Rapid Fire, Sept. 16, 2013: US Navy FY14 Sequester Impact

• US Navy Chief of Information Rear Adm. John Kirby writes about the FY14 budget outlook:

“Sequestration could cost us a littoral combat ship, an afloat forward staging base/mobile landing platform, and up to 25 aircraft (Prowler, JSF, Osprey and others) needed for our future fleet. It will also delay a Virginia-class submarine.”

ARCTEC Renewed for Alaska Radar Maintenance

Latest updates[?]: Contract, and coverage, very close to wrap-up.

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The Alaska Radar System’s 15 remote radar sites (primarily AN/FPS-117 SEEK IGLOO and AN/FPS-124 SEEK FROST radars), serve aviation needs, and also act as the North Warning System for the USA. Upgrades are underway to keep FPS-117s running until 2025.

Keeping them running is a job for ARCTEC, who has also handled contracts related to the USA’s more advanced BMEWS and PAVE PAWS early warning radars, one of which is located at Clear Air Force Station, AK. This article covers ARS maintenance contract orders from the FA5000-04-C-0011 contract’s beginning in 2004 to its final period in 2014.