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FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET
No. 697-94
December 14, 1994


AIR FORCE

Harris Corporation, Information Systems Division, Melbourne, Florida, is being awarded a $23,207,283 face value increase to a cost-plus-award-fee contract for upgrade of the instrumentation consolidation facility at the Ascension Island Tracking Station and for upgrade of the telemetry processing capability at Ascension Island and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The work will be performed at Melbourne, Florida (90%) and various other sites. Contract is expected to be completed December 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles, California, is the contracting activity (F04701-93-C-0003, P00023).

ARMY

Raytheon Company, Missile Systems Division Headquarters, Bedford, Massachusetts, was awarded on December 9, 1994, a $14,713,787 modification for the repair and rebuild of secondary items for the PATRIOT Missile System, exercise of Option II. Work will be performed in Bedford, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed by December 22, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on October 1, 1993. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (DAAH01-94-C-0063).

Holston Defense Corporation, Kingsport, Tennessee, is being awarded an $11,276,768 modification to a cost plus fixed fee contract for the operation and maintenance of a government owned/contractor operated facility. Work will be performed at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by December 31, 1995. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on January 1, 1983. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Armament, Munitions, and Chemical Command, Rock Island, Illinois (DAAA09-92-Z-0008).

Hughes Aircraft Company, Product Support Division, Long Beach, California, is being awarded a $6,396,835 firm fixed price contract for the Ground Based Sensor Institutional Maintenance System. Work will be performed in Long Beach, California, and is expected to be completed by December 31, 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated in July, 1994. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (DAAH01-95-C-0054).

Hughes Missile Systems Company, Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded an $8,926,727 modification to a firm fixed price contract to exercise option for 513 TOW 2B Missiles. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by September 30, 1996. Of the total contract funds, $136,997 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on June 14, 1991. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (DAAH01-92-C-0260).

NAVY

Lockheed Sanders, Inc., Defense Systems Division, Nashua, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $12,491,000 order for the procurement of 13 AN/USM-406D countermeasure test sets for the F/A-18E/F aircraft, and associated test equipment. Contract funds in the amount of $1,607,000 would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (13%), and the governments of Malaysia (44%), Switzerland (22%), and Spain (21%) under the Foreign Military Sales Program (FMS). The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (N00383-91-G-2206).

Sea-Land Service, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, is being awarded a $10,500,000 one-year service contract for the transportation of U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force exchange cargo between points in the United States and the United Kingdom and other destinations in Northern Europe. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with five proposals solicited and two offers received. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, Central Technical Activity, is the contracting activity (N62387-95-C-9500).

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Electronic Systems, Sykesville, Maryland, is being awarded a $29,228,441 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-92-C-6223 to exercise an option for the demonstration and validation phase of the US/UK Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) Joint Project. Work will be performed in Sykesville, Maryland (29%), Greensboro, North Carolina (9%), Glendale, California (7%), and in the United Kingdom (55%), and is expected to be completed by July 1997. 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.

LaQue Center for Corrosion Technology, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, is being awarded a $8,400,959 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for marine corrosion testing services on metals, composites and components, in support of the Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Annapolis Detachment, Annapolis, Maryland. Work will be performed in Wrightville Beach, North Carolina, and is expected to be completed by December 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 60 proposals solicited and one offer received. The Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Annapolis Detachment, Annapolis, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N61533-95-D-0015).

U.S. Environmental & Industrial, Inc., Panama City, Florida, is being awarded a $250,000 indefinite quantity job order contract, with a not-to-exceed value of $25,000,000, for general construction projects. Work will be performed in Oxnard Plain and Offshore Islands, Point Mugu, California, and is expected to be completed by December 1995. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 75 proposals solicited and 15 offers received. The Officer in Charge of Construction, Naval Air Weapons Station, Point Mugu, California, is the contracting activity (N62474-93-D-7900).