by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, USA
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, USN in Portsmouth, VA has just issued a set of firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts to provide marine boatyard and industrial support, including specific modifications,...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 21, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Radars, Satellites & Sensors, Sensors & Guidance, USA
The Space-Based Radar program (now just Space Radar) was an effort to build a constellation of 10 to 24 satellites by 2012 that can duplicate the functions of the E-3 AWACS, E-8 JSTARS, and RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, watching aircraft, signals, and even people...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 21, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Sensors - Aquatic, USA
In underwater warfare, sound is life. The side that hears first often wins, and one of the tools used to help improve the odds is the towed array, a set of listening devices on a wire that helps to eliminate an natural acoustic “deaf spot,” and gives its...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 21, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, USA
Minuteman III launch Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems in Clearfield, UT, received a $53.1 million fixed-price-incentive-firm and cost-plus-award fee contract modification, exercising option 1 to continue upgrading the Environmental Control System for the...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 20, 2006 | C4ISR, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Official Reports, T&C - EDS, USA
On October 6, 2000, the US Navy awarded a 5-year contract for Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) services to EDS for an estimated 412,000 – 416,000 seats and minimum value of $4.1 billion. The original contract also included a 3-year option for an additional $2.8...
