Defense contracts awarded 01/30/07

[Horse with no Name]

Notice how many of these seemingly fall under "previously awarded" contracts

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2007/01/dod-contracts_3443.htm

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Raytheon Company, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an estimated $30,593,296 cost plus award fee contract for engineering and technical services in support of STANDARD Missile Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation programs. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in January 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-5361).

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $18,337,129 for ceiling priced order (0204) under previously awarded contract (N00383-03-G-001B) for spare components for the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed by January 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

The Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded an $18,000,000 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-03-C-3017) to exercise an option for engineering and logistics services in support of the MV-22 Total Life Cycle Logistics Support effort. Services to be provided include planning and management; supportability analysis; training; support equipment; facilities management; computer resources; supportability test and evaluation; packaging, handling, storage and transportation of supplies; post-DD250 engineering and technical support; site/unit activation; on-site representative support; logistics life cycle cost; age exploration; configuration management; technical publications; and Naval Air Training and Operational Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) support. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (45 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (45 percent); and New River, N.C. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $11,663,971 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-06-C-0086) to exercise an option for systems engineering and program management support for the UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft for Calendar Year 2007. Work will be performed in Hurst, Texas (80 percent) and Amarillo, Texas (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Boeing Helicopter, Ridley Park, Pa., is being awarded an $8,023,624 ceiling priced order (0206) under previously awarded contract (N00383-03-G-001B) for spare components for the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa., and is expected to be completed by January 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $5,596,537 cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-5453) to exercise options for technical engineering services in support of MK 41 Vertical Launching System Integration for the Governments of Spain (60 percent); Australia (37 percent); Germany (2 percent); and Korea (1 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (80 percent) and Ventura, Calif. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed by October 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

http://www.defenselink.mil/Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3443

[hippiechick]

1. I'd like to match these with a list of campaign donations ...

... freebies and other perks passed around DC during the most recent election cycle.

[catnhatnh]

2. At least three of this contracts...

...are to get osprey swing wings and hueys ready....goes to the point that we are running out of front line helicopters.