$125M to CACI for Army Fire Support System Software Engineering

CACI International in Arlington, VA received a $125 million task order to provide the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Command’s (CECOM) Fires Software Engineering Division (FSED) with software engineering support for fielded fire support systems. The award, for 1 base year and 2 option years, was competitively awarded under the Army’s Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract vehicle. The task order brings the total amount of S3 awards to CACI to nearly $2 billion.

DID has more on the FSED and the CACI team…

Up to $100M to Atlantic Contingency Constructors for Navy Solar Energy Systems

Photovoltaic System
Coronado Naval Base

Atlantic Contingency Constructors in Norfolk, VA received 3 task orders totaling up $100 million to install solar energy systems at U.S. Navy shore facilities in the United States. The task orders were awarded under a Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic multiple-award global contingency construction contract (N62470-06-D-6007).

All of the task orders involve installation of solar energy systems that will be tied to the electrical distribution grid. Altantic Contingency Constructors expects to complete work on the task orders by Sept. 30/10. Funds are provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

DID has more details on each of the task orders…

Penn State to Develop Next Generation Navy Radars, Sensors

Penn State University Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, Pa., received an $11.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide research, design, development, and delivery of sub-systems for the U.S. Navy’s next-generation radars and Common Data Sensor Architecture (CDSA) program to support Integrated Warfare Systems 2 (IWS 2). The CDSA is a centralized system for collecting input information from a variety of sensors and providing information from 1 group of sensors to another.

DID has more on the CDSA program…

Up to $375M to L-3 for USAFE Computer, Intelligence Analysis Support

L-3 Communications’ MPRI division in Alexandria, VA received a follow-on contract to provide computer and intelligence analysis support services to U.S. Air Forces Europe (USAFE). This 5-year indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract consists of a base year plus 4 option years, with a total contract potential of $375 million.

Under this contract, L-3 will provide USAFE with engineering and technical services; management and professional support; and studies, analysis and evaluation services to maintain and upgrade government-owned computer software and provide intelligence analysis support. These activities will be provided to the headquarters of the European Command and its subordinate commands throughout Europe.

DID has more on the task orders under this contract…

5 Firms Get Up to $250M in NAVFAC Construction Contracts

Sauer in Jacksonville, FL (N69450-09-D-1277); The Haskell Co. in Jacksonville, FL (N69450-09-D-1278); Caddell Construction Company in Montgomery, AL (N69450-09-D-1279); Roy Anderson Corp. in Gulfport, MS (N69450-09-D-1280); and PCL Construction Services in Orlando, FL (N69450-09-D-1281) each won a design-build indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for general construction projects at DoD facilities within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast area of responsibility of northern Florida and southern Georgia. The maximum value for all 5 contracts combined is $250 million.

DID has more on the type of construction work these firms will provide…

The Egyptian Avengers

Avenger, deployed

Boeing’s Avenger system mounts 8 Raytheon FIM-92 Stinger short range air defense missiles on a Humvee jeep, along with an FN M3P .50 cal machine gun and automated systems that use optical sights, infrared, a laser rangefinder, and an IFF (Identification Friend-Or-Foe) system. In 1998, modifications began that upgraded some systems to “slew-to-cue,” which automatically slews the turret to place the sights on targets received from FAAD (Forward Area Air Defense) Command and Control systems.

Total Avenger production has been 1,004 units, of which around 800 are in service with U.S. forces. Taiwan has 70 Avenger systems, and Egypt has 50+ systems. DID has also covered U.S. modifications to a few Avenger systems that convert them for use as an upgraded “gun truck” and convoy escort vehicle in Iraq.

Egypt has submitted a pair of formal requests for Avenger systems over the last few years, one of which resulted in an order that restarted the system’s production line. Obviously, those systems will need Stinger missiles…

ManTech to Support NAVAIR Warfare Analysis, Integration

ManTech Systems Engineering Corp. in Fairfax, VA received a $16.6 million modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to exercise an option for the procurement of warfare analysis, modeling and simulation, software development, and analytic program support for the Naval Air Systems Command’s Warfare Analysis and Integration Department (AIR 4.10). The original contract, awarded in 2008, had 4 option years in addition to the base year, giving the program a total potential value of $83.2 million.

ManTech will perform the work in Patuxent River, MD (85%) and Lexington Park, MD (15%), which it expects to complete by June 2010. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) manages the contract (N00421-08-D-0008).

DID has more on the work of the NAVAIR Warfare Analysis and Integration Department (AIR 4.10)…

Sundt Williams Scotsman to Build Temporary Camp Pendleton Facilities

Sundt Williams Scotsman, a joint venture of Sundt Construction and Williams Scotsman located in Tempe, AZ received a $28.9 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to provide design and installation of temporary facilities for administration, billeting, armory, storage and maintenance at U.S. Marine Corps Base and Air Station Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, CA. The original contract, awarded last year, included 10 unexercised options, which, if exercised, would result in a cumulative contract value of $127.5 million. This current contract modification involves the exercise of option 1.

DID has more on Camp Pendleton…

$203M to Lockheed Martin to Operate Fort Bragg Logistics Center

Men at work

Lockheed Martin received a task order to manage the Field Logistics Readiness Center (FLRC) at Fort Bragg, NC. The task order is valued at $203 million over a 5-year period of performance and was awarded under the multiple award indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity Field & Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) contract. There is a $9 billion ceiling for all task orders issued under the FIRST contract [PDF], according to the U.S. Army Contracting Agency.

DID has more on the work Lockheed Martin is performing at Fort Bragg as well as other FIRST work at Fort Stewart and Fort Benning in Georgia…

$10.7M to W.G. Yates to Build Little Rock AFB Education Center

C-130s at Little Rock AFB

W.G. Yates & Sons Construction in Philadelphia, MS won a $10.7 million firm-fixed-price contract to build an education center at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, AR. Little Rock AFB is known as the home of combat airlift. W.G. Yates expects to complete the work by November 9/10. Bids were solicited on the Web with 10 bids received by the U.S. Army Engineer District in Little Rock, AR (W9127S-09-C-6005).

DID has more on the education center construction project…