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FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET
No. 847-06
September 05, 2006


                                                                                     CONTRACTS

                                                                                       AIR FORCE

            Harris Technical Services Corp., Colorado Springs, Co., is being awarded a $54,997,058 cost plus award fee contract. This action provides for operations and maintenance services to be provided to Air Force Space Command’s 50th Space wing including: configuration management, electrical power systems management, communications systems engineering, small computer hardware maintenance and database applications support, 2 hour maintenance management, industrial safety, communications security, information management, local area network management, communications network control center operations, telephone operations, and visual information management, communications circuit management, satellite control center support, computer operations support, communications-computer system maintenance and operation for the defense satellite communications system, secure communication system, MILSTAR, and other operations in support of the Air Force Satellite Control Network. To date $44,819,845 has been obligated. The work will be complete September 2007. Headquarters 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Co., is the contracting activity (FA2550-02-C-0007/P00066).

            Raytheon Co., El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $54,400,667 cost plus award fee. The objective of the work is to investigate and demonstrate, via hardware test and evaluation, the viability of a full-earth sharing senor assembly to meet threshold missile warning, missile defense objectives of the Defense Satellite Program/Space Based Infrared Surveillance High Systems and to provide performance data that can be used by the Government to assess the risk of this approach for a future Alternative Infrared Satellite System, Engineering and Manufacturing Design program. Raytheon shall build, integrate, and test enough of the hardware and software elements of the functional/signal path to demonstrate basic integrated senor assembly capability against requirements goals derived from the Defense Satellite Program/Space Based Infrared Surveillance and High Missile Warning/Missile Defense requirements. The work will be complete in twenty four months plus three months for receipt of final report. To date $4,455,478 has been obligated. Headquarters Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. is the contracting activity (FA9435-060C-0377).

            DTS Aviation Services, Inc., Fort Worth, Tex., is being awarded a $37,283,349 fixed price incentive (firm target) with award fee contract modification. This action exercise an option year for maintenance of T-37, T-38C, T-6, and T1A aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. To date no funds have been obligated. The work will be complete September 2007. Headquarters 14th Flying Training Wing, Columbus Air Force Base, Miss., is the contracting activity (FA3002-05-C-0016/P00021).

            Tybrin Corp., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $36,169,179 cost plus award fee; cost reimbursement no fee contract modification. The Air Force is exercising option year four for software engineering support of guided weapons systems evaluations, simulations, and other services supporting research and development for the principals and customers of the Air Armament Center. To date no funds have been obligated. The work will be complete September 2007. Headquarters Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08635-02-C-0034/P00026).

            ITT Industries, Systems Division., Colorado Springs, Co., is being awarded a $13,263,349 firm fixed price award fee with cost reimbursable line items cost contract modification. This action will provide mission support, program management, operations and maintenance, and measurement, analysis and improvement required to successfully achieve the system operational availability coverage and data integrity required by the users of the hemisphere radar system. The mission of hemisphere radar system is to provide air surveillance in support of United States and allied nations counter drug efforts throughout the United States southern command area of responsibility and to support air sovereignty, search and rescue, regional cooperation missions and training. The work will be completed September 2007. To date $13,263,349 has been obligated. Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va. is the contracting activity (FA44650-03-C-0009/P00050).

            Sytex, Doylestown, Pa., is being awarded a $10,333,582 firm fixed price delivery order off a BPA contract. This action provides for counter intelligence/force protection. To date $10,333,582 has been obligated. The work will be complete September 2007. Headquarters 6th Air Mobility Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (FO8602-02-A-0021(BPA)/FA4811-06-F-A388 (DO)).

            Honeywell International Inc., Teterboro, N.J., is being awarded a $7,669,671 cost plus fixed fee contract. This order is an engineering services effort in support of the F-15 avionics intermediate shop antenna test station and Enhancement Aircraft Radar Test Station. Honeywell is required to develop form fit function replacements for items that had previously been identified as obsolete and unsupportable in the tester. Requirement is also included that will automate a test procedure for the enhancement aircraft radar station which will significantly improve the performance of the tester at both depot and field locations and a requirement to correct a previously identified software deficiency in the tester. To date $7,669,671 has been obligated. The work will be complete eighteen months after award. Headquarters 542nd Combat Sustainment Wing, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8517-05-G-0001-0009).

            Diversitech, Inc. and Call Henry, Inc., Joint Venture, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $6,778,023 cost plus award fee contract modification. This action provides for Civil Engineering and Base Maintenance Services. Civil engineering support services, base operation and maintenance, repair, construction, equipment installation, support of real property and real property installed equipment. This work will be complete September 2007. To date, no funds have been obligated. Headquarters 50th Space Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, Co., is the contracting activity (FA2550-02-C-0005/P00071).

                                                                                            NAVY

            FN Herstal, S.A., Herstal, Belgium, is being awarded a $22,000,000 firm-fixed-priced contract for the procurement of 519 GAU-21 weapons systems, to include related supplies and services, operator and armorer tool kits, replacement part kits, technical manuals for the operation, maintenance and repair of the weapon systems, and training. Work will be performed in Herstal, Belgium (90 percent); Johnston, Pa. (4 percent); Somerset, Pa. (3 percent); and Blairsville, Pa. (3 percent) and is expected to be completed in October 2007. 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 (N00019-06-C-0092).

            ALION Science and Technology Corp., Chicago, Ill., is being awarded a $7,923,637 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N61339-03-D-0300) to provide modeling and simulation services in support of the Army Modeling and Simulation Office. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va. (85 percent) and Alexandria, Va. (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2009. Contract funds in will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity.

                                                                     DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

            Sysco of Hampton Roads, Suffolk, Va., is being awarded a maximum $15,875,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment for full line food distribution for DoD and non-DoD customers in the mid-Atlantic South Zone. Using services are Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Proposals were Web-solicited and two responded. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is September 2, 2007. Contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM300-06-D-3146).