on Mar. 24, 2008, a $17,840,939.20 firm-fixed price contract for countermeasure flares and infrared countermeasure flares. Work will be performed in Toone, Tenn., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Jun. 17, 2004, and three bids were received. Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-04-C-0097).

TJC Engineering, Inc, Louisville, Ky., was awarded on Mar. 21, 2008, a $15,161,429.96 firm-fixed price contract for construction of 5^th Special Forces Group Equipment Maintenance and Supply Complex. Work will be performed at Fort Campbell, Ky., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Dec. 6, 2007, and three bids were received. Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, Louisville, Ky., is the contracting activity (W912QR-08-C-0012).

Verizon, Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar. 25, 2008, a $13,656, 245 firm-fixed price contract for 12 months of operation and maintenance services for the Defense Private Global System for Mobile Communications Cellular Network. Work will be performed in Iraq, and is expected to be completed by Jul. 25, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Jul. 24, 2007. CECOM-LCMC Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-07-C-E402.

Technologists, Inc. Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar. 24, 2008, a $9,156,075 firm-fixed price contract for construction of Afghanistan National Civil Order Police Brigade Headquarters. Work will be performed in Afghanistan, and is expected to be completed by Apr. 1, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five bids were solicited on Feb. 27, 2008, and three bids were received. Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan District, Kabul, is the contracting activity (W917PM-07-D-0016).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Supply Core, Inc., Rockford, Ill.* is being awarded a maximum $250,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, prime vendor contract for Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO). Other locations of performance are Japan. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The original proposal was Web solicited with six responses. This contract is exercising its first year option. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Mar. 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM500-05-D-BP06).

NAVY

Raytheon Co., Electronics Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded an $11,681,964 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0123) to exercise an option for the full-rate-production of 14 Lot 10 AN/ALR-67(V)3 Radar Warning Receivers to support F/A-18 legacy aircraft programs for the Canadian Air Force (13) and the Swiss Air Force (1). The AN/ALR-67(V)3 RWR is a radar warning receiver that provides visual and aural alerts to F/A-18 aircrew upon detection of ground-based, ship-based, or airborne radar emitters. It is designed to enhance pilot situational awareness by providing accurate identification, lethality, and azimuth displays of hostile and friendly emitters. This contract combines purchases for the Governments of Canada ($10,847,538; 92 percent), and Switzerland ($834,426; 7 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Forest, Miss. (46 percent); Goleta, Calif. (14 percent); Lansdale, Pa. (10 percent); Brisbane, Australia (9 percent); Chatsworth, Calif. (7 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (7 percent); McKinney, Texas (4 percent); and Portland, Ore. (3 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Jun. 2011. 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.

American Bridge Company, Richmond, Va., is being awarded $10,814,142 for firm-fixed price Task Order #0001 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award construction contract (N40085-07-D-7021) for utility upgrades and repairs of Dry Dock #3 and Berth #11 at Naval Shipyard Portsmouth. The work to be performed provides for repair of deteriorated concrete coverings of structural members at Berths 11A, B and C. The project will provide for the removal and replacement of zinc anodes and miscellaneous broken fender components, repairs to failed sections of the steel sheet pile bulkhead and minor deck and pavement repairs along the 1,200 foot length of Berth 11. At Dry Dock #3, construction will include concrete and structural repair to the dry dock floor, walls, caisson and decking; mechanical restorations to the weld house and pumpwell facilities; resurfacing of the existing concrete deck including removal of abandoned crane, railroad rail and utility upgrades. Work will be performed in Kittery, Maine, and work is expected to be completed by Jan. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.

Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Jacksonville, N.C., is being awarded a maximum $9,448,548 combination firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for grounds maintenance services at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for grounds services to include mowing, raking, edging, debris removal, etc. Contractor shall also maintain storm drainage systems and playground equipment. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract for performance-based services was negotiated under Facilities Acquisition Regulation Part 8.7, therefore only one offer was received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-08-D-8425).

McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded $6,915,101 for firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order #7038 under previously awarded contract (N00383-06-D-004H) for procurement of newly manufactured spares in support of the F/A-18 C/D flight surfaces system. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and work is expected to be completed by May 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not awarded competitively. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Glotech, Inc., Rockville Md., is being awarded a $6,405,519 cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance based contract to provide support engineering, project management, testing, logistics and technical support of various C4ISR related systems in the areas of engineering and systems engineering support; system design documentation and technical data support; interoperability, test, and evaluation support; in-service engineering support; and installation and integration. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to an estimated $33,904,760. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009 (Mar. 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was competitively procured under full and open competition with exclusion of sources (100 percent 8(a) set-aside) with proposals solicited and fouroffers received via the Commerce Business Daily's Federal Business Opportunities website, and the Space and Naval Warfare e-Commerce Central website. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (N65236-08-D-2834).

AIR FORCE

McDonnell Douglas Corp., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Boeing Co., of Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a modified contract for $13,769,216. This contract is for the procurement of 27 Aeromedical Litter Stations Augmentation System Kits. Each kit consists of nine Aeromedical Stations, one set of included replacement components and one container for storage and transport. At this time $6,196,147 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB (Ohio) is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004, P00236).

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $6,300,891. The Survivability Assessments of Combat Vehicle Systems Technology for the Tank-automotive and Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Research Business Group Survivability Directorate and the Quick Reaction Cell. At this time $268,377 has been obligated. Offutt AFB (Neb.) is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380, Delivery Order: 0248).

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive on March 23. They were assigned to the 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.

Killed were:

Pvt. George Delgado, 21, of Palmdale, Calif.

Staff Sgt. Christopher M. Hake, 26, of Enid, Okla.

Pfc. Andrew J. Habsieger, 22, of Festus, Mo.

Spc. Jose A. Rubio Hernandez, 24, of Mission, Texas.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

URS Group Inc, Santa Ana, Calif.; CDM Constructors Inc., Carlsbad, Calif.; Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Inc., San Diego, Calif.; Tetra Tech EC Inc., San Diego, Calif.; Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, and Weston Solutions Inc., Walnut Creek, Calif., are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity environmental multiple award contract for environmental remediation services on Navy and Marine Corps installations at various locations and other DOD installations nationwide. The total aggregate amount for all contracts combined is not to exceed $100,000,000. Work will be performed at various federal sites within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest area of responsibility including, but not limited to Calif., (80 percent), Ariz., (10 percent), Ala.,(2 percent), Nev.,(2 percent), Wash.,(2 percent), N.M.(1 percent), Ore.,(1 percent), Utah (1 percent), and nationwide (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2009 (Mar. 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was issued as an unrestricted procurement on the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with 10 proposals received. These six contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-D-8820/8821/8822/8823/8824/8825).

IBC/TOA Corp., a joint venture, Barrigada, Guam, is being awarded a $40,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for an extension and necessary dredging to the Kilo Wharf at the Commander Naval Region Marianas Main Base, Guam. An additional $43,838,018 will be funded upon the passage of FY 2009 Military Construction Appropriation Bill, making the total amount $83,838,018. The contract also contains one option which if exercised, will bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $84,009,018. Work will be performed in Guam, and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 60 proposals solicited and five offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-08-C-1301).

CACI, Inc., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $20,821,900 time and materials indefinite- quantity/indefinite-delivery contract for professional, technical, management and administrative services in support of Department of Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO). This contract includes one base year with three one-year option periods which, if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $87,762,750. Work will be performed in Crystal City, Va., (60 percent) and Fairfax, Va., (40 percent), and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through Federal Business Opportunities, with one offer received. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-08-D-Q151).

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded $19,344,000 unpriced letter contract to provide Long Lead Material (LLM) required for the fiscal 2009 follow-on production of the TRIDENT II (D5) Missile System. This unpriced letter contract will be definitized on/about Oct. 1, 2008. The definitized fiscal 2009 TRIDENT II (D5) Production and Deployed Systems Support contract will be a cost reimbursable, multiple incentive contract with incentives on cost and performance. Work will be performed in locations yet to be determined, and work is expected to be completed Sep. 2012. The contract was not competitively procured. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00030-08-C-0100).

Team Logistics Joint Venture, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $16,644,262 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-01-D-0239) to exercise an option for 433,937 hours of maintenance planning and design interface technical/management support services for the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., and the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J. These services include evaluating initial designs and proposed design changes, maintenance planning, and sustaining maintenance plans. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md., (90 percent) and Lakehurst, N.J., (10 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Mar. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Vision Robotics Federal Systems,* San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $8,039,539 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed fee contract to provide navigation systems installation support services to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego. The contract provides for technical, engineering support and systems engineering for the Autonomous Machine Vision for Mapping and Investigation (AMVMI) project. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Broad Agency Announcement (N66001-07-X-2017) which was advertised on the Federal Business Opportunities web site and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) e-Commerce web site. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-08-D-0071).

ARMY

Burtek, Inc., was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a $27,336.975 firm fixed price contract for ambulance shelters to be manufactured and installed on high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle M1152 chassis. Work will be performed in Chesterfield, Mich., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Sep. 10, 2007, and eight bids were received. TACOM, Warren Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-08-D-0090).

Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., LLC, was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a $14,095,500 firm fixed price contract for the West Coast Hopper Dredge 2008. Work will be performed primarily in the mouth of the Columbia River, Clatsop County, Ore., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Jan. 31, 2008, and three bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Ore., is the contracting activity (W9127N-08-C-0010).

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, was awarded on Mar. 18, 2008, a $5,949,373 firm fixed price contract for 210 Chemical Vapor Sampler Systems over a three-year period. Work will be performed in Battelle Eastern Science and Tech Center, Aberdeen, Md., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 17, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Oct. 9, 2007. Research, Development and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W911SR-08-D-0016).

EADS North American Defense, Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm-fixed-price contract for $7,233.737.12. This contract increases the PY03 Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) hours to ensure continued CLS coverage for the UH-72A. The action also exercises the option for PY03 Procedural Trainer Support Labor to ensure Procedural Trainer support labor coverage is available for maintenance of the Procedural Trainer following acceptance. Performance locations include Fort Irwin, Calif., (33.3%), Fort Eustis, Va., (33.3%), and Fort Polk, La. (33.3%). The estimated completion date is Dec. 31, 2008. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W58RGZ-06-C-0194)

Innovative Concepts, Inc., McLean, Va., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a CPFF contract for $13,488,121.00. This modification Definitizes contract W58RGZ-06-C-0153. This requirement exists to add engineering services to perform computer software modifications, and system engineering support for the Improved Data Modem (IDM) program. This contract will contain Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) to perform modifications to IDM software to meet Software Block 3 requirements (IDM S/W version 9.1). This contract will have a 14 month period of performance with an estimated completion date of May 14, 2009. The performance location is McLean, Va. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W58RGZ-06-C-0153)

BAE Systems, Survivability Systems, LLC, Fairfield, Ohio, was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a $71,546,085.00 Undefinitized Contractual Action (UCA), which will result in a firm-fixed-price contract. As part of the Objective Gunner's Protection Kit (O-GPK), purchase of

12,519 Battery Powered Motorized Traversing Units (BPMTU), which is used to assist the gunner in rotating the armored turret. To be used on High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), models M1114 and M1151, and the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. One bid was solicited with one bid received for the action that has an estimated completion date of Sep. 30, 2008. All work will be performed in Fairfield, Ohio. The contracting office is TACOM, LCMC, Rock Island, Ill. (W52H09-08-C-0081)

Clark Construction Enterprises, St. Martinville, La., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a

$8,978,105.00 firm-fixed-price contract. WBV-14c.1, West Bank and vicinity, New Orleans, La., Hurricane Protection Project, Westwego to Harvey Canal, New Westwego Pumping Station to Orleans Village Levee, Third Enlargement, Jefferson Parish, La. Bids were solicited via FedTeds with 10 bids received. The performance location is Jefferson Parish, La., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 14, 2008. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, New Orleans, La. (W912P8-08-C-0035)

General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract for $31,500,000.00. The contract procures system technical support (STS) for the Abrams tank program to include modification work order (MWO) hardware & installation, blue force tracking support, prototype developmental testing, and Australian tank program aim support. The estimated completion date is Dec. 31, 2011, with work to be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich. One bid was solicited and one bid received. The contracting office is TACOM-Warren, Warren, Mich. (W56HZV-07-C-0046)

Natt McDougall Co., Tualatin, Ore., was awarded on Mar. 13, 2008, a Firm Fixed Price Construction contract for $7,915,500.00. The contract affects the Elk Creek Fish Passage Corridor. The Dam will be notched to provide a free passage for fish. Currently they are trapped below the Dam and trucked to above the Dam to be released. This also requires some river work and restoration. Bids were solicited on the web with one bid received. Work will be performed at Trail, Jackson County, Ore. with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2008. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, Ore. (W9127N-08-C-0009)

Raytheon Co., NETWORK CENTRIC SYSTEMS, McKinney, Texas, was awarded on Mar. 13, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $203,272,335.44. The action is for Improved Target Acquisition System Production for FY2006-FY2010 Option exercise. All work will be performed at McKinney, Texas with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31, 2012. The contracting office is US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. (W31P4Q06-C-0490)

Science Applications International Corp., (SAIC), Arlington, Va., was awarded on Mar.13, 2008, a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract for $9,147,000.00. The proposed contract will fulfill a government requirement for integrating three present independent software stovepipe systems: The Army Flow Model (AFM), Continuous Early Validation (CEaVa), and Force Development Investment Information Systems (FDIIS). The AFM is used to monitor and distribute equipment for the Army, report fleet level assessments (trucks, tanks, rifles, etc.), provides the Army G-8, HQDA staff and the Army with other critical information concerning Army equipping requirements, inventory, priorities, and projections. FDIIS allows the Army G-8 to document equipping resource requirements as fiscal information elements and collect, process and synchronize changes to resources across financial domain. CeaVa is an information management system that facilitates interface with action officers on specific tasks & objectives (looks like an online "chat" or discussion board). The period of performance (POP) is to commence Mar. 16, 2008 for the Base Year with four (four) one year option periods. Estimated completion date is Mar. 15, 2013 with work to be performed at Arlington, Va. The contracting office is the Contracting Center of Excellence, Army Pentagon, Wash., D.C. (W91WAW-08-C-0022)

TEXTRON MARINE 7 LAND SYSTEMS, New Orleans, La., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $58,520,858. The contract is to purchase 82 armored security vehicles. All work will be performed at New Orleans, La. Estimated completion date is Jun. 30, 2009. One bid was solicited on May 9, 2005. The contracting office is U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich. (W56HZV-05-C-0470)

DRAGADOS USA, INC., N.Y., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $30,000,000. The contract is for the Portuguese Dam and Bucana Rivers Project. All work will be performed at Ponce, Puerto Rico. Estimated completion date is Mar. 14, 2013. Eight bids were solicited on Sep. 6, 2007, and two were received. The contracting office is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Fla. (W912EP-08-C-0011)

Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Md., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a cost plus fixed fee contract for $23,186,045. The contract is for the management of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center program. The majority of work will be performed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Estimated completion date is Dec. 16, 2008. Web bids were solicited on Sep. 6, 2007, and one was received. The contracting office is U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Ft. Detrick, Md. (W81XWH-08-C-0066)

Science Applications International Corp., DBA SAIC, San Diego, Calif., was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a cost plus fixed fee contract for $9,595,250. The contract is for the design, integration and operation of a Medical Conversion System to permit imagine of DoD healthcare documentation. All work will be performed in Alexandria, Va. Estimated completion date is Feb. 25, 2009. One bid was solicited on Feb. 5, 2008. The contracting office is Engineering Research and Development Center, Alexandria, Va. (DACA42-03-D-0007)

Sivyer Steel Corp., Bettendorf, Iowa, was awarded on Mar. 17, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $8,540,000. The contract is to purchase 14,500 P900 armor plates. All work will be performed at Sivyer Steel Corp., Bettendorf, Iowa. Estimated completion date is Mar. 30, 2009. One bid was solicited on Mar. 6, 2008. The contracting office is U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich. (W56HZV-08-C-0039)

Urban Associates LP, El Paso, Texas, was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $8,421,123. The contract is for the design and construction of a close combat tactical trainer facility at Fort Bliss. All work will be performed at Fort Bliss. Estimated completion date is Jun 15, 2009. 210 Bids were solicited beginning Oct. 30, 2007, and nine bids were received. The contracting office is US Army Engineering District, Fort Worth, Texas. (W912G-08-C-0009)

Krishna Rao, Bethesda, Md., was awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, a firm fixed price contract for $6,731,933.20. The contract is for Academic Radiologist Services provided at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. All work will be performed in Washington, D.C. Estimated completion date is Sep. 30, 2008. One bid was solicited. The contracting office is Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. (W91YTZ-08-P-0018)

* Small Business

Soldier Missing in Action From The Korean War is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is U.S. Army Sgt. Harry J. Laurence of Cleveland, Ohio. He will be buried April 9 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

Representatives from the Army met with Laurence's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process, and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the secretary of the Army.

Laurence was a member of L Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, then making up the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 7th Infantry Division. The team was engaged against the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, from Nov. 27-Dec. 11, 1950. The unit was forced to retreat to the south due to intense enemy fire. Laurence was among many soldiers reported missing in action.

In 2001, joint U.S. and Democratic People's Republic of Korea teams, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), conducted two excavations of a mass grave near the Chosin Reservoir. The site correlates closely with defensive positions held by the 31st RCT at the time of the Chinese attacks. The teams recovered remains believed to be those of 11 U.S. servicemen. Analysis of the remains subsequently led to the identifications of three individuals, including Laurence.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC also used dental comparisons in Laurence's identification.

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Lance Cpl. Dustin L. Canham, 21, of Lake Stevens, Wash., died March 23 from a non-hostile incident in Djibouti. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve's 6^th Engineer Support Battalion, 4^th Marine Logistics Group, Portland, Ore.

The incident is under investigation.

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2008 - U.S. 5th Fleet officials today expressed regret for the death of an Egyptian citizen who died the night of March 24, an apparent result of warning shots fired at a small boat approaching a ship chartered by the U.S. Navy.

"We express our deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased," Vice Adm. Kevin J. Cosgriff, 5th Fleet commander. "We are greatly saddened by events that apparently resulted in this accidental death. This situation is tragic, and we will do our utmost to help take care of the family of the deceased."

The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet Command continues to work cooperatively with Egyptian authorities, including the Suez Canal Authority, through the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, officials said. A full investigation into the incident is under way.

"We will work through the investigation very thoroughly, coordinating with authorities and the embassy, to get a full account of what happened," Cosgriff said.

An embarked U.S. security team on board the Navy's Military Sealift Command-chartered ship Global Patriot fired warning shots at a small boat approaching the ship as it was preparing to transit the Suez Canal. Two other boats also had approached the chartered ship, but turned away following warnings from Global Patriot.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Mass., is being awarded a ceiling $375,000,000 firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Tactical Data Network Data Distribution System – Modular (TDN DDS-M). Delivery of the production quantities of TDN DDS-M is expected to begin in Sep. 2008. Work will be performed in Taunton, Mass., and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $692,327 will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively awarded under a full and open, best value competition, with four offers provided. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-08-D-7036.

Bell Boeing Tiltrotor Team, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $26,681,500 for three ceiling-priced delivery orders (#0255 - $14,286,500, #0256 - $5,305,000, and #0257 - $7,090,000) under a previously awarded contract (N00383-03-G-001B) for spare components of the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Hurst, Texas, and work is expected to be completed Jun. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

DCK Pacific, LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a $24,588,717 firm-fixed-price contract for phase 1 of potable water system recapitalization at Naval Base Guam. The work to be performed provides for replacement of existing water lines with larger sized lines, including miscellaneous water mains and line connections, provide new emergency generator and new concrete building for the Navy Lake Pump Station, installation of zone water meters for various areas, replacement of vertical pumps with 500 horsepower horizontal pumps with variable frequency drives for the Navy Lake Pump Station, construct an air conditioned addition to the existing pump station building for the new pumps, replace gate valves with butterfly valves at the reservoirs, replace the altitude valves at the reservoirs and installation of pressure reducing valves for water lines feeding the Sasa Valley, X-Ray Wharf and Polaris Point. Work will be performed in Guam, and work is expected to be completed by Apr. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 23 proposals solicited and six offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-08-C-1307).

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $17,292,804 cost contract for applied research and advanced technology demonstration of an advanced Multi-Mode Sensor Suite to support vertical take-off and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting missions in the littoral combat environment. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in Sep. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under a Broad Agency Announcement; five offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., is the contracting activity (N68936-08-C-0034).

Virtexco Corporation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded $14,109,989 for firm-fixed-price task order #0004 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award construction contract (N40085-06-D-4010) for construction of Military Operations Urban Terrain (MOUT) enhancements at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for construction of an urban combat training area of approximately 75 buildings and training structures. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2008 - The U.S. military has regained control of four non-nuclear nose cone assemblies for a Minuteman missile mistakenly sent to Taiwan in 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said during a news conference here today.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates learned of the situation on March 21 and immediately ordered that the United States regain "positive control" of the systems, Wynne said. He also notified the president of the situation.

It was the second incident with a strategic weapon in the past year. In August, an Air Force B-52 flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., carrying atomic weapons. The crew did not realize they were carrying nuclear weapons until they landed.

Today, Gates signed a memorandum directing Adm. Kirkland Donald, director of Navy Nuclear Propulsion, to conduct a comprehensive investigation "to determine the facts into how this error occurred and who is accountable throughout the chain of command," said Christopher R. "Ryan" Henry, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.

The admiral will work with the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and the Naval Criminal Investigation Service. The intelligence community also will help with the investigation.

Henry said the secretary feels very strongly about this error.

"In an organization as large as DoD ... there will be mistakes, but they cannot be tolerated in the arena of strategic systems -- whether nuclear or only associated equipment," he said during the news conference.

DoD has notified the appropriate congressional committees and the Peoples' Republic of China, he said.

The nose cone assemblies and associated electrical parts are proximity fuses for the missiles. While not technically "triggers," a nuclear warhead atop a Minuteman would not detonate without the signal from these devices.

Preliminary information indicates that a shipment took place in response to a foreign military sales order from Taiwan for helicopter batteries, Wynne said. The Defense Logistics Agency depot at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, mistakenly shipped the fuses -- a classified system -- rather than the batteries.

The Taiwanese receiving the shipment placed it in storage upon receipt, Wynne said. "The investigation will determine the integrity of the shipping containers and their contents during the (foreign military sales) process."

The department has initiated a complete physical inventory of all of these devices, Henry said.

"The secretary is further directing the secretaries of the Air Force and Navy to conduct a comprehensive review of all the policies, procedures as well as a physical site inventory of all nuclear and nuclear-associated materiel and equipment across their respective programs," he said.

The original helicopter battery order was consistent with the U.S. "One-China" policy, the three joint U.S.-China communiqués and the Taiwan Relations Act.

"Our policy on Taiwan arms sales has not changed," Henry said. "This specific incident was an error in process only and is not indicative of our policies, which remain unchanged."

Henry said it's unclear whether the erroneous shipment violated the Missile Technology Control Regime -- an informal, voluntary association of countries seeking to stop proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- or other treaties.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense today announced the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Staff Sgt. William R. Neil Jr., 38, of Holmden, N.J., died in Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1132nd Military Police Company, North Carolina Army National Guard, Rocky Mount, N.C.

Killed were:

Sgt. Thomas C. Ray, II, 40, of Weaverville, N.C.

Spc. David S. Stelmat, 27, of Littleton, N.H.

Sgt. David B. Williams, 26, of Tarboro, N.C.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Pfc. Antione V. Robinson, 20, of Detroit, Mich., died March 19 in Nawa, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was repairing collapsed. He was assigned to the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

The incident is under investigation.

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

Affordable Engineering Services, LLC of Totowa, N.J.; Defense Support Services, LLC of Mount Laurel, N.J.; J.K. Hill and Associates, Inc. of Virginia Beach, Va.; L-3 Communication Vertex Aerospace of Madison, Miss.; MI Support Services, LP of Denton, Texas; and MacAulay-Brown, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, are being awarded a contract for $98,000,000. This action will provide multiple awards. The Depot Onsite Contract Augmentee Team program provides depot onsite contract augmentee teams to perform maintenance and related tasks at Ogden Air Logistics Center Utah and Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson Arizona. At this time $30,000 has been obligated. HAFB, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8224-08-D-0003-0001, FA8224-08-D-0005-0001, FA8224-08-D-0006-0001, FA8224-08-D-0009-0001, FA8224-08-D-0003-0010, FA8224-08-D-0011-0001).

NAVY

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded $15,825,522 for delivery order #5005 under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement contract (N00383-06-G-011F) for procurement of initial and wholesale spares requirements for various weapons replacement assemblies used in the development and deployment of the airborne low frequency sonar system for the MH-60R helicopter. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I., and work is expected to be completed by October 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded $8,113,705 for delivery order #5004 under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement contract (N00383-06-G-011F) for procurement of initial and wholesale spares requirements for various weapons replacement assemblies used in the development and deployment of the airborne low frequency sonar system for the MH-60R helicopter. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I., and work is expected to be completed by October 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

ITT Industries, Inc. Clifton, N.J., is being awarded a $7,851,563 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop and demonstrate a prototype decoy payload with an electronic countermeasure capability. This system shall be capable of recognizing friendly emitters and limiting the response for those emitters. This contract contains options, which if exercised, will bring the value of the contract to $21,083,937. Work will be performed in Clifton, N.J., and work is expected to be completed November 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $3,685,335 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Broad Agency Announcement # 57-07-08. The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00173-08-C-2025).

Compass Systems, Inc.*, Lexington Park, Md., is being awarded an $8,959,518 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for specific engineering and technical expertise in the design, development, manufacture and repair of Navy special projects avionics, electro-optic sensors and field equipment. Work will be performed in Lexington Park, Md., and is expected to be completed in March 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-08-C-0147).

KTU+A*, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $7,500,000 (base and options - with a guaranteed minimum of $5,000) firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect/engineering contract for preparation of Navy and Marine Corps military construction projects planning documentation in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility. Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps facilities and other government facilities within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including, but not limited to California (87 percent); Arizona (5 percent), Nevada (5 percent), Colorado (1 percent), New Mexico (1 percent) and Utah (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed March 2009 (March 2013 with exercised options). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website,with seven offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-D-8623).

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $6,774,379 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-01-C-0077) to exercise an option for technical and engineering support services for the development, procurement, integration, testing, installation and certification of shipboard communication systems; the development and integration of like systems at shore sites associated with the deployment of, or fleet support to, surface combatants; and the development, testing and integration of mobile and airborne communication systems designed to interface with the command, control, communication, computers and intelligence architecture of surface combatants. The estimated level of effort for this option is 195,000 man-hours. Work will be performed in California, Md. (80 percent); St. Inigoes, Md. (10 percent); Bath, Maine (5 percent); and Pascagoula, Miss. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.

Rockwell Collins Government Systems, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $6,355,030 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-05-C-0050) to exercise an option for the FY 2008 production of 137 each RT-1556B AN/ARC-210 Receiver-Transmitter Radios and 81 each C-11898A Radio Control Sets for the U.S. Air Force Unmanned Air Vehicle Predator aircraft. Work will be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is expected to be completed in May 2009. 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.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Pvt. Tyler J. Smith, 22, of Bethel, Maine, died Mar. 21 at Forward Operating Base Falcon near Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when the base received indirect fire. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.

Missing WWII Airman is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is 2^nd Lt. Arthur F. Eastman, U.S. Army Air Forces, of East Orange, N.J. He will be buried in September in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

Representatives from the Army met with Eastman's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.

On Aug. 18, 1944, Eastman departed the airdrome at Finschhafen, New Guinea, on a test flight of his F-5E-2 aircraft, but never returned. Subsequent searches failed to locate Eastman or his aircraft.

In 2003, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) found documents in the Australian National Archives about an earlier site visit believed to be associated with an F-5E crash. According to the archives, an Australian official had visited the crash site in 1950 in Morobe province near Koilil Village, but there was no subsequent recovery.

In 2004, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) investigated the crash site in the mountains of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The team found aircraft wreckage and recommended the site be excavated.

In February-March 2007, a JPAC team excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, pilot-related items and other personal effects, including Eastman's military identification tag.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC also used dental comparisons in the identification of the remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of an Airman who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Tech. Sgt. William H. Jefferson, Jr., 34, of Norfolk, Va., died March 22 near Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 21^st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Gregory D. Unruh, 28, of Dickinson, Texas, died March 19 in Mandali, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

This incident is under investigation.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Absher Construction Company, Puyallup, Wash., is being awarded a $40,980,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price contract (N44255-08-C-6002) for design and construction of a bachelor enlisted quarters and parking garage at Naval Base Kitsap. The work to be performed provides for all labor, materials, and equipment for the design and construction of market style apartments and a parking structure. Related work includes utility infrastructure design and replacement of existing utilities. This modification provides incremental funds for fiscal year 2008, bringing the cumulative value of the contract to $70,900,000. Work will be performed in Bremerton, Wash., and is expected to be completed by November 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity.

McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded $24,135,158 for firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order #7037 under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement contract (N00383-06-D-004H) for procurement of newly manufactured spares in support of the F/A-18 C/D Flight Surfaces System. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and work is expected to be completed by May 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $15,484,128 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for United Kingdom technical services in support of the TRIDENT Strategic Weapon System. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif. (74.47 percent); Cape Canaveral, Fla. (17,37 percent); St. Mary's, Ga. (1.35 percent); Silverdale, Wash. (.73 percent); Jenkintown, Pa. (.34 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (.05 percent); Broomfield, Col. (.03 percent) ; Herndon, Va. (.02 percent); other U.S. locations to be determined (.32 percent); locations to be determined in the United Kingdom and Italy (5.32 percent), and work is expected to be completed March 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00030-08-C-0019).

CONTRACTS

NAVY

General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $324,937,789 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-2101) for long lead time material associated with the FY 09 Va., Class Submarine (SSN 784) and the FY 11 Va., Class Submarine (SSN 787). This contract provides long lead time material for steam and electric plant components; the main propulsion unit and ship service turbine generator set; components that are critical to maintaining the submarine component industrial base; and miscellaneous Hull, Mechanical and Electrical system components to support ship construction of SSN 784 and SSN 787. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn.,/Quonset Point, R.I., (7 percent); Newport News, Va., (7 percent); Sunnyvale and South El Monte, Calif., (50 percent); Coatesville, York and Cheswick, Penn. (5 percent); Linden, Philipsburg, and Florence, N.J. (5 percent); and at various sites throughout the United States (26 percent), and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems, Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $13,500,258 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-02-C-6324) for a cost growth and new requirements related to development of the Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System (RAMICS). RAMICS is a non-towed airborne mine neutralization system that is deployed from the MH-60S helicopter and provides a rapid response clearance capability against floating and near-surface moored sea mines that have been detected, classified and localized by the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) or other mine hunting systems. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and work is expected to be completed by Sep. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity.

The Engineering Partners, Inc.*, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $7,500,000 (base and options - with a guaranteed minimum of $5000) firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect/engineering contract for electrical engineering services in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). The work to be performed includes electrical engineering studies and reports; site investigation reports; preparation of Requests for Proposals for design-build projects; preparation of fully designed plans and specifications for Invitation for Bid projects; cost estimates, evaluations and construction support services. Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps installations within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including, but not limited to Calif., (87 percent); Ariz., (5 percent), Nev., (5 percent), Colo., (1 percent), N.M. (1 percent) and Utah (1 percent), and work is expected to be competed Mar. 2009 (Mar. 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as an eight (a) set-aside, with eight offers solicited via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website,with nine proposals received. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest is the contracting activity (N62473-08-D-8622).

RBF Consulting, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $7,500,000 (base year and options - with a guaranteed minimum of $5,000) firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity architect/engineering contract for Civil Engineering Services in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). The work to be performed includes engineering studies and site investigations to support new development on raw land, or re-development of existing developed sites; preparation of Requests for Proposals for design-build projects; preparation of fully designed plans and specifications for Invitation for Bid projects; other civil engineering studies, reports, cost estimates, and evaluations; and construction support services including surveying, geotechnical, and environmental engineering services. Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps installations within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including, but not limited to Calif., (87 percent); Ariz., (5 percent), Nev., (5 percent), Colo. (1 percent), N.M. (1 percent) and Utah (1 percent). The term of this contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of Mar. 2009 (Mar. 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 22 proposals solicited via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website,with 14 offers received. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest is the contracting activity. The Contract number is N62473-08-D-8601.

AIR FORCE

Harris Corp., of Rochester, N.Y., is being awarded a contract for $10,204,063. This action will provide the deployment of the total system of interim single channel handheld (SCHH) radios that are an integral part of the Air Force Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) acquisition requires the acquisition of ancillary items. At this time $10,204,063 has been obligated. Hanscom AFB, Mass., is the contracting activity (GS35-F-0163N; FA8726-08-F-0002).

DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY

Tyson Fresh Meats, Incorporated, 800 Stevens Port Drive, Dakota Dunes, SD 57049, is being awarded an indefinite delivery, requirements type contract on Mar. 20, 2008, to provide as needed, case ready, primal and sub-primal pork products for resale to the commissary stores located in the DeCA East and West Regions, including AK., and Hawaii. The estimated award amount is $308,640,542.70. The contract is for a two year base period with performance starting May 4, 2008 through May 3, 2010. Three one-year option periods are available. If all option periods are exercised, the contract will be completed May 3, 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Sixty-five firms were solicited and five offers were received. The contracting activity is the Defense Commissary Agency, Resale Contracting Division, Produce Support Branch, 1300 E Avenue, Fort Lee, Va. 23801-1800. (HDEC02-08-D-0005)

Lakeside Foods Inc. 7 East 13th Street Ste 322 Anniston, AL 36201-1083 is being awarded an indefinite delivery, requirements type contract on Mar. 19, 2008, to provide fresh shell protected eggs for resale at multiple delivery locations throughout DeCA's East Region commissaries to include the following states: S.C., Ga., and Fla. The estimated award amount is $9,347,826.12. Contractor will deliver fresh shell protected eggs to the store locations as needed. The contract is for a two year base period beginning Apr. 6, 2008, through Apr. 3, 2010. Three one-year option periods are available. If all three option periods are exercised, the contract will be completed Apr. 6, 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Forty-five firms were solicited and six offers were received. The contracting activity is the Defense Commissary Agency, Resale Contracting Division, Resale Commodities Branch, 1300 E Avenue, Fort Lee, Va. 23801-1800. (HDEC02-08-D-0003)

Hillandale Farms East Inc. P.O. Box 217 Codorus, Pa., 17311-0217 is being awarded an indefinite delivery, requirements type contract on Mar. 19, 2008, to provide fresh shell protected eggs for resale at multiple delivery locations throughout DeCA's East Region commissaries to include the following states: Va., Maine, N.Y., Vt., N.H., Mass., Conn., N.J., Pa., and Md. The estimated award amount is $16,153,893.04. Contractor will deliver fresh shell protected eggs to the store locations as needed. The contract is for a two year base period beginning Apr. 6, 2008 through Apr. 3, 2010. Three one-year option periods are available. If all three option periods are exercised, the contract will be completed Apr. 6, 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Forty-five firms were solicited and six offers were received. The contracting activity is the Defense Commissary Agency, Resale Contracting Division, Resale Commodities Branch, 1300 E Avenue, Fort Lee, Va. 23801-1800. (HDEC02-08-D-0002)

By Jamie Findlater
Special to American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2008 - Military personnel serving in combat zones are eligible for an economic stimulus payment, an Internal Revenue Service spokesman said today during an "America Supports You Live" interview on BlogTalkRadio.com.

While combat pay generally is nontaxable, servicemembers are permitted to count this pay on their 2007 or 2008 income tax returns if it helps their eligibility, Clay Sanford explained.

"A military person who would not normally file a 2007 tax return because the 2007 income is not taxable, can file a 1040A with the IRS and receive the stimulus payment," he said. Servicemembers should report their nontaxable combat pay on Line 40b of the Form 1040A to show at least $3,000 in qualifying income, he added.

Starting in May, as part of the economic stimulus plan, the IRS will issue payments of up to $600 -- $1,200 for married couples -- plus a $300 payment for each qualifying child younger than 17. The payments are based on 2007 income tax returns. The payments for individuals begin to phase out starting at $75,000 in adjusted gross income for single taxpayers, and at $150,000 for married couples.

People must have at least $3,000 in qualifying income to get a payment. Qualifying income is defined as any combination of earned income (such as wages or taxable income from self-employment), nontaxable combat pay and certain benefits from Social Security, Veterans Affairs and Railroad Retirement.

Sanford encouraged qualifying servicemembers to submit early. While military servicemembers who are serving in a combat zone are granted an extension of 180 days after leaving combat, spouses or others with a power of attorney can prepare and file a 2007 income tax return on their behalf so that the stimulus payment is received this year. The return must be filed by Oct. 15.

Sanford offered additional tax advice to servicemembers during the interview, especially those who are just starting out and filing taxes for the first time.

"Keep receipts and copies of your tax returns," he cautioned. It's a good idea to keep receipts for six years and the tax returns indefinitely, he advised.

"You are responsible for your own tax return, regardless of whether you do it yourself or rely on a tax preparer," he said.

For help, Sanford listed a number of helpful documents that can provide clarification. By going to the IRS Web site at www.irs.gov and typing in "Publication 3," he explained, servicemembers will find a great resource for active duty people and reservists. He also recommended Publication 17 for learning more about general filing of individual income tax, and Publication 525, aimed at veterans and those with pensions. He also noted that many military members qualify for free electronic tax filing.

"Additionally, on most military installations, the legal office is there to provide you with information," he said, and he also noted that the military is one of the IRS's leading partners in its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, in which provides on-site help to taxpayers, courtesy of volunteers in their organizations.

In today's digital age, irs.gov is a great resource for young servicemembers, Sanford went on to say. Sanford encouraged servicemembers to visit the site for detailed educational guides on filing, helpful tips and tools, and to learn more about the special deductions that may not be intuitive for military members.

Those without easy access to the Internet can call 1-800-TAX-1040 toll free for information and answers to any specific questions, he said.

(Jamie Findlater works in the New Media branch at American Forces Information Service.)

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2008 - To recognize his continuous support and recognition of sailors, Marines and their families throughout his 17 years on television, the Navy presented its Superior Public Service Award to Montel Williams yesterday in New York during the taping of his long-running program's final show.

Navy Capt. Kenneth J. Braithwaite II, a rear admiral selectee and director of Joint Public Affairs Support Element Reserve, presented the award to Williams on behalf of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead. The Superior Public Service Award is the second-highest award presented to civilians by the Department of the Navy.

"Thank you, thank you," said Williams after he was surprised with the award presentation once the show began rolling. "I've tried in the industry to recognize (military servicemembers) and really bring to the forefront what is being sacrificed. I want to thank you, all of you, for what you do." Williams continued to wear the award throughout the finale show.

A video message from Roughhead, thanking Williams for his dedication and support to all sailors and Marines, will air in a special segment during the final week of "The Montel Williams Show" before it goes off the air in May.

"It was an honor to be able to award a true patriot like Mr. Williams," Braithwaite said. "This award signifies his genuine gratitude for military service. He has a definite understanding and appreciation of what sailors and Marines sacrifice, something he knows well from his own military experience."

Williams enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1974, and in 1975 he was selected as the first black Marine to attend the Navy Prep School. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1980 and was commissioned as an intelligence officer, specializing in cryptology.

During annual holiday shows in his television program's long run, Williams has reunited deployed sailors with their families. In 2006, he and a production crew flew to the Navy Central Command/5th Fleet area of responsibility to tour Iraqi oil platforms and meet with deployed sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

His program frequently has featured guests from nonprofit organizations that support servicemembers to highlight their efforts. Throughout his 17 years on televisions, Williams continuously shared with audience members and viewers the importance of supporting the military and recognized sailors' personal sacrifices in service to their country.

Williams' mother and relatives were in the audience for the series finale. To his staff, some of whom had been with the show since the first day, Williams declared that it would be a fun show celebrating their 17 years on television.

"It is very bittersweet today. Everybody has worked so hard," said Kwame White, production assistant. "He is a great man. Every day, while at work, I meet someone amazing here who has overcome something, and it has given me such an appreciation for what I have."

Navy Band Northeast, stationed in Newport, R.I., opened the show by playing the program's theme song.

"It was pretty intense and it was fun. There was a lot of energy in that studio," Petty Officer 3rd Class Marc Heskett, who was featured on the saxophone, said. "Our performances are not normally televised."

Lt. Carl Gerhard, Navy Band Northeast director, said he was happy to be part of the event. "It feels great to be a part of this day," said. "This is a very special day for Mr. Williams, and it is nice to be here to play not only to celebrate his long run on television, but to play a tribute to his service as well."

The final episode of "The Montel Williams Show," featuring the Superior Public Service Award presentation, is scheduled to air May 16.

(From a Naval Media Center news release.)

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $25,000,000 modification (PH0006) under previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00030-07-C-0100) alternate release assembly design, modeling, and testing efforts. The modification increases the total contract value to $1,026,269,387. Work will be performed primarily in Sunnyvale, Calif., and places yet to be determined. Work is expected to be completed May 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year (FY2008). The contract was not competitively procured. Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.

ITT Communications & Countermeasures Systems, Thousand Oaks, Calif., is being awarded a $24,754,858 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-07-C-6311 to exercise an option for the production and support of 325 JCREW 2.1 Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare systems to meet urgent Department of Defense requirements in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Work will be performed in Thousand Oaks, Calif., (87 percent) and Lancaster, Calif., (13 percent), and is expected to be completed by Nov. 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Protective Products International of Sunrise, Fla., is being awarded a $12,726,353 delivery order (0002) under firm fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract M67854-07-D-3065 for Modular Tactical Vest consumable spare and repair parts to sustain currently fielded MTVs. Work will be performed in Granite Falls, N.C., (70 percent) and in Sunrise, Fla., (30 percent). The effort is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $12,726,353 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was a sole source award. The Marine Corps Systems Command (M67854), Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-07-D-3065).

Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded an $11,320,335 cost-plus-award-fee contract for the services and materials necessary to support the analysis, design, development, test, integration, deployment, and operations of information technology (IT) systems and services. Work will be performed in China Lake, Calif., (90 percent) and Pt. Mugu, Calif.,(10 percent)and is expected to be completed in Jul. 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., is the contracting activity (N68936-08-D-0018).

Windsor Continental Corp.*, Alexandria, Va., is being awarded a $11,149,992 firm-fixed-price supply contract to provide collective training and simulation systems to support Army National Guard training requirements in the form of deployable instrumentation capability (Flex Train) and the Mobile Virtual Training Capability for unit training. These training and simulation capabilities shall provide a highly realistic battlespace experience for training units as they prepare for mobilization in accordance with the Force Generation Model. This contract includes an option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $12,443,686. Work will be performed in Alexandria, Va., and work is expected to be complete by Mar. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a competitive 100 precent small business set-aside procurement. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity (N00174-08-C-0022).

Lockheed Martin Services, Cherry Hill, N.J., is being awarded a $9,863,300 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for security cooperation, security assistance and foreign military sales technical and program/project management support services to Naval Inventory Control Point. This contract includes one base year and three one-year option periods, which if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $47,538,352. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa., (70 percent) and Washington, D.C., (30 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured. The Fleet Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Contracting Department Philadelphia Division is the contracting activity (N00189-08-D-Z025).

Reliable Builders, Inc., P.O. Box 7536, Tamuning, Guam 96931, a Section 8(a), certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), certified HUBZone firm is being awarded a $8,029,000.00 firm-fixed price contract for the FY08 MILCON SAKW335780B, upgrade northwest field infrastructure, phase II, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Award is made for CLIN 0001 in the amount of $6,309,000.00; CLIN 0002 in the amount of $250,000.00; CLIN 0003 in the amount of $180,000.00; CLIN 0004 in the amount of $470,000.00; and CLIN 0005 in the amount of $820,000.00. Total contract award is $8,029,000.00. Work will be performed in Guam on Andersen Air Force Base and is expected to be completed 7 November 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was a set-aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone Small Business Concerns with 28 solicitation packages distributed and three (3) proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Construction Contracts Branch, is the contracting activity (contract number N62742-08-C-1309).

AIR FORCE

TW and Co., of Lanham, Md., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $8,857,852. This requirement contract is for certified armed security guard services for Installation Entry Control, Commercial Vehicle Inspection and Visitor Control Center at 17 Air Force CONUS locations. At this time $8,857,852 has been obligated. Randolph AFB, Texas is the contracting activity (FA3002-07-D-0024 (via task order 000201)).

Southern Protective Services (SEP), Inc. of Rock Hill, S.C., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $6,416,084. This requirement contract is for certified armed security guard services for Installation Entry Control, Commercial Vehicle Inspection and Visitor Control Center at 15 Air Force CONUS locations. At this time $6,416,084 has been obligated. Randolph AFB, Texas is the contracting activity (FA3002-07-D-0022 (via task order 000201)).

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Mar. 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device during combat operations. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

Killed were:

Staff Sgt. Michael D. Elledge, 41, of Brownsburg, Ind.

Spc. Christopher C. Simpson, 23, of Hampton, Va.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Lerando J. Brown, 27, of Gulfport, Miss., died March 15 in Balad, Iraq, from injuries suffered in an incident currently under investigation. He was assigned to the 288th Sapper Company, 223rd Engineer Battalion, Mississippi Army National Guard, Houston, Miss.

By Kristen Noel
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2008 - More than 6,300 families need to be located to collect DNA samples for the purpose of identifying missing soldiers from World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam, a U.S. Army official said yesterday.

The military maintains a database of mitochondrial DNA samples from family members of missing-in-action soldiers in the Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab, Army Lt. Col. Julius Smith, chief of past conflict repatriation for Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs, said during a teleconference with online journalists and "bloggers."

Smith explained that the DNA samples help the Army identify missing soldiers' remains when they are uncovered, so they can be returned to the families.

The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command continually sends anthropologists and forensic analysts to search past-conflict locations identified as potential recovery sites, provided the country where the conflict took place allows U.S. access.

Mitochondrial DNA is used for identification because it can be extracted from skeletal remains, which are the only kind of remains coming back from conflicts that happened more than 50 years ago, Linda Baublitz, chief of the Korean War section of the Past Conflict Repatriation Branch, explained.

The mitochondrial DNA source is passed only through the maternal line, Baublitz said, so the Army has to locate eligible donors from the mother's side of the missing soldiers' families.

The DNA samples are collected through an oral swab kit that is mailed to the donor, she said.

Baublitz also said the Army Past Conflict Repatriation Branch has launched an outreach program to try to locate more eligible donors from families of unaccounted-for soldiers from the Korean and Vietnam wars. Efforts to obtain family DNA samples for missing World War II soldiers are being handled on a case-by-case basis, Smith said.

The Army has a record of missing soldiers' next of kin from personnel files, Smith said, but the lapsed time has made it difficult to track down current information on family members.

"It's hard to keep in touch with (the families) now, because most of them ... are now getting older," Carolyn Floyd, the Southeast Asia section chief for the Past Conflict Repatriation Branch, said. "You're getting out of the line of having parents or wives."

Though contracted professional and amateur volunteer genealogists, as well as volunteers from veterans' groups, have helped the Army track down thousands of missing soldiers' families, Smith said, public input is needed to identify families with missing soldiers and to keep family records updated.

Smith explained that the Army provides lines of communication for the public to come forward with information. Families with unaccounted-for soldiers, or anyone who knows of a family with an unaccounted-for soldier, should contact the Past Conflict Repatriation Branch by calling 1-800-892-2490 or sending an e-mail to tapscper@conus.army.mil, he said.

"The information you provide can be the difference in an identification being made and a soldier coming home," Smith said.

(Kristen Noel works for the New Media branch of the American Forces Information Service.)

AIR FORCE

Orbital Science Corp., Launch Systems Group of Chandler, Ariz.; Space Vector Corp., of Chatsworth, Calif.; L-3 Communications Corp., Coleman Aerospace of Orlando, Fla.; and ATK Launch Systems of ATK Launch Systems of Brigham City, Utah, are being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for $250,000,000. This action will provide multiple awards with a seven year ordering period to provide engineering and technical services necessary to support the Sounding Rocket Program three. The Sounding Rocket Program three provides launch systems and services for sun-orbital ballistic trajectories up to 5,500 km downrange. At this time $200,000 has been obligated. Robins AFB, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8523-07-C-0008-PZ0001).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems of Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a modified contract for $133,200,000. This contract modification is an undefinitized contract action (UCA) for the procurement of two FY 09 KC-130J aircraft and the associated long lead effort. At this time $30,000,000 has been obligated. Kirtland AFB, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA8625-06-C-6456 P00033).

ITT Avionics of Chandler, Ariz., is being awarded a modified firm fixed price contract for $78,172,524. This requirement is for Foreign Military Sales of the ALQ-211(V)4 Advanced Integrated Defense Electronics Warfare system to the country of Pakistan. This Electronic Warfare system will be used on the F-16 aircraft being procured under separate acquisition by the F-16 program office. Associated spares, support equipment, training, engineering services, flight test support and data are also being acquired under this contract. At this time $39,003,041 has been obligated. Kirtland AFB, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA8818-08-D-0036, FA8816-08-D-0037, FA8818-08-D-0038, and F8818-08-D-0039).

DEFENSE LOGISTIC AGENCY

Sysco Foodservices of Conn., Rock Hill, Conn., is being awarded a maximum $35,261,204.28 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for full line garrison feeding support. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Federal Civilian Agencies. The original proposal was solicited on FEDBIZOPS with three responses. This contract is a six year contract with two year base term and three 18-month option periods. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Mar. 22, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-08-D-3238).

Sopakco, Inc., Mullins, S.C.* is being awarded a maximum $8,878,080.00 firm fixed price contract for first strike rations. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. There were 38 proposals originally solicited with three responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Jan. 31, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM3S1-08-D-Z101).

Sysco Foodservices of Northern New England, Westbrook, Maine is being awarded $6,984,773.94 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for full line garrison feeding support. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Navy, Air Force, and Federal Civilian Agencies. The original proposal was solicited on FEDBIZOPS with three responses. This contract is a six year contract with two year base term and three 18-month option periods. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Mar. 22, 2010. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-08-D-3237).

NAVY

EDO RSS, Morgan Hill, Calif., is being awarded a $7,751,810 delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-05-G-0006) for manufacturing and delivery of 38 R-4100 chassis with internal TN-500 Digital RF Tuner and Automatic Identification System (AIS) capabilities for the P-3 aircraft. Work will be conducted in Morgan Hill, Calif. and work is expected to be completed in Feb. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity.

Correction: The contract announcement awarded on Mar. 14, 2008, to International Military and Government LLC, Warrenville, Ill, contract number M67854-07-D5032, should have read the delivery order amount as $405,963,830 vice $410,730,320.

*Small Business

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. William D. O'Brien, 19, of Rice, Texas, died March 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when he was attacked by small arms fire during combat operations. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Staff Sgt.Collin J. Bowen, 38, of Millersville, Md., died March 14 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, of wounds suffered Jan. 2 in Khowst Province, Afghanistan, when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, Maryland Army National Guard, Towson, Md.

CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Refinery Associates of Texas, Inc., New Braunfels, Texas* is being awarded a maximum $185,431,919 fixed price with economic price adjustment, partial set aside, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for naval distillate fuel. Other location of performance is in Texas. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. The original proposal was Web solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is March 31, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0473).

Henry Schein Inc., Melville, N.Y. is being awarded a maximum $24,500,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, customer value contract for general dental supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. There were 50 proposals originally solicited with 8 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract has a one-year period with options for four additional annual periods and is exercising option period four. Date of performance completion is March 16, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.

(SPM200-05-D-7423).

NAVY

Nueces Electric Coop., Robstown, Texas, is being awarded being awarded a $92,558,207 fixed-price, Prospective Price Redetermination contract and the conveyance of the electrical distribution systems at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, with its Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Cabaniss and NALF Waldron, and Naval Air Station, Kingsville, Texas. with its NALF Orange Grove. Sale of the DoD utility systems under utility privatization procedures was authorized by 10 U.S.C. 2688 and will be conveyed to NEC via a bill-of-sale. The work to be performed under the contract provides for initial system modifications required to bring the systems up to industry standards, maintenance and repair of the systems, as well as renewal and replacement of the various components over the term of the contract. Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (75 percent) and Kingsville, Texas (25 percent), and work is expected to continue for fifty years. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with one proposal received. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (N69450-08-0052).

Omega Aerial Refueling Services, Inc., Alexandria, Va., is being awarded a $30,810,320 modification to a previously awarded indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract (N00019-07-D-0009) to exercise an option for contractor owned and operated aircraft in support of the commercial air services program, which provides aerial refueling tanking for Navy and other Department of Defense and government agency aircraft. Work will be performed in Oceana, Va. (45 percent); Point Mugu, Calif. (35 percent); and various military activities across the United States and OCONUS (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2009. 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.

DCS Corp., Alexandria, Va., is being awarded a $16,758,733 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion, research and development contract for research, development and demonstration efforts related to investigation of the application of advanced imaging sensor technologies, imaging techniques, enhanced target recognition methods, and real time processing capabilities as critical technologies to meet new and continuing Naval requirements for persistent surveillance, improved reconnaissance, rapid targeting and precision strike capabilities. Work will be performed in Alexandria, Va., and work is expected to be completed March 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $100,000 will expire at end of current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Broad Agency Announcement #07-01. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00173-08-C-6008).

The University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla., is being awarded a $7,342,079 cost reimbursement (no fee) contract for next generation Expeditionary Warfare Intelligent Training. The University of Florida will perform research to investigate, design, build and experimentally test new intelligent training products for the Deployable Virtual Training Environment Program. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., and work is expected to be completed May 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $50,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under an unrestricted Office of Naval Research Broad Agency Announcement #05-023. Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N0014-08-C-0186).

ARMY

J.D. Abrams, LLP, of Austin, Texas, was awarded on March 13, 2008, a $55,041,000 firm fixed-price task order contract to provide materials, equipment, and labor for the construction of the Brigade Combat Team-3 infrastructure which includes the clearing and grubbing, earthwork, site work, temporary access roads, concrete paving, asphalt paving, storm drainage systems, water distribution system, sanitary sewer collection system and duct banks, communications duct bank system, elevated water storage tank, welded steel ground storage tank, fencing, erosion control, reinforced concrete tank trails and other items defined in the Contract Documents. Estimated completion date is May 31, 2009 for the work that will be performed at Biggs Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas. Five bids were solicited with three bids received. the contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District, Fort Worth, Texas.

W9126G-06-D-0030.

Benson Medical Instruments Co, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was awarded on March 13, 2008, a $5, 927,668 firm fixed-price contract for Audiometers Purchase, Implementation, and Training. The system is planned for delivery and implementation to approximately 850 Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force, and Department of the Navy sites worldwide. The estimated completion date is March 12, 2010 for work to be performed at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bids were solicited on the web with two bids received. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland. W81XWH-08-C-0071.

Jacobs-Tetra Tech EC Joint Venture, of Boston, Massachusetts, was awarded on March 13, 2008, a $7,275,223 cost reimbursable contract for investigations, remedial action, and restoration of David's Island. The modification exercises the optional line items for demolition of additional buildings at David's Island/Former Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. Bids were solicited on the World Wide Web with three bids received. Work will be performed at New Rochelle, New York with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2013. The contracting office is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District, Concord, Massachusetts. DACW33-03-D-0006.

General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was awarded on March 13, 2008, a $43,081,582 firm fixed-price contract for the purpose of the exercise of options under existing contract for 60 Joint Biological Point Detection Systems as well as related fielding support packages, system testing, and user training. One bid was solicited and one bid received for the contract that has an estimated completion date of December 30, 2009. Work is to be performed at Columbus, Ohio (60 percent) and Charlotte, North Carolina (40 percent). The contracting office is the U.S. Army Research and Development Command Acquisition Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground Contracting Division, Edgewood Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. W911SR-04-C-0017.

AIR FORCE

McDonnell Douglas Corp., A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., of Long Beach, California, is being awarded a modified contract for $9,357,173. This action is for the procurement of Combat Lighting Phase I Spares. At this time $9,357,173 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004, P00229).

Facilities Support Services, LLC of Colorado Springs, Col., is being awarded a modified contract for $6,786,390. This modification to exercise option year two, to provide non-personal services for customer support, infrastructure and facility maintenance, physical plant operation, environmental, and property management for Cheyenne Mountain AFS (CMAFS) Colorado. Provide civil engineering support to operate and maintain system (electrical, mechanical, utility, blast, shock, chemical protection, uninterruptible power supply, potable water, industrial water, and wastewater); operate and maintain diesel generators that provide prime power to CMAFS in the event of a commercial outage. Provide technical support for third-party maintenance. At this time $6,786,390 has been obligated. Patterson AFB, Col., is the contracting activity (FA25174-06-C-5005-P00010).

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of five soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

They died March 10 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.

Killed were:

Sgt. 1st. Class Shawn M. Suzch, 32, of Hilltown, Penn.

Staff Sgt. Ernesto G. Cimarrusti, 25, of Douglas, Ariz.

Staff Sgt. David D. Julian, 31, of Evanston, Wyo.

Cpl. Robert T. McDavid, 29, of Starkville, Miss.

Cpl. Scott A. McIntosh, 26, of Houston, Texas.

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 12 in Tallil, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle was hit by indirect fire.

Killed were:

Staff Sgt. Juantrea T. Bradley, 28, of Greenville, N.C., who was assigned to the 7th Special Troops Battalion, 7th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Eustis, Va.

Spc. Dustin C. Jackson, 21, of Arlington, Texas, who was assigned to the 350th Adjutant General Company, Grand Prairie, Texas.

Pfc. Tenzin L. Samten, 33, of Prescott, Ariz., who was assigned to the 7th Special Troops Battalion, 7th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Eustis, Va.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Laurent J. West, 32, of Raleigh, N.C., died March 11 near Kishkishkia, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

International Military and Government LLC (IMG), Warrenville, Ill., is being awarded a $410,730,320 firm-fixed-priced delivery order #0007 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5032) for additional Mine Resistance Ambush Protected (MRAP) Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) vehicles. This delivery order is for the purchase 743 Category I vehicles. The Category I is an MRAP vehicle used by the Marine Corps and other Joint Forces for convoy operations. MRAP vehicles are required to increase the survivability and mobility of troops operating in hazardous fire areas against known threats such as small arms fire, improvised explosive devices, and other explosive threats. Work will be performed in WestPoint, Miss, and work is expected to be completed November 2008. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year.This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Stewart & Stevenson Tactical Vehicle, Division of Armor Holdings, Sealy, Texas, is being awarded $481,835,008 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order #0004 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5030) for the purchase of 1,024 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Category (CAT) II vehicles with CAT I seating configuration. MRAP vehicles are required to increase the survivability and mobility of troops operating in hazardous fire areas against known threats such as small arms fire, improvised explosive devices, and other explosive threats. Work will be performed in Sealy, Texas, and work is expected to be completed November 2008. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments, LP. Ground Systems Division, York, Pa., is being awarded $234,043,500 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order #0007 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5025) for the purchase of 3 Special Operations Command variants, 51 Ambulance variants, and 393 Category II variants of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. MRAP vehicles are required to increase the survivability and mobility of troops operating in hazardous fire areas against known threats such as small arms fire, improvised explosive devices, and other explosive threats. Work will be performed in York, Pa., and work is expected to be completed by November 2008. This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney, Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $70,236,975 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-02-C-3003) for weight reduction activities for the F-135 propulsion system. Work will be performed in East Hartford, Conn. (56 percent); Bristol, United Kingdom (43 percent); and Indianapolis, Ind. (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed in September 2013. 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.

Applied Engineering Management Corp. is being awarded a not to exceed $36,235,103 firm-fixed-price task order #JN01 under previously awarded contract (N00178-05-D-4183) to provide maintenance for Electronic Navy Housing (eNH), an integrated enterprise system that supports housing business processes and program management throughout the Department of the Navy housing enterprise and that is compliant with Navy information technology specifications including the Navy-Marine Corp Intranet environment. Secondly, this task order is to provide on-site systems analyst and program management support for CNIC (Commander, Navy Installations Command) Housing. Lastly, this task is to provide continuing technical and project management support for the mission critical human resource management, baseloading and Inventory and Utilization (I&U) modules of eNH by providing contractor technical support representatives and systems integrators. Work will be performed in Virginia (90 percent); California (8 percent); and Colorado (2 percent), and work is expected to be complete March 2009 (March 2013 including options). This task order was initially sent out only to small businesses with only one proposal received at almost three times the government estimate. It was then solicited to both small and large businesses with two offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $28,153,661 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-07-C-0035) for time critical parts in support of the EA-18G Low Rate Initial Production II (LRIP II) Airborne Electronic Attack kits. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., 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.

North Island Corp. and Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc.* (a joint venture), Havre De Grace, Md., is being awarded a maximum amount of $20,000,000, guaranteed minimum of $25,000 (base period), firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity construction contract for multi-traded maintenance, repair, alteration, and minor new construction at predetermined unit prices with price coefficients at various Navy and Federal Government installations in the Washington metropolitan area. The total contract amount is not to exceed $100,000,000 (base period and four option years). Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps installations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Washington area of responsibility including Washington, D.C. (50 percent), Maryland (25 percent), and Virginia (25 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed five years, with an expected completion date of March 2009 (February 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as an 8(a) set-aside via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with eight proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N40080-08-D-0306).

North Island Corp. and Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc.* (a joint venture) Havre De Grace, Md., is being awarded a maximum amount of $20,000,000, guaranteed minimum of $25,000 (base period), firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity construction contract for multi-traded maintenance, repair, alteration, and minor new construction at predetermined unit prices with price coefficients at various Navy and Federal Government installations in the Washington metropolitan area. The total contract amount is not to exceed $100,000,000 (base period and four option years). Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps installations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Washington area of responsibility including Washington, D.C. (50 percent), Maryland (25 percent), and Virginia (25 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed five years, with an expected completion date of March 2009 (February 2013 with options exercised). Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as an 8(a) set-aside via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with eight proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N40080-08-D-0305).

Naval Automation Group, Norfolk, Va. is being awarded a $19,841,107 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide Tank Level Indicating (TLI) Systems which are to be installed on various classes of Naval ships. TLI Systems provide a reliable and accurate system for measurement of liquid levels in shipboard tanks. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and work is expected to be completed by June 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $2,500,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Philadelphia, Pa. is the contracting activity (N65540-08-D-0003).

Force Protection Industries, Inc., Ladson, S.C., is being awarded $9,849,420 for delivery order under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5031) to acquire 12 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Category I vehicles and 6 MRAP Category II vehicles. Work will be performed in Ladson, S.C., and work is expected to be completed November 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Force Protection Industries, Inc., Ladson, S.C., is being awarded $7,690,529 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order #0007 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5006) for the purchase of 11 Category III (Buffalo) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. Work will be performed in Ladson, S.C., and work is expected to be completed September 2008. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was sole source procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Ocean Systems Engineering Corp., Oceanside, Calif., is being awarded $6,023,146 for task order #0040 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9020) to provide on-going engineering, technical, acquisition, administrative and management support to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Command and Control (C2) Systems (MC2S) Program Management Office (PMO). Specific programs covered under this Statement of Work (SOW) include MAGTF C2 Systems and Application, Joint Tactical Common Operational Picture Workstation (JTCW), Target Location Designation Handoff System (TLDHS), Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA), Theatre Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS) and Joint Interface Control Officer Support System (JSS). All programs are currently between Milestone B and Post Production Support and require support through all phases of the acquisition cycle. The focus of effort is support for engineering and management activities related to (MAGTF) Command and Control (C2) Systems (MC2S) programs to develop the capability sets and related projects into an integrated solution of hardware and software interoperability, system testing, engineering assessments, technical documentation, systems training, and on-site material fielding. Work will be performed in Stafford, Va., and work is expected to be completed in March 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $4,723,405 will expire at then end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc., Yabucoa, Puerto Rico is being awarded a maximum $129,917,372 fixed price with economic price adjustment, partial set aside, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for fuel. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. There were 48 original proposals solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is April 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0471).

Coastal Pacific Food Distributers, Stockton, Calif.,* is being awarded a maximum $36,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for full line food distribution. Other locations of performance are the same. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. This is a bridge contract for Japan, Singapore and Diego Garcia. There was 1 proposal originally solicited with 1 response. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is December 17, 2008. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-08-D-3239).

American Medical Depot, Opa Locka, Fla.,* is being awarded a maximum $13,260,000 firm fixed price, total set aside contract. Other locations of performance are the same. This is an option to extend, for one year, the performance of the contract that establishes the Fleet Medical Surgical Program to support medical/surgical requirements. Using service is Navy. There was originally 1 proposal solicited with 1 response. The base period was for five years with five one-year options. This is the fifth option period. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is March 31, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM200-99-D-7150).

Propper International, Inc., Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is being awarded a maximum $7,186,068 firm fixed price contract for shipboard utility coveralls. Other locations of performance are in Puerto Rico. Using service is Navy. This proposal was originally solicited on Gateway with 13 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is July 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM1C1-08-D-1054).

AIR FORCE

Aerospace Testing Alliance of Tullahoma, Tenn., is being awarded a modified contract for $69,660,053. This action is a modification for the operation, maintenance, information management, and support of the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) for FY 08. This increase results from changes to the workload in the facilities and increased maintenance, investment, and mission support requirements. At this time no funds have been obligated. Arnold AFB, Tenn., is the contracting activity (F40600-03-C-0001, Modification P00136).

Spain AFS of Madison, Ala., is being awarded a contract for $27,230,030. action will provide base operating and maintenance services using Government-furnished facilities at Moron Air Base and Zaragoza, Spain to include: program management, postal services and communications, safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene and ambulance service, civil engineering services, and logistic support services. In addition to providing day-to-day base operation and maintenance services, the requirement also includes contingency and exercise support on a to be negotiated (TBN) basic. At this time $27,230,030 has been obligated. 496 ABS/LGS, Unit 6585, Bldg. 106, APO AE 0945-6585 is the contracting activity (FA5613-07-C-5400-A00003).

Fiscal 2007 Sexual Assault In The Military And 2006 Gender Relations Survey Results Released

The Defense Department today released two reports: the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2007 Report on Sexual Assault in the Military and the 2006 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members.

The Report on Sexual Assault, prepared by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), provides an overview of the SAPR program and data on alleged sexual assaults reported during fiscal 2007. In fiscal 2007, 2,688 reports of sexual assault involving service members as subject and/or victim were filed.

Restricted reporting, which provides a victim with support services without initiating the criminal investigation process and preserves the victim's anonymity, continues to be a crucial option for service members. Some research had found that victims may choose to forego services rather than participate in the investigative process. Of the 2,688 reports made, 705 were under the restricted program. In 102 of these cases, victims later decided to pursue legal charges and switched their report to unrestricted.

The report indicates that the services placed a high priority on training. Comprehensive programs were developed and delivered in methods ranging from traditional, in-person training to more innovative, automated methods delivered on compact disc or the Internet. All of the military services continued to build education and training programs designed to foster a climate of confidence.

The Gender Relations survey, conducted by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), was based on a sample of 23,595 respondents and found that 34 percent of active duty women and 6 percent of active duty men indicated experiencing sexual harassment, while 6.8 percent of women and 1.8 percent of men indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact.

Active duty members gave positive marks for improvement in Department of Defense sexual misconduct training and climate. About 90 percent indicated they received training in the previous year on topics related to sexual harassment and sexual assault and that their training was effective. More than 80 percent reported the Department's sexual harassment and sexual assault policies and procedures were well publicized. Overall, they were more positive in their assessment of the climate in the military than they were of the climate in the nation in regards to sexual harassment and sexual assault.

As a result of the survey and annual report, SAPRO and DMDC will partner along with other organizations within and outside of the Department of Defense to evaluate the effectiveness of past and present reporting efforts, identify enhanced prevention opportunities and strategies, and continue to monitor victim services.

You can the read reports on line at: http://www.sapr.mil .

DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Mar. 10 in Balad Ruz, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Killed were:

Sgt. Phillip R. Anderson, 28, of Everett, Wash.

Spc. Donald A. Burkett, 24, of Comanche, Texas.

Capt. Torre R. Mallard, 27, of Oklahoma.

CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

The Produce Connection, Miami, Fla.,* is being awarded a maximum $9,979,371.60 fixed price with economic price adjustment, total set aside contract for fresh fruit and vegetables support. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Navy, Air Force, and USDA school customers. This proposal was originally solicited on DIBBS with two responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Sep. 13, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM300-08-D-P034).

Burlington Apparel Fabrics, Greensboro, N.C. is being awarded a maximum $8,838,492.00 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for polyester/wool, tropical, khaki cloth. Other locations of performance are Va. Using service is Navy. This proposal was originally Gateway solicited with 1 response. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Mar. 19, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM1C1-07-D-1515).

NAVY

ITT Industries Avionics Div., Clifton, N. J., is being awarded a $111,540,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-05-C-0054) to exercise an option for the Fiscal Year 2008 full rate production Lot V of 66 AN/ALQ-214(V)2 On-Board Jammer Systems for the F/A-18 E/F Aircraft. This option combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($103,090,000; 92 percent), and the Government of Australia ($8,450,000; 8 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed at various locations for all other vendors throughout the U.S. (43.5 percent); Clifton, N.J., (34.4 percent); East Syracuse, N.Y., (8.8 percent); San Diego, Calif., (8.3 percent); and Rancho Cordova, Calif., (5 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Dec. 2010. 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.

Raytheon Systems Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $44,253,923 firm-fixed-

price order under a Basic Ordering Agreement (N00164-06-G-8555) for Multi-spectral Targeting Systems (MTS) Navy configuration, including 41 Turret Units and associated line items for the Government in support of Army and Navy aircraft and H-60 helicopters. The MTS is a forward looking infrared system for the aircraft. The MTS provides real-time imagery selectable between infrared and day TV, as well as a laser designation capability. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and work is expected to be completed by Oct. 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $12,206,250 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Inc., Melville, N.Y., is being awarded a $37,277,361 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-4304) to exercise an option for the procurement of seven AN/SPQ-9B Radar Sets with Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) transmitter upgrades, three combat interface kits for CEC, and four combat interface kits for AEGIS. The AN/SPQ-9B Radar is an over the horizon Anti-Ship Missile Defense Radar whose function it is to provide enhanced capability to detect, track and respond to very low flying altitude threats, small radar cross section, high-speed targets. This option will provide SPQ-9B Radars for installation on several ship classes, including CVN, CG-47, Coast Guard, and LPD-17. Work will be performed in Melville, N.Y., (85 percent); Norwalk, Conn., (14 percent); and Baltimore, Md., (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Oct. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz.., is being awarded a $30,985,622 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0569) for the Fiscal Year 2008 procurement of 68 Tomahawk Composite Capsule Launching System (CCLS) Capsules and 20 SSGN/SSN CCLS Retrofit Kits. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz.., and work is expected to be completed in Jan. 2010. 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.

Solpac, Inc., DBA Soltek Pacific, San Diego, Calif., was awarded $18,998,000 for firm-fixed-price task order #0007 under a previously awarded contract (N68711-03-D-7509) on Mar. 12, 2008, to design and construct a combined arms and military operations urban terrain training facility at the MAGTGTC Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms. Work will be performed in San Bernardino, Calif., and work is expected to be completed by Sep. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Integrated Defense Systems, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded $16,494,928 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order # P10010 under previously awarded contract (N00019-04-C-0028) for procurement of initial and wholesale spares requirements for various weapons replaceable assemblies used on the MH-60 common cockpit. Work will be performed in Oswego, N.Y., and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Jacobs Engineering, Dumfries, Va., is being awarded $9,436,475 for task order #0016 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9017) to provide technical support to the Marine Corps Systems Command, Information Systems and Infrastructure Product Group (PG/ISI), Marine Corps Network and Infrastructure services program office for sustainment support and additional transition support to include assisting in monitoring the cutover progress and attending daily meetings. Throughout the contract period the Contractor will be required to coordinate schedules, assist with data collection for assets, user requirements management; application inventory; and related actions necessary to effect transition activities and seat cutover, technical refresh schedules and activities and life-cycle sustainment in the NMCI environment (e. g. SRM data collection, asset reconciliation and tracking). The scope of this task will be structured to reflect support for Major Commands across the Marine Corps sites. Work will be performed in Camp Lejeune, N.C.,(22 percent); New Orleans, La., (15 percent); Okinawa, Japan, (12 percent); Camp Pendleton, Calif., (11 percent); Quantico, Va., (11 percent); Miramar, Calif., (8 percent); Beaufort, S.C., (3 percent); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, (3 percent); Albany, Ga., (3 percent); Arlington, Va., (2 percent); Bastow, Calif., (2 percent); Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., (2 percent); Yuma, Ariz., (2 percent); San Diego, Calif., (2 percent); and Paris Island, S.C., (2 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Mar. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Harris Corp., Government Communications Systems Div., Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $7,987,843 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0130) for the design and manufacture of production test equipment in support of the MH-60 Common Data Link Hawklink system. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and is expected to be completed in Jun. 2009. 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.

Moog Aircraft Group Salt Lake Operations, Salt Lake City, Utah, is being awarded a $7,273,831 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 21 man-portable tactical air navigation units, including training for the distance/azimuth measuring equipment program. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah, and work is expected to be completed in Feb. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under an electronic request for proposals, with one offer received. The Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity (N00019-08-C-0037).

Advanced Concepts Enterprises, Inc., Mary Esther, Fla., is being awarded a $7,210,761 firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for instructional training services related to Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal courses of instruction at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This contract contains one base year plus four, one-year options, which if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $67,631,441. Work will be performed in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through Navy Electronic Commerce Online, with four offers received. Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Contracting Department Philadelphia Office is the contracting activity (N00189-08-D-Z027).

BBN Technologies, Corp., Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $6,365,373 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for RDT&E in Petabit Highly Agile Robust Optical System. The objective is to develop the architecture, protocols, and control and management software for highly dynamic, multi-terabit global core optical networks with greatly enhanced performance, survivability and security. The ultimate goal of this program is to transition the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Strategic Technology Office's Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, Control and Management program. Funds being awarded at this time are $5,659,505. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Mass., and work is expected to be completed Sep. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $1,405,237 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under a Broad Agency Announcement #06-29. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00173-08-C-2010).

I.E. Pacific, Inc.*, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $5,812,000 for firm-fixed-price task order #0006 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract (N62473-07-D-2015) for design and construction of additional parking level on the existing parking structures, Building 608 and Building 636, at the Naval Subase, San Diego. Additional parking expansion will provide approximately 172 additional parking spaces and will include additional electrical and mechanical (stand pipe system) utilities, paving and site improvement. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Correction: The contract announcement awarded on Mar. 7, 2008, to General Dynamics C4 Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., contract number M67854-02-C-2052, should have read: This modification definitizes P00092 Change Order of Full Rate Production (FRP) II Add/Delete Components and 17 Combat Operations Center Systems including 17 Common Modules, 7 Capability Set IIIs, and 10 Capability Sets IV.

AIR FORCE

Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Incorporated of Washington D. C., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for $73,000,000. This contract is for advisory and assistance services for post-closing management of Air Force Privatized Endeavors. It provides for long-term PCM services in support of the Air Force's privatization programs, including oversight, monitoring, management of privatized endeavors real estate such as housing, enhanced use leasing and other privatization endeavors throughout the U. S. This indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) type contract has a five year ordering period, with one additional year performance. The Air Force can issue delivery orders totaling up to the maximum amount indicated above, though requirements may necessitate less than the amount indicated above. At this time $3,000 has been obligated. Brooks City-Base, Texas, is the contracting activity (FA8903-08-D-8795).

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. of McLean, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee

contract for $44,999,914. The Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center

(SURVIAC) will research survivability implications for U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command that integrates force protection analysis, transformation analysis, and counter terrorism analysis. At this time $5,376,474 has been obligated. Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-03-D-1380).

Boeing Co., of Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a contract modification for $32,794,814. The Combat Survivor Evader Locator full rate production FY08 effort includes procurement of the following: radio sets, quantity 2,926, radio spares, quantity 293, radio sets adapters, quantity 244, radio set adapter spares, quantity 24, prime radio set batteries, quantity 2926, rechargeable radio set batteries, quantity 5852, rechargeable radio set battery adapters, quantity 1463. At this time $319,700 has been obligated. Hanscom AFB, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8807-05-C-0004/P00024).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems of San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a contract for $20,000,000. This effort is for operation for the Global Hawk System in forward theaters of operation, for a classified length of time. The contractor shall also provide mission support plans and identify equipment necessary to support operations at contingency locations and procure deployment spares critical for sustained flight operations for the period of time specified on any deployment order. At this time $20,000,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-08-G-3005 0001-02).

ARMY

FLIR Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., was awarded on Mar. 11, 2008, a $49,476,870 firm-fixed price contract for FLIR STAR SAFIRE III sensors. Work will be performed in Wilsonville, Ore., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Mar. 6, 2008, and one bid was received. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity (W9113M-07-D-0004).

Boyd Jones Construction, Omaha, Neb., was awarded on Mar. 12, 2008, a $15,588,000 firm-fixed price contract for construction of additions/alterations intelligence squadron facility, Offutt, Air Force Base. Work will be performed at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 25, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Nov. 16, 2007, and four bids were received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, Neb., is the contracting activity (W9128F-08-C-0003).

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Cpl. Jose A. Paniagua-Morales, 22, of Bell Gardens, Calif., died March 7 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered in Samarra, Iraq, when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Akima Construction, LLC, Charlotte, N.C., was awarded on March 7, 2008, a $17,544,578 firm-fixed contract for construction of a two-story addition at Darnall Army Community Hospital in conjunction with a major alteration and upgrade to building 36000 Fort Hood, Texas. Womens Health Clinic. The work will be performed on Fort Hood, Texas with an expected completion date of March 5, 2010. There was one bid solicited and one bid received. The contracting agency is the U.S. Army Engineers District, Fort Worth, Texas. W9126G-08-C-0007.

By Jim Garamone


WASHINGTON, March 11, 2008 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he "respects and honors" the decision of a dear friend and mentor – Navy Adm. William Fallon – to retire as commander of U.S. Central Command effective March 31.

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen spoke to reporters traveling with him from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Mullen was visiting U.S. Strategic Command when word of the retirement spread. Defense Secretary William M. Gates announced during a Pentagon press conference today that he approved Fallon's letter of resignation and request for retirement "with reluctance and regret."

He said no one should take Fallon's retirement as a change in U.S. policy toward Iran. "In my view, this should not be seen as a sign – at all – towards any kind of conflict with Iran," Mullen said.

Fallon is supportive of the policy "to engage Iran diplomatically and economically and not take the military option off the table," the chairman said.

"I'm of the position that we need to engage Iran diplomatically, economically," the chairman said. "My view of Iran hasn't changed. I think they are a very negative, destabilizing impact in that region and in that regard Adm. Fallon and I are of the same view.

In a statement released by U.S. Central Command, Fallon said that "recent press reports suggesting a disconnect between my views and the President's policy objectives have become a distraction at a critical time and hamper efforts in the CENTCOM region. And although I don't believe there have ever been any differences about the objectives of our policy in the Central Command area of responsibility, the simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America's interests there."

Mullen said Fallon – who is in Baghdad – made up his mind "based on his view commanding the most critical command we have fighting two wars. He really made his decision based on what he thought was best for the country, and I respect and honor that decision," the chairman said.

Mullen called Fallon a great naval officer and a great leader.

"I've known him personally exceptionally well for the last 12 years," the chairman said. "Adm. Fallon fought in Vietnam, commanded in Desert Storm and commanded both PACOM and CENTCOM in two wars. In my view he's a true patriot, a great American, a great warrior and a great leader."

Rrecommendations from U.S. commanders in Iraq, from Central Command and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the way ahead in Iraq are due to the president and Congress in April. Mullen said Fallon's views on that process will be well-represented in the process.

Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey will serve as acting commander after Fallon's retirement. He is currently the command's deputy commander. Dempsey has been nominated for his fourth star and, if confirmed by the Senate, will take the job of commander of U.S. Army Europe.

The chairman said that Dempsey has been heavily involved in all aspects of U.S. Central Command and arrived at the post from a term commanding the Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq. "I am confident that in his position of acting commander that CENTCOM and the country will be very well served," he said.

The chairman said losing a leader of Fallon's vision, experience and commitment is a big loss. The CENTCOM job is a tough job and it is a critical time in the Middle East and Central Asia. He said Fallon surely took all that under consideration as he made his retirement decision.

"That's why I'm so immediately inclined to support and respect what that decision was," Mullen said. "Those of us who have commanded understand the burden of command, the importance of command and arriving at a decision like this, it's a very personal decision, ... and I believe it's a very noble decision.

"He's a dear friend, he's a mentor of mine. It's a hard decision for him and his family – they are very much on my mind."

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today reluctantly accepted Navy Adm. William J. "Fox" Fallon's letter of resignation as commander of U.S. Central Command and request for retirement. Fallon's resignation will take effect March 31, Gates said in a Pentagon news conference.

His deputy, Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, will take over as acting CENTCOM commander until a permanent replacement is nominated and confirmed.

Gates told reporters Fallon advised him of his decision this morning, citing what the admiral called "the current embarrassing situation of public perception of differences between my views and administration policy and the distraction this causes from the mission."

"Recent press reports suggesting a disconnect between my views and the president's policy objectives have become a distraction at a critical time and hamper efforts in the CENTCOM region," Fallon said in a statement released by CENTCOM. "And although I don't believe there have ever been any differences about the objectives of our policy in the Central Command area of responsibility, the simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America's interests there."

Fallon said this disconnect led him to conclude "that it would be best to step aside and allow the secretary and our military leaders to move beyond this distraction ... and focus on the achievement of our strategic objectives in the region."

Gates said Fallon reached this difficult decision entirely on his own and that he had approved it "with reluctance and regret."

The secretary said he informed President Bush of Fallon's decision and his plan to accept it earlier today. "The president has made clear all along that these matters are to be handled strictly within the Department of Defense," he said.

"I believe it was the right thing to do, even though I do not believe there are, in fact, significant differences between his views and administration policy," he said.

Some of the misperceptions involved perceived differences over U.S. policies regarding Iran. Gates said Fallon fully supported the administration's policy of trying to deal with the Iranian challenge through diplomatic and economic pressures and sanctions.

"So I don't think that there really were differences at all," Gates said. "But I think there is this misperception out there that there were."

Months of trying to "put this misperception behind us," it hasn't succeeded, he said.

Gates said he agreed with Fallon's assessment that whether true or not, he agrees that any misperceptions about the policy proved to be distractions from the mission. "That's why I believe he's made the right decision," he said.

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he supports Gates' decision to accept Fallon's resignation and request for retirement. "I also respect the reasons for which Admiral Fallon submitted it and applaud his ability to recognize the responsibility before him," the chairman said.

"By his leadership and through the example he continues to set with this decision today, he has demonstrated to future generations of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen the highest sense of personal honor and dignity," Mullen continued.

Gates said Fallon will be difficult to replace. "He is enormously talented, very experienced, and he does have a strategic vision that is rare," the secretary said. "So it does leave a hole."

He expressed confidence, however, that a skilled and qualified replacement will be found among the many talented senior military officers.

The secretary praised Fallon's distinguished 40-year military career that included leadership of U.S. Pacific Command and most recently, U.S. Central Command. "Fox Fallon has led our nation and hundreds of thousands of men and women in uniform with conviction, strategic vision, integrity and courage," Gates said.

"As commander of CENTCOM, he has managed with skill and diplomacy the mounting challenges across the broader Middle East and has kept foremost in mind the need to protect our vital national security interests in the region," the secretary said. "Fox Fallon has dedicated his life to the preservation of the freedoms we in this nation enjoy today, and all Americans should be deeply grateful for his dedication. On behalf of the Department of Defense and the nation, I thank him for his years of selfless service."

Mullen and Bush shared Gates' admiration of Fallon. "On behalf of the men and women of the armed forces, I extend to him and his family my heartfelt gratitude for the extraordinary service they have rendered this nation for more than four decades -- afloat and ashore, in peace and in war," Mullen said.

"Bill Fallon is an extraordinary leader, a visionary and a good friend who answered our country's call time and time again in positions of ever greater responsibility," he said. "He had an enormous impact, not only on the way we operate and fight in this new century, but also on the way in which we stay engaged globally."

Bush noted in a statement released by the White House that Fallon made history as the first naval officer to command Central Command.

"From the Horn of Africa, to the streets of Baghdad, to the mountains of Afghanistan, the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen of Central Command are vital to the global war on terror," the president said. "During his tenure at CENTCOM, Admiral Fallon's job has been to help ensure that America's military forces are ready to meet the threats of an often-troubled region of the world, and he deserves considerable credit for progress that has been made there, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Bush expressed thanks to Fallon for serving the United States "with honor, determination and commitment," and to the family that has supported his military service. "I wish them all the best as they begin the next chapter in their lives," he said.

Commenting on his nearly-42-year career, Fallon said today he is "grateful for having had this opportunity to serve with the outstanding service personnel and civilians of Central Command.

"It has been my high honor to have served my nation and the Navy for four decades, and I thank all of you who continue to serve," he said.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $78,500,000 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the V-22 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and Flight Training Device (FTD) products and revisions. This contract will provide analysis, design, development, upgrade, enhancements, integration, installation, test, training, maintenance, logistical support and configuration management for V-22 FFS and FTD training devices, Aircraft Common Operational Equipment (ACOE), FFS and FTD training device spare parts. The contract also includes the incorporation of V-22 Training Equipment Change Requests in to FFS and FTD training devices. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (50 percent); and Philadelphia, Pa. (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity (N61339-08-D-0004).

Canadian Commercial Corp., General Dynamics Land Systems Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is being awarded $7,166,492 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order modification under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5028) for the purchase of OCONUS Field Service Representatives (FSR). Work will be performed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom areas of operation, and work is expected to be completed April 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $6,890,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-96-C-2100) for the execution of the USS Texas (SSN 775) post shakedown availability. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn., and is expected to be completed by May 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Conn., is the contracting activity.

Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $6,490,000 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-03-D-0002) to provide for logistics support, technical engineering support services, and spare engines and associated parts for the U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J, which includes the AE2100D3 turboprop engine and R391 propeller. Work will be performed in Cherry Point, N.C., and work is expected to be completed in May 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.

Electro Mechanical Corp., Cheswick, Pa., is being awarded a $5,527,903 firm-fixed-price supply contract for one advanced secondary propulsion unit for the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23). Work will be performed in Cheswick, Pa., and work is to be completed by March 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Puget Sound is the contracting activity (N00406-08-C-8005).

ARMY

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Co., Simsbury, Conn., was awarded on March 7, 2008, a $69,061,510 firm-fixed price contract for 485 XM19 Abrams reactive armor tile sets. Work will be performed in Simsbury, Conn. and Graham, Ky., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were six bids solicited on June 29, 2007, and two bids were received. The U.S. Army Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity W15QKN-08-C-008.

Ttec-Tesoro, Joint Venture, Norcross, Ga., was awarded on March 7, 2008, a $21,479,000 firm-fixed price contract for design-build of the Consolidated Drill Sergeant School which includes classrooms, dining facility and administrative areas. Work will be performed at Fort Jackson, S.C., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were four bids solicited on Nov. 1, 2007, and four bids were received. The U.S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, Ga., is the contracting activity W912HN-07-D-0058.

FN Manufacturing Inc., Columbia, S.C., was awarded on March 10, 2008, a $7,674,529.59 firm-fixed price contract for 17,433 M249 Short Barrels. Work will be performed in Columbia, S.C., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Sept. 24, 2003, and one bid was received. The U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity DAAE20-03-C-0100.

AIR FORCE

McDonnell Douglas Corp., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Boeing Company, Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a contract modification for $10,290,683. This contract is for FY07 Award Fee payment for the period 1 April 2007 thru 30 September 2007. The award fee is based on performance on the Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership (GSP) Program. At this time $10,290,683 has been obligated. MSW/C17SG/PKS, Wright-Patterson AFB is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004 P00230

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2008 - The selection of Northrop Grumman Corp. to build the next-generation air-refueling tanker aircraft followed a fair competition and was based on the merits of the proposals submitted, a senior Defense Department official told reporters today.

Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, said the challenges like the one filed yesterday by the Boeing Company are built into the acquisition process to ensure it complies with federal regulations.

The Boeing Company filed a formal protest yesterday asking the Government Accountability Office to review the decision to contract with Northrop Grumman to build up to 179 KC-45A aircraft over the next decade. The Air Force announced the decision Feb. 29.

Northrop Grumman partnered with Airbus to compete against Boeing Corp. for the $35 billion contract.

If Boeing elects to challenge the process, the department "will take the necessary steps to ensure that is given the appropriate treatment," Whitman said today.

GAO has 100 days to review the contract award and determine whether the Defense Department followed appropriate processes and procedures, he said.

"We believe that it was a very fair competition, transparent to the extent that any competition can be with the request for proposal process, and that the decision made by the department was based on merit," Whitman said. "So we will see."

During a Feb. 29 news conference announcing the contract decision, the Air Force acquisition chief said the Northrop Grumman proposal offered "the best value to the government" and earned top marks for mission capability, past performance and other factors.

Sue C. Payton, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, insisted that "no bias" was involved in the contract award.

Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said the Air Force looks forward to the vastly superior air-fueling capabilities the next-generation tankers will offer over the current fleet of Eisenhower-era KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft they will replace.

"This is a platform we have been working on for some time, and clearly we want to move this program forward in an expeditious manner," Whitman said today. "But challenges are part of the process and built into the system to ensure that the rigor and integrity of the federal acquisition regulation is followed. We are prepared to do that, and we will do that. "

CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Bahrain Maritime and Merchantile International, Sitra, Bahrain, is being awarded a maximum $2,801,334,120 firm fixed price, prime vendor contract for supply and distribution of food and non-food products. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and other approved customers located in the Middle East countries of Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This proposal was originally Web solicited with 5 responses. This contract is exercising its first term option period. Date of performance completion is March 10, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-08-D-3131).

AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $350,000,000. This action is for the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Geostationary Earth Orbit satellite 3 (GEO 3) and Highly Elliptical Earth Orbit payload 3 (HEO 3) long-lead effort. The intent of the letter contract is to maintain the best possible GEO 3 and HEO 3 delivery dates for replenishment of strategic missile warning satellites and payloads. In addition, the letter contract facilitates the retention of critical payload engineering skills required to start the long lend redesign activities. At this time $175,000,000 has been obligated. Space Based Infrared Systems, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8810-08-C-0002).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems in San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a fixed price incentive firm target contract for $73,590,137. This action will provide long lead parts/advance procurement for the following low rate initial production Lot 7 items: three multi platform-radar technology insertion program sensors. At this time $33,890,137 has been obligated. 303 AESG/PK, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-08-C-4015).

ARMY

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc., was awarded on March 7, 2008, a $87,751,597 basic ordering agreement with firm-fixed price delivery orders contract for the small caliber ammunition second source prime contractor for the production of small arms ammunition.. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, Fla., and is expected to be completed by Aug 23, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Jan. 18, 2005, and two bids were received. The Headquarters, U.S. Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity W52P1J-05-G-0002.

General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on March 6, 2008, a $15,702,348 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for system technical support for the Abrams Tank Program to include modification work order hardware and installation, supply support, contingency operations and field service representative. Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on June 8, 2006, and one bid was received. The U.S. Army Tank-automotive & Armaments Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity W56HZV-07-C-0046.

Charpie-Sollitt Joint Venture, Chicago, was awarded on March 7, 2008, a $6,001,000 firm-fixed price contract for construction of regional training facility medical, Fort McCoy, Wis. Work will be performed at Fort McCoy, Wis., and is expected to be completed by Aug. 29, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via FedBizOpps on Dec. 6, 2007, and four bids were received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, Louisville, Ky., is the contracting activity W912QR-08-C-001.

NAVY

Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical Division, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $6,827,132 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-6227) for nine Virginia Class Universal Modular Mast (UMM) Systems. The UMM Program provides for the development and acquisition of a non-hull penetrating mast that serves as a lifting mechanism for five sensor configurations on the Virginia Class and SSGN Class submarines: the Photonics Mast (PM), the Multi-Function Mast, the Integrated Electronic Mast, the High Data Rate Mast and the Photonics Mast Variant. Each sensor is mounted on a UMM. Work will be performed in Northampton, Mass. (20 percent) and Bologna, Italy (80 percent), and work is expected to be completed by November 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Airman Lost in 1942 Crash is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. Army Air Forces airman, missing since 1942, have been identified and will soon be returned to his family for burial.

He is Aviation Cadet Ernest G. Munn, U.S. Army Air Forces, of St. Clairsville, Ohio. He will be buried in May in Colerain, Ohio.

Representatives from the Army met with Munn's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process, and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.

Munn was one of four men aboard a routine navigation training flight that departed Mather Field, Calif., on Nov. 18, 1942. Their AT-7 Navigator aircraft carried about five hours of fuel, and when the plane did not return to base, a search was initiated. It was suspended about a month later with no results.

In 1947, several hikers on Darwin Glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountain range discovered the wreckage of the AT-7 aircraft. Fragmentary, skeletal remains found at the site were buried as a group in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, Calif.

Then in October 2005, other hikers in the Sierra Nevadas discovered frozen human remains, circumstantial evidence and personal effects of an aircrew member. Park rangers from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and a forensic anthropologist from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) recovered the remains. They were sent to the JPAC laboratory in Hawaii and identified as Cadet Leo M. Mustonen, one of the four men aboard the AT-7 aircraft.

In 2007, two other hikers found human remains near the 2005 discovery site. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of a second individual from the 1942 crew, Cadet Ernest G. Munn.

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Sikrosky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded on March 6, 2008, a $368,385,849 firm-fixed price contract for six UH-60M and twenty HH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and post DD250 Installation of auxiliary power unit kits. Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Oct. 20, 2005, and one bid was received. The U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity W58RGZ-08-C-003.

Thales-Raytheon Systems Co. LLC, Fullerton, Calif., was awarded on March 6, 2008, a $39,725,937 firm-fixed price contract for sixteen AN/TPQ-46 antenna transceiver group and 15 each Spare AN/TPQ-36 Antenna Array Assemblies for the FIREFINDER radar program. Work will be performed in Fullerton, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Aug. 7, 2007, and one bid was received. The CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity W15P7T-06-D-T001.

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., Needham, Mass., was awarded on March 6, 2008, an $18,319,778 firm-fixed price contract for high frequency radio system and services, upgrade eight existing sites and providing five new sites. Work will be performed at multiple sites, and is expected to be completed by March 29, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one sole source bid solicited on June 11, 2007, and one bid was received. The CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity W15P7T-08-C-D202.

AIR FORCE

Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for $60,000,000. This action is for the follow-on architect-engineer (A-E) services for perform Title I, Title II, and other A-E services. These services are required to support Tinker Air Force Base Civil Engineer's environmental and real property sustainment, restoration, and construction programs. Primary services include: Title I: all aspects of real property facilities, infrastructure, and environmental design and activities to support those designs including value engineering and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design analysis. Title II: all aspects of construction quality assurance and oversight of environmental, facility, and infrastructure construction projects. Other A-E Services: support for base environmental restoration, conservation and planning, and environmental quality programs including compliance and pollution prevention. At this time $32,906.06 (SAIC), $81,781.48 (CH2M Hill), $24,854.80 (URS Group) and $55,146.21 (Cherokee CRC) has been obligated. 72nd Contracting Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (CH2M Hill, Inc. – FA8101-080D-0002; Cherokee CRC – FA8101-08-D-0003; Science Applications International Corporations – FA8101-08-D-0004; URS Group, Inc. – FA8101-08-D-0005).

Integral Systems, Incorporated of Lanham, Md., is being awarded a contract modification for $21,168,253. This contract modification provides for the purchase and integration of additional interference detection sensors and antennas for the deployable systems of the Rapid Attack Identification, Detection, and Reporting System Block 10. At this time $14,189,645 has been obligated. USAF HQ Space and Missile Systems Center/SYSW/PK El Segundo Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8819-08-C-0018; P000053).

AGVIQ/CH2M HILL Constructors, Inc.*, Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a maximum $20,000,000, guaranteed minimum of $100,000 (base period), cost reimbursement plus award fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity remedial action contract for environmental remediation services on Navy and Marine Corps installations at various Department of Defense sites. This contract contains four option years, which if exercised, will bring the total contract to a value not-to-exceed $100,000,000. Work will be performed in Florida (10 percent), Louisiana (10 percent), South Carolina (10 percent), Tennessee (10 percent), Texas (10 percent), Washington (10 percent), Caribbean and Central America (10 percent), Alabama (1 percent), Alaska (1 percent), Arkansas (1 percent), Georgia (1 percent), Idaho (1 percent), Illinois (1 percent), Indiana (1 percent), Iowa (1 percent), Kansas (1 percent), Kentucky (1 percent), Michigan (1 percent), Minnesota (1 percent), Mississippi (1 percent), Missouri (1 percent), Montana (1 percent), Nebraska (1 percent), North Dakota (1 percent), Ohio (1 percent), Oklahoma (1 percent), Oregon (1 percent), South Dakota (1 percent), Wisconsin (1 percent), Wyoming (1 percent) and other sites (7 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of March 2009 (March 2013 if options are exercised). Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N62470-08-D-1006).

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., is being awarded for a $15,658,359 modification (P00122) under previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (M67854-02-C-2052) to exercise an option for 12 common modules and 24 Combat Operations Center (COC) capability set IIIs in support of the COC integrated, mobile, command and control center consisting of shelter, power, cabling, processing systems, and trailers. Work will be performed in Scottsdale, Ariz., and work is expected to be completed by July 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Pacific Ship Repair & Fabrication, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $10,979,089 firm-fixed-price contract for a post shipyard availability of Military Sealift Fleet Support Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4). This availability primarily accomplishes post-construction alterations, including conversions to the bakery, galley and scullery, as well as modifications to the second deck cargo hold and bow thruster chilled-water piping system. The ship is expected to deploy on its first operational mission this summer and will deliver ammunition, provisions, stores, spare parts, potable water and petroleum products to the Navy's carrier strike groups and other naval forces worldwide. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $12,736,666. Work will be performed by Pacific Ship Repair & Fabrication at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif., and work is expected to be completed by June 2008. Contract funds will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with three offers received. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Fleet Support Command, a field activity of Military Sealift Command, is the contracting authority (N40442-08-C-3004).

BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an $8,023,532 firm-fixed-price contract for a regular overhaul of Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6). Work performed during this availability will include dry-docking the ship, painting of the underwater hull, various surveys and inspections, and repair of degaussing cable conduit and cargo reefer compressor. Supply is one of four fast combat support ships that provide one-stop shopping to the Navy's fleet for fuel, ammunition, food and other cargo. These ships are especially valuable because of their speed and ability to carry all the essentials to replenish Navy ships at sea. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $9,211,228. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and work is expected to be completed in June 2008. Contract funds will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with two offers received. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Fleet Support Command, a field activity of Military Sealift Command, is the contracting authority (N40442-08-C-2002).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Interstate Storage & Pipeline Corp., Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a minimum $13,477,500 firm fixed price with cost reimbursement contract to secure necessary facilities to receive, store and ship government-owned fuel and fuel system icing inhibitor in the Jacksonville, New Jersey area. Using services are Army, Navy and Air Force. This proposal was originally Web solicited with one response. Date of performance completion is Feb.28, 2013. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Supply Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-C-5804).

DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Frost, 24, of Waukesha, Wis., died March 3 near Bayji, Iraq in a crash of an Iraqi Army Mi-17 helicopter. He was assigned to the 377th Air Base Wing, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

The circumstances surrounding the crash are under investigation.

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Bell-Boeing Tiltrotor Team, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $204,477,179 four delivery orders #0251, #0252, #0253, #0254 under previously awarded contract (N00383-03-G-001B) for spare components (repairables) of the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Hurst, Texas, (40 percent), and Ridley Park, Pa., (60 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source effort and was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $57,775,399 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-02-C-3002). This modification exercises an option for the Electronic Warfare Verification Station for the U.S. Reprogramming Laboratory (USRL) at Eglin Air Force Base. This option provides for the development, integration, installation, and training for an electronic warfare mission data validation/verification capability under the Joint Strike Fighter System Development and Demonstration Program. Work will be performed in Ft. Worth, Texas, (68 percent); Orlando, Fla., (24 percent); and El Segundo, Calif., (8 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 2013. 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.

Watts Constructors, LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a $46,875,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a Communications Center for Naval Station Pearl Harbor at Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific. Work will be performed in Wahiawa, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by Mar. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 57 offers solicited and five proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-08-C-1300).

Virtexco Corp., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $14,770,422 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of an Academic Instruction Facility for the School of Infantry at Camp Geiger, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for the construction of a single two-story facility that will accommodate classrooms, administrative offices, a receiving auditorium, toilet, lounge facilities, and mechanical and electrical spaces. This project will also involve site improvements, and the demolition of 16 existing buildings within the Camp Geiger area. A flag pole and six monuments will be relocated to the site from other locations within the Camp Geiger area. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with seven proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-07-C-1415).

TEAM Construction, LLC*, Jacksonville, N.C., is being awarded a $10,738,082 firm-fixed price contract for major realignment and modernization of existing live fire ranges and situated K-2 impact area at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for construction of control towers for proposed automated ranges, field service heads, storage buildings, classrooms, overhead covered areas, bleachers, ammo holding/issue areas, and utility buildings. Included are service roads to new target emplacements, bivouac areas, access roads and utility distribution systems to serve this range complex and its targetry. Also included are technical operating manuals and anti-terrorism force protection features. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Nov. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-08-C-1400).

BAE Systems Electronics Limited, Underwater Systems Division, Hampshire, Great Britain, is being awarded a $9,874,745 modification to previously awarded contract (N61331-08-C-0012) for the procurement of common neutralizers, related support equipment, and engineering services to support the Airborne Mine Neutralization System and the Expendable Mine Neutralization System. Work will be performed in Hampshire, Great Britain, (77 percent); Rocket Center, W. Va. (2 percent); Littleton, Mass. (7 percent); Cedex, France (3 percent); Chelmsford, Essex, England (3 percent); Thurso, Caithness, England (2 percent); and Carlton Gardes, England (6 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $353,255 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity.

Harris Corp. Government Communications Systems Div., Melbourne, Fla., was awarded awarded a $7,786,065 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-06-C-0087) on Mar. 4, 2008, to exercise an option for the Full Rate Production of 165 Fibre Channel Network Switches (FCNS), a component of the Advanced Mission Computer and Display (AMC&D). This modification provides 138 FCNS for U.S. Navy Lot 32 F/A-18E/F, EA-18G, and E-2D aircraft, F/A-18F and EA-18G supplemental aircraft, and the retrofit of F/A-18E/F Lots 26-28 aircraft for the U.S. Navy and 27 FCNS for the Australian F/A-18F aircraft. In addition, this option provides for the procurement of four mounting kits for the E-2D and FCNS test equipment. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($6,576,492; 84precent) and the Government of Australia, ($1,209,573) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be conducted in Melbourne, Fla., and is expected to be completed in Mar. 2010. 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.

ARMY

Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Chantilly, Va., was awarded on Feb. 29, 2008, a $93,138,733 fixed-price incentive with award fee contract for in-scope changes to the Pentagon renovation in accordance with the approved design phase construction plan that incorporates approved changes. Work will be performed at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Jan. 19, 2001, and one bid was received. The Pentagon Renovation & Construction Program Office, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity MDA947-01-C-2001.

Structural Associates, Inc., East Syracuse, N.Y., was awarded on Feb. 29, 2008, a $43,313,600 firm-fixed price contract for construction of phase one, construction of new buildings with supporting utilities. Work will be performed at Fort Drum, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by Sep. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Sep. 28, 2007, and five bids were received. The U.S. Army Engineer District, CENAN-CT N. Y., is the contracting activity W912DS-08-C-009.

DynCorp International LLC, Falls Church, Va., was awarded on Feb. 28, 2008, a $30,256,356.63 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of Afghanistan National Army facilities, Kunduz, Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 25, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 30 bids solicited on Dec. 28, 2008, and 18 bids were received. The U.S. Army Engineer District, Afghanistan, is the contracting activity W917PM-08-C-0033.

DCX-CHOL Enterprise Inc., Pekin, Ill., was awarded on Mar. 4, 2008, a $5,030,500.00 firm-fixed price contract for purchase orders for 4100 each actuator and 4010 each actuator controllers for the Mine Resistance Ambush Protection Vehicle. Work will be performed in Pekin, Ill., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 21, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Feb. 15, 2008, and one bid was received. The Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity W9098S-08-P-0430.

AIR FORCE

L3 Communications Corp., Communications Systems West of Salt Lake City, Utah, is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $39,022,718. This contract is for the conversion of the Predator Primary Satellite Link and fixed SATCOM station upgrades. At this time $18,680,753 has been obligated. 658^th Aeronautical Systems Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-08-G-3027, Delivery Order 0017).

Harris Technical Services Corp., of Colorado Springs, Colo., is being awarded a contract modification for $6,083,943. This action provides for mission communications operations and maintenance, FY08 period B option, maintenance and services to be provided to Air Force Space Command's 50^th Space Wing, to include: small computer hardware maintenance, local area network management, telephone operations, and visual information management. At this time $5,617,762 has been obligated. 50 CONS/LGCZW, Schriever, Air Force Base, Colo., is the contracting activity (FA2550-08-C-0007).

*Small Business

CONTRACTS

NAVY

General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $49,835,387 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-2100) for consolidated planning yard, engineering and technical support for nuclear submarines. This contract modification provides support for the material aspects of submarine design/configuration change programs to support execution of submarine major alterations. The contractor will also provide materials required in support of installation of hull, mechanical and electrical; command and control system; and subsystem design changes for submarines. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn., (56 percent); Quonset, R.I., (31 percent); Newport, R.I., (8 percent); Kings Bay, Ga., (4 percent); and Bangor, Wash., (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Sep. 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Wash., Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems, Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $24,912,910 modification to previously awarded contract (N61331-05-C-0049) for a second Low Rate Initial Production lot of three units for the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS). ALMDS is a Light Detection and Ranging Airborne Mine Countermeasures high area coverage system that detects, classifies, and localizes floating and near-surface moored sea mines. The system is deployed from the MH-60S helicopter and will provide organic airborne mine defense to the battle force. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and work is expected to be completed by Jan. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity.

Alutiiq International Solutions, LLC*, Anchorage, Ala., is being awarded a $21,222,535 firm-fixed-price design/build contract for facility improvements at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island. The work to be performed provides for the upgrade of existing facilities and includes limited new construction necessary to support the EA-18G aircraft. Work will be performed in Oak Harbor, Wash., and is expected to be completed by Apr. 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with two proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity (N44255-08-C-6009).

Rogers-Quinn Construction, Inc., Bonsall, Calif., is being awarded a $14,793,600 firm-fixed-price contract to design and build a temporary lodging facility at Area 20, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. The new multiple story facility will include 48 guest rooms and 21 suites, with outdoor patios/balconies, main entrance, a reception area with guest services counter, a small sundry store, administration offices, a combined breakfast/lounge/ business center area with service pantry and outdoor patio, an exercise room, guest laundry facilities, commercial laundry, furniture and collateral equipment, parking, exterior amenities such as a children's playground and landscaping, and will include all services, labor, materials and equipment necessary to complete the work as described in the request for proposal. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured using a selected bidders list with five offers solicited and three proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-08-C-3502).

Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc., Aiea, Hawaii, is being awarded $10,913,995 for firm-fixed-price task order #0020 under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract for the overhaul of the intermediate caisson and general repair, Dry Dock #2, at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Work will be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 2009. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-04-D-1300).

Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control, Chelmsford, Mass., is being awarded a ceiling amount of $8,934,755 fixed-price level-of-effort requirements contract for the repair of dual lo generators and low phase noise oscillators. The dual lo generators and low phase noise oscillators are shop replaceable assemblies within the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System Universal Exciter Upgrade on the Navy's EA-6B aircrafts. This system performs jamming of hostile radar and communication threats, which protects strike aircraft from air defense surface to air missiles. Work will be performed in Chelmsford, Mass., and work is expected to be completed by Mar. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $875,919 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N000164-08-D-WS14).

THR Enterprises, Inc.*, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded $7,654,000 for firm-fixed-price Task Order #0004 under previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award construction contract (N40085-06-D-6009) for construction of the regimental headquarters Additions at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and work is expected to be completed by Sep. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.

ARMY

GM GDLS Defense Group, LLC, Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Mar. 5, 2008,

a $32,665,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for fund engineering and manufacturing development for the Stryker mobile gun system and nuclear biological chemical reconnaissance vehicle. Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Mich., London, Ontario, Canada, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was one bid solicited on Apr. 6, 2008, and one bid was received. The TACOM, Stryker Contracting Team, Warren. Mich., is the contracting activity DAAE07-00-D-MO51.

Cottrell Contracting Corp., Chesapeake, Va., was awarded on Mar. 4, 2008, a $7,548,432 firm-fixed price, construction contract for maintenance dredging Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and Morehead City Harbor and Beaufort Harbor, Carteret County, N.C. Work will be performed in Manteo (Shallowbag) Bay, N.C., and is expected to be completed by Mar. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were ten bids solicited on Nov. 19, 2007, and two bids were received. The Savannah Regional Contracting Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington Office, Wilmington, N.C., is the contracting activity W912HN-08-C-0017.

Western Marine Construction, Inc., Seattle, was awarded on Mar. 5, 2008, a $5,889,100 firm-fixed price contract for Chignik Harbor dredging, Chiguik, Ala. Work will be performed in Chignik, Ala., and is expected to be completed by Jan. 10, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were three bids solicited on Nov. 26, 2008, and three bids were received. The U.S. Army Engineer District, Ala., Elmendorf, Air Force Base, Ala., is the contracting activity W911KB-08-C-003.

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DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Mar. 3 in the Sabari District of Afghanistan, of wounds suffered during combat operations. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N. C.

Killed were:

Spc. Steven R. Koch, 23, of Milltown, N. J.

Sgt. Robert T. Rapp, 22, of Sonora, Calif.

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2008 - Coalition and Iraqi security forces are targeting al Qaeda terrorists who have taken refuge in Mosul after fleeing Baghdad in the wake of surge operations, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said yesterday.

"Mosul, as you know, is the center of al Qaeda terrorist activities today," Navy Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.

Al Qaeda had sought to use Baghdad as the center of its operations in Iraq, Smith noted. But now that they've been largely driven out of the Iraqi capital, he said, Mosul has become al Qaeda's "strategic center of gravity."

Mosul provides a meeting point for foreign fighters operating in Iraq, Smith said. And, Mosul's diverse ethnic makeup, he added, helps terrorists to blend in among the city's population.

Al Qaeda's interest in Mosul is readily apparent, Smith said.

"We can track Mosul's importance to the terrorists themselves," the admiral said. "Between half and two-thirds of the attacks we chart across Iraq each day occur in and around this city, but we are making progress."

Coalition and Iraqi forces have captured or killed 142 al Qaeda terrorists in Mosul since the start of the year, Smith said. One of those terrorists, seized during a Feb. 18 operation, was a top Mosul-based al Qaeda leader involved in foreign-terrorist transport, su