DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 5, 2011

Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 5, 2011

Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 006-11 January 5, 2011

(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - January 5, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued January 5, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $72,618,815 advance acquisition contract for long lead materials and support associated with the manufacture and delivery of 24 mission avionics systems and common cockpits for the Lot 10 MH-60R helicopters and 18 common cockpits for the Lot 14 MH-60S helicopters. In addition, this contract provides for the procurement of end-of-life components for the MH-60R and MH-60S. Work will be performed in Farmingdale, N.Y. (48 percent); Owego, N.Y. (26 percent); Woodland Hills, Calif. (13 percent); Ciudad Real, Spain (6 percent); Horseheads, N.Y. (2 percent); Lewisville, Texas (2 percent); Bennington, Vt. (1 percent); Windsor Locks, Conn. (1 percent); and various locations throughout the United States (1 percent). Work is expected to be completed in December 2011. Funding is provided by fiscal 2011 Aviation Procurement Navy funds. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-C-0020).

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., was awarded a $40,600,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee with performance incentives letter contract for combat systems engineering and installation and test aboard KDX-III Ship 3 to support the Republic of Korea Foreign Military Sales case KS-P-LPN. This contract involves foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea (100 percent). Requirements include the necessary combat systems engineering, computer program development, and ship integration and test support to deliver a variant of the U.S. Navy Aegis weapon system baseline seven, phase one computer program and equipment to support the construction of the third Korean ship in the KDX-III class. In addition, this contract funds an integrated test team to assist the Korean shipyard in performing installation and testing of the Aegis Combat System. Work will be performed in Ulsan, Korea (48 percent); Moorestown, N.J. (44 percent); Kongsberg, Norway (7 percent); and Dijon, France (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-11-C-5103).

Environmental Design & Construction, LLC*, Washington, D.C., is being awarded a $30,000,000 maximum amount indefinite-quantity contract for new paving, paving repair and replacement of various types of pavement within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Washington’s area of responsibility to include the metropolitan District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The minimum guarantee being awarded is $5,000. Contract funds do not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of January 2016. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with seven proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N40080-11-D-0495).

InSynergy Engineering, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a maximum amount $7,500,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineer services contract for architect-engineering services for fire protection, electronic security systems, intrusion detection systems, physical security and related services at various locations under the cognizance of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific. No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed at various Navy and Marine Corps facilities and other government facilities within the NAVFAC Pacific area including, but not limited to, Hawaii (55 percent), Guam (30 percent), and the Far East (15 percent). The term of contract is not to exceed 36 months, with an expected completion date of January 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website, with six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-11-D-0005).

ARMY

CND, LLC, Stilwell, Okla., was awarded on Dec. 30 an $11,738,146 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for standard and non-standard material and services. Work will be performed in Tulsa, Okla.; Huntsville, Ala.; and New Boston, Texas, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 30, 2011. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, AMCOM, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-09-C-0610).

CACI, Inc., Federal, Chantilly, Va., was awarded on Dec. 30 an $8,229,565 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide simulation-supported battle command staff training exercises for pre- and post-mobilizing soldiers. Work will be performed in Fort Dix, N.J.; Dublin, Calif.; Birmingham, Ala.; Arlington Heights, Ill.; and Houston, Texas, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 31, 2011. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort Bragg, N.C., is the contracting activity (W91247-11-C-0004).

General Dynamics Land System, Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Dec. 30 a $6,852,114 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for repairs and upgrades to fire direction control components used combat vehicles. Work will be performed in Killeen, Texas, with an estimated completion date of the Dec. 31, 2016. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-11-C-0031).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Randolph Engineering, Inc.*, Randolph, Mass., is being awarded a maximum $9,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for optical frames and accessories. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There was originally a Federal Business Opportunities proposal solicited with four responses. The date of performance completion is Jan. 20, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2DE-10-D-7544).

FedMedical, Inc.*, Summerville, S.C., is being awarded a maximum $42,690,450 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for pulse oximeter items, accessories and surgical lights. Other location of performance is Plymouth, Minn. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were originally 99 proposals solicited with 68 responses. The date of performance completion is Jan. 5, 2016. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2D1-11-D-8203).

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff? - Part #2

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**First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff? - Part #1 DTN News

**Chinas J-20 Stealth Fighter In Taxi Tests

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources by Bill Sweetman - Washington
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 5, 2011: China’s first known stealth aircraft just emerged from a secret development program and was undergoing high-speed taxi tests late last week at Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute’s airfield. Said to be designated J-20, it is larger than most observers expected—pointing to long range and heavy weapon loads.

Its timing, Chengdu’s development record and official statements cast doubt on U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s 2009 prediction (in support of his decision to stop production of the Lockheed Martin F-22) that China would not have an operational stealth aircraft before 2020.

The debut of the J-20 was announced in a November 2009 interview on Chinese TV by Gen. He Weirong, deputy commander of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. The general said a “fourth-generation” fighter (Chinese terminology for a stealth fighter) would be flown in 2010-11 and be operational in 2017-19.

The J-20 is a single-seat, twin-engine aircraft, bigger and heavier than the Sukhoi T-50 and the F-22. Comparison with ground-service vehicles points to an overall length of 75 ft. and a wingspan of 45 ft. or more, which would suggest a takeoff weight in the 75,000-80,000-lb. class with no external load. That in turn implies a generous internal fuel capacity. The overall length is close to that of the 1960s General Dynamics F-111, which carries 34,000 lb. of fuel.

The J-20 has a canard delta layout (like Chengdu’s J-10) with two canted, all-moving vertical stabilizers (like the T-50) and smaller canted ventral fins. The stealth body shaping is similar to that of the F-22. The flat body sides are aligned with the canted tails, the wing-body junction is clean, and there is a sharp chine line around the forward fuselage. The cant angles are greater than they are on the Lockheed Martin F-35, and the frameless canopy is similar to that of the F-22.

The engines are most likely members of the Russian Saturn AL-31F family, also used on the J-10. The production version will require yet-to-mature indigenous engines. The inlets use diverterless supersonic inlet (DSI) technology, first adopted for the F-35 but also used by Chengdu on the J-10B—the newest version of the J-10—and the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 Thunder.

The main landing gears retract into body-side bays, indicating the likely presence of F-22-style side weapon bays ahead of them. The ground clearance is higher than on the F-22, which would facilitate loading larger weapons including air-to-surface munitions. Chinese engineers at the Zhuhai air show in November disclosed that newly developed air-to-ground weapons are now required to be compatible with the J-20.

Features at the rear of the aircraft—including underwing actuator fairings, axisymmetrical engine exhausts and the ventral fins—appear less compatible with stealth, so the J-20 may not match the all-aspect stealth of the F-22. There are two possible explanations for this: Either the aircraft seen here is the first step toward an operational design, or China’s requirements do not place as much stress on rear-aspect signatures.

The major open question at this point is whether the J-20 is a true prototype, like the T-50, or a technology demonstrator, with a status similar to the YF-22 flown in 1990. That question will be answered by whether, and how many, further J-20s enter flight testing in the next 12-24 months.

Developing an effective multi-mission stealthy aircraft presents challenges beyond the airframe, because it requires a sensor suite that uses automated data fusion, emission control and low-probability-of-intercept data links to build an operational picture for the pilot without giving away the aircraft’s own location.

A rapid development program would be a challenge for China’s combat aircraft industry, which is currently busy: The J-10B, FC-17 and Shenyang’s J-11B and carrier-based J-15 are all under development. However, the progress of China’s military aviation technology has been rapid since the first flight of the J-10 in 1996, owing to the nation’s growing economy and the push by the People’s Liberation Army for a modernized military force in all domains. Before the J-10, China’s only indigenous production combat aircraft were the Shenyang J-8 and Xian JH-7, reflecting early-1960s technology from Russia and Europe.

Engine development has lagged airframe development, with reports that the Shenyang WS-10 engine, slated to replace Russian engines in the J-11B, has been slow to reach acceptable reliability and durability levels. That may not be surprising, given that high-performance engine technology is founded on specialized alloys and processes that often have no other uses. (The existence of the J-11B, essentially a “bootleg” version of the Su-27, has been a strain on relationships between the Russian and Chinese industries.)

Progress with avionics may be indicated by the advent of the J-10B, with new features that include a canted radar bulkhead (normally associated with an active, electronically scanned array antenna), an infrared search-and-track system, and housings for new electronic warfare antennas.

One question that may go unanswered for a long time concerns the degree to which cyberespionage has aided the development of the J-20. U.S. defense industry cybersecurity experts have cited 2006—close to the date when the J-20 program would have started—as the point at which they became aware of what was later named the advanced persistent threat (APT), a campaign of cyberintrusion aimed primarily at military and defense industries and characterized by sophisticated infiltration and exfiltration techniques.

Dale Meyerrose, information security vice president for the Harris Corp. and former chief information officer for the director of national intelligence, told an Aviation Week cybersecurity conference in April 2010 that the APT had been little discussed outside the classified realm, up to that point, because “the vast majority of APT attacks are believed to come from a single country.”

Between 2009 and early 2010, Lockheed Martin found that “six to eight companies” among its subcontractors “had been totally compromised—e-mails, their networks, everything,” according to Chief Information Security Officer Anne Mullins.

The way in which the J-20 was unveiled also reflects China’s use and control of information technology to support national interests. The test airfield is located in the city of Chengdu and is not secure, with many public viewing points. Photography is technically forbidden, but reports suggest that patrols have been permitting the use of cell phone cameras. From Dec. 25‑29, these images were placed on Chinese Internet discussion boards, and after an early intervention by censors—which served to draw attention to the activity—they appeared with steadily increasing quality. Substantial international attention was thereby achieved without any official disclosures.

Photo Credit: Via Chinese Internet

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