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Science Applications International Corp. in McLean, VA received a $47.6 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide technical and engineering support to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific for C4ISR systems. This 5-year contract includes three 12-month option periods for a total potential period of performance of 8 years and a total potential value of $63.6 million. SAIC will provide support for the following: (more…)

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K-707, F/A-18, EA-6B Aerial tankers are essential when moving large quantities of men and materials long distances, or stretching the range and length of fighter combat air patrols. Most are government-owned, but a segment of semi-privatized services may be set to grow alongside existing military fleets. Could DID readers find themselves flying to an Azores vacation on a chartered aerial tanker during its “spare hours”? As Britain’s proposed FSTA public-private aerial tanker partnership comes to fruition, that’s exactly what could happen. The USA’s KC-45 competition was set to buy up to 179 aircraft for the USAF’s fleet instead, and may yet do so. Even here, however, some outsourcing is going on. Enter Omega Refueling Services, Inc… (more…)

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Sachsen, sending SM-2 (click to view full) Greek deal adds submarine construction capabilities. (March 1/10) ThyseenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) recently announced a “close strategic partnership” and Memorandum of Understanding with the Abu Dhabi MAR group in the United Arab Emirates, but the move is much closer to a sale of key assets. The MoU stipulates a 50/50 joint venture to build naval surface ships, with TKMS retaining a lead role and know-how in all projects with the German Navy and NATO partners. Similarly, Abu Dhabi MAR Group will be responsible for the Middle East and North Africa. At the same time, however, Abu Dhabi MAR is acquiring 80% of TKMS’ key surface ship firms: Blohm + Voss Shipyards, Blohm + Voss Repair, and Blohm + Voss Industries. The proposed sale follows other recent purchases in Germany by Abu Dhabi MAR, and other recent shipyard sales by TKMS. The net effect is a restructuring of Germany’s naval shipbuilding industry… (more…)

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CACI International received a $31 million task order to support implementation of Oracle’s E-Business Suite for the US Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency ’s Defense Agency Initiative (DAI) program. The task order was awarded under the Defense Information System Agency’s $12.3 billion ENCORE II contract vehicle . It is also 1 of 3 DAI-related awards CACI has won with the Business Transformation Agency in the past 12 months, which total approximately $53 million…. (more…)

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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

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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…)

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(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…)

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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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