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By: Aaron Mehta WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top acquisition official sees positive signs for the defense-industrial base, but remains concerned that enough cash may not be flowing to the smallest, most vulnerable companies in order to keep them open in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Out of 10,509 defense-related companies tracked by the Defense Contract Management Agency, 93 are currently closed — a number that has improved by 13 since April 20, according to Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment. Notably, the number of companies that have closed and reopened jumped by 73 since April 20 — “the first time we have seen reopening numbers larger than the number of closures” since the crisis began, Lord told reporters Thursday. Of the 11,413 companies tracked by the Defense Logistics Agency, 437 are closed, with 237 having closed and reopened. That's an improvement of almost 100 companies from the April 20 numbers. Lord credited a mix of factors for the improved numbers, including some states appearing to have reached their estimated peak in coronavirus cases and thus opening themselves up again; “really good proactive actions” by companies to create a hygienic space for work; and shared experiences from other companies who have found ways to keep working despite the pandemic However, Lord still expects the pandemic to impact major defense programs. On April 20, she warned that top programs could face an approximate three-month impact. She reiterated that timetable Thursday but stressed she is largely looking at a “slowdown” rather than a “delay” in major programs. “What we are seeing as a result of illness or inability to travel: We see efficiency issues. So we are not physically able to get contractors sometimes overseas to conduct inspections,” Lord explained. “So we have somewhat of a slowdown in our ability to accomplish tasks. We are finding workarounds for that, versus just saying we're delaying doing something. We do not look at delaying things; we are looking at working through the issues, which sometimes cannot be executed with the same efficiency we previously had.” “We think we're learning how to work in this new environment and get back up to rate, if you will, in areas where we didn't, but right now that is our best estimate and we are working, obviously, to minimize impacts,” she added. The Pentagon has pushed out $3 billion in increased cash flow under its coronavirus-related progress payment plan, which increased upfront payment to contractors from 80 percent of cost to 90 percent for large businesses, and from 90 percent to 95 percent for small businesses. The goal for department officials: getting cash into the hands of prime contractors, who can then quickly provide funds to their subcontractors and other small businesses, who Lord has consistently identified as the most vulnerable parts of the defense-industrial base. In both her April 20 press appearance and Thursday's event, Lord praised Lockheed Martin for publicly committing to give early payments to subcontractors in order to keep them open. On March 27, the company announced it would push $50 million down toward small companies most at risk; that has since increased to $450 million. But, Lord acknowledged, other companies have not been as open with where those Pentagon relief funds are going. That's something she'd like to see change. “I believe that the major primes are flowing down, they've committed. But I always like to trust, yet verify,” Lord said. “So I encourage all of those companies to be as transparent and forthcoming as they can be because we have a responsibility to the taxpayer, as well as the mid-tiers and the small companies, to make sure actions we take at the prime level do go down all the way through the chain.” When asked if she believes the primes are being transparent with her office about where their cash is going, Lord said, “I believe they are,” but added: “I need to rely on CEOs of major primes to come forth with that data.” https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2020/04/30/defense-industry-shutdowns-trend-upward-but-lord-watching-cash-flow/

DALLAS, April 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) received a $6.07 billion contract from the U.S. Army for the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and associated equipment, to be delivered across FY21, FY22 and FY23 contract years. The contract calls for the production and delivery of PAC-3 MSE interceptors, launcher modification kits, associated equipment and non-recurring efforts to support the United States and global customers. "This contract demonstrates our customer's continued confidence in our ability to deliver unmatched Hit-to-Kill technology that defeats the ever-expanding global threats of today and tomorrow," said Scott Arnold, vice president, Integrated Air & Missile Defense at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "PAC-3 MSE is one of the most capable multi-mission interceptors, enabling our customers to defend against advanced tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft." To meet customer demand and increase production capacity, Lockheed Martin is currently building an 85,000-square-foot expansion at the Camden, Arkansas, facility where PAC-3 MSE interceptors are assembled. The building is expected to be complete by fourth quarter 2021, with operations beginning in first quarter 2022. Ten nations – the United States, Qatar, Japan, Romania, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Korea, Bahrain and Germany – have signed agreements to procure PAC-3 MSE interceptors. For additional information, visit our website. About Lockheed Martin Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 110,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. SOURCE Lockheed Martin https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2020-04-30-U-S-Army-Awards-6-07-Billion-Contract-to-Lockheed-Martin-for-PAC-3-MSE-Production-Associated-Equipment

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND American Roll On Roll Off Carrier Group Inc., Parsippany, New Jersey, has been awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustments, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (HTC711-20-D-R044) in the amount of $7,211,331,984 in the procurement of the Global Household Goods Contract. The contract provides relocation services which includes door-to-door moving services during service members' permanent change of station moves. The contractor will integrate a network of household goods service providers from across the existing sphere of the commercial moving industry to support Department of Defense (DOD) families, and will ensure a minimum of 40% of the total acquisition value of the domestic work performed flows down to subcontracted small businesses. Four principal subcontractors are Unigroup, Suddath Companies, Atlas World Group and The Pasha Group. The contract fundamentally restructures DOD's relationship with the household goods industry in order to improve access to—and management of—quality capacity to meet peak demand and enable the department to affix the accountability and responsibility lacking in today's program. Work is to be performed domestically and internationally as specified on each individual task order. The contract transition period and base period of performance is from May 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2024; the first task order for moving services is planned for issue Feb. 1, 2021. Fiscal 2020 transportation working capital funds were obligated at award. This contract was a competitive acquisition and seven offers were received. After evaluating each competing proposal in accordance with the request for proposal criteria, U.S. Transportation Command selected American Roll On Roll Off Carrier Group Inc. because their proposal provided the best service for the best value for service members, DOD civilians and their families. U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity. ARMY Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $6,068,344,959 firm-fixed-price contract for incidental services, hardware, facilities, equipment and all technical, planning, management, manufacturing and testing efforts to produce Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3 missiles, missile segment enhancement configuration and associated ground support equipment and spares. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama; Camden, Arkansas; Ocala, Florida; Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Grand Prairie and Lufkin, Texas; and Archbald, Pennsylvania, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2027. Fiscal 2020 missile procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $6,068,344,959 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-20-C-0023). AeroVironment Inc,* Simi Valley, California, was awarded a $75,930,901 hybrid (cost-no-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price) contract to procure the Switchblade Weapon System. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Simi Valley, California, with an estimated completion date of April 29, 2023. Fiscal 2019 missile procurement (Army) funds; and 2020 procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $75,930,901 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-20-C-0024). MVL USA Inc., Lansing, Michigan, was awarded a $75,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for sustainment, restoration and modernization projects at various installations in Kuwait. Bids were solicited via the internet with 11 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 29, 2025. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Winchester, Virginia, is the contracting activity (W912ER-20-D-0002). L-3 Fuzing and Ordnance Systems Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, was awarded a $64,971,714 modification (P00015) to contract W15QKN-17-C-0024 to purchase 169,738 Option V M734A1 multi-option fuzes for mortars; 164,201 Option V M783 point detonating/delay fuzes; and for non-recurring engineering costs. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2022. Fiscal 2010, 2018, 2019 and 2020 other procurement (Army) funds; 2010 Afghanistan security forces (Army) funds; and 2010 counter-ISIS train and equip (Army) funds totaling $64,971,714 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity. Sustainable Design Consortium Inc.,* Baltimore, Maryland (W911SA-20-D-2008); AC Lopez Construction Inc.,* Oceanside, California (W911SA-20-D-2009); MIK Construction Inc.,* Whittier, California (W911SA-20-D-2010); Souza Construction Inc.,* Farmersville, California (W911SA-20-D-2011); and Site Work Solutions,* Denver, Colorado (W911SA-20-D-2012), will compete for each order of the $25,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide all parts, labor, tools, equipment, materials, transportation and supervision necessary to perform design-build projects for the 63rd Readiness Division, Mountain View, California. Bids were solicited via the internet with nine received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2025. The 419th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, is the contracting activity. Midwest Construction Co.,* Nebraska City, Nebraska, was awarded a $20,219,550 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of hardpoints and placement of riprap upper-bank paving at various locations on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. 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 April 30, 2024. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis, Tennessee, is the contracting activity (W912EQ-20-D-0005). IBM, Reston, Virginia, was awarded an $18,825,414 modification (2T0128) to contract W91QUZ-06-D-0010 for information technology services and support on behalf of the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems. Work will be performed in Radford, Virginia, with an estimated completion date of April 13, 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Army) funds; other procurement (Army) funds; and research, development, test and evaluation (Army) funds in the amount of $18,825,414 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity. L3 Technologies Inc., Londonderry, New Hampshire, was awarded a $17,135,000 firm-fixed-price contract for illuminator infrared parts. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Londonderry, New Hampshire, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2020. Fiscal 2010 Army working capital funds in the amount of $17,135,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W56HZV-20-F-0308). West Coast JV LLC, Coos Bay, Oregon, was awarded a $12,000,000 modification (P00004) to contract W911SA-17-D-2004 for sustainment, modernization and improvement projects for the 88th Army Reserve Centers throughout the Motor City Region. Bids were solicited via the internet with seven received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2021. The 419th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, is the contracting activity. NAVY Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wisconsin, is awarded a $795,116,483 fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract for detail design and construction (DD&C) of the FFG(X) class of guided-missile frigates, with additional firm-fixed-price and cost reimbursement line items. The contract with options will provide for the delivery of up to 10 FFG(X) ships, post-delivery availability support, engineering and class services, crew familiarization, training equipment and provisioned item orders. If all options are exercised, the cumulative value of this contract will be $5,576,105,441. Work will be performed at multiple locations, including Marinette, Wisconsin (52%); Boston, Massachusetts (10%); Crozet, Virginia (8%); New Orleans, Louisiana (7%); New York, New York (6%); Washington, D.C. (6%), Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (3%), Prussia, Pennsylvania (3%), Minneapolis, Minnesota (2%); Cincinnati, Ohio (1%); Atlanta, Georgia (1%); and Chicago, Illinois (1%). The base contract includes the DD&C of the first FFG(X) ship and separately priced options for nine additional ships. The FFG(X) will have multi-mission capability to conduct air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, and electronic warfare and information operations. FFG(X) represents the evolution of the Navy's small surface combatant, with increased lethality, survivability and improved capability to support the National Defense Strategy across the full range of military operations in the current security environment. Work is expected to be complete by May 2035, if all options are exercised. Fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $795,116,483 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website and four offers were received. The Navy conducted this competition using a tradeoff process to determine the proposal representing the best value, based on the evaluation of non-price factors in conjunction with price. The Navy made the best value determination by considering the relative importance of evaluation factors as set forth in the solicitation, where the non-price factors of design and design maturity and objective performance (to achieve warfighting capability) were approximately equal and each more important than remaining factors. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-20-C-2300). Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded an $187,469,732 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract action for long lead time material and associated engineering and design activities in support of one Amphibious Assault Ship Replacement (LHA(R)) Flight 1 Ship and LHA 9. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (33%); Beloit, Wisconsin (23%); Brunswick, Georgia (21%); King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (11%); York, Pennsylvania (10%); Brampton, Ontario, Canada (1%); and Hurahan, Louisiana (1%). Work to be performed is the procurement of long lead time material for LHA 9, the fourth LHA (R) America Class and the second LHA(R) Flight 1 ship. Work is expected to be complete by February 2024. Fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion, (Navy) funding in the amount of $187,469,732 will be obligated at award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-20-C-2437). Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $129,189,887 modification to a firm-fixed-price delivery order N00019-19-F-2512 against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-14-G-0020. This modification procures the kits required for modification and retrofit activities of delivered Air Force and government of Norway F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Work will be performed in Nashua, New Hampshire (85%); Fort Worth, Texas (14%); and Baltimore, Maryland (1%). Work is expected to be complete by April 2025. Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $107,814,159; and non-Department of Defense (DOD) participant funds in the amount of $21,375,728 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Air Force ($107,814,159; 83%); and non-DOD participants ($21,375,728; 17%). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded an $112,000,000 modification (P00001) to previously awarded, fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract N00019-19-C-0019. This modification exercises options to procure 16 infrared search and track Block II low rate initial production IV units; four for the Navy and 12 for the government of Australia. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida (73%); and St. Louis, Missouri (27%), and is expected to be complete by June 2023. Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $28,000,000; and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $84,000,000 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. Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded an $89,521,608 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N00019-20-F-0571) against basic ordering agreement N00019-19-G-0008. This order provides program management, nonrecurring engineering, recurring engineering, site support and touch labor in support of modification and retrofit activities for delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft air systems for the for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense (DOD) participants and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be complete by December 2020. Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $33,909,821; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $23,817,018; non-DOD participant funds in the amount of $18,707,572; and FMS funds in the amount of $13,087,196 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Air Force ($33,909,821; 37.9%); Marine Corps (16,993,891; 18.9%); the Navy ($6,823,127; 7.7%); non-DOD participants ($18,707,572; 20.9%); and FMS customers ($13,087,196; 14.6%). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland is the contracting activity. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, is awarded $84,046,650 for a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical and program support for the Naval Information Forces Command, Command Information Office directorate in Suffolk, Virginia. Work will be performed in Suffolk, Virginia, and includes strategic planning and program management support; information environment readiness support; information warfare enterprise support; information technology service management support; cybersecurity and information assurance support; and information technology portfolio management support for the Naval Networking Environment strategy. Work is expected to be complete by August 2025. If the option is exercised, the ordering period will be complete by February 2026. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $75,000 will be obligated to fund the contract's minimum amount and funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract will include a five-year base ordering period with an additional six-month ordering period option pursuant of Federal Acquisition Regulations 52.217-8 - option to extend services, which if exercised, will bring the total ceiling value to $92,900,000. This contract was competitively procured with the solicitation posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website, with four offers received. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center, Norfolk, Contracting Department, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00189-20-D-0012). Air New Zealand Gas Turbines (ANZGT), Auckland, New Zealand (N64498-20-D-4007); and MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MTU), Ludwigsfelde, Germany (N64498-20-D-4008), are awarded a $70,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract with firm-fixed-price task order provisions for LM2500 single shank turbine gas generators. The contracts awarded to ANZGT and MTU are not to exceed a combined total of $70,000,000. Work will be performed in Auckland, New Zealand; and Ludwigsfelde, Germany. This requirement is for commercial depot level overhaul of Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command and Foreign Military Navy LM2500 single shank turbine gas generators, national stock number 2S 2835-01-237-1153 for the 2SCog/Gas Turbines Life Cycle Support Branch, Code 423. The contractors shall possess a current, valid copy of the GE Level IV license or, in the alternative, provide detailed information addressing the requirements in the solicitation. Work is expected to be complete by April 2026. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the total amount of $1,000 ($500 minimum guarantee per contract) will be obligated at time of award via individual task orders and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These contracts were competitively procured using full and open competition via the Beta.SAM.gov website and two offers were received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity. Didlake Inc., Manassas, Virginia, is awarded a $67,703,608 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for annual custodial services at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Yorktown, and Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY). All work will be performed in Portsmouth, Virginia (50%); Virginia Beach, Virginia (37%); and Yorktown, Virginia (13%). The work to be performed provides for annual custodial services such as the management, supervision, tools, materials, supplies, labor and transportation services necessary to perform custodial services for office space, restrooms and other types of rooms at the NAS Oceana, NWS Yorktown, NNSY and their outlying clinics in the Hampton Roads area. Work is expected to be complete by April 2025. No funds will be obligated at time of award. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $13,109,319 for recurring and non-recurring work will be obligated on individual task orders issued during the base period. This contract was procured as a sole-source AbilityOne requirement. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N40085-20-D-0046). Duke Energy Progress, Raleigh, North Carolina, is awarded $44,267,839 for firm-fixed-price task order N40085-20-F-9952 under a General Services Administration area-wide contract for the implementation of eight energy conservation measures at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and provides for the implementation of cost-effective energy conservation measures to include: lighting system improvements; water and sewer conservation systems; heating, ventilation and air conditioning improvements, controls and energy management control system upgrades; electrical systems upgrades; modernization of the water/wastewater supervisory control and data acquisition system; water and wastewater efficiencies; conversion of lift stations to gravity flow; and LED light conversions. The primary goal of the project is to reduce energy consumption and provide more resilient and sustainable facility infrastructure. Work is expected to be complete by October 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Marine Corps) contract funds in the amount of $44,267,839 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 authorizes agencies to use appropriations, private financing, or a combination to comply with its requirements for utility energy service contracts for evaluations/project implementation. The contract was procured under the authority of Title 10 U.S. Code Section 2304(c)(5), which expressly authorizes or requires that the acquisition be made through another agency or from a specific source, as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-5. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (GS-00P-14-BSD-1055). Duke Energy Progress, Raleigh, North Carolina, is awarded a $34,337,517 modification under firm-fixed-price task order N40085-19-F-9960 for the implementation of eight energy conservation measures at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Work will be performed in Camp Lejeune, and provides for the implementation of energy conservation measures to include: street lighting light-emitting diode (LED) and controls retrofit; facility LED retrofits; high voltage supervisory controls and data acquisition system; overhead to underground power line conversion at Paradise Point; heating, ventilation, air conditioning renovation and dedicated outdoor air system; airfield weather beacon lightning indicator lighting system; support facility integration to energy management control system; cybersecurity support for metering and lighting controls; and substation repairs. The primary goal of the project is to reduce energy consumption and provide more resilient and sustainable facility infrastructure. Work is expected to be complete by December 2021. The total task order value will be $38,633,517. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Marine Corps) contract funds in the amount of $34,337,517 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (GS-00P-14-BSD-1055). AECOM Management Services Inc., Germantown, Maryland, is awarded a $27,488,581 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract action for operations, maintenance, engineering and management services in support of combined tactical training range systems and equipment. This contract includes an option, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $36,698,171. Work will be performed in Fallon, Nevada (30%); Havelock, North Carolina (15%); Virginia Beach, Virginia (14%); Yuma, Arizona (14%); Altoona, Florida (5%); Beaufort, South Carolina (4%); Key West, Florida (4%); Manns Harbor, North Carolina (3%); Jacksonville, Florida (3%); Whidbey Island, Washington (3%); El Centro, California (2%); Miramar, California (2%); and Lemoore, California (1%). Work is expected to be complete by August 2020. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $13,627,486 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), and only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, Norco, California, is the contracting activity (N64267-20-C-0058). AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Maryland, is awarded a $16,258,620 firm-fixed-price contract for the acquisition of 159 components consisting of nine line items in support of the Navy electronic consolidated automated support system. All work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Maryland, and is expected to be complete by May 2022. Working capital (Navy) funds in the amount of $16,258,620 will be obligated at time of award, and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One source was solicited for this non-competitive, sole-source requirement in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, and one offer was received. The Naval Supply Systems Command, Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00393-20-C-P023). Kratos Technology & Training Solutions Inc., San Diego, California, is awarded $16,107,305 for a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supporting all levels of In-Kingdom Royal Saudi Naval Forces training, logistical and advisory services in support of the Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity. Work will be performed in various locations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (97%); and San Diego, California (3%). The base period of performance is expected to be complete by November 2020; if options are exercised, work will be complete by February 2021. The contract will include a six-month base period with an additional three-month period option and a 15-day period for demobilization which, if exercised, will bring the total value to $25,629,235. Saudi Arabian funds in the amount of $16,107,305 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Saudi Arabian (100%) funds will be used under the Foreign Military Sales program. One company was solicited for this sole-sourced requirement under authority 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(2), with one offer received. The Naval Supply Systems Command, Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, Contracting Department, Philadelphia Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00189-20-C-Z023). General Dynamics, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is awarded a $14,639,657 cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-18-C-2404 to exercise an option for the accomplishment of post-shakedown availability-related efforts in support of the LHA 7 amphibious assault ship. Work will be performed in San Diego, California. This modification covers engineering, planning, management, labor and material in support of the post-shakedown availability (PSA) of LHA 7, the second Amphibious Assault Ship Replacement (LHA(R)) Flight 0 ship. The base contract was competitively procured on the basis of full and open competition, and three offers were received. Work is expected to be complete by March 2021. Fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) post-delivery funding of $1,000,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. L3 Technologies Inc. (doing business as L3 Henschel), Ayers, Massachusetts, is awarded a $13,479,434 requirements contract for a broad range of parts and services to maintain shipboard L3 electrical and electronic control monitoring systems and equipment on Military Sealift Command vessels. Work will be performed at locations worldwide. The ordering period is scheduled to commence May 2020, and is expected to be complete by April 2025. No funding is required to execute this requirements contract. This contract was sole-sourced, with a proposal solicited to the sole-sourced firm via the Federal Business Opportunities website, and one offer was received from the sole source. The Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N32205-20-D-6714). Tetra Tech Inc., Norfolk, Virginia, is awarded $8,189,176 to increase the maximum dollar value of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award fee task order modification WE13 for the Site 1 Regional Groundwater-Drilling and Sampling Program at the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (NWIRP) Bethpage, New York. After award of this modification, the total cumulative task order value will be $20,724,268. Work will be performed in Bethpage. The work provides for complete specific environmental restoration activities related to the ongoing investigation of contaminated groundwater originating from the former NWIRP and Northrop Grumman facilities located in Bethpage. It also provides additional groundwater sampling and monitoring to assess plume movement and concentration changes to ensure compliance with environmental agency requirements. Work is expected to be complete by April 2022, and the term of the task order is not to exceed 24 months. Fiscal 2020 environmental restoration (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $8,189,176 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N62470-16-D-6008). Unified Business Technologies Inc.,* Troy, Michigan, is awarded a $7,453,778 modification to firm-fixed-price task order N40085-19-F-3500 to exercise Option One under a SeaPort Next Generation contract for engineering and program management for capital improvement requirements with various design and construction periods at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. All work will be performed in Jacksonville, North Carolina (67%); and Havelock, North Carolina (33%). The work to be performed provides for various construction engineering disciplines and administrative support services to assist in completing various capital improvement projects. Work is expected to be complete by August 2021. After award of this option, the total cumulative task order value will be $14,833,655. This option period is from Sept. 1, 2020, to Aug. 31, 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $7,453,778 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00178-19-D-8762). MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a non-competitive, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ceiling value of $618,000,000. Under this follow-on contract, the contractor will provide terminal high altitude area defense product support, which includes: logistics performance requirements; maintenance; supply; training and training support; packaging, handling, storage and transportation; forward stationing for theater support; logistics information capabilities; product assurance; safety; missile support; security; and engineering services. The first task order in the amount of $10,363,415 for battery support will be issued at time of award. The work will be performed in Dallas, Texas; Sunnyvale, California; Huntsville, Alabama; and Troy, Alabama. The ordering period is from April 30, 2020, through April 29, 2025. One offer was solicited and one offer was received. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $6,333,198 will be obligated under the first task order. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ0853-20-D-0001). DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY General Dynamics Mission Systems, Taunton, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $400,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, prospective-price-redetermination contract for production of spare parts in support of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment system. 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 five-year base contract with one five-year option period. Location of performance is Massachusetts, with an April 29, 2025, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (SPRBL1-20-D-0043). Atlantic Diving Supply Inc.,* doing business as ADS Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been awarded a maximum $200,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for commercial shelters. This is a one-year base contract with three one-year option periods. Other contracts are expected to be awarded under this solicitation (SPE1C1-18-R-0003), and awardees will compete for a portion of the maximum dollar value. Location of performance is Virginia, with an April 30, 2021, performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2021 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE1C1-20-D-1259). Synergy Logistics Services II LLC, North Kansas City, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $57,999,169 hybrid fixed-price-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursement-no-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for warehousing services. This was a competitive acquisition with nine responses received. This is a five-year contract, inclusive of a 90-day phase-in period, with no option periods. Locations of performance are Missouri and North Carolina, with an April 30, 2025, performance completion date. Using customer is Defense Logistics Agency. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania (SP3300-20-D-5001). L3 Technologies Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, has been awarded a maximum $49,999,995 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for production of spare parts in support of the AN/TSC-156D Tactical Super High Frequency Satellite Terminal (Phoenix). 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 five-year base contract with one five-year option period. Location of performance is Utah, with an April 29, 2025, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (SPRBL1-20-D-0027). Flyers Enterprises Inc., Alpine, California, has been awarded a minimum $45,562,941 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract for aviation turbine fuel. This was a competitive acquisition with 39 responses received. This is a 54-month contract with one six-month option period. Location of performance is California, with a Sept. 30, 2024, performance completion date. Using customer is National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2024 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia (SPE605-20-D-4520). Eaton Aeroquip LLC, Jackson, Michigan, has been awarded a maximum $39,073,093 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for hoses, hose assemblies, couplings and valve spare parts. 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 five-year contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Michigan, with an April 29, 2025, performance completion date. Using military services are Navy and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Columbus, Ohio (SPE7MX-20-D-0071). Honeywell International Inc., North Clearwater, Florida, has been awarded a maximum $11,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase and repair of one spare part supporting the AN/TPQ-50 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar System. 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 five-year base contract with one five-year option period. Location of performance is Florida, with an April 29, 2025, performance completion date. Using customer is Department of Defense. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 Army working capital funds and other procurement funds as necessary. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland (SPRBL1-20-D-0033). AIR FORCE MCR Federal LLC, McLean, Virginia, has been awarded a $24,997,206 firm-fixed-price contract to deliver a software development and information technology operations environment to support Space Command and Control Division under the Cross Mission and Ground Communications Enterprise Corps. This contract award provides support for the creation and implementation of the development operations goal of increasing the velocity of software delivery. Work will be performed in in El Segundo, California, and is expected to be completed by April 30, 2025. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $24,997,206. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $750,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity (FA8806-20-F-0002). Tecolote Research Inc., Goleta, California, has been awarded a $24,980,243 firm-fixed-price contract to deliver a software development and information technology operations environment to support Space Command and Control Division under the Cross Mission and Ground Communications Enterprise Corps. This contract award provides support for the creation and implementation of the development operations goal of increasing the velocity of software delivery. Work will be performed in El Segundo, California, and is expected to be completed by April 30, 2025. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $24,980,243. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,234,956 are being obligated at the time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity (FA8806-20-F-0001). Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $15,598,152 firm-fixed price contract modification (P00023) to contract FA8675-18-C-0003 for the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile program obsolescence. This modification provides for a life of type procurement of known obsolete components in support of production and sustainment through the program of record. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2025. This contract involves unclassified Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, Qatar, Romania and Spain. Fiscal 2019 missile procurement funds (Air Force) in the amount of $4,574,526; fiscal 2019 weapons procurement funds (Navy) in the amount of $4,978,960; and FMS funds in the amount of $6,044,666 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity. Raytheon Technologies, Sterling, Virginia, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $7,369,100 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00087) to contract FA8730-18-F-0136 for Air Operations Center (AOC) weapon system (WS) long-term modification and sustainment. The contractor shall provide the program management, integration, test, systems engineering, training and other related modification activities to ensure the AOC WS remains interoperable and supportable through the development and integration of new capabilities and upgrades. Work will be performed in Boston, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2020. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $4,800,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The total cumulative value of the contract is $653,986,234. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity. DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY Bright Ceramic Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, California, was awarded a $9,979,634 firm-fixed-price contract for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research project. Work will be performed in Palo Alto, California, with an expected completion date of June 2022. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $8,421,282; and fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $1,558,352 are being obligated at time of award. The contract was a sole-source acquisition. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR0011-20-C-0102). Stealth Software Technologies Inc., Los Angeles, California, was awarded an $8,539,791 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a research project under the Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) program. The SIEVE program will use zero knowledge proofs to enable the verification of capabilities relevant to the Department of Defense without revealing the sensitive details associated with those capabilities. Work will be performed in Los Angeles, California (71%); Evanston, Illinois (5%); College Station, Texas (5%); Ann Arbor, Michigan (5%); Burlington, Vermont (5%); and Rochester, New York (9%), with an expected completion date of May 2024. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $1,267,480 is being obligated at time of award. This contract was a competitive acquisition under an open broad agency announcement and nine offers were received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR001120C0087). *Small business https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2171906/source/GovDelivery/

By Connie Lee The COVID-19 pandemic is putting particular stress on the Army's second- and third-tier suppliers, said the service's secretary April 30. The Army is racing to ensure its manufacturing supply chain is able to stay afloat amid economic challenges posed by the virus, said Ryan McCarthy. “Some of these are small companies [that have] 15,000 people, and you get a couple people sick, you shut the whole company down,” he said during a virtual event hosted by Brookings Institution. The supply chain will "be a challenge for us months and months ahead.” The pandemic is also hurting overseas manufacturing in areas such as Mexico, Europe and East Asia, where the Army has little influence, he noted. The service is working with the State Department to figure out how to keep overseas workers employed and keep the supply chain running, he said. “We are limited in our ability to affect them and get them back to work,” McCarthy said. “It presents challenges that are far beyond our reach and ... influence, so we're going to have some real heart-to-hearts with manufacturers going forward.” Despite these issues, the Army is continuing to prioritize modernization, he said. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said the service is moving forward with weapons assessments, noting that it was recently able to conduct a successful hypersonic weapons test. As part of its plan to keep up with great power competition, the service is pursuing 31 new signature systems. “Over half of our procurement budget is going towards these new weapon systems,” McCarthy said. “We've got to put them into formation. Much of our iron is 50 years old. That probably is the prime area where we put the most energy.” Meanwhile, the Army is collaborating with other organizations in search of a vaccine. There are 10 to 15 top potential vaccine candidates worldwide that are in various stages of maturity, McCarthy said during a Pentagon briefing the same day. To speed up the timeline, the service plans on investing in the ones that seem to be moving the fastest, he noted. “We can double down and invest in the fastest horse, if you will, in this 15 candidate race, and then that compresses the timeframe that will ultimately get you to the answer and bring a vaccine to life,” he said. “You'll hear ranges on how fast it can go.” Some of these vaccines are currently in human trials, with the bulk of the work slated for summer and early fall, he noted. “It's moving faster than probably any point in history because of the extraordinary collaboration that's going on today,” he said. However, this may involve accepting some risks in the process, McConville noted at the briefing. “You can save time by taking risks,” he said. “You may get ready to produce something, and that horse may not get to the final race and that may not be the most efficient use of money, but by taking risks, you can really move things very, very quickly.” https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/4/30/covid-hurting-army-small-businesses

Jen DiMascio The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold. One way has been to accelerate up-front progress payments to prime contractors. Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, announced April 30 that in this week alone, the Defense Department processed more than $1.2 billion out of $3 billion to defense contractors in accelerated payments. The acceleration was enabled by a March 20 memo which lifted the amount that large contractors could receive before delivering a contracted item from 80%-90% and for small contractors from 90%-95%. Lord singled out Lockheed Martin for praise for committing to speed $450 million to its supply chain. As those payments are being released, the U.S. Air Force is studying the needs of small suppliers and charting the flow of those progress payments through the industrial base, service officials said during an April 29 Aviation Week MRO webinar. After the first COVID-19 stimulus package was released, Col. Kevin Nalette, vice director, 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, Air Force Sustainment Center, said his office was asked to find out how much money small companies would need to maintain a constant flow of work to continue to support the defense sector. They had two days to ask contractors–the third- and fourth-tier “mom-and-pop shops” whose work becomes an end item purchased somewhere up the stream. The majority of defense vendors do more work–55% or more–for commercial aviation businesses. “As soon as the commercial sector shut down, we had an amazing ability. We now had their full attention,” Nalette said. “When you come to their attention with basically free cash, it's amazing what you can get done.” Tony Baumann, director of contracting for the Air Force Support Center, is capturing data about where the money and progress payments are going. And he is tracking some 2,700 contracts to find out the COVID-related constraints they are operating under. “My guys talked to all of them,” Baumann said, and they stay in contact so that the Air Force knows when a supplier needs to shut down to clean a business. Then Nalette's group is looking at whether that closure might impact deliveries of critical supplies or inventory. That has caused the Air Force to rewrite service contracts using new authorities granted by the CARES Act COVID-relief bill passed by Congress to keep multiple teams of service personnel on contract so that one group can work and another can be ready to backfill so that no group would experience a 14-day interruption, Baumann said. All of those changes are being tracked and coded based on COVID-19, he added. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/budget-policy-operations/how-pentagon-reaching-small-suppliers

ARMY FN America LLC, Columbia, South Carolina (W56HZV-20-D-0024); and Colt's Manufacturing Co. LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut (W56HZV-20-D-0025), will compete for each order of the $383,311,941 firm-fixed-price contract to provide M16A4 rifles for Foreign Military Sales (Afghanistan, Grenada, Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal). Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 28, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity. Travis Association for the Blind, Austin, Texas, was awarded a $12,483,935 modification (P00004) to contract W56HZV-18-C-0067 to support repairing, cleaning, warehousing and distribution of organizational clothing and individual equipment. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Austin, Texas, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $12,483,935 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity. Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, was awarded a $9,933,000 firm-fixed-price contract (W911QY-20-P-0154) for up to 333,000 COVID-19 assays. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, California, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $9,933,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Awarded April 27, 2020) Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Washington, was awarded a $7,675,998 modification (P00002) to contract W912P8-20-C-0010 to exercise option hours for the dredge Glenn Edwards. Work will be performed in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2020. Fiscal 2020 civil operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $7,675,998 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, Louisiana, is the contracting activity. DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY American Water Military Services LLC, Camden, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $70,000,000 modification (P00001) to a 50-year contract (SP0600-19-C-8327) with no option periods for additional wastewater utility system construction, repair and replacement work at Target Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant, U.S. Army Garrison West Point, New York. This is a fixed-price contract. Locations of performance are New Jersey and New York, with a Sept. 30, 2023, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2016 through 2020 Army military construction funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Raytheon Co., Andover, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $13,688,190 firm-fixed-price, one-time purchase contract for radomes. 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 two-year base contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Massachusetts, with a March 31, 2022, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (SPRRA2-20-C-0023). UPDATE: Werres Corp., Frederick, Maryland (SPE8EC-20-D-0058) has been added as an awardee to the multiple-award contract for commercial material handling equipment, issued against solicitation SPE8EC-17-R-0002 and awarded June 9, 2017. AIR FORCE Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $32,780,869 fixed-price-incentive-fee, undefinitized contract action for StormBreaker Lot 6 Contract Line Identification Number 6001 - All Up Round (AUR); Simmonds Precision Product and multicut. This contract provides for Simmonds Precision Product and multicut material and labor for parts used in a StormBreaker AUR. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 21, 2022. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2020 missile procurement funds in the amount of $6,612,745 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8672-20-C-0005). (Awarded April 28, 2020) NAVY Physical Optics Corp.,* Torrance, California, is awarded a $17,783,583 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N68335-20-F-0001) against previously issued basic ordering agreement N68335-19-G-0041. This order provides non-recurring engineering for the production, test, integration and delivery of the T-45 Head-Up Display (HUD) and its associated internal software. Work will be performed in Torrance, California, and also provides airworthiness substantiation and supports the joint software support activity lab and government flight test demonstration for the HUD. This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III for research and development performed under the SBIR Topic Numbers N091-003, N152-096 and 04-A-A1.01. Work is expected to be complete by April 2022. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,166,435; fiscal 2019 fiscal aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $16,387,148; and fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $230,000 will be obligated at time of award, $230,000 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. Vectrus J&J Facilities Support LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is awarded a $17,090,690 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for base operating support (BOS) services at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Patuxent River, Maryland; Webster Field, St. Inigoes, Maryland; Solomons Annex, Solomons, Maryland; and Point Lookout, St. Mary's County, Maryland. The maximum dollar value including the base period and seven option periods is $190,007,916. All work will be performed in Calvert County (8%) and St. Mary's County (92%), Maryland. The BOS services to be performed include: general information, management and administration, airfield facilities, facilities support including facility management; facility investment; integrated solid waste management; other (swimming pools); special events; and utility management, wastewater, water and environmental services. Work is expected to be complete by June 2028. No funds will be obligated at time of award. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $17,090,690 for recurring work will be obligated on an individual task order issued during the base period. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, and seven proposals were received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N62470-20-D-0009). CFM International, West Chester, Ohio, is awarded a $13,582,486 modification (P00172) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-18-C-1071). This modification exercises an option to procure one CFM56-7B27AE commercial-off-the-shelf engine for the government of the United Kingdom. Work will be performed in Villaroche, France (50%); and Durham, North Carolina (50%), and is expected to be complete by April 2021. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $13,582,486 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. DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc., Chicago, Illinois, is being awarded a $9,940,010 hybrid-fixed-price, time and materials schedule task order for whole facilities maintenance at various commissaries located in the U.S. and its territories. The task order is for a one-year base period beginning July 1, 2020. The task order includes four one-year option periods. If all options are exercised, the task order will be completed June 30, 2025. Quoters were solicited on the General Services Administration eBuy website, available to 03FAC contract holders, five quotes were received. The Defense Commissary Agency, Enterprise Acquisition Division, Construction Design Branch, Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Texas, is the contracting activity (HDEC03-20-F-0028). Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc., Chicago, Illinois, is awarded a $9,632,375 hybrid-fixed- price, time and materials schedule task order for whole facilities maintenance at various commissaries located in the U.S. and its territories. The task order is for a one-year base period beginning July 1, 2020. The task order includes four one-year option periods. If all four option periods are exercised, the task order will be completed June 30, 2025. Quoters were solicited on the General Services Administration eBuy website, available to 03FAC contract holders, five quotes were received. The Defense Commissary Agency, Enterprise Acquisition Division, Construction Design Branch, Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Texas, is the contracting activity (HDEC03-20-F-0027). Nelson Refrigeration Inc., La Vista, Nebraska, is awarded an $8,840,133 hybrid-fixed-price, time and materials schedule task order for whole facilities maintenance at various commissaries located in the U.S. and its territories. The task order is for a one-year base period beginning July 1, 2020. The task order includes four one-year option periods. If all four option periods are exercised, the task order will be completed June 30, 2025. Quoters were solicited on the General Services Administration eBuy website, available to 03FAC contract holders, five quotes were received. The Defense Commissary Agency, Enterprise Acquisition Division, Construction Design Branch, Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Texas, is the contracting activity (HDEC03-20-F-0033). J&J Worldwide Services, Austin Texas, is awarded a $7,822,654 hybrid-fixed price, time and materials schedule task order for whole facilities maintenance at various commissaries located in the U.S. and its territories. The task order is for a one-year base period beginning July 1, 2020. The task order includes four one-year option periods. If all four option periods are exercised, the task order will be completed June 30, 2025. Quoters were solicited on the General Services Administration eBuy website, available to 03FAC contract holders, five quotes were received. The Defense Commissary Agency, Enterprise Acquisition Division, Construction Design Branch, Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Texas, is the contracting activity (HDEC03-20-F-0030). *Small business https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2170148/source/GovDelivery/

AeroVironment a remporté un contrat de taille avec la défense américaine, visant à livrer des drones Puma 3 AE. Nouveaux moyens d'observation. En février dernier, AeroVironment a remporté un contrat de 10,7 M$ avec la défense américaine, visant à équiper l'US Army et les Marines de drones Puma 3 AE. Les livraisons ont normalement eu lieu au cours du mois d'avril. Les aéronefs seront employés pour la conduite de missions de reconnaissance, de surveillance et d'acquisition de cibles. Capitaliser sur l'expérience. Le choix de la défense américaine de se tourner vers AeroVironment pour cette commande fait suite à une relation historique, puisque les soldats américains mettent en œuvre de nombreux drones de l'industriel, un client lui servant de vitrine lors de ses campagnes d'exportation. Puma 3 AE. Le drone Puma 3 AE correspond a un système de 6,8 kilos, pouvant être lancé à la main (de quoi limiter l'empreinte logistique). Il dispose d'une autonomie de 2,5 heures et peut évoluer dans un rayon de 20 km à partir de sa station sol. La portée peut atteindre 60 km lorsque le drone est employé avec une antenne LRTA (long-range tracking antenna), pour les missions devant être conduites sur de longues distances. Conçu pour pouvoir évoluer en environnement maritime, le drone Puma 3 AE peut se poser en mer et sur terre. https://air-cosmos.com/article/des-drones-puma-pour-la-dfense-amricaine-22996

A recognizable face in the Kanata North business community has left the tech park to join a “startup” of a very different kind. Deborah Lovegrove, who spent more than five years as the head of marketing at the Kanata North Business Association, recently moved on to a new position as the marketing and media manager at Peraton Canada. Most of the aerospace and defence firm's Canadian operations are in Calgary, but last fall the company opened a new business development branch in downtown Ottawa. While Lovegrove's name is well-known in local business circles, the company she's joining might be a bit less familiar to casual observers of the aerospace and defence industry. But Peraton comes with an impressive pedigree. Its parent company, Harris Corp., was a dominant player in the sector for more than a century before it merged with fellow aerospace firm L3 Technologies last year to form L3Harris Technologies. When Harris sold its Harris Corporation Government Services business to Veritas Capital in 2017, Veritas changed its new acquisition's name to Peraton. The company now refers to itself as a “125-plus-year-old startup.” With more than 3,500 employees and annual revenues exceeding US$1 billion, the Virginia-based firm is quickly making its own mark in the aerospace realm. Peraton has partnered with government agencies such as NASA and Canada's Department of National Defence to provide supply chain management, engineering solutions and maintenance and repair services on a range of projects in the space, defence, cybersecurity and communications fields. The company is involved in a number of high-profile projects in this country, including an effort to commercialize advanced drone systems as well as bids from Boeing and Saab to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging fleet of F-18 fighter jets – a contract with a total value of nearly $20 billion. Lovegrove, whose 25-year marketing career also includes stints in government and other non-profit trade organizations, said the new job gets her back to an industry that fascinated her when she managed marketing and promotional activities for the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute in 2013 and 2014. “It was tough to leave (the KNBA) because I'd been there almost six years,” Lovegrove says. “But I was definitely looking for some sort of change. It was time to try a new challenge.” With the range of opportunities in Peraton's project pipeline, Lovegrove said the chance to get back into the aerospace industry was too good to pass up. “I'm a skydiver. Anything to do with planes and speed is something that I find particularly fascinating,” she says with a laugh. “They're working on some really cool projects right now.” https://www.obj.ca/article/techopia-former-knba-marketing-boss-helping-raise-aerospace-firm-peratons-profile-capital

Lee Hudson Graham Warwick Boeing is facing a novel coronavirus-related setback to the VC-25B presidential transport program, causing the company to recognize a $168 million impact in the first quarter. The VC-25B effort faced “inefficiencies” because personnel were directed to work virtually because of COVID-19. This forced Boeing to re-evaluate its estimate, Greg Smith, the company's chief financial officer, told reporters April 29 following a first-quarter earnings call. “The reach-forward loss on VC-25B is associated with engineering inefficiencies from the COVID-19 environment,” according to Boeing's first-quarter earnings report. “We believe these inefficiencies will result in staffing challenges, schedule inefficiencies and higher costs in the upcoming phases of the program.” The U.S. Air Force acknowledged the VC-25B program is a victim of COVID-19 because of component delivery delays from overseas suppliers, the service's acquisition executive, Will Roper, told reporters April 29. However, the V-25B program is a fixed-price contract, meaning Boeing will take the financial hit, not the Air Force. Smith reiterated that despite the financial loss, the program remains on schedule. Boeing began structural modifications on the first 747-8 aircraft to become a VC-25B in March after removing the interior, engines, auxiliary power units and other subsystems. The Air Force acquired the 747-8s in 2017 after selecting Boeing to replace two VC-25As that now perform the role. The service anticipates spending $5.3 billion to complete modifications on both aircraft to begin operations at the end of 2024. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/budget-policy-operations/covid-19-impacts-air-force-one-replacement-bottom-line