CONTRACTS AWARDED BAE Systems, Inc ., York, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $268,990,416 contract modification for Bradley production. Work will be performed in York, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity. Trace Systems, Inc ., Vienna, Virginia, was awarded a single-award contract in support of providing the full range of Mission Partner Environment (MPE)-compatible support services and associated equipment to design, implement, and operate the MPE enterprise. The contract ceiling value is $998,000,000. The locations of performance will be at contiguous U.S. and outside continental U.S. designated MPE Services (MPE-S) support sites including Washington DC; Fort Meade, Maryland; Air Force facilities in Fairfax, Virginia; U.S. Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany; U.S. Central Command, Tampa, Florida; Kuwait; Bahrain; Afghanistan; U.S. Southern Command, Miami, Florida; U.S. Northern Command, Colorado Springs, Colorado; U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa, Florida; Joint Communication Support Element, Tampa, Florida; and U.S. Forces Korea, Youngsan Air Base, Osan Air Base, Kunsan Air Base, and Camp Humphries. Additional places of performance are to be determined based on customer requirements and real world events. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, National Capital Region, is the contracting activity. Alliant Techsystems Operations, LLC - ATK Tactical Propulsion and Control , Rocket Center, West Virginia, has been awarded a $109,929,339 contract for hard target void sensing fuzes (HTVSF). This contract provides for the full rate production of Lot 2 and Lot 3 HTVSFs, as well as spares, trainers, and support. Work will be performed in Rocket Center, West Virginia. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity. Solid State Scientific Corp ., Hollis, New Hampshire, has been awarded a $59,000,000 contract for Air Force Weather Enterprise (AFW) product-as-a-service/infrastructure-as-a-service. This contract provides the migration to the cloud for the Air Force Weather Branch and is to design and build an Air Force Weather Virtual Private Cloud. It is required to expand to support the cloud migration and operations for all AFW applications. The Aerospace Management Systems Division, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity. Collins Aerospace , Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $310,509,144 contract modification. This modification exercises an option for the procurement of AN/ARC-210(v) radios for installation in over 400 strategic and tactical airborne, seaborne, and land based (mobile and fixed) platforms for the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard, other government agencies, and foreign military sales customers. Work will be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. ViaSat, Inc ., Carlsbad, California, is awarded a $100,465,034 contract modification. This ceiling increase will implement the capabilities identified in the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) memorandum dated Aug. 20, 2018, wherein the JROC endorsed the advanced capabilities of Concurrent Mutli-Netting-4 (CMN-4), Concurrent Contention Receive and Enhanced Throughput as the Department of Defense baseline for all future upgrades to any platform requiring Link-16 tactical data links. In response to the JROC memorandum, current Link-16 platform users identified the need for the procurement and/or retrofit of 3,370 additional Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) CMN-4, F-22 Raptor, Tactical Targeting Network Technology terminals. This increase in scope will be in addition to the current scope in the original Class Justification and Approval (CJ&A) No. 17,226 approved April 25, 2014, for the MIDS JTRS, the amended CJ&A No. 18,012 approved Jan. 18, 2017, for the addition of the MIDS JTRS TTNT development effort, CJ&A No. 18,415 approved Sept. 11, 2018, for the addition of MIDS Modernization Increment 2, retrofits, and additional MIDS JTRS terminals, not including F-22s, and the initial CJ&A 19,415 approved July 2, 2019, to implement the JROC memorandum as described above. The modification will increase the contract value to $889,465,034. This contract combines purchases for the Navy, Air Force and MIDS Program Office, as well as to the governments of Austria, Chile, Finland, Israel, Jordan, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This contract also includes purchases to NATO and all NATO nations under the foreign military sales program. Work will be performed in Carlsbad, California. Naval Information Warfare System Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity. American Ordnance, LLC , Middletown, Iowa, and General Dynamics-OTS,  Niceville, Florida, will compete for each order of the $133,212,119 contract for the modular artillery charge system load, assemble and pack M231/M232 type for the 155mm propelling charges. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity. Raytheon Co ., McKinney, Texas, was awarded a $427,298,588 contract for procurement of common sensor payload systems, spare parts, and engineering and system support services. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Back to 2020-02-12 issue of C.E. Weekly Back to Members Base Camp Back to CJHunter Home Page