April 15, 2024 | International, Aerospace
F-35s to cost $2 trillion as Pentagon plans longer use, says watchdog
The military now plans to fly the F-35 through 2088, but inflation is taking an even deeper bite on the advanced jet.
August 21, 2020 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security
AIR FORCE
L3Harris Technologies Inc., Clifton, New Jersey, has been awarded a $55,000,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders for innovative research and development and to provide the Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory simulation and testbed capabilities required to rapidly develop, integrate, mature, insert and transition technologies/systems to meet critical/urgent warfighter mission requirements. Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 18, 2027. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and one offer was received. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $2,785,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-20-D-1960).
NAVY
B.L. Harbert International LLC, Birmingham, Alabama, was awarded a$23,160,000 firm-fixed-price task order N69450-20-F-0891 under a multiple award construction contract for entry control facility (ECF) upgrades at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans. The work to be performed provides for both on-site and off-site work to construct an ECF consisting of single story steel‐framed, reinforced concrete masonry units with standing seam metal roofs and pile foundations. It also constructs a reinforced concrete bridge to cross the Barriere Canal. The options, if exercised, provide for the visitor control center building and parking, commercial vehicle inspection office, canopy and parking and furniture, fixtures and equipment for the ECF, visitor control center and commercial vehicle inspection office. The task order also contained five unexercised options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative task order value to $26,175,624. Work will be performed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by January 2023. Fiscal 2020 military construction (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $23,160,000 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity (N69450-19-D-0908). (Awarded Aug. 13, 2020)
ARMY
CPP Construction, Gaithersburg, Maryland, was awarded a $9,627,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the McMillan backwash discharge to sewer construction project. Bids were solicited via the internet with seven received. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 23, 2021. Fiscal 2020 Washington aqueduct capital improvement funds in the amount of $9,627,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Maryland, is the contracting activity (W912DR-20-C-0033).
Curtin Maritime Corp.,* Long Beach, California, was awarded a $7,999,999 firm-fixed-price contract for to deepen the Port of Hueneme federal navigation channels in Ventura County, California. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Port Hueneme, California, with an estimated completion date of March 15, 2021. Fiscal 2020 civil Navy funds in the amount of $7,999,999 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, California, is the contracting activity (W912PL-20-C-0029).
*Small Business
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April 15, 2024 | International, Aerospace
The military now plans to fly the F-35 through 2088, but inflation is taking an even deeper bite on the advanced jet.
February 16, 2023 | International, Aerospace
This agreement follows the MoU signed on 8th July 2022 and stipulates the sharing of activities within the joint venture where both parties have agreed on an equivalent repartition
March 18, 2020 | International, Aerospace
By BARRY ROSENBERGon March 17, 2020 at 12:53 PM The urgency to protect troops, bases, and installations from drone attacks changed forever last year when a swarm of small, low-flying drones unleashed by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels targeted Saudi Arabian oil processing facilities. The attack was nothing less than a Pearl Harbor-type wake-up call for the need to counter unmanned aerial systems with defense technology commonly referred to as C-UAS. This Breaking Defense E-Brief examines U.S. Defense Department and global efforts to stay ahead of the threat. It examines sensor development to detect UAS, the use of artificial intelligence to identify targets, and defeat mechanisms ranging from jamming to lasers to knock them down. https://breakingdefense.com/2020/03/ebrief-drones-an-immediate-threat-dod-plans-rapid-acquisition-of-counter-uas-systems