Harris pursues $455 million Air Force maintenance contract
Harris has formed a team to compete for a six-and-a-half-year,
$455 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support
to the 50th Space Wing’s Air Force Satellite Control Network at locations
around the world.
“The Harris team is uniquely qualified for the NSOM program, having established
a legacy of unprecedented high performance on the Mission Communications and
Operations Maintenance and Operational Space Services and Support programs
- large portions of which will be consolidated into NSOM,” said Jim Prickett,
NSOM Program vice president, Harris Technical Services Corporation.
“We have worked with the 50th Space Wing for many years and look forward to
continuing this relationship with the successful implementation of the NSOM
program and all of the operational benefits and cost savings our team will
deliver.”
For more information, please visit www.harris.com
Northrop Grumman wins $256.6 million Marine Corps contract
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Northrop Grumman
Corporation a contract valued at $256.6 million to develop its new
Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, which consolidates the missions of
five Marine Corps radars into a single multi-role radar system. The
scope of work during this first program phase includes system development,
fabrication and test of the Increment I system, low rate initial
production of two G/ATOR systems and full-rate production of an additional
15 systems, and logistics support. The Marine Corps’ end state objective
is a total of 63 G/ATOR systems.
For more information, please visit www.ngc.com
Northrop Grumman awarded Air Force C-5 Galaxy contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a
$10 million contract to provide technical services for the C-5 Galaxy’s
Avionics Modernization Program and the Reliability Engineering and
Re-engining Program. The five-year contract has a base year with
four one-year options.
Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will provide acquisition and engineering
analysis management process support, logistics/sustainment technical services,
and test planning. The work will be done at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia
and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
For more information, please visit www.ngc.com
DRS receives $14 million Marine battle tank contract
DRS received a $14 million contract to produce Sidecar
Embedded Diagnostic Kits for the U.S. Marine Corps entire fleet of
battle tanks. Deliveries of the kits are expected to start immediately
and continue through December 2008.
For more information, please visit www.drs.com
DRS receives $52 million digitization systems contract
DRS has received a $52 million contract to provide
rugged Appliqué Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the
U.S. Army’s Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
The company’s DRS Tactical Systems unit in Melbourne will produce
the computer systems, including more than 5,700 processors, 5,800
display units, 5,300 keyboards, 6,700 hard disk drives and 1,400
rugged, solid-state hard disk drives.
For more information, please visit www.drs.com
Boeing to produce 18 Army Apaches
Boeing and the U.S. Army have signed a $276.4 million
contact for 18 new AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopters.
The contract raises to 45 the number of new-build Apache Longbows
on order with the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army also recently contracted
for the remanufacture of 96 AH-64A Apaches into AH-64Ds. The new
aircrafts are in addition to the 501 remanufactured AH-64D Apache
Longbows built between 1997 and 2006 under two five-year, multi-year
contracts.
For more information, please visit www.boeing.com
Air Berlin selects Rockwell Collins avionics
Air Berlin has selected the Rockwell Collins MultiScan
Hazard Detection System, Multi Mode Receiver and Passenger Address
Unit for 85 Boeing 737NG aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled to begin
in April 2008. The system is the first and only weather radar in
the market, which analyzes and determines actual weather hazards,
not simply atmospheric moisture content.
For more information, please visit www.rockwellcollins.com
Rockwell Collins avionics selected by Singapore
The Republic of Singapore Air Force’s C-130 fleet
has selected Rockwell Collins to provide an integrated avioniccommunication/navigation/
surveillance and air traffic solution. The program will provide the
avionics solution
for 10 Singapore C-130 aircraft. As the avionics provider for the
Republic of Singapore Air Force C-130 Avionics upgrade program, Rockwell
Collins provides technology that prepares aircraft for changing CNS/ATM
requirements.
For more information, please visit www.staero.aero and www.rockwellcollins.com
Lockheed receives $135-million Trident contract modification
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $135
million contract modification for continued work on the Trident II
D5 Life Extension program. The award is in addition to the $654.9
million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin earlier this year for
fiscal year 2007 production and deployed systems support for the
Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile program. Deliveries under the
original contract, which called for production of 425 missiles, began
in 1989, and the final two missiles are scheduled for delivery this
year. Extension missile deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2011,
with up to 108 additional missiles being delivered by 2017.
For more information, please visit www.lockheedmartin.com
Navy renews IAP base operations contract
The U.S. Navy has renewed IAP Worldwide Services’
contract to provide base operations support services, including facilities
maintenance, at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, a complex
that IAP has been serving since 1994. Work under the new contract
completes by October 2007, and includes options to extend the work
to April 2012. The contract is valued at $83.1 million over the five-year
period.
For more information, please visit www.iapws.com