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Archives by date > 2008 > July > 13th

DARPA Working on a HELL Lance

Jul 13, 2008 14:39 UTC

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THEL/Skyguard concept

Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, MA recently received an initial $3.17 million increment of a $21.3 million “other transaction”. They’ll provide protoypes for phase 2 of the High Energy Liquid Laser (HELL) Area Defense System. Work will be performed in Wilmington, MA (66%), Cambridge, MA (13%), Vienna, VA (9%), Bridgeton, MA (9%), Albuquerque, NM, (1%), and Charlestown, MA (less than 1%), and is expected to be complete in August 2009. This is a sole source award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., (HR0011-08-9-0006).

Lasers have a number of obvious benefits if used as an air defense system, especially against targets like the terrorist rocket attacks that featured so prominently in Israel’s 2006 war, and which continue from the Palestinian territories to this day. The technical obtsacles remain daunting, however, and include rate of fire, sufficient power to burn through a target almost immediately, number of shots per power source, battlefield fragility, and in some cases the toxicity of the chemicals involved. A system called THEL/M-THEL has been tested, and is even marketed by Northrop Grumman as Skyguard, but lasers have yet to be bought in numbers or deployed under battle conditions. Research continues.

$5.8M for Alaskan Help at the Defense Supply Center, Richmond

Jul 13, 2008 10:02 UTC

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Small, disadvantaged business qualifier Bering Straits Information Technology, LLC in Anchorage, AK received a maximum $5.8 million firm fixed price, total set aside, 8(a) Alaskan Native sole-source contract. they will to provide all labor and staff to help the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Supply Center, Richmond (DSCR) by reducing existing back-orders, managing National Stock Number assistance, and otherwise helping out as needed.

There was originally 1 proposal solicited with 1 response. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, and the contract will end on July 31/11. The contracting activity is the DSCR in Richmond, VA (SP4703-08-C-0013).

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