U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 10 June 2005) ViaSat*, Carlsbad, Calif., is being awarded a $61,047,433 firm-fixed-price delivery order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVTs). The MIDS-LVT provides secure, high capacity, jam resistant, digital data and voice communications capability for the Navy, Air Force and Army platforms. This delivery order combines purchases for the U.S. (98 percent) and the government of Japan (2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Contract funds in the amount of $7,799,089 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work will be performed in Carlsbad, Calif., (30 percent), in various other sites worldwide (70 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2007. This delivery order was competitively procured with two proposals solicited and two offers received via the SPAWAR E-commerce web site. The synopsis was released via the Federal Business Opportunities web site. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-00-D-2101).
(Defenselink -- 10 June 2005) Data Link Solutions, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $32,548,617 firm-fixed-price delivery order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVTs). The MIDS-LVT provides secure, high capacity, jam resistant, digital data and voice communications capability for the Navy, Air Force and Army platforms. This delivery order combines purchases for the U.S. (78.4 percent) and the governments of Australia (4.5 percent); Switzerland (8.2 percent); Japan (6.7 percent); and New Zealand (2.2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Wayne, N.J. (50 percent), and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (50 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2007. Contract funds in the amount of $3,293,049 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This delivery order was competitively procured with two proposals solicited and two offers received via the SPAWAR E-commerce web site. The synopsis was released via the Federal Business Opportunities web site. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-00-D-2100).
(Defenselink -- 10 June 2005) Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $5,000,000 ceiling-priced indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, time and material contract for engineering and logistic services in response to obsolescence issues and operational and/or technical problems arising from P-3 type/model/series fleet usage for the Navy, Foreign Military Sales Program customers and other government agencies. The efforts to be performed under this contract include design engineering investigations, reliability, maintainability and human factors analysis, engineering change proposal feasibility studies, support for failure, incident and accident investigations, and Integrated Logistics Support. Work will be performed in Marietta, Ga., and work is expected to be completed in June 2006. 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 (N00019-05-D-0005).