USA — US Military contracts for FY11

AIR FORCE

Unit­ed Launch Ser­vices, LLC, Lit­tle­ton, Colo., is being award­ed a not-to-exceed $575,000,000 firm-fixed-price con­tract to pro­vide Evolved Expend­able Launch Vehi­cle launch ser­vices in sup­port of the fol­low­ing mis­sions: Mobile User Objec­tive Ser­vices 2; Wide­band Glob­al Satel­lite Com­mu­ni­ca­tions 6; and Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office Launch 65. At this point, $245,250,000 has been oblig­at­ed. Work will be per­formed in Lit­tle­ton, Colo. The Space and Mis­sile Sys­tems Center/Launch and Range Sys­tems Direc­torate, El Segun­do Air Force Base, Calif., is the con­tract­ing activ­i­ty (FA8811-11-C-0001).

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Mis­sile Defense Agency is announc­ing the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee con­tract to Lock­heed Mar­tin Corp., Bethes­da, Md., with an award val­ue of $43,333,077. Under this con­tract (HQ0147-11-C-0008), Lock­heed will work with MDA on the con­cept def­i­n­i­tion and pro­gram plan­ning for the Stan­dard Missile‑3 Block IIB to define and assess viable and afford­able mis­sile con­fig­u­ra­tions, con­duct trade stud­ies, and define an exe­cutable devel­op­ment plan. This con­tract was com­pet­i­tive­ly pro­cured via pub­li­ca­tion on the Fed­er­al Busi­ness Oppor­tu­ni­ties web­site with four pro­pos­als received. The work will be per­formed by Lock­heed Mar­tin Space Sys­tems, Sun­ny­vale, Calif., through Decem­ber 2013. Fis­cal 2011 research, devel­op­ment, test and eval­u­a­tion funds in the amount of $1,410,000 will be used to incre­men­tal­ly fund this effort. 

NAVY

Booz Allen Hamil­ton, Inc., McLean, Va., is being award­ed a $10,930,118 mod­i­fi­ca­tion to a pre­vi­ous­ly award­ed cost-plus-fixed-fee con­tract (N00421-09-C-0016) to exer­cise an option for tech­ni­cal and engi­neer­ing ser­vices for com­mu­ni­ca­tions-elec­tron­ics advanced tech­nol­o­gy sys­tems sup­port­ing the Naval Air War­fare Cen­ter Air­craft Division’s Spe­cial Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Require­ments Divi­sion. The esti­mat­ed lev­el of effort for this option is 88,922 man-hours. Work will be per­formed in Lex­ing­ton Park, Md. (70 per­cent), and St. Ini­goes, Md. (30 per­cent), and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed in Sep­tem­ber 2011. Con­tract funds will not expire at the end of the fis­cal year. The Naval Air War­fare Cen­ter Air­craft Divi­sion, Patux­ent Riv­er, Md., is the con­tract­ing activity. 

Sci­ence Appli­ca­tion Inter­na­tion­al Corp. (SAIC), McLean, Va., is being award­ed an $8,407,583 cost-plus-fixed-fee con­tract for the Vec­tor Sen­sor Array Sys­tem devel­op­ment, per­for­mance engi­neer­ing, and research. SAIC will help con­tin­ue the devel­op­ment of under­wa­ter acoustic sen­sors. The con­tract will be incre­men­tal­ly fund­ed at this time in the amount of $500,000. This con­tract con­tains options which, if exer­cised, will bring the con­tract val­ue to $17,506,219. Work will be per­formed at the contractor’s facil­i­ty in McLean, Va., and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed May 2016. Con­tract funds will not expire at the end of the cur­rent fis­cal year. The con­tract was com­pet­i­tive­ly pro­cured under the Long Range ONR BAA 11–001; numer­ous pro­pos­als were received but only one award was made. The Office of Naval Research, Arling­ton, Va., is the con­tract­ing activ­i­ty (N00014-11-C-0244).

Lamb­da Sci­ence, Inc., Bryn Mawr, Pa., is being award­ed an $8,335,447 cost-plus-fixed-fee con­tract for the tech­ni­cal sup­port for sub­ma­rine vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and sur­viv­abil­i­ty. Work will be per­formed at the contractor’s facil­i­ty in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed April 2016. The action is being incre­men­tal­ly fund­ed with this oblig­a­tion of $152,000. Con­tract funds will not expire at the end of the cur­rent fis­cal year. The con­tract was com­pet­i­tive­ly pro­cured under BAA 09–042, with one pro­pos­al received. The Office of Naval Research, Arling­ton, Va., is the con­tract­ing activ­i­ty (N00014-11-C-0162).

Source:
U.S. Depart­ment of Defense
Office of the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense (Pub­lic Affairs)