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The US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent River, MD is looking for contractors to provide maintenance, logistics, and life cycle service support for its Special Communications Requirement Division’s (SCRD) communication-electronic (C-E) equipment, systems and subsystems. The SCRD designs, develops, tests and supports joint special operations’ communications and electronics equipment. The division develops quick reaction and testing of communications packages for hand-held and manpack radios, high speed and rigid inflatable boats, mobile and fixed-base operations, special communications vans and other vehicles, and air-land transportable command posts. NAWCAD recently issued a sources sought notice to get industry feedback for a follow-on to a contract (N00421-06-C-0085) that was awarded to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services in Rockville, MD in 2006. (more…)

Excerpt from: Desperately Seeking Sources: NAWCAD Looks for Help on Special Ops Comms

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific in Pearl Harbor, HI awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts to 4 small business qualifiers in support of the Environmental Remedial Action Program at various sites in NAVFAC Pacific’s area of responsibility (AOR). The maximum dollar value, including the base period and 4 option years, for all contracts is $30 million. The 4 small business qualifiers are… (more…)

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‘Tugs of the Future’ at Portsmouth Naval Base (click to view larger) The UK is

Visit link: UK MoD Places Order for ‘Tugs of the Future’

M1A2 SEP (click to view full) 22 more tanks, program details. (March 8/10) America’s M1 Abrams tanks come in a number of versions. In addition to the M1A1 that is now standard, the US Army is beginning to field its M1 TUSK for urban warfare . It also operates the M1A2 System Enhancement Program (SEP), currently the most advanced standard variant. This Spotlight article covers the M1A2 Abrams SEP upgrade program, and will be updated and backfilled as new contracts are issued and key events take place. M1A2 SEP: Additional Background M1A2 SEP: Related Contracts, 1996 – Present [updated] Additional Readings & Sources (more…)

Read the rest here: Digital Abrams: The M1A2 SEP Program (updated)

(c) DJ Elliott (click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation that attempts to map and detail Iraqi units and equipment, as their military branches and internal security forces grow and mature. While “good enough for government use” is not usually uttered as a compliment, US Army TRADOC has maintained permission to use the ISF OOB for their unclassified handouts since 2008. This compilation is reproduced here with full permission. It offers a set of updates highlighting recent changes in the ISF’s composition and development, followed by the full updated ISF OOBs in PDF form. Reader feedback and tips are encouraged. This month’s developments include… Peshmerga Iraqi Army Iraqi Navy Iraqi Air Force Ministry of the Interior Additional Readings: Full ISF OOB Additional Readings: DID Articles (more…)

Read more: Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle 2010: 02/03

S-61T (click to view full) In February 2010, Sikorsky announced an indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity agreement with the US Department of State to purchase up to 110 modernized S-61T Sea King helicopters, for “passenger and cargo transport missions in support of its worldwide operations.” The State Department regularly leases helicopters for this purpose; as one example, the helicopter that spirited Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL] out of Niger during the 2010 coup was flown by Blackwater/Xe’s Presidential Airways. Because of the current state of helicopter support in Afghanistan , the role of private contractors to fill the gaps has been growing. The initial S-61T delivery order was 4 helicopters, for use in Afghanistan… and Sikorsky is pointedly touting the S-61Ts as an alternative to leased machines. (more…)

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Australian CH-47D: Afghanistan, 2006 (click to view full) In December 2005, Australia decided to upgrade its CH-47D Chinook fleet , in preparation for use on the front lines. Afghanistan’s high altitudes and sometimes-scorching temperatures reduce rotor lift. That made the Chinooks a far better choice than upgrading the ADF’s S-70 Black Hawk helicopters, whose reduced carrying capacity would limit their tactical uses. Those CH-47D Chinooks have gone on to play an important role in Afghanistan, amidst a general shortage of useful helicopters . Now, Australia seems determined to supplement its older CH-47D fleet with new and improved CH-47F models , which feature more modern electronics, uprated engines, and numerous other improvements. The question is when that request will become an actual contract. It hasn’t, yet, but “second pass approval” and clarifications have brought that day much closer. (more…)

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Towed arrays create a longer baseline than other types of underwater sensors, which enhances detection capabilities. According to the 2002 edition of the US Navy’s Vision…Presence…Power: A Guide to U.S. Navy Programs , the TB-29A is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) version of the legacy TB-29 towed array: ”[The TB-29A] arrays will be used for back-fit on Los Angeles (SSN-688 and SSN-688I) and Seawolf (SSN-21) submarines and forward-fit on the Virginia (SSN-774) class. TB-29A will also be used for the SURTASS [Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System] Twin-line towed array system. It will provide greater capability than the current TB-23 Thin Line towed arrays and achieve enhanced supportability through commonality. TB-29A uses COTS telemetry to significantly reduce unit cost while maintaining superior array performance. These arrays were recently tested with SURTASS ships and will support the IUSS [Integrated Undersea Surveillance System] community….Coupled with the submarine A-RCI system, TB-29A arrays are expected to provide the same 400-500 percent increase in detection capability against quiet submerged platforms in blue-water and shallow-water areas, as the current TB-29 has demonstrated recently.” (more…)

Originally posted here: Lockheed Martin Wins Contracts for Thin Line Towed Arrays

USS Stockdale [DDG 106] (click to view full) In 2009, a deal was struck that shifted most DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class work to Bath Iron Works, in exchange for Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard taking over lead-yard responsibility for the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class destroyers, and receiving a greater share of orders for that ship type. Read “ Adding Arleigh Burkes: Northrop Grumman Underway ” for more background. Bath Iron Works will still build some Arleigh Burke Class ships, however, and will continue to receive contracts to that effect. Feb 26/10: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME receives a not-to-exceed $114 million letter contract for long-lead time material in support of the anticipated construction of DDG 115 under the DDG 51 class destroyer program. The contract will buy things like propulsion gas turbines, generators, air conditioning systems, controllable pitch propeller and other components, so they’ll be ready in time when construction of DDG 115 begins. Work will be performed in Cincinnati, OH (32.6%); Indianapolis, IN (23.7%); Coatesville, PA (12.3%); Charlottesville, VA (10.9%); Erie, PA (6.9%); Walpole, MA (5.4%); Bath, ME (1.2%); Warminster, PA (1%); and various other locations (6%), and is expected to be complete by December 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured by US Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC (N00024-10-C-2311).

Read more: GD Building DDG-115

Northrop Grumman Corp. received a 5-year, $70 million task order to provide business, technical and programmatic support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The task order was issued under the GSA’s Mission Oriented Business Integration Services (MOBIS) contract vehicle. The MOBIS program offers a range of management and consulting services intended to improve an agency’s performance… (more…)

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