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September 16, 2019 | International, Aerospace

Belgique : Les retombées du contrat F-35 commencent à se concrétiser

Par Olivier Gosset


Trois accords industriels lient désormais des entreprises de notre pays à Lockheed Martin. Paradoxe du contrat belge: des filiales de groupes français devraient monter à bord du programme F-35.

Près d'un an après la décision du gouvernement belge d'acquérir 34 appareils de combat américains F-35, l'industrie aéronautique belge commence à apercevoir les premiers bénéfices de cette commande. Trois accords industriels ont en effet été conclus par le groupe américain de défense Lockheed Martin avec des entreprises belges dans le cadre de potentielles retombées économiques liées à ce contrat de 3,8 milliards, a indiqué lundi un responsable de Lockheed, Yung Le.

Le groupe Sabca, présent dans les trois Régions du pays et la société bruxelloise Ilias Solutions, spécialisée dans les logiciels logistiques, ont chacun signé dimanche un accord de coopération industrielle avec le géant américain. Une initiative qui leur donne un ticket d'entrée pour rejoindre le programme F-35.

Les accords signés ne sont pas encore des contrats en bonne et due forme. Mais ils permettent aux entreprises retenues de se positionner en tant que fournisseurs potentiels de Lockheed, de ses filiales et de ses partenaires. L'accord avec Ilias Solution semble néanmoins le plus avancé, puisque son directeur général, Jean-Pierre Wildschut, a indiqué que son entreprise pouvait espérer conclure des contrats avec Lockheed Martin à hauteur de 5 millions de dollars par an, soit une croissance de 15 à 20% au cours des cinq prochaines années. Ilias Solution, qui a débuté ses activités dans la foulée du contrat du F-16, espère que cet accord avec LM ouvrira la voie à d'autres missions au service des flottes d'autres pays, pour les F-35 et éventuellement d'autres plateformes.

L'accord conclu avec la Sabca porte quant à lui sur des systèmes d'actionnement (servo-commandes), une compétence que le constructeur belge, qui fournit des actuateurs pour les lanceurs spatiaux européens, aimerait développer dans le secteur de l'aviation (lire ci-dessous).

Des projets complexes
En juin, Sabena Aerospace (Zaventem), spécialisée dans la maintenance aéronautique, avait obtenu de Lockheed Martin la prolongation pour dix ans de son statut de centre de service agréé pour l'entretien et la mise à niveau des avions de transport C-130 Hercules, eux aussi contruits par le groupe américain.

À cela, a rappelé Yung Le, il faut ajouter un contrat concret accordé il y a deux ans à Asco – soit avant la décision belge d'opter pour le F-35 – par Fokker Technologies, une entreprise néerlandaise appartenant au groupe britannique GKN Aerospace, pour la fourniture d'ailerons haute vitesse pour le F-35.

"Nous voulons accélérer ces accords" avec d'autres entreprises car dès qu'ils sont conclus, l'industrie belge peut travailler sur le programme F-35, a ajouté Yung Le, en rappelant qu'environ 35 projets de coopération avaient été identifiés dans le cadre de la préservation des "intérêts essentiels de sécurité" invoqués par la Belgique pour obtenir des retombées économiques liées à l'achat du F-35. "Certains de ces projets sont simples, d'autres complexes. Certains concernent des petites entreprises, d'autres des grandes", a commenté le responsable américain, conscient de l'impatience des industriels belges.

L'un des gros contrats attendus concerne Sabca, Sonaca et Asco. Les trois poids lourds belges du secteur sont associés pour tenter de décrocher la fabrication de volets horizontaux mobiles à l'arrière du F-35. "Mais jusqu'ici, on n'a aucune idée de combien de pièces il pourrait s'agir, ni à partir de quand", déplore un responsable d'une des trois entreprises concernées.

De son côté, Safran Aero Boosters, la filiale liégeoise du motoriste français Safran, est engagée dans une dynamique similaire avec Pratt & Whitney, fabricant du moteur F135 qui équipe le chasseur américain. Les deux entreprises ont également signé ces derniers jours un accord actant leur intention de formaliser des opportunités de collaboration – sans les nommer – sur le moteur F135. Paradoxe du contrat belge, des sociétés faisant partie de groupes français (Sabca appartient encore pour l'instant à Dassault, qui souhaite le revendre) devraient donc monter prochainement à bord du programme F-35, grand rival du Rafale construit par nos voisins du sud...

https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/aviation/les-retombees-du-contrat-f-35-commencent-a-se-concretiser/10162821.html

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TDX Quality LLC,* Cookstown, New Jersey, was awarded an $8,602,603 firm-fixed-price contract for construction, demolition, alteration, and replacement of HVAC components; replacement of electrical components; reconfiguration of interior walls, lighting, plumbing, fire suppression systems; and installation of exterior canopies. Bids were solicited via the internet with six received. Work will be performed in Trenton, New Jersey, with an estimated completion date of March 17, 2021. Fiscal 2018 and 2019 military construction; and operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $8,602,603 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York, New York, is the contracting activity (W912DS-19-C-0022). Kleinfelder Inc., Rancho Cordova, California, was awarded an $8,000,000 modification (P00002) to contract W91238-16-D-0019 for geotechnical focused engineering, investigation and design services. Bids were solicited via the internet with six received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 28, 2021. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, California, is the contracting activity. Butt Construction Co. Inc.,* Dayton, Ohio, was awarded a $7,816,000 firm-fixed-price contract for renovations (Building 310 and Building 333). Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work will be performed in Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, with an estimated completion date of April 2, 2021. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $7,816,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Kentucky, is the contracting activity (W912QR-19-C-0043). Structural Associates Inc.,* East Syracuse, New York, was awarded a $7,142,700 firm-fixed-price contract for renovation (Building 252). Bids were solicited via the internet with 10 received. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 25, 2022. Fiscal 2019 sustainment, restoration and modernization funds in the amount of $7,142,700 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (W912WJ-19-C-0013). DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Sterling BV Inc.,* San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a maximum $54,990,835 firm-fixed-price contract for various bakery items for unitized group rations. This was a competitive acquisition with three responses received. This is a four-year base contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Texas, with a Sep. 24, 2023, performance completion date. Using military services are Army and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2023 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE3S1-19D-Z213). Science Applications International Corp., Fairfield, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $49,500,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical antennas. This was a competitive acquisition with two responses received. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. Location of performance is New Jersey, with a Sept. 25, 2024, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2024 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland (SPRBL1-19-D-0078). The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc., Seattle, Washington, has been awarded a maximum $33,868,706 modification (P00014) exercising the second one-year option period to a one-year contract (SPE1C1-17-D-B027) with two one-year option periods for the Multi-Purpose Hydration System (MPHS) and associated components. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is Washington, with a Sept. 24, 2020, performance completion date. Using military services are Army and Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2020 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Becton, Dickinson and Co., Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $23,686,374 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for medical surgical products. To date, this is the 14th contract awarded from standing solicitation SPM2D0-12-R-0004. This is a one-year base contract with nine one-year option periods. Location of performance is New Jersey, with a Sept. 28, 2020, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2020 warstopper funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE2D0-19-D-0007). The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $11,761,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SPRPA1-19-F-QM32) against a five year basic ordering agreement (SPE4A1-19-G-0013) for F/A-18 aircraft radomes. This was a sole source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), as stated in the Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Location of performance is Missouri, with a Sept. 30, 2021, performance completion date. Using customers are Navy and Foreign Military Sales. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 Navy working capital funds and Foreign Military Sales funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. IMTT Epic LLC, Savannah, Georgia, has been awarded a maximum $11,728,344 firm-fixed-price contract for contractor-owned contractor-operated services for storage and handling facilities capable of receiving, storing, protecting, maintaining quality and shipping U.S. government owned product. This was a competitive acquisition with one offer received. This is a four-year base contract with one five-year option period and an option to extend, not to exceed six months. Location of performance is Alabama, with a Sept. 30, 2023, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and other federal government agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia (SPE603-19-C-5009). American Water Operations & Maintenance LLC, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, has been awarded a maximum $11,503,080 modification (P00033) to a 50-year contract (SP0600-14-C-8290) for the water and wastewater operations and maintenance and the renewal and replacement monthly utility service charge. This is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Utah, with an Aug. 31, 2064, performance completion date. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded an estimated $10,680,018 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SPRPA1-19-F-QM30) against a five year basic ordering agreement (SPE4A1-19-G0013) for aircraft moveable canopies. This was a sole source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is a four-year three-month contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Missouri, with a Dec. 25, 2023, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 Navy working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ZOLL Medical Corp., Chelmsford, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $8,788,500 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for airworthy suction apparatuses under the Corporate Exigency Contract program. This was a competitive acquisition with two responses received. This is a one-year base contract with four one-year option periods. Location of performance is Massachusetts, with a Sept. 24, 2020, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2020 warstopper funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE2D1-19-D-0034). Petro Marine Services,* Seward, Alaska, has been awarded a maximum $8,652,127 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract for marine gas oil. This was a competitive acquisition with 41 responses received. This is a 60-month contract with one six-month option period. Location of performance is Alaska, with an Oct. 31, 2024, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2024 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia (SPE608-19-D-0371). Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded a maximum $7,930,951 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SPRPA1-19-F-M21T) against a five year basic ordering agreement (SPRPA1-16-G-001W) for H-1 aircraft yoke assemblies. This was a sole source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulations 6.302-1. This is a three-year eight-month contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Texas, with a May 31, 2022, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2022 Navy working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AIR FORCE Good Vocation, Macon, Georgia, has been awarded a maximum value of $35,000,000 requirements, indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support Air Force Material Command. This contract supports Robins Air Force Base-Wide custodial services. This contract provides for a one year basic contract, with four one-year annual ordering periods for a total period of performance of five years. Work will be performed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2024. This award is the result of a mandatory source acquisition in conjunction with Source America and AbilityOne. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance and Consolidated Sustainment Activity Group funds will be used and no funds have been obligated to the time of award. The Air Force Material Command Operational Contracting, Warner Robins, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8501-19-D-A018). Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $33,119,511 firm-fixed-price task order to deliver Windows 10 migration of the Ground Minuteman Automated Test Stand. Work will be performed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2023. This award is the result of a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $2,523,781 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, ICBM Contracting Division, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8204-19-F-0062). Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Fairborn, Ohio, has been awarded a $16,253,772 task order for natural gas distribution. Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2029. This award is the result of a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $1,353,792 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8601-19-F-A207). Sierra Nevada Corp., Sparks, Nevada, has been awarded a $14,586,963 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for Agent Based Core Development and Capabilities software. This contract will extend the Enterprise Engine Model-Oriented Development Environment to an open standards-based agent development architecture and framework and apply it to intelligence and defense use cases. Work will be performed at Sparks, Nevada; and Herndon, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 25, 2022. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation in the amount of $4,812,383 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity (FA8750-19-C-0139). The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, has been awarded an $11,986,000 modification (P00154) to previously awarded contract FA8625-11-C-6600 for radio frequency (RF) simulator equipment and support. This modification will provide for an RF simulator capable of integrating with the suite of equipment included in the ongoing MDF reprogramming center equipment effort. Work will be performed in Seattle, Washington; and Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and is expected to be completed by July 20, 2021. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement funds in the amount of $11,986,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity. The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida, has been awarded an $8,974,967 contract for the Peerless Operator Biologic Aptitude effort. This contract maps the complex and hierarchical networks of molecular expression circuits that drive physical, physiological, cognitive, behavioral, and team performance phenotypes considered key to operator success. The contract provides phenotypic assays and biological circuit feature sets predictive of operator and cadre performance as well as multilayered expression circuit analysis tools and platform. Work will be performed in Pensacola, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Princeton, New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; New York, New York; La Jolla, California; and Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by May 31, 2021. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and 15 offers were received. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $250,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-19-C-7944). Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Massachusetts, will be awarded a $7,961,184 modification (P00041) to previously awarded contract FA8204-13-F-0009 for the communications installation and sustainment support contract. The contract modification is to definitize a change order and pay actuals incurred for the modification to the design of the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network program update racks. This modification provides for the installation performed under the basic contract. Work will be performed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; and Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, and is expected to be completed by Feb. 28, 2021. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $62,018,401. Fiscal 2017 and 2018 missile procurement funds in the amount of $7,961,184 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity. General Electric Research, Niskayuna, New York, has been awarded a $7,202,223 contract for the Measuring Biological Aptitude effort. The contractor will develop a generalizable computational platform to assess warfighter aptitude and performance based on expression circuits that link macroscopic phenotypes to the underlying molecular biology of the individual. Work will be performed at Niskayuna, New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Storrs, Connecticut; and Bethesda, Maryland, and is expected to be complete by May 31, 2021. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and 15 offers were received. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $250,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-19-C-7945). DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY FCN Technology Solutions, Rockville, Maryland (HE125419F3015), has been awarded a delivery order for laptop computers, desktop computer, and computer carts in the amount of $11,659,268. The location of delivery will be U.S., European and the Pacific regions. The initial delivery is 90 days after receipt of award and covers 12 months. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds will be used to fund the initial order. This contract was competitively procured via a request for quote HE125419Q3018 under the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with four offers received. The contracting activity is the Department of Defense Education Activity, Alexandria, Virginia. (Awarded Sept. 23, 2019) *Small Business https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/1971381/source/GovDelivery/

  • 3 ways the Pentagon wants to make buying American weapons easier

    October 17, 2019 | International, Land

    3 ways the Pentagon wants to make buying American weapons easier

    By: Aaron Mehta WASHINGTON — America sold more than $55 billion in weapons abroad in fiscal 2019, but the man in charge of those efforts hopes to increase sales as he continues to tinker with the security cooperation system. Security cooperation has long been a foreign policy tool in America's pocket, but under the Trump administration, it “has been elevated to a tool of first resort for U.S. foreign policy,” Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, the head of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, said during a panel at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference. Since taking over at DSCA, Hooper has implemented a series of reforms aimed not only at speeding the process up, but shaving costs for potential buyers. He intends to keep that reform effort going in 2020. Here's how: Continue to cut surcharge costs. In June, DSCA dropped a surcharge on American defense goods sold abroad from 3.5 percent to 3.2 percent; later that year, the agency also cut a transportation administration fee. Both those charges are used to support DSCA operations, but some in the security cooperation process had argued the increased prices for customers would lead potential buyers to look to cheaper Russian or Chinese goods in the future. Hooper said that in 2020, DSCA plans to also cut the contract administration surcharge — applied to each FMS case to pay for contract quality assurance, management and audits — from 1.2 percent to 1 percent. “This will reduce the overall costs of FMS and could potentially save allies and partners 16.7 percent in CAS surcharges in this coming year,” Hooper said. Make it easier for customers to get custom weapon systems. The FMS system is set up to help sell weapons that are identical to systems already in use by the U.S. military. It's easier to move a package of Abrams tanks equipped with the same gear that multiple countries use than to push through a custom version with specific capabilities. But Hooper noted that partners are moving away from standard designs and are looking for systems “designed and tailored to meet their needs. Our system was not initially designed to process these types of systems, which increases time and cost in the U.S. response.” To help deal with that, DSCA established an “interagency non-program of record community of interest,” which involves all the agencies that have a say in the process, to figure out ways to make moving custom systems more plausible. The goal is to have a new pathway for moving those capabilities by 2020, which Hooper says will “reduce the time it takes to review request for non-program of record systems, to facilitate industry ability to compete in this global market.” Plan out commercial offsets. Many countries require offsets from industry for big foreign military sales. These offsets are essentially throw-in sweeteners for the buying country, put together from the industrial partner. In the past, these were often things like building a new library or school. But in the last two decades, some countries specifically requested high-end technologies or tech transfer to jump-start their domestic defense industries. Because offsets are negotiated between the industrial partner and the customer nation, the Pentagon, which serves as the in-between for an FMS case, often finds out about offsets only at the end of the process. But with offsets becoming more technological, those now require more review time, and so a deal can slow down while the relevant agencies approve the deal. Hooper hopes 2020 will see industry better inform DSCA of potential offsets early in the process so that last minute hangups can be avoided. “We continue to encourage our industry partners to inform the U.S. of potential offset requirements early on so that we can begin the necessary technology security foreign disclosure and policy reviews as early as possible,” Hooper said. https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2019/10/16/3-ways-the-pentagon-wants-to-make-buying-american-weapons-easier/

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