The Australian Government has chosen Gibbs & Cox as the preferred ship designer for the Royal Australian Navy’s USD $4.5 billion SEA 4000 Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) program. The US firm Gibbs & Cox beat out Germany’s Blohm + Voss and Spain’s Navantia to join a team made up of ship builder ASC Shipbuilder Pty Ltd and combat system engineer Raytheon Australia.
“The selection of Gibbs and Cox as platform designer now completes the team whose responsibility it is to deliver the project,” Defence Minister Hill said. Nevertheless, the final AWD ship design is not set…
The Boeing Co. in St. Louis, MO received an $8.3 million ceiling-priced modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-04-C-0005) to provide modeling and simulation, design, and development for a training system for the EA-18G electronic attack version of the Super Hornet aircraft. This is added to the 5-year, $979 million Dec. 2003 base contract for overall System Design & Development of the EA-18G, and a $7 million Sept. 2004 supplemental for additional fault isolation in the ALQ-218 (V)2 Tactical Jamming Receiver, for a current contract total of $994.3 million.
The EA-18G Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) system was selected by the U. S. Navy to replace the aging EA-6B Prowler, which is now the USA’s sole remaining aircraft for tactical radar jamming, communications jamming and information operations…
Textron Systems Corp., Wilmington, MA is being awarded an $8,296,838 firm fixed price, time and material and cost contract to provide for the annual service agreement to perform depot level logistics support for 37 AN/TRN-45 Mobile Microwave Landing Systems (MMLS) and MMLS users. The system has seen heavy use in the global war on terror, including Iraq and the even less clement climes of Afghanistan…
Conceptual MindWorks in San Antonio, TX received a $7 million cost-plus fixed-fee contract to provide for research support around emerging directed energy weapons (including non-lethal weapons) and their effects on humans. Work will be conducted in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate (AFRL/HEDR), Directed Energy Bio-effects Division, Radio frequency Radiation Branch, located in Brooks City-Base, TX. The scope of the proposed contract will focus on bioeffects research on directed energy and kinetic energy systems, to assist in transitioning DoD technologies from the lab to the front lines.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in San Diego, CA received a $6.1 million cost-plus award-fee contract modification to a $50 million maximum May 2000 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract that provide for 29 major upgrades to the worldwide seismic sensor network used to monitor nuclear detonation and testing. That contract also included seismic network sustainment, and installation of four new seismic array sites.
Under Delivery Order 2405-16, Near Term Seismic Upgrade, the contractor will provide program management, site design, material procurement, production/integration, testing, packaging and shipping, installation, and documentation services at four sites (Indian Mountain, Eielson, Cambridge Bay and Burnt Mountain). The location of performance is Air Force Technical Applications Center at Patrick Air Force Base, FL. Negotiations were completed July 2005, and work will be complete by December 2006. The United States Atomic Energy Detection Systems Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, FL issued the contract (F33657-00-D-5700).
