DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 6, 2012

Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated February 6, 2012

 Source: U.S. DoD issued No. 081-12 February 6, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 6, 2012: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  February  6, 2012 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

            Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $583,025,557 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components.  Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (65.9 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (34.1 percent). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  No completion date or additional information is provided on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts.  The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity (N00024-12-C-2107).

            Sikorsky Support Services, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., was awarded on Jan. 31 a $26,063,162 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery requirements contract (N00019-11-D-0014) to exercise an option for logistics services and materials for organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance to support 161 T-34, 54 T-44, and 172 T-6 aircraft based primarily at Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Texas; NAS Whiting Field, Fla.; and NAS Pensacola, Fla.  Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (50 percent); Whiting Field, Fla. (39 percent); Pensacola, Fla. (8 percent); and various sites within the continental United States (3 percent).  Work is expected to be completed in April 2012.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  No funds will be obligated at time of award.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

            Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $9,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2229) for additional long lead time material in support of the LHA Replacement Flight 0 amphibious assault ship, LHA 7.  Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss, and is expected to be completed by May 2013.  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.

            General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc., Pittsfield, Mass., is being awarded a $7,150,086 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013 operational and facilities support, design, development, production and installation of United States and United Kingdom SSBN, ballistic missile submarine; SSBN-R, ballistic missile submarine-replacement; and SSGN, guided missile submarine, Fire Control Weapons Training Systems, as well as design and development of United States SSBN Training Afloat.  This contract contains options, which, if exercised, will bring the contract value to $13,340,198.  Work will be performed in Pittsfield, Mass., and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2012.  With exercised option, work will continue through to May 30, 2014.  Contract funds in the amount of $3,105,330 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The contract was not competitively procured.  Strategic Systems Program, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00030-12-C-0014).

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

            Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Md., is being awarded an up to $85,000,000.00 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, task order contract.  This university-affiliated research center contract will provide for advanced research, development, and engineering support for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency technology programs.  Work will be performed in Laurel, Md, and is expected to be completed by Feb. 1, 2017.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity (HR0011-12-D-0001).

            Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $9,035,520 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.  The award is for research on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Nitride Electronic Next Generation Technology Program.  The performer will develop device and integration technologies necessary to realize enhancement and depletion mode nitride transistors that simultaneously provide extremely high-speed and high-voltage operation in a process consistent with large-scale integration in circuits of 1,000 or more transistors.  Work will be performed in Redondo Beach, Calif. (86.54 percent); Santa Barbara, Calif. (8.30 percent); Tempe, Ariz. (3.50 percent); and University Park, Pa. (1.66 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by Aug. 2, 2013.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity (HR0011-09-C-0132).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

            BAE Systems Specialty Group, Jessup, Pa., was issued a modification exercising the second option year on contract SPM1C1-08-D-1080/P00033.  The award is a firm-fixed-price, surge option contract with a maximum $17,223,032 for modular lightweight load carrying equipment.  Other locations of performance are Kentucky, Tennessee, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Puerto Rico.  Using service is Army.  There were seven responses to the Web solicitation.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2010 Defense Working Capital Funds.  The date of performance completion is October 2012.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources U.S. DoD issued No. 081-12 February 6, 2012
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