Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Joint Forces Command to provide Information Technology services under the new Information Systems Support Services I.T. services umbrella contract, with a ceiling of $35.3 million for the first year and an estimated total of more than $186 million over 5 years if all 4 of the one-year options are exercised. Work is expected to begin on Oct. 5, 2007, and will occur primarily at the command’s Norfolk and Suffolk facilities as well as support at Joint Personnel Recovery Agency facilities at Ft. Belvoir, VA and Fairchild Air Force Base, WA and the command’s liaison officers at the Pentagon and in Washington, DC. Tasks include customer training and support, database development and administration, network operations and systems support, and video teleconferencing support. USJFCOM release | Lockheed Martin release.
USJFCOM has also issued significant I.T. contracts to Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems (Joint Warfighting Center) and General Dynamics C4I (Joint Futures Lab).
FN Herstal, S.A. in Herstal, Belgium received a $7.3 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract in return for 334 GAU-21 Left Hand and Right Hand Medium Window Pintle Connections for the CH-53D and CH-53E heavy-lift helicopters used by the US Marines. The GAU-21 is also known as the M3M, and is a .50 caliber machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal; it is typically mounted on the CH-53’s rear ramp.
Work will be performed in Johnstown, PA (72%) and Liege, Belgium (28%) and is expected to be complete in June 2009. The Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, MD issued the contract (N00019-06-C-0092).
Florida Community College in Jacksonville, FL received an indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity firm-fixed-price contract for $19.2M, exercising exercise of option II for instructor services to support the Training Support Center and the Recruit Command in Great Lakes, IL.
Work will be performed in Great Lakes, IL, and is expected to be complete by September 2011. This contract was competitively procured through Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO), with 2 offers received by the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Philadelphia Department (N00140-07-D-0014).
