Thursday, February 3, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 3, 2011

Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 3, 2011
Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 092-11 February 3, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - February 3, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued February 3, 2011 are undermentioned;


CONTRACTS

NAVY

BEST Contracting Services, Inc., Gardena, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0006); MTM Construction, Inc., City of Industry, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0007); Premier Roofing CA, Inc.*, Spring Valley, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0008); and RL Campbell Management Services, Inc.*, Jacksonville, Fla. (N62473-11-D-0009), are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract for roofing system construction and renovation at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). The work to be performed provides for design-build or fully designed projects for new installation, addition, alterations, maintenance, repair, roof condition assessment, emergency leak response and testing for hazardous material on various roofing systems. The maximum dollar value for all four contracts combined is $100,000,000. No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed at various federal sites within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR, including but not limited to: California (93 percent); Arizona (2 percent); Nevada (2 percent); Utah (1 percent); Colorado (1 percent); and New Mexico (1 percent). The terms of the contracts are not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of February 2016. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 14 proposals received. These four contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $13,741,686 modification to existing previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-4308) for the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), fiscal 2011 dry-docking selected restricted availability (DSRA). A DSRA includes the execution of depot-level maintenance, alterations, and modifications that will update, improve, and extend the ship's military and technical capabilities. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $12,427,263 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Norfolk Ship Support Activity Regional Maintenance Center, Portsmouth, Va., is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, Inc., San Diego, Calif., was awarded an $11,000,218 modification to existing previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-4407) for the USS Benfold (DDG 65) fiscal 2011 extended dry-docking selected restricted availability (EDSRA). An EDSRA includes the planning and execution of depot-level maintenance, alterations, and modifications that will update and improve the ship's military and technical capabilities. This modification includes an option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $34,881,723. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by July 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $11,000,218 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

ARMY

Raytheon Co., Andover, Mass., was awarded on Feb. 1 a $59,994,017 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the support and sustainment, in all aspects, for the Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment Legacy and Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment Base Expeditionary Targeting and Surveillance Systems. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass.; Huntsville, Ala.; Iraq; and Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2011. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, Contracting Acquisition Management Office, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W9113M-08-C-0153).

ATK, Plymouth, Minn., was awarded on Jan. 31 a $50,000,000 contract. The award will provide for the material release production of 120mm high explosive, guided, XM395 cartridge or accelerated precision mortar initiative. Work will be performed in Plymouth, Minn., with an estimated completion date to be determined. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15QKN-10-C-0059).

Avon Protection Systems, Inc., Cadillac, Mich., was awarded on Feb. 1 an $11,552,268 fixed-price-incentive contract. The award will provide for the remaining quantities of the joint service general purpose masks, which will bring the total to 54,600 M50 masks. Work will be performed in Cadillac, Mich., with an estimated completion date of May 15, 2013. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Edgewood Contracting Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W911SR-08-C-0042).

Tencate Advanced Armor USA, Inc., Newark, Ohio, was awarded on Jan. 26 an $8,090,400 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for small arms protective inserts for Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Newark, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2011. Four bids were solicited with four bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-08-D-0063).

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  • DTN News - MIDDLE EAST NEWS: Israeli Official Sees Cyber Alternative To "Ugly" War

    Defense News: DTN News - MIDDLE EAST NEWS: Israeli Official Sees Cyber Alternative To "Ugly" War
    (NSI News Source Info) JERUSALEM, Israel - February 3, 2011: Cyberwarfare of the kind waged against Iran last year offers advanced nations an alternative to "ugly" military force with its moral costs, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.

    "War is ugly, awfully ugly," Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor told diplomats and journalists at a think tank called the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

    "In modern times, because war is all the time on television ... people see this and can't take it. There are limits. There is a price you pay."

    He added: "Because it is difficult, one looks for other ways. One of those other ways is the intelligence community of all the world trying to do things that don't look that ugly, don't kill people."

    He declined to discuss the mysterious Stuxnet worm found in Iranian networks last year, but his remarks underscored Israelis' doubts about delivering on veiled threats to use open force against their arch-foe's nuclear program.

    "And all the world that is not on the screen, the cyber world ... becomes more important in the conflict between nations. It is a new battleground, if you like, not with guns but with something else," he said.

    Meridor, who oversees Israel's spy services and nuclear affairs, said Israel had learned from news coverage and the ensuing public censure of its conflicts with often outgunned enemies.

    Over the past two years, Israeli officials have quietly unveiled cyber war capabilities that they say are a core pillar of defense strategy.

    They also hint at having mounted sabotage campaigns to slow down Iran's uranium enrichment and missile projects, in which Israel sees a potentially mortal threat.

    Though Israel is reputed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, many analysts regard its conventional forces as too small to inflict lasting damage on Iranian nuclear facilities which are distant, dispersed and well-defended.

    Israel is also wary of drawing retaliatory missile salvoes from the Islamic republic -- which denies seeking the bomb while preaching the Jewish state's destruction -- as well as knock-on fighting with Tehran's guerrilla allies in Lebanon and Gaza.

    While reiterating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's and U.S. President Barack Obama's pledge to keep "all options on the table," Meridor said international sanctions designed to curb Tehran could prove successful if stepped up by Washington.

    "Iran will have to rethink their policy ... if they understand the Americans are saying to them simply, 'You will not get them (nuclear weapons)."

    (Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Maria Golovnina)

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