US Marines on patrol
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Kalman and Co. in Virginia Beach, VA received a $6.9 million task order to provide business and analytical support to the US Marine Corps Systems Command, Program Manager, Infantry Combat Equipment (PM ICE), Combat Equipment Support Systems (CESS). The PM ICE fields, sustains, and assesses clothing and equipment for Marines.

Kalman and Co. will provide specialized analysis supporting CESS as it develops and refines the USMC’s requirements for asset management and logistics support improvements through the consolidation of equipment…

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Alexander the Great
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Since the days of Alexander the Great, supplying troops deployed far from home has been a concern of militaries. At the height of his empire, Alexander’s legions extended from Greece to the Indian subcontinent. Keeping his troops feed and armed was one of Alexander’s major concerns.

In the information age, militaries are increasing turning to the network to ensure troops are supplied over vast distances. The US military’s latest effort in this area is called the Global Combat Support System (GCSS), which uses information technology to increase the efficiency of logistics and provide a global picture of combat assets and supplies.

Each service has its own version of GCSS. The one operated by the Air Force was developed by Lockheed Martin. On Dec 10/09, the company received a $78.5 million bridge contract to continue its work on the system…

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CACI in Chantilly, VA received a $30.8 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to provide logistics and training support for US Navy and US Marine Corps activities.

This contract contains 4 one-year options, which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $190.3 million.

This is the 6th contract renewal for CACI over the past 22 years for services supporting the Navy’s Fleet Assistance and Shipboard Training program…

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UH-60 fires flares in Iraq
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Sikorsky Aircraft, a Stratford, CT-based unit of United Technologies, received a $168.7 milion firm-fixed-price contract for H-60 supplies and technical, engineering and logistical support services for a period of 12 months.

The contract is in support of overhaul, repair, and recapitalization of H-60 Black Hawk helicopters at Corpus Christi Army Depot.

First deployed in 1978, the Black Hawk is the Army’s front-line utility helicopter used for air assault, air cavalry, and aeromedical evacuation units…

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Iraqi soldiers standing guard
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AECOM Government Services in Fort Worth, TX received a $20.1 million sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide vehicle maintenance, night vision device maintenance, and training services to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) at various sites within Iraq. This is a 6-month bridge contract while a new long-term contract is being competed.

AECOM will provide the following vehicle maintenance services: training to Iraqi maintenance repair personnel, deployment of Mobile Support Teams to ISF locations to perform light and medium repairs, sustainment of the Joint Repair Parts Command (JRPC) complex at Taji, and bilingual personnel for interaction with US government representatives at vehicle maintenance locations. In addition, the company will provide training and repair capabilities for night vision devices issued to the ISF…

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Maersk MPS Ship

Honeywell Technology Solutions in Jacksonville, FL received a not-to-exceed $45 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee task order to provide prepositioning and logistics support services to the US Marine Corps.

Honeywell’s logistics support efforts include maintenance, supply, and inventory management of prepositioned combat assets aboard ships.

Under the original $707 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (M67004-09-D-0020), Honeywell supports the Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) Program and the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway…

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Terex’s MAC-50 Crane
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Terex Corp. in Fredericksburg, VA received a $7 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from the US Marine Corps (USMC) to provide maintenance logistics support for the company’s 50-ton military all-terrain cranes (MAC-50) in Afghanistan and Iraq. This contract contains an option, which if exercised, will bring the total contract value to $8.9 million.

Terex will provide maintenance and supply support for the cranes and technical assistance to units operating the crane outside the continental United States. The company will provide personnel, material, services and support documentation; field service representatives; maintenance and parts.

The USMC ordered up to 130 MAC-50 cranes from Terex in 2005.

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Afghan 7000 series
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In May 2008, the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command awarded Navistar Defense a follow-on contract to provide medium tactical trucks and spare parts to the Afghanistan National Police, Afghan National Army and the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.

These trucks are based on Navistar’s severe service International 7000 Series truck, and include General Troop Transporter, POL (petroleum, oil and lubricant), water tankers, wreckers and hazardous material truck variants. In addition, Navistar was contracted to supply all required spare parts necessary to support several years of scheduled maintenance.

A recent award extends that $1+ billion contract, with a particular focus on Afghanistan – and the Pentagon has just clarified with full type breakdowns…

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Private Vehicle Storage
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American Auto Logistics (AAL) in Park Ridge, NJ received a $207.4 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract [pdf] for transportation and storage of US military’s privately owned vehicles (POVs).

AAL operates 40 vehicle process centers and 8 long-term storage facilities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia…

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Keep on Moving
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Everybody hates to move. And no one moves more than the US military. With approximately 500,000 household goods shipments every year, the military is the largest moving population in the United States.

To help ease the process, the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) has contracted with SRA International to automate the process using information technology under the Defense Personal Property System (DPS).

The web-based DPS enables US military personnel, family members, government managers and moving companies to plan, schedule, contract for, move and receive shipments of household belongings from assignment to assignment.

SRA began work on DPS in 2004…

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