Friday, August 26, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 26, 2011

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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated August 26, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - August 26, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued August 26, 2011 are undermentioned;


CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Science Applications International Corp., Fairfield, N.J., was issued a modification exercising the sixth option year on the current contract SPM500-04-D-BP24/P00032. Award is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, prime vendor contract for a maximum $50,000,000 for maintenance, repair, and operations for the Northeast Region, Zone 1. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The date of performance completion is Aug. 30, 2012. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa.

Harris Corp., Rochester, N.Y., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, long-term contract for a maximum $46,665,108 for radio system components. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Army. The date of performance completion is Aug. 26, 2016. The Defense Logistics Agency Land, Aberdeen, Md., is the contracting activity (SPRBL1-11-D-0029).

Thales Communications, Inc., Clarksburg, Md., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, long-term contract for a maximum $40,024,027 for radio system components. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Army. The date of performance completion is Aug. 26, 2016. The Defense Logistics Agency Land, Aberdeen, Md., is the contracting activity (SPRBL1-11-D-0035).

Impax Laboratories, Chalfont, Pa., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a maximum $14,127,469 for pharmaceutical components. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The date of performance completion is Aug. 25, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2D0-11-D-0007).

AIR FORCE

MRM Construction Services, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., is being awarded a $49,255,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for paving construction work at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.; Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field, Ariz.; and Fort Tuthill Recreation Area, Flagstaff, Ariz. 56 CONS/LGCB, Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., is the contracting activity (FA4887-11-D-0007).

NAVY

TEC - MACTEC*, Charlottesville, Va., is being awarded a $12,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for sustainment management system and engineered management system services at various Navy and Marine Corps installations located within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). No task orders are being issued at this time. Work will be performed at various locations in the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah; and the NAVFAC Atlantic AOR including Alaska, Europe, Africa, Western Asia, South America, Far East, Hawaii, and the Marianas. The term of the contract is not to exceed 36 months, with an expected completion date of August 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $2,500 were obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-11-D-3006).


Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $7,237,019 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5361) for research and development level-of-effort engineering and technical services to support the Standard Missile program. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by December 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.


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 U.S. DoD issued No. 741-11 August 26, 2011
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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's Military - Details Of The Pentagon Report

Defense News: DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's Military - Details Of The Pentagon Report
**The Pentagon has released a new report claiming that China is working to expand its military. Here are some of the details of the report:
**US Military Report On China Fails To Acknowledge Beijing's Defense Policy As Peace Oriented
DTN Canada Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Telegraph.co.uk &Xinhuanet.com
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 26, 2011: China has expressed disappointment over the US Department of Defense's (DoD) annual report on the state of its military, insisting that the report still fails to acknowledge that China's defense policy is peace oriented.

The recent defense report titled 'Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China' says that the country has made "modest, but incremental, improvements in the transparency of its military and security affairs," adding that the United States is "uncertain about how China will use its growing capabilities."

According to Xinhua, America's concern regarding China's military capabilities is a result of the expansion of China's naval power and the modernization of many military systems. However, China has once again insisted in its own defense whitepaper released this March that its National Defense Policy will never adopt an aggressive military policy.

Despite the fact that the U.S. is concerned about China's military policies, the difference in defense spending between the two countries is still quite large. For 2011, military spending by the United States is nearly eight times that of China. On a per person basis, the U.S. spends over 30 times the amount of China and with a GDP 2.5 times larger, the defense budget of the United States takes up roughly five percent of its GDP compared to 1.6 percent for China, the report said.

The 94-page report said China is developing anti-ship missiles that could target aircraft carriers while expanding the naval fleet, adding: "Following this period of ambitious acquisition, the decade from 2011 through 2020 will prove critical to the PLA (People's Liberation Army) as it attempts to integrated many new and complex platforms."

The Pentagon also warned Beijing has closed critical technological gaps and is rapidly modernizing its military equipment, all with an eye toward preventing possible US and allied intervention in a conflict with Taiwan.

However, the Chinese government says that the report interferes with the country's internal affairs by talking about cross-strait security issues between Chinese mainland and Taiwan.

Last year, the United States approved a 6.4 billion dollar weapons package for Taiwan that included Patriot Missiles, Black Hawk helicopters and communications equipment for F-16s. Arms sales to the island have always been a bone of contention between both the countries.

China's military: Details of the Pentagon report

The Pentagon has released a new report claiming that China is working to expand its military. Here are some of the details of the report:

TAIWAN
The report claims the China-Taiwan balance of military force "continues to shift in Beijing's favor."
It predicts China's People's Liberation Army is likely to steadily expand its military options for Taiwan through 2020, including those to deter, delay or deny "third party" intervention - a veiled reference to potential U.S. involvement in any conflict.

MISSILE CAPABILITIES
The People's Liberation Army is acquiring large numbers of highly accurate cruise missiles, many of which have ranges in excess of 115 miles.

China is also developing an anti-ship ballistic missile, the DF-21D, which has a range exceeding 930 miles and is armed with a maneuverable warhead.

China also may be developing a new road-mobile inter-continental ballistic missile.

However China's program to develop JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile, which has an estimated range of some 4,600 miles has faced repeated delays. The Pentagon had forecast it would achieve initial operating capability by 2010.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
China launched its first carrier for a maiden run earlier this month (above top right), a refitted former Soviet craft, but the Pentagon said it still will take several additional years for China to achieve a minimal level of combat capability on an aircraft carrier, given the level of training for carrier pilots."China likely will build multiple aircraft carriers with support ships over the next decade."

STEALTH FIGHTER JET
The report says the January test flight of China's stealth fighter jet, the J-20 (above bottom right), "highlights China's ambition to produce a fighter aircraft that incorporates stealth attributes, advanced avionics and super-cruise capable engines over the next several years." The US expects the J-20 to become operational by 2018.

It will give the PLA Air Force a platform capable of long-range, penetrating strikes into complex air defence environments.

REGIONAL REACTION
"China's growing economic, diplomatic and military presence and influence in Asia and globally is raising concern among many countries about China's ultimate aims - and the threats this could present to them. These regional concerns could catalyze regional or global balancing efforts."

"China is fielding an array of conventionally armed ballistic missiles, modern aircraft, UAVs, ground- and air-launched land-attack cruise missiles, special operations forces and cyber-warfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region."

GLOBAL POWER?
The report claims China is unlikely to be able to project and sustain large forces in high-intensity combat operations far from China prior to 2020. Still, it says by most accounts China is on track to achieve its goal of building a modern, regionally focused military by 2020.

China's territorial claim to virtually the entire South China Sea "remains a source of regional contention" and is contested by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei. In the East China Sea, China also claims the Senkaku islands, which are controlled by Japan, in a long-standing dispute that caused tensions to flare in 2010.

SPACE WARFARE
China conducted a record 15 space launches in 2010 and expanded its space-based satellite network for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, communications and meteorological operations.

China's military strategists "regard the ability to utilize space and deny adversaries access to space as central to enabling modern, informatized warfare."

CYBER WARFARE
Cyberwarfare capabilities would help China's military gather information, slow down an adversary's response time by crippling networks and serve as a force multiplier to kinetic attacks during a conflict. The PLA has set up "information warfare units" to attack enemy computer systems and protect Chinese networks.




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DTN News - BATTLE FOR TRIPOLI: Rebels To Govern From Tripoli As Gaddafi Hunt Goes On

Defense News: DTN News - BATTLE FOR TRIPOLI: Rebels To Govern From Tripoli As Gaddafi Hunt Goes On
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 26, 2011: Libyan rebels announced a move to govern the country from Tripoli as they battled pockets of loyalists in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who taunted them from his hiding place.

Rumors of Gaddafi or his sons being cornered or sighted, swirled among excitable rebel fighters engaged in heavy machinegun and rocket exchanges. But even after his compound was overrun on Tuesday, hopes of a swift end to six months of war were still being frustrated by fierce rearguard actions.

Western powers have demanded Gaddafi's surrender and worked to help the opposition start developing the trappings of government and bureaucracy lacking in the oil-rich state after 42 years of an eccentric personality cult.

The United States and South Africa struck a deal to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen funds for humanitarian aid and other civilian needs, U.N. diplomats said.

But with loyalists holding out in the capital, in Gaddafi's coastal home city and deep in the inland desert, violence could go on for some time, testing the rebel government's ability to keep order when it moves from its eastern stronghold Benghazi.

"I proclaim the beginning of the resumption of the work of the executive office in Tripoli," Ali Tarhouni, in charge of oil and financial matters for the rebel council, said in Tripoli.

The shift is seen as a crucial step to smoothing over rifts in the country, fragmented by regional and tribal divisions, particularly between east and west.

Gaddafi taunted his enemies and their Western backers, calling on his supporters to fight back in the city in his latest broadcast rallying cry.

"The tribes ... must march on Tripoli," Gaddafi said in an audio message aired on a sympathetic TV channel. "Do not leave Tripoli to those rats, kill them, defeat them quickly.

"The enemy is delusional, NATO is retreating," he shouted, sounding firmer and clearer than in a similar speech released on Wednesday. Though his enemies believe Gaddafi, 69, is still in the capital, they fear he could flee by long-prepared escape routes, using tunnels and bunkers, to rally an insurgency.

AIR STRIKES

The rebels' Colonel Hisham Buhagiar said they were targeting several areas to find Gaddafi: "We are sending special forces every day to hunt down Gaddafi. We have one unit that does intelligence and other units that hunt him down."

A pro-Gaddafi station said NATO warplanes had bombed his hometown of Sirte, one his last strongholds. While Britain's defense minister said NATO was providing intelligence assets to help the rebels find Gaddafi, the U.S. State Department said neither NATO nor Washington was involved in the manhunt.

Rebel leaders, offering a million-dollar reward, say the war will be over only when Gaddafi is found, "dead or alive."

In a southern district of Tripoli, close to the notorious prison of Abu Salim, rebel forces launched a concerted assault, sweeping from house to house and taking prisoners. Elsewhere, pro-Gaddafi forces shelled rebel positions at Tripoli's airport.

Diehards numbering perhaps in the hundreds were keeping at bay squads of irregular, anti-Gaddafi fighters who had swept into Tripoli on Sunday and who were now rushing from one site to another, firing assault rifles, machineguns and anti-aircraft cannon bolted to the backs of pick-up trucks.

The lack of security will be just one of many challenges facing Libya's new masters as they try to meet the expectations of young men now bearing arms and to heal ethnic, tribal and other divisions that have been exacerbated by civil war.

Speaking in Italy, the head of the rebel government, Mahmoud Jibril said the uprising, the bloodiest so far of the Arab Spring, could fall apart if funds were not forthcoming quickly: "The biggest destabilizing element would be the failure ... to deliver the necessary services and pay the salaries of the people who have not been paid for months."

In an interview with Reuters, Tarhouni said the rebel government hopes to restart oil exports within two to three months and reach full volumes in about a year.

REVENGE

After a meeting of officials in Istanbul, the Contact Group of allies against Gaddafi called on Libyans to avoid revenge.

"The participants attached utmost importance to the realization of national reconciliation in Libya," it said. "They agreed that such a process should be based on principles of inclusiveness, avoidance of retribution and vengeance."

Gaddafi's opponents fear that he may rally an insurgency, as did Saddam Hussein in Iraq, should he remain at large and, perhaps, in control of funds salted away for such a purpose.

Western powers, mindful of the bloodshed in Iraq, have made clear they do not want to engage their troops in Libya. But a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Washington would look favorably on any Libyan request for U.N. police assistance -- something some say might aid a transition to democracy.

The United States and NATO are also deeply concerned about possible looting and resale of weapons from Libyan arsenals as Gaddafi's rule crumbles, though the U.S. State Department said it believed Libya's stocks of concentrated uranium and mustard agent were secure.

However, with fighting raging, there was already evidence of the kind of bitter bloodletting in recent days that the rebel leaders are anxious to stop in the interests of uniting Libyans, including former Gaddafi supporters, in a democracy.

A Reuters correspondent counted 30 bodies, apparently of troops and gunmen who had fought for Gaddafi, at a site in central Tripoli. At least two had their hands bound. One was strapped to a hospital trolley with a drip still in his arm.

All the bodies had been riddled with bullets.

Elsewhere, a British medical worker said she had counted 17 bodies who she believed were of prisoners executed by Gaddafi's forces. One wounded man said he had survived the incident, when, he said, prison guards had sprayed inmates with gunfire on Tuesday as the rebel forces entered Gaddafi's compound.

Nonetheless, many in Tripoli count themselves happy already that Gaddafi has gone. "I was nine years old when Gaddafi came to power and I've always hoped I wouldn't die before I saw this day," said Ali Salem al-Gharyani, choking back tears.

"I am now 50 years old and this is the first time, seeing Gaddafi gone, that I have experienced true joy in my life."


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