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FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET
No. 396-99
August 30, 1999


DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Coastal Refining & Marketing, Inc., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $6,593,160 fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment contract for the naval distillate fuel, F76. Four proposals were solicited and 2 were received. Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2000. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-99-D-0548).

NAVY

Smiths Industries, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $35,542,384 requirements contract for direct vendor delivery (DVD) for the stores management system used on F/A-18C/D, F/14, and AV-8B aircraft. DVD will provide logistics, engineering support, and obsolescence management as well as two-day delivery in the continental United States and seven days outside the continental United States. This contract contains award terms, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $99,526,594. Work will be performed in Clearwater, Fla., and is expected to be completed by August 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N00383-99-D-009D).

Raytheon Systems Company, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $6,465,097 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a basic ordering agreement for engineering and management support services, including the analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation updates for the integration of the Joint Standoff Weapon System on the B-1B, F-15E, F-16 Block 40, and F-16 Block 50 Modular Mission Computer M2+ aircraft platforms. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by August 2002. 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 (N00019-98-G-0104).

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AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corp., Bethesda, Md., is being awarded a $23,221,821 modification to a fixed-price-award-fee contract, F44650-96-C0010-P00058, to provide for FY2000 operation, maintenance, and support for the Tethered Aerostat Radar System and for TV Marti. Expected contract completion date is Sept. 30, 2000. Air Combat Command Contracting Squadron, Langley AFB, Va., is the contracting activity.

Hunt Building Corp., El Paso, Texas, is being awarded a $7,395,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for design and construction of 54 units of military family housing at Keesler AFB, Miss. There were 47 firms solicited and three proposals received. Expected contract completion date is 436 calendar days from date of receipt of notice to proceed (approximately Sept. 99). Solicitation issue date was March 26, 1999. Negotiation completion date was Aug. 13. 1999. Human Systems Center, Brooks AFB, Texas, is the contracting activity (F41622-99-C-0012).

Gunver Manufacturing Company, Manchester, Conn., is being awarded a $5,742,238 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for 9,663 Convergent Segment Liners applicable to the F100/200/220 engine on the F-15 and F-16 aircraft. There were two firms solicited and two proposals received. Expected contract completion date is February 2001. Solicitation issue date was Aug. 10, 1999. Negotiation completion date was Aug. 19, 1999. San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Kelly AFB, Texas, is the contracting activity (F41608-99-C-0470).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $9,100,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide for engineering and manufacturing development in support of the Air-to-Air Interrogator integration effort for the F-16 Block 50/52 aircraft. The Air-to-Air Interrogator is advanced friend-or-foe identification technology. Expected contract completion date is Dec. 31, 2001. Solicitation issue date was Aug. 9, 1999. Negotiation completion date was Nov. 26, 1999. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-99-C-0050).

ITT Industries, Fort Wayne, Ind., is being awarded a $73,000,376 cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for Phase II algorithm and design development, investigation and analysis, and construction of three flight production units in support of the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder Sensor for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Expected delivery date of the critical design review is Nov. 14, 2001. Expected delivery date of Protoqual unit is April 1, 2004. Expected delivery date of Protoqual testing is April 1, 2004. Expected delivery date of 2nd Flight Production Unit is July 1, 2005. Delivery of 3rd Flight Production Unit is July 1, 2007. Expected delivery date of 4th Flight Production Unit (option) is July 1, 2009. Solicitation issue date was May 7, 1999; amended June 1, 1999 and July 19, 1999. Negotiation completion date was July 28 1999. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif., is the contracting activity (F04701-99-C-0061).

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ARMY

Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, Mass., is being awarded a $333,338 increment as part of a $5,074,000 cost-sharing contract to develop acceleration and shock resistant Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) devices for multi-axis rate measurement, that can survive the high acceleration and shocks associated with modern weapons systems, such as artillery, guns, mortars, missile launchers, and aircraft weapon dispensers. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Mass. (89.4%); Nashville, Tenn. (8.6%); and Orlando, Fla. (2%), and is expected to be completed by Aug. 31, 2002. The government will fund $2,742,000 of the $5,074,000 basic effort, and the contractor will fund $2,332,000. There was a broad agency announcement on Nov. 6, 1998, and 109 bids were received. The U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (DAAH01-99-C-R228).