DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTS VALUED AT $6.5 MILLION AND ABOVE

NAVY

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $170,173,188 for modification P00047 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-13-C-0023) for the manufacture and delivery of nine AH-1Z aircraft, and nine auxiliary fuel kits for the government of Pakistan under the Foreign Military Sales program.  Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (60 percent); and Amarillo, Texas (40 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2018.  Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $170,173,188 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $39,999,960 firm-fixed-price contract for the new manufacture of MJU-68/B flares for the PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures program.  This effort combines purchases for the government of Israel under the Foreign Military Sales program.  Work will be performed in Toon, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by August 2018.  Fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015 procurement of ammunition (Navy and Marine Corp) funds in the amount of $10,463,323; fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015 aircraft and ammunition (Air Force) funds in the amount of $21,639,978; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $7,896,659 will be obligated at the time of award and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This sole-source requirement received under authority 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1).  Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00104-16-C-K037).

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $17,653,917 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for science and technology research concerning the Network Cooperative Radar Program.  The focus of this effort is to perform design and development for the Network Cooperative Radar Program.  This contract contains an option, which if exercised, will bring the contract value to $18,749,375.  Work will be performed in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed April 2017.  If the option is exercised, work will continue through July 9, 2018.  Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,010,838 will be obligated at the time of award, and will expire at end if current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured under Office of Naval Research Broad Agency Announcement 15-001.  Five full proposals were received for the solicitation.  The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-16-C-2007).

Mercury Defense Systems,* Cypress, California, is being awarded $15,430,634 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0005 against previously issued basic ordering agreement N68335-12-G-0059 for work associated with a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research effort under Topic N06-036, entitled “Advanced Techniques for Digital Radio Frequency Memories (DRFM).”  This order includes production of 28 Type II advanced DRFM units.  Work will be performed in Cypress, California, and is expected to be completed in January 2018.  Fiscal 2015 aircraft procurement (Air Force); and fiscal 2015 missile procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $15,430,634 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $14,485,959 for cost-plus- fixed-fee modification to delivery order 0096 previously issued against basic ordering agreement N00019-12-G-0006 in support of the V-22 aircraft.  This modification provides for the procurement of nonrecurring engineering in support of the CV-22 Integrated Aircraft Survivability Equipment (IASE) joint urgent operational need effort as well as 10 CV-22 IASE A-kits.  Work will be performed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (72 percent); Mesa, Arizona (11 percent); St. Louis, Missouri (7 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (3 percent); and various locations throughout the U.S. (7 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2017.  Fiscal 2015 aircraft procurement (Air Force); and fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $6,999,999 will be obligated at time of award; $5,119,766 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being issued $7,466,150 for delivery order 0003 against previously awarded basic ordering agreement N00019-16-G-0012 for the procurement and installation of eight AN/APR-39D(V)2 radar system integration kits (A-kits) into Lot 13 AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft.  Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2018.  Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,466,150 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

ARMY

Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, was awarded a $65,948,115 firm-fixed-price, foreign military sales contract (Iraq, Columbia) for 54 each Commando Select armored personnel carriers (APCs) with 40/50 turret; four each Commando Select APCs with 40/50 turret and command and control (C2) variant; and two each Commando Select APCs.  One bid was solicited with one received. Work will be performed in Slidell, Louisiana, with an estimated completion date of April 4, 2016.  Other procurement funds in the amount of $65,948,115 were obligated at the time of the award.  Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W56HZV-16-C-0079).

Medico Industries Inc., Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $17,888,945 modification (P00014) to contract W15QKN-13-C-0050 for 120mm high-explosive shells; 120mm high-explosive and full-range practice charges; and smoke adapter fuses.  Work will be performed in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2017.  Fiscal 2015 and 2016 other procurement funds in the amount of $17,888,945 were obligated at the time of the award.  Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

SRA International Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, has been awarded a $7,963,464 modification (P00002) to previously awarded contract FA7037-16-F-8001. Contractor will provide technical project management, integration, planning and programming; network monitoring, configuration management, performance management, mission management, communications security management, systems administration and communications engineering. Work will be performed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and is expected to be complete by April 30, 2017. Fiscal 2016 overseas contingency operations funds in the amount of $4,592,918 are being obligated at the time of award. The 25th Air Force Contracting Office, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Yorktown Heights, New York, has been issued a ceiling decrease modification in the amount of $7,397,671 (P00017) to previously awarded HR0011-12-C-0015, for research under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) I20 Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program. The modification decreases the total cumulative face value of the contract from $32,761,127 to $25,363,456. Work will be performed in Yorktown Heights, New York (57 percent); Aachen, Germany (9 percent); College Park, Maryland (9 percent); Cambridge, United Kingdom (8 percent); Stanford, California (8 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (4 percent); Le Mans, France (4 percent); and Cambridge, Massachusetts (1 percent), with an expected completion date of September 2016. DARPA, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

 

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