Tuesday, October 25, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated October 25, 2011

Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated October 25, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - October 25, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued October 25, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

General Electric Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, is being awarded a $17,503,911 firm-fixed-price contract for the service life extension program kits and time compliance technical order upgrade kits in support of the upgrade of eight Egyptian Air Force F110 engines. The location of the performance is General Electric Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 848th Supply Chain Management Group, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8122-09-G-001-0019).

L-3 Communications Corp., Communications Systems – East Division, Camden, N. J., is being awarded a $9,585,657 firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract for advanced extremely high frequency/special test equipment systems and three interface tester adapters; training course and maintenance manuals; technical data package (Level 3); building and installing one duplicate advanced extremely high frequency/special test equipment tester; and three interface tester adapters; data, and cost-reimbursable travel. The location of performance is L-3 Communications, Camden, N.J. Electronic Systems Center, Cryptologic Systems Contracting Division (ESC/HNCK), San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (FA8307-12-C-1000).

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., is being awarded a $7,147,416 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The Broad Operational Language Technology Program has a goal of creating technology capable of translating multiple foreign languages in all genres, retrieving information from the translated material, and enabling bilingual communication via speech or text. Specifically, this contractor will conduct work for activities a), genre-independent translation and information retrieval system; b), human-machine communication system; c), human-human dialogue system; and d), Arabic dialect components. Work will be performed in Menlo Park, Calif. (50.22 percent); Flushing, N.Y. (2.49 percent); New York, N.Y. (11.39 percent); Hong Kong (2.41 percent); Portland, Ore. (1.00 percent); Rochester, N.Y. (1.58 percent); Edinburgh, the United Kingdom (2.41 percent); Seattle, Wash. (6.56 percent); Marseille, France (2.56 percent); Amherst, Mass. (10.68 percent); Richardson, Texas (1.26 percent); and Sunnyvale, Calif. (7.43 percent). The work is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2016. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity (HR0011-12-C-0016).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Gulfport Aviation Partners, L.L.C.*, Houston, Texas, was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for a maximum $6,603,727 for jet fuel. Other location of performance is Gulfport Biloxi International Airport, Gulfport, Miss. Using service is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. The date of performance completion is March 31, 2015. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-12-D-0001).

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DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India Set To Finalise Fighter Jets Deal

Defense News: DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India Set To Finalise Fighter Jets Deal
(NSI News Source Info) KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - October 25, 2011: In a crucial milestone for India's "mother of all deals" - its prolonged $12-billion effort to acquire 126 fighter jets - the Defence Ministry will open the commercial bids of the two finalists on November 4 at South Block.

France's Dassault Aviation and the European EADS were informed this week that their representatives would be required to be present when their bids (for the Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon respectively) are opened by a Contract Negotiation Committee (CNC).

Representatives of both firms will need to authenticate the confidential sealed envelopes containing their bids, before they are opened for the final comparison.

Following procedure, the final bids will be compared to a benchmark price - a reasonable, acceptable price for the contract - before adjudging the lowest bidder from the two. For both companies, the stakes are enormously high.

At $12-billion, and the near certainty that the final contract will be for a significantly larger sum, the IAF's MMRCA is quite simply the largest active acquisition of aircraft in recent memory, and one that both final contenders have invested millions in pitching for.

The Eurofighter Typhoon and Rafale are by far the costliest jets in the reckoning, and with both fighting a two-horse race to the finish line, India will be committed to spending a colossal sum of money on the acquisition.

In April this year, as earlier reported by Headlines Today, four other contenders were eliminated from the competition in a shock setback for the companies involved.

Those who were dropped from the reckoning included Sweden's Saab (Gripen), US firms Boeing and Lockheed-Martin with the F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-16 Super Viper respectively, and India's largest defence supplier Russia with its MiG-35.

Interestingly, the four eliminated companies remain in India, firm in the belief that the cost of their rivals in the finals make this make-or-break situation swing either way.

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The deal is worth $12 billion.











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