7 août 2020 | International, Aérospatial, Terrestre

Missile Defense Agency Reveals Hypersonic Defense Vision

August 07, 2020

Lockheed Martin will propose a new, sea-based variant of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense interceptor for the Regional Glide-Phase Weapon System.

Credit: Missile Defense Agency

A newly released vision by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency shows how an organization already burdened with the increasing sophistication of rogue-state ballistic missile threats intends to tackle the...

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/missile-defense-weapons/missile-defense-agency-reveals-hypersonic-defense-vision

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  • Contract Awards by US Department of Defense - August 27, 2020

    27 août 2020 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité, Autre défense

    Contract Awards by US Department of Defense - August 27, 2020

    ARMY Avon Protection Systems Inc., Cadillac, Michigan (W911SR-20-D-0001); and Canadian Commercial Corp., Ottawa, Canada (W911SR-20-D-0002), will compete for each order of the $127,200,000 firm-fixed-price contract to qualify and procure M61 canisters for the Joint Service General Purpose Mask. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 26, 2027. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Vectrus Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, was awarded an $116,821,426 modification (P00064) to contract W91RUS-13-C-0006 for continued support of critical operation, maintenance and defense of Army communications, which supports the Army Operational Base Communications Information Systems and infrastructure in support of U.S. Central Command forces. Work will be performed in APO Kuwait, APO United Arab Emirates, APO Afghanistan, APO Jordan, APO Bahrain, APO Iraq and APO Qatar, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $73,992,653 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Bowhead Mission Solutions LLC,* Springfield, Virginia, was awarded a $115,752,117 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for system engineering and technical assistance support for the Center of Excellence, Space and Missile Defense School. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 8, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W91260-20-F-5002). Aptim Aecom Decommissioning, Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $42,861,305 hybrid (cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price) contract for decommissioning and disposal activities for the Stationary Medium Power Plant Number 1 Reactor Facility in Fort Belvoir. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work will be performed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 1, 2025. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $42,861,305 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Maryland, is the contracting activity (W912DR-20-C-0031). Affolter Contracting Co. Inc.,* La Marque, Texas, was awarded a $12,364,000 firm-fixed-price contract furnishing all plant, labor, materials and equipment, and constructing the Upper Yazoo Projects in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Greenwood, Mississippi, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2024. Fiscal 2020 civil construction funds in the amount of $12,364,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi, is the contracting activity (W912EE-20-C-0006). AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., McLean, Virginia, has been awarded a $93,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This requirement is for a follow-on to continue performance of highly specialized technical services in support of product data systems, data management, migration processes and transformation initiatives. Work will be performed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and is expected to completed May 9, 2024. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. The first order obligates fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance; and working capital funds in the amount of $19,847,079. Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins AFB, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8571-20-D-0006). Olgoonik Enterprises LLC, St. Robert, Missouri, has been awarded a $75,000,000 firm-fixed-price, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Fort Riley, Kansas; and McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, Sunflower Simplified Acquisition Base Engineering Requirements (SABER) to maintain facilities and infrastructure at both bases. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and seven offers were received. Task orders will be funded either by Army or Air Force operations and maintenance (O&M) funds. The initial task order for this contract was funded by Army O&M funds in the amount of $334,749. Work will be performed at Fort Riley, Kansas; and McConnell AFB, Kansas, and is expected to be completed Sept. 25, 2025. The 22nd Contracting Squadron, McConnell AFB, Kansas, is the contracting activity (FA4621-20-D-0002). NAVY Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, is awarded a $58,905,547 modification (P00004) to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract N00019-19-C-0051. This modification provides for the development of Adaptive Radar Countermeasure (ARC) Software/Firmware (SW/FW) capabilities and integration of ARC SW/FW on the AN/ALQ-214A electronic countermeasure host. ARC SW/FW supplements F/A-18C-F survivability in the presence of radio frequency guided surface-to-air and air-to-air weapons systems. Work will be performed in Arlington, Virginia (50%); Clifton, New Jersey (25%); Goleta, California (10%); St. Louis, Missouri (10%); Raleigh, North Carolina (3%); and Huntsville, Alabama (2%), and is expected to be completed in February 2024. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $13,894,969 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. DZSP 21 LLC, Marlton, New Jersey, is awarded a $50,794,396 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with one three-month base period and one three-month option period for base operating support (BOS) services at Joint Region Marianas. Work will be performed at various locations on the island of Guam, and is expected to be completed by February 2021. The work will provide facility and BOS for the following services: management and administration, port operations, material management, facility management, sustainment, restoration and modernization, electrical, wastewater, steam, hot water and demineralized water, potable water, transportation and environmental. Fiscal 2020 working capital funds (Defense); fiscal 2020 transportation Air Force working capital funds; fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy, Air Force and Defense); fiscal 2020 family housing operations and maintenance (Navy); fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Marine Corps, Army, Army National Guard and Air National Guard); fiscal 2020 health program funds (Defense); fiscal 2020 General Fund; and fiscal 2020 Defense Commissary Agency contract funds in the amount of $23,319,610 are obligated on this award, and all will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was issued as a sole-source procurement under the authority of 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-20-C-3603). Nexagen Networks Inc.,* Morganville, New Jersey, is awarded a $45,970,509 single-award, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide subject matter expertise in the areas of program management; development management; operation support; systems engineering support; systems administration; information assurance; network security; configuration management; service desk support; web application development and technical writing in support of the management and operation of the coalition and allied programs and the Naval Tool for Interoperability and Risk Assessment under Naval Information Forces. The contract will include a five-year base ordering period with an additional six-month ordering period option pursuant of Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.217-8 – option to extend services, which if exercised, will bring the total value to $49,700,700. The base ordering period is expected to be completed by September 2025; if the option is exercised, the ordering period will be completed by March 2026. Work will be performed in Suffolk, Virginia (60%); Norfolk, Virginia (20%); Honolulu, Hawaii (15%); and various continental U.S. locations (5%). Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) (OMN) funds in the amount of $10,000 will be obligated to fund the contract's minimum amount and funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Annual OMN funds will be obligated as individual task orders are issued. This contract was competitively procured as a small business set-aside pursuant to the authority set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation 16.504 and solicited through Navy Electronic Commerce Online and the Federal Business Opportunities websites, with four offers received. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, Contracting Department, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00189-20-D-0027). Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Owego, New York, is awarded a $35,317,218 cost-plus-incentive-fee order (N00019-20-F-0358) against basic ordering agreement N000019-19-G-0029. This order procures labor and hardware for the development of preliminary software for Phase 2 Network Enabled Weapons (NEW) capabilities. Specifically, this order provides software coding, testing and integration of NEW into a software development branch of the MH-60R/S software configuration with a merge into MH-60R/S fleet release baseline after the capability has established maturity. Work will be performed in Owego, New York, and is expected to be completed in August 2023. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,761,000 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. RQ Construction LLC, Carlsbad, California, is awarded a $33,146,000 firm-fixed-price task order (N62473-20-F-5288) under a multiple award construction contract for the design and construction of a new child development center (CDC) complex at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar. The task order also contains one planned modification, which if exercised would increase cumulative task order value to $33,327,250. The work to be performed provides for two single story CDC facilities for infants, pre-toddlers, toddlers and pre-school aged children of military and authorized civilian personnel at MCAS Miramar. Combined total square footage for the two facilities shall not exceed 62,000 square feet. The CDC will provide adequate space for children between six weeks and five years of age. These two CDC facilities combined will provide an essential facility offering military personnel and authorized civilians and their families with full time, quality childcare and development for about 462 children. The new facilities will be single story reinforced concrete masonry unit, reinforced concrete foundation, slab on grade and composite steel deck, standing seam metal roof over metal deck and steel framing. Functional programmed spaces will include entrance vestibule, lobby, reception/sign-in, administration offices and work areas individual child activity rooms appropriately designed and sized for each children's age group, training room, staff break room, lactation room, central storage, restrooms for staff and public use, kitchen, laundry room, janitor's room, mechanical, electrical and telecommunication support spaces. Work will be performed in San Diego, California, and is expected to be completed by September 2022. Fiscal 2020 military construction (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $33,146,000 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N62473-18-D-5851). Mechanical Engineers of Hawaii Corp.,* Honolulu, Hawaii, is awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract with a maximum amount of $15,000,000 for design and engineering services for mechanical engineering projects and related projects at various locations in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii area of operations (AO). The work to be performed provides for request for proposal (RFP) documentation for design-bid-build (DBB) mechanical engineering projects with associated multi-discipline architect-engineering support services for new construction, alteration, repair and installation of mechanical systems and associated facilities. Other design and engineering services may include, but not limited to, design-build RFP documentation, engineering investigations/concept studies, functional analysis concept development/charrettes and post construction award services. Initial task order is being awarded at $281,952 for a DBB construction package, consisting of full plans, specifications, detailed cost estimate and other services to repair the Marine Corps Forces Pacific Telephone Exchange Building at Marine Corps Base Camp Smith. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by May 2022. All work on this contract will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps facilities and other government facilities within the NAVFAC Hawaii AO. The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of August 2025. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) (O&M,N) contract funds in the amount of $281,952 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Future task orders will be primarily funded by O&M,N; O&M (Marine Corps); and Navy working capital funds. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website with five proposals received. NAVFAC Hawaii, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62478-20-D-5034). Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc., Houston, Texas, is awarded a $9,885,076 combination firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) modification for the exercise of Bridge Option Three under an IDIQ contract for base operating support services at Isa Air Base. After award of this bridge option, the total cumulative contract value will be $191,719,675. The work to be performed provides for but is not limited to, all management, supervision, tools, materials, supplies, labor and transportation services necessary to perform galley services, bachelor quarters and laundry services, facility management, emergency service requests, urgent service, routing service, minor work, facilities investment, custodial, pest control service, integrated solid waste, grounds maintenance, wastewater, operate reverse osmosis water treatment system and base support vehicles, environmental, fire emergency services and explosive safety officer services at Isa Air Base, Bahrain. Work will be performed in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This option period is from September 2020 to November 2020. No funds will be obligated at time of award. Funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued. Fiscal 2020 and 2021 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $9,885,076 for recurring and non-recurring work will be obligated on individual task orders issued during the option period. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Europe, Africa, Central, is the contracting activity (N62470-14-D-6012). Raytheon Co., Space and Airborne Systems, El Segundo, California, is awarded an $8,357,826 modification (P00079) to previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract N00019-16-C-0002. This modification provides additional contractor logistics support maintainers for pre-operational support to facilitate logistics and maintenance activities in support of the Next Generation Jammer engineering and manufacturing development and test and evaluation activities. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (49%); Point Mugu, California (38%); and Crane, Indiana (13%), and is expected to be completed in December 2021. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,357,826 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 LOGISTICS AGENCY Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Co., Inc.,* St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $8,972,159 firm-fixed-price, requirements contract for production of the panoramic telescope. This was a competitive acquisition with one response received. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Missouri, with an Aug. 31, 2025, ordering period end 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, Warren, Michigan (SPRDL1-20-D-0127). Campbellsville Apparel Co., Campbellsville, Kentucky, has been awarded a maximum $7,709,600 modification (P00012) exercising the fourth one-year option period of a one-year base contract (SPE1C1-16-D-1083) with four one-year option periods for undershirts and moisture wicking t-shirts. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is Kentucky, with a Sept. 7, 2021, ordering period end date. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2021 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cobham Mission System, Davenport, Iowa, has been awarded a maximum $13,028,470 firm-fixed-price contract for oxygen concentrators. 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, two-month contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Iowa, with an Oct. 6, 2024, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 Navy working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPRPA1-20-C-W070). UPDATE: JCB Inc., Pooler, Georgia (SPE8EC-20-D-0064), has been added as an awardee to the multiple award contract announced on Aug. 29, 2017, for commercial construction equipment, issued against solicitation SPE8EC-17-R-0005. *Small Business https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2327934/

  • Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital

    29 septembre 2020 | International, C4ISR

    Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital

    KELSEY ATHERTON Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station. ALBUQUERQUE: Azure Orbital, the space-connections wing of Microsoft's cloud service Azure, launched last week. By offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service, Microsoft wants to position itself as the bridge between the Pentagon and commercial satellites. Ground stations are vital infrastructure for satellite communication, the physical node that makes all the images and information they collect useful. With the advent of lower-cost satellites, and the expansion of small satellite constellations in low earth orbit, the space industry is moving away from a locked-in model, where specific vendors only grant access to their satellites through their ground stations. “Space is just so critical to everything we do here on earth,” says Frank Rose, a former assistant secretary of state for arms control who is now at Brookings. “Deploying additional capabilities, especially small satellites, in low earth orbit will definitely improve the resiliency of our national security space architecture.” Earlier this year, Microsoft Azure won the $10 billion JEDI contract for Pentagon cloud services. Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means that the customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need on the station. Cloud service providers already have a great deal of experience in flexible demand management and in processing the data received in their servers. That makes ground stations a natural outgrowth of existing cloud competences, the company argues. In June 2020, the Space Development Agency said that rentable ground stations make it easier for the military to piggy-back on existing commercial infrastructure. When it comes to constellations of small satellites, what companies are “trying to do is to optimize their processing architecture, trying to minimize how much compute you need to do on board because of the [Size, Weight and Power] constraints, which inevitably leads them to do more on the ground,” says Mikhail Grinberg, principle at Renaissance Strategic Advisors. Yet that principal doesn't apply evenly across all applications. “For some military applications, given resiliency requirements,” says Grinberg, “they're trying to do more networking processing on board, as opposed to having an open pipe that can be tapped into.” While Azure Orbital appears aimed at the space sector broadly, it is specifically cultivating ties to the Pentagon and the defense contracting community. Partners signed up at launch include Amergint, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Viasat, and US Electrodynamics, all of whom have long histories of working with the Pentagon. Of particular note is Azure Orbital's partnership with Kratos, a company already actively working to make low-earth-orbit satellite space viable for military applications. “Right now, the current national security space architecture is very vulnerable to other countries' Anti-Satellite capabilities, primarily China's and Russia's,” says Rose. “If we can proliferate this constellation of small satellites, we can improve the resiliency of America's national security space architecture.” The military is planning for low earth orbit satellites in the battle management layer, ones that will primarily be processing data on board, having access to commercial infrastructure through Ground-Stations-as-a-Service increases the likelihood that they can be used when needed. “For satellites in low earth orbit it might be days, three to four days before it's overhead again. That's the core problem,” says Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation. “One way you can solve that is by building a lot of ground stations.” “The more you have commercial guys doing infrastructure on the ground,” says Grinberg, “if you can partition the data right, you can provide more resiliency.” As part of its bid to build strong ties between Azure and the Department of Defense, Microsoft has specifically hired career professionals of the military and intelligence communities. In late, Azure hired Chirag Parikh from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Parikh had previously served as the Director of Space Policy for the White House. William Chappell, CTO of Azure Global, announced Sept. 22nd that Azure Space had hired Stephen Kitay, former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for space policy, to head Azure's space industry division. It is, actively, a project to embed Microsoft in the infrastructure of orbit. By positioning itself as an intermediary between the space sector and its end users, Microsoft can become another almost-invisible piece of that same infrastructure. Azure Orbital would also offer Microsoft a greater role in other Pentagon satellite-based projects, like cloudONE and the Advanced Battle Management System. Being able to surge connections with sensors in orbits, on demand, makes space far more flexible for human commanders. “In the last 5 years, there's been a push from the military to move towards more common ground systems,” says Weeden. What remains to be seen is if the military will be comfortable with commercial companies operating those common ground systems, or if security concerns will instead preclude military traffic riding commercial channels. https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/microsoft-positions-itself-to-win-space-data-market-with-azure-orbital/

  • How the Defense Digital Service revamped Army cyber training

    2 décembre 2019 | International, C4ISR, Sécurité

    How the Defense Digital Service revamped Army cyber training

    Earlier this year, the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon's cadre of coders and hackers performing a short stint in government — finished the second phase of a pilot program to streamline cyber training for the Army. The Army wanted to streamline two phases of cyber training: the Joint Cyber Analytics Course, or JCAC, which takes 27 weeks in Pensacola, Florida, and provides basic cyber training for joint forces that have no prior experience in cyber; and the more tactical training that happens at Fort Gordon in Georgia. Combined, the two phases take a minimum of 36 weeks. To accomplish this, the Defense Digital Service, working with the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and a private vendor, built a course to conduct training in three months — everything a cyberwarrior needed to know from JCAC, said Clair Koroma, a bureaucracy hacker at DDS. Phase two — which combines tactics involving hardware, offensive and defensive cyber, and networking — takes seven months. It excluded the classified course, Koroma added. At this point, she said, DDS has transitioned all of its materials to the Cyber School, which will pick up the third phase of the pilot training, though DDS will still be available for assistance. “The plan is that eventually the 17Cs, [who execute offensive and defensive cyberspace operations], will come to Fort Gordon on inception and do their entry and mid-level training at Gordon. They will run this as the course for those soldiers,” she said. Koroma said success of the pilot will be measured from the operational world — evaluating the skill sets of the soldiers that graduate from the pilot program and comparing them to prior classes. Thus far, she added, no graduates from the pilot program have been overwhelmed in operations. Students during the second pilot were also evaluated by senior leaders within the Army cyber community and commands where they might be assigned during their final project and presentation. Students needed to identify issues on the network and conduct an outbrief to these leaders. “Senior leaders then got an opportunity to ask them questions,” Koroma said. “Every single person who was in that presentation said that they were impressed by the delivery of the students and the quality of the presentation that the students gave.” In fact, Koroma said, there are two students she's aware of whose orders were changed at the conclusion of training because leaders who attended the presentation wanted them on their team. https://www.fifthdomain.com/dod/army/2019/11/29/how-defense-digital-service-revamped-army-cyber-training/

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