Gov Tony Evers Can Issue New Emergency COVID-19 Order Now: Here's How

B.1.1.7 Mutation Should Be "Treated as a Separate Epidemic," Say Experts as Wisc Court Says All COVID-19 Viruses Are the Same

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — Gov Tony Evers needs to declare a new state of emergency; use the academic resources our state has cultivated to draft justification for the new threat in the specific form of the B.1.1.7 variant [aka U.K. variant, British variant or Kent variant].

This should be done soon in such a formulation that to disagree with the executive action is to disagree with evolution and the scientific community, and the Wisconsin University System in which the population retains pride and support.

On March 31, four rightist Supreme Court of Wisconsin justices issued a sweeping decision, blocking Gov Evers' executive orders declaring an emergency and mandating masks in many circumstances (Jeré Fabick v. Tony Evers 2020AP001718-OA Case History); (Opinions, Decision text); (Executive Order #105, February 4, 2021).

The case is Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Jeré Fabick v.Tony Evers (Case No.:2020AP001718). 

 

The four-to-three decision was issued with a biting dissent authored by Justice Ann Walsh Bradley.

Evers can still declare a new state of emergency, but such a new executive order must be predicated on what the justices regard as new enabling conditions, the four Republican justices held, inventing a new reading of the power of the Wisconsin governor.

 

Jeré Fabick v.Tony Evers is what happens when rightest judges crawl under ideology; deny implications of evolution and declare uninformed views on virology and epidemiology to be judicial policy, in corrupt service to the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

Still, the COVID-19 variants' genetics have changed so radically and rapidly, and behave so differently (and destructively) that these mutated biological agents incontrovertibly constitute a new underlying cause and enabling condition for a new executive order declaring a state of emergency.

Jeré Fabick v.Tony Evers

People will die because of the Jeré Fabick v.Tony Evers holding that is, essentially, just another Republican power grab. Outside of Republicans, few believe the majority's opinion is anything beyond what the dissenting opinion describes as:

"[J]udicial immodesty, [that] goes beyond the relief requested and declares Executive Order #105 [Relating to Declaring a State of Emergency and Public Health Emergency​​​​​​] unlawful with scant analysis and without candid justification," (p. 2. Dissent, Walsh Bradley)

The seven justices agree on the authority of the governor to declare a public health emergency and issue emergency orders. 

 

Further, the Court agrees that COVID-19 as a new Coronavirus meets the statutory criteria as a public health emergency.

Beyond a profound disagreement on standing, a primary disagreement concerns the governor's power to declare subsequent multiple states of emergency for what the Republican-supported majority assert is the same "basis," the same "enabling condition," and underlying cause.

The dissent notes two relevant state statutes — Wis. Stat. §323.02(16) and 323.10 — relate to occurrences or imminent threat of public health emergencies, an argument the Republican refuse to engage, beyond a dismissive paragraph.

Gov Evers had declared four separate states of emergencies after the State Health department reported the threat of the Coronavirus and new data indicating spikes in cases and the imminent threat of increased community spread.

The state's case was briefed and argued by the Wisconsin Dept of Justice, brief filed by Hannah S. Jurss, assistant attorney general, and Joshua L. Kaul, Wisconsin attorney general. There was an oral argument by Hannah S. Jurss.

"[Plaintiff] Fabick, a single Wisconsin resident, filed suit as a taxpayer [after the third declaration of a State of Emergency and Public Health Emergency]. He brought his suit as an original action before this court, arguing that the Governor lacks the statutory authority to declare successive states of emergency 'arising from the same public health emergency,'" notes Justice Walsh Bradley (p. 4, dissent).

Gov Evers Can Declare New COVID State of Emergency

The most recent declaration of emergency is Executive Order #105 (Feb), struck down by the Court for relying on the same enabling conditions as past COVID-related declared emergencies.

Though Executive Order #105 mentions the B.1.1.7 variant — [aka U.K. variant, British variant or Kent variant], a COVID-19 virus with many gene mutations — as part of the reasoning for the Feb 2021 declared state of emergency, micro-biologists and epidemiologists note the B.1.1.7-U.K.variant is now dominant in the United States, and in Wisconsin, as noted by the Wisconsin Dept of Health Services, after first appearing here in Jan 2021.

The CDC director on April 12 called for Michigan to "to enact shutdown measures in response to its worst-in-the-nation surge of coronavirus infections," reports the NYT.

Writes Sanjay Mishra: "The coronavirus variant known as B.1.1.7, which studies show is both more deadly and more transmissible than the original version of SARS-CoV-2, is now the most common strain circulating in United States, and its growing prevalence has alarmed prominent epidemiologists (National Geographic).

Mishra continues:

Earlier in the pandemic, not many children were becoming infected with the coronavirus, and they did not appear to be major sources of virus transmission to other age groups. 'That changed with B.1.1.7' says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. 'We're now seeing substantial numbers of outbreaks in schools and in school-related activities.'

Further, Mishra writes, outbreaks among children in Wisconsin and Minnesota now have experts convinced that this mutated form of the virus presents a new threat in its capacity to infect children, and its capacity to successfully bind to human cells.

A rapidly growing outbreak of COVID-19 in Carver County, Minnesota, has been linked to school-sponsored and club sports activities. In a study done by the Minnesota Department of Health, researchers produced a detailed map of COVID-19 transmission showing that the B.1.1.7 variant caused about a quarter of these cases.

A similar outbreak was reported in Wisconsin, where all the children at a Dane County childcare center who tested positive were 6 years or younger.Now, a growing number of experts want the B.1.1.7 variant treated as a new virus because of its genetically enhanced tendency to attach to human proteins.

Researchers believe the variant spreads so rapidly because B.1.1.7 accumulated a large number of genetic changes—17 in total—including eight in the virus’s hallmark spike protein. The spike protein attaches to the ACE2 receptor protein, which is found on the outer wall of 72 types of human cells. After the virus latches onto the ACE2 receptor, it can enter the host cell, make more copies of itself, and trigger infection.

By binding more tightly to the ACE2 receptors, 'these mutations provide selective advantage to B.1.1.7, so that's why now it is spreading everywhere' says Olivier Schwartz, head of the Virus and Immunity Unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. 'It's a kind of a Darwinian selection process.' ...

Some researchers believe that B.1.1.7 behaves so differently from the original strain that it can even be 'treated as a separate epidemic,' says Ravindra Gupta, a professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge.

B.1.1.7 also been causing problems in other ways. It carries a couple of genetic mutations in the spike protein called deletions, because they eliminate part of the genetic code, that help this variant escape antibodies during the body’s immune response after an infection.

So, why do Wisconsin Republican judicial policymakers and legislators want the COVID-19 virus treated the same as the radically different mutated strains?

Wisconsin Republicans need to recognize the fact of evolution and help the citizens of the state do everything in their power to slow this progression of the virus, its mutated strains and ensure the governor is not blocked by a corrupt Supreme Court and a corrupt state legislature.

Tony Evers and the Dept of Justice should be using Wisconsin's prominent research and academic resources, cultivated for over a century.  

Wisconsin has the great public research institution, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, home of pioneering public health and Zoonotic disease research. 

UW-Madison has 100s of research scientists and academics, evolutionary biologists, the Dept of Geoscience, the Genetics dept, the J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution; you get the picture.

The Wisconsin Dept of Justice needs to be prepared to argue the consensus of the scientific community at the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Yes, this new strain should be treated as a new basis for a public health emergency and here's why.

What Gov Evers and Attorney General Kaul need to do is make the legal fight against COVID-19 variants a community fight, a citizen fight enlisting young Genetics and Geoscience students and academics, for example, and make outrageous decisions against our citizenry by corrupt justices come with unacceptable political costs.

In other words, if Republicans want to be on the side of the viruses, and kill our families, they pay the costs.

Starving children is fine with Republicans, as we know by Fabick which would have killed $50 million in funding to help provide food security, without desperate U.S. and Wisconsin negotiations to save the funds.

Basing more opposition to a new state of emergency on the proposition that evolution-in-action does not make genetically mutated strains a new virus, and a threat constituting a new emergency is crazy, and is jurisprudence that can be easily overturned.

Evolution is a fact. The scientific community knows more COVID-19 variants are coming. So does the Biden administration.

Biden's American Rescue Plan signed into law in March provides critical funding "to dramatically increase our country’s sequencing, surveillance, and outbreak analytics capacity at the levels demanded by the crisis," in a nod to virus mutations and evolution, both processes as real and predictable as the misery and devastation already inflicted (White House).

Following a call from Gov Evers and Attorney General Kaul, Wisconsin needs a brilliant project manager with vast interdisciplinary knowledge who can establish that genetically altered viruses are the emergency threat this Pandemic has wrought.

Guess what? In Wisconsin there are 1,000s of such people.

Wisconsin's Pioneering Public Health and Zoonotic Disease Research Position World for Coronavirus Pandemic

 Dr. Christopher Olsen chats about Wisconsin's public
health surveillance system, Zoonotic disease
research and interdisciplinary approach to addressing
pandemics developed at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, in a public address
in 2009.

Zoonotic, animal-to-human diseases like the Coronavirus disease 2019, and public health were focus of pioneering research at University Madison, Wisconsin labs

Madison, Wisconsin — Gov. Tony Evers declared a public health emergency in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic this week.

As the world contends with this novel (new) Coronavirus, health surveillance programs alerting medical professionals and policymakers to disease threats are working as envisioned here 70 years ago, (Centers for Disease Control Control and Prevention, World Heath Organization, UW–Madison Current Zoonatic Disease Experts).

Wisconsin has the best statewide health surveillance, and it's no accident.

The state's public research and public health investments made over generations at UW-Madison laid the ground to establish a sophisticated public health system, notes Dr. Christopher Olsen, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, at a lecture in Madison in April 2009.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

As authorities are notified of health information and guidance today, the public can be confident scientists and public health professionals work in a high-minded, effective system built on the commitment to public research for the public that flowered here.

This state of affairs is an achievement of which Wisconsinites are proud.

UW-Madison Public Research

Scientists here also discovered that "genetic mixing" of viruses causes Zoonotic Diseases - "diseases caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between (or are shared by) animals and humans," (Dr. Christopher Olsen) - a process in which animals act as intermediate host of viruses that can be transmitted to human beings.

These virus-mixing hosts provide a "phenomenally powerful way of generating genetic diversity," mutations that sometimes can lead to the creation of viruses that are destructive to human beings, said Dr. Olsen.

The emergence of new disease occurs as ecological, sociological  and environmental conditions change, notes Dr. Olsen, pointing to the insight and work of Robert Paul Hanson, an eminent UW-Madison research scientist, (1949-1987).

Write Thomas M Yuill and B. C. Easterday, cited by Olsen

Bob Hanson insisted that we should expect to see the emergence of new diseases as ecological and environmental conditions and host populations change. He operated on the basic premise that infectious agents must be viewed and attacked holistically because they are components of the ecosystems in which their hosts live. He recognized that no one person had all the expertise required to understand the natural history of diseases, and he was a champion of interdisciplinary team approaches. The problems on which he focused were always real ones that originated in nature, (Page 140, Robert Paul Hanson. National Academy of Sciences. 1996. Biographical Memoirs: V.70. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.)

Thanks to the work of UW-Madison and scientists like Dr. Hanson, Olsen and many other generous minds in Wisconsin history, the world is more prepared for the outbreak of emerging disease like Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) than at any point in human history.

Below is video of lecture at University Place by Dr. Chris Olsen held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on April 17, 2009. Lecture is titled, "Influenza: A Disease at the Interface of Animals and Human Beings."

Wisconsin's Premier Public Health Surveillance System Produces Large Numbers in Outbreak Reports

The feel-good, holiday video for the ages: Dr. Christopher
Olsen chats about Wisconsin's public health surveillance system
and Zoonotic disease research at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. Outgoing Wisconsin
Republicans did not destroy these treasures. This is
cause to celebrate.

Madison, Wisconsin — As humanity contends with the 2018-19 flu season, there is a man-made system that should be hailed: Wisconsin's model public health surveillance program that alerts medical professionals and policymakers to disease threats like Legionnaires’ disease and the flu.

Wisconsin has the best statewide health surveillance, and it's no accident.

The state's public research and public health investments made over generations and spurred on by liberal, secular types at UW-Madison laid the scientific ground to establish a sophisticated public health system, notes Dr. Christopher Olsen, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, at a lecture in Madison in April 2009.

Flooding disasters across the nation this year likely has people here guessing about a causal relationship between recent Legionnaires’ disease cases in Madison and the catastrophic flooding in Madison — a worthy question that generates a reassuring answer.

There is no cause to jump the gun about this hypothetical health problem.

"Legionella bacteria can cause a serious type of pneumonia (lung infection) called Legionnaires’ disease. The bacteria can also cause a less serious illness called Pontiac fever," the CDC notes. "People can get sick when they breathe in mist or accidentally swallow water into the lungs containing Legionella. Most people exposed to Legionella do not get sick. However, people 50 years or older, current or former smokers, and people with a weakened immune system or chronic disease are at increased risk."

The number of Wisconsin's reported cases of disease is always higher than the average state's because our health surveillance systems work better than most.

In June 2009, Wisconsin's H1N1 (Swine Flu) reported cases comprised 19 percent of all confirmed cases of the entire nation. Wisconsin is that good at identifying and reporting public health threats.

Outgoing Gov. Scott Walker (R) and the Republicans have not managed to destroy or degrade Wisconsin's health surveillance system.

But the Republicans did try to remove public service and the search for truth from the University of Wisconsin System mission, a mission that ultimately resulted in today's health surveillance system.

As the state is notified of health news, Wisconsin can be confident scientists and public health professionals work together in a high-minded ethical system to stay on top of health concern.

This state of affairs is an achievement of which Wisconsinites can be proud, no matter the senseless Republican Party's vandalism of the last eight years.

Department of Defense Contracts—Feb. 6, 2018

Here are United States Department of Defense Contracts for Feb. 6, 2018.

Contracts valued at $7 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m., eastern, at the U.S. Department of Defense.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts

Release No: CR-024-18
Feb. 6, 2018

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, has been awarded a $523,836,625 modification (P00012) to domestic and foreign military sales (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Romania) contract W31P4Q-17-C-0006 for PATRIOT advanced capability-3 missile segment enhancement missiles, cost reduction initiative missiles and associate ground support equipment. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas; Huntsville, Alabama; Camden, Arizona; Lufkin, Texas; Chelmsford, Massachusetts; and Ocala, Florida, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2021. Fiscal 2016, 2017 and 2018 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $523,836,625 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co., Andover, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $17,590,754 modification (P00010) to domestic and foreign military sales (Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Luxembourg, and Saudi Arabia) contract W31P4Q-17-C-0042 for support necessary to execute PATRIOT Field Surveillance program to include missile assessments, testing, recertification, and repair activities. Work will be performed in Andover, Massachusetts, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2020. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army); and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $17,590,754 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Valiant Government Services LLC, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, has been awarded a $13,148,686 firm-fixed-price contract for operations and maintenance services for U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command facilities Navy, National Museum of Health and Medicine and Armed Forces Medical Examiner Service facilities. Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received. Work will be performed in Natick, Massachusetts; Gunpowder, Maryland; Fort Detrick, Maryland; Silver Spring, Maryland; Fort Rucker, Alabama; and Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 6, 2019. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) and research, development, test and evaluation funds in the combined amount of $13,148,686 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W91278-18-C-0011).

AIR FORCE

Decypher Technologies Ltd., San Antonio, Texas (FA8604-18-D-3000); Mission Services LLC, McLean, Virginia (FA8604-18-D-3001); and Stellar Innovations & Solutions Inc., Moraine, Ohio (FA8604-18-D-3000), have been awarded a $97,300,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Air Force Research Laboratory information technology support services. This contract provides for enterprise information technology support services including specialized helpdesk, systems administration, cybersecurity management, automatic data processing equipment asset tracking, development, and video teleconference/meeting support.  Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be complete by May 31, 2023.  This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, and 29 offers were received.  Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $500,000 (Decypher Technologies, Ltd.); $230,000 (Mission Services LLC); and $300,000 (Stellar Innovations and Solutions, Inc.), will be obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management, Information Technology Contracting, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Scientific Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, has been awarded a $10,989,711 firm-fixed-price contract for the installation and integration of the AN/ALR-69A(V) radar warning receiver system on C-130H aircraft.  Work will be performed in Warner Robins, Georgia, and is expected to be complete by Oct. 19, 2022.  This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and five offers were received. Fiscal 2017 procurement funds in the amount of $10,989,711 is being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia is the contracting activity (FA8553-18-C-0003).

NAVY

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded a $44,610,302 cost-plus-fixed-fee, delivery order contract for one lot of research and development design, development, studies, and technology demonstrations for advanced insertion and integration support of Raytheon owned weapons systems including AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AGM-65 Maverick, AGM-154 JSOW, R/UGM-109 Tomahawk, XM982 Excalibur, BGM-71 tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided (TOW) missile, Standard missile, Evolved Sea Sparrow missile, Talon, Rolling Airframe missile, Pyros, Small Diameter Bomb II and Griffin.  Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed in December 2022.  No funds are being obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1).  The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, is the contracting activity (N68936-18-D-0017).

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $33,763,548 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-15-C-6222) to exercise options for the procurement of Technical Insertion (TI)-16 Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-the-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) systems and pre-cable kits. Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia (95 percent); Clearwater, Florida (5 percent), and is expected to be completed by February 2020.  Fiscal 2018 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $33,763,548 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, California is being awarded $28,732,771 for cost-plus-fixed-fee modification P00006 to exercise options under a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030-17-C-0100) for Trident II (D5) missile deployed system support.  The work will be performed in Sunnyvale, California (71.81 percent); Cape Canaveral, Florida (9.14 percent); Clearwater, Florida (4.68 percent); Denver, Colorado (4.68 percent); Titusville, Florida (3.62 percent); and other various locations (less than 1.00 percent each; 6.07 percent total), and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2020. Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $26,779,236; and fiscal 2018 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,953,535 are being obligated on this award, $1,953,535 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is being awarded $16,038,136 for modification P00018 to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00030-16-C-0005) for sustainment of the U.S. and United Kingdom (UK) SSBN Fire Control System, the U.S. SSGN attack weapon control system, including training and support equipment.  Also included is missile fire control for the Columbia-class and UK Dreadnought-class Common Missile Compartment program development, through first unit UK production, and strategic weapon interface simulator.  The work will be performed in Pittsfield Massachusetts (90.5 percent); Bremerton, Washington, (3.6 percent); Kings Bay, Georgia (2.7 percent); Dahlgren, Virginia (1.0 percent); Cape Canaveral, Florida (0.9 percent); Portsmouth, Virginia (0.9 percent); and the United Kingdom (0.4 percent), with an expected completion date of September 2023.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $16,038,136 are being obligated on this award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Liverpool, New York, is being awarded an $11,525,263 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-5353) to exercise options for engineering, manufacturing and development for advanced off-board electronic warfare (AOEW).  The AOEW program will provide an electronic warfare mission package to integrate with a flight vehicle.  The AOEW program will provide MH-60 helicopters with enhanced electronic warfare surveillance and countermeasure capabilities against anti-ship missile threats.  Work will be performed in Syracuse, New York (88 percent); Lansdale, Pennsylvania (10 percent); Stratford, Connecticut (1 percent); and Orlando, Florida (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2020.  Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funding in the amount of $3,602,691 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SERVICE

CACI Inc. Federal, Chantilly, Virginia, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $10,618,687 modification, P00008 to previously awarded HQ0423-15-F-5001 for comptroller mission systems support for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).  This modification exercises option year three with a period of performance of Feb. 16, 2018, through Feb. 15, 2019.  The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $39,482,688 from $28,864,001. Work will be performed at the Pentagon; and remote locations within the National Capital Region with an expected completion date of Feb. 15, 2019.  Operations and maintenance (defense-wide) funds in the amount of $10,618,687 are being obligated at time of award. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Columbus, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
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Department of Defense Contracts—Jan 02, 2018

Here are United States Department of Defense Contracts for Jan 02, 2018.

Contracts valued at $7 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m., eastern, at the U.S. Department of Defense.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts

Release No: CR-001-18
Jan 02, 2018

CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE

Raytheon Co., Woburn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $333,355,700 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Surveillance Radar Program operations and maintenance follow-on sustainment package that includes contractor logistics support (sustainment); engineering services and technical updates to address equipment obsolescence; transportation and material costs associated with contractor repair and return services; spare and repair parts; support and test equipment; publications and technical documentation personnel training and training equipment; government and contractor engineering; technical and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistical and program support. This award is 100 percent foreign military sales. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8730-18-C-0002).

The Boeing Co. Defense, Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $193,638,503, contract modification (P00001) to a previously awarded contract (FA8672-16-D-0010) for Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Increment 1 Lots 12-14 production. This modification provides for the purchase of an additional quantity of 6,000 SDB 1 all-up-rounds being produced under the basic contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity ceiling is increasing from $700,000,000 to $893,638,503. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2020. This contract involves foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Singapore. This modification is a result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2015 and 2016 missile procurement; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $99,715,078 is being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8672-16-D-0010).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $33,694,111 cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action for support of the Korea Peace Krypton prime mission equipment, RC-800 aircraft and technical manuals. This is a sole-source award and involves 100 percent foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the Republic of Korea, with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2019. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-18-C-3012).

The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded an estimated $17,533,501 for a firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract option (P00009) to a previously awarded contract (FA8105-16-D-0002) for C/KC-135 engineering sustainment support. The contract modification is to establish negotiated prices for option II for the contractor to provide sustaining engineering services for the KC-135 weapon system, including airframe and airframe components, mechanical and electrical systems, subsystems and their components. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; along with subsidiaries in Huntsville, Alabama, and San Antonio, Texas, with an expected completion date of Sept. 13, 2019. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity.

Kratos Technology & Training Solutions Inc., San Diego, California, has been awarded a $13,947,528 contract modification (P00096) to a previously awarded contract (FA8808-13-C-0008) for control system consolidated production and sustainment. These services are required to sustain and provide post-production development for the current CCS-C system for telemetry, tracking and commanding of current and future military satellite communications satellites. This contract modification exercises an option period for mission activity and maneuver planning, telemetry processing, commanding, orbit and attitude management, resource management, space vehicle and ground system simulation, security, support planning and execution, training and testing. Satellite state-of-health operations include launch, early orbit, on-orbit, anomaly resolution, disposal, and backup operations. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $3,913,000.00 are being obligated at the time of modification award. Military Satellite Communication Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.

NAVY

Bell-Boeing JPO, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $23,325,145 for cost-plus- fixed-fee delivery order N0001918F5004 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-17-G-0002) in support of the V-22. This order provides support of ongoing flight test and evaluation of the V-22 test aircraft. Work will be performed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (90 percent); and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018. Fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement (Navy); and fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $23,325,145 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND

Phoenix Air Group Inc., Cartersville, Georgia, has been awarded an $8,797,653 option year two task order, HTC711-18-F-R026, to extend services under a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity with economic price adjustment contract, HTC711-16-D-R001. This brings the cumulative task order face value from $18,287,331 to $27,084,984. The contract is for air charter services for Headquarters U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) passengers from Stuttgart Army Airfield, Germany, to various points throughout Africa and Europe. Performance is from Jan. 1, 2018, to Dec. 31, 2018. This task order is funded by fiscal 2018 AFRICOM operations and maintenance funds. The U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity. (Awarded Jan. 1, 2018)

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Petroleum Traders Corp.,* Fort Wayne, Indiana (SPE605-18-D-8506; $14,770,197); and Tayrona Investments LLC,** Fort Wayne, Indiana (SPE605-18-D-8504; $7,333,851), have both been awarded a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract under solicitation SPE600-17-R-0218 for various types of fuel. This was a competitive acquisition and a small business set-aside, which had competitive offers. The small business set-aside was competitively solicited for three line items; but with only one acceptable offer, was awarded on a sole-offer basis. The unrestricted part of the solicitation resulted in 10 responses. These are three-year contracts with no option years. Locations of performance are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina, with an Oct. 31, 2020, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Logistics Agency Energy and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2018 through 2021 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, was awarded a $7,190,037 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that will provide research, development, operations, and engineering support to deliver, maintain, and continually improve the state-of-the-art information systems supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense Special Access Program community. Work performance will take place in Arlington, Virginia; Alexandria, Virginia; and potentially other metropolitan Washington, District of Columbia locations. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation Funds in the amount of $2,000,000; and Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $1,001,096 are being obligated at the time of the award. The expected completion date is June 23, 2018. Washington Headquarters Services, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting office (HQ0034-18-C-0012). (Awarded Dec. 22, 2017)

ARMY UPDATE: Contracts announced on Dec. 29, 2017, for CRW and Associates LLC,* Bowie, Maryland ($66,845,460; W81K04-18-D-0005); Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia ($52,632,100; W81K04-18-D-0002); Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia ($38,066,600; W81K04-18-D-0003); and Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia ($10,169,960; W81K04-18-D-0004), for remote medical record coding services for outpatient medical records were not awarded due to protests.

*Small Business
**Small disabled veteran-owned small business
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Department of Defense Contracts—Dec. 29, 2017

Here are United States Department of Defense Contracts for Dec. 29, 2017.

Contracts valued at $7 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m., eastern, at the U.S. Department of Defense.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts

Release No: CR-251-17
Dec. 29, 2017

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

Raytheon Co., Woburn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $333,355,700 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Surveillance Radar program operations and maintenance follow-on sustainment package that includes contractor logistics support (sustainment); engineering services and technical updates to address equipment obsolescence; transportation and material costs associated with contractor repair and return services; spare and repair parts; support and test equipment; publications and technical documentation personnel training and training equipment; government and contractor engineering; technical and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistical and program support. This award is 100 percent foreign military sales. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8730-18-C-0002).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $33,694,111 cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action for support of the Korea Peace Krypton prime mission equipment, RC-800 aircraft and technical manuals. This is a sole-source award and involves 100 percent foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the Republic of Korea, with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2019. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-18-C-3012).

The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded an estimated $17,533,501 for a firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract option (P00009) to a previously awarded contract (FA8105-16-D-0002) for C/KC-135 engineering sustainment support. The contract modification is to establish negotiated prices for option II for the contractor to provide sustaining engineering services for the KC-135 weapon system, including airframe and airframe components, mechanical and electrical systems, subsystems and their components. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with subsidiaries in Huntsville, Alabama; and San Antonio, Texas, with an expected completion date of Sept. 13, 2019. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity.

Kratos Technology & Training Solutions Inc., has been awarded a $13,947,528 contract modification (P00096) to a previously awarded contract (FA8808-13-C-0008) for control system consolidated production and sustainment.  These services are required to sustain and provide post-production development for the current Command and Control System Consolidated for telemetry, tracking and commanding of current and future military satellite communications satellites.  This contract modification exercises an option period for mission activity and maneuver planning, telemetry processing, commanding, orbit and attitude management, resource management, space vehicle and ground system simulation, security, support planning and execution, training and testing.  Satellite state-of-health operations include launch, early orbit, on-orbit, anomaly resolution, disposal, and backup operations.  Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $3,913,000.00 are being obligated at the time of modification award. Military Satellite Communication Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND

ABX Air Inc., Wilmington, Ohio (HTC711-18-D-C002); American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas (HTC711-18-D-C003); Air Transportation International, Irving, Texas (HTC711-18-D-C004); Atlas Air, Purchase, New York (HTC711-18-D-C005); Delta Air Lines Inc., Atlanta, Georgia (HTC711-18-D-C006); FedEx, Washington, District of Columbia (HTC711-18-D-C007); Hawaiian Airlines Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii (HTC711-18-D-C008); JetBlue Airways, Long Island City, New York (HTC711-18-D-C009); Miami Air International, Miami, Florida (HTC711-18-D-C010); National Air Cargo Inc., Orlando, Florida (HTC711-18-D-C011); Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc., Purchase, New York (HTC711-18-D-C012); United Parcel Service Co., Louisville, Kentucky (HTC711-18-D-C013); USA Jet Airlines, Belleville, Michigan (HTC711-18-D-C014); Western Global Airlines, Estero, Florida (HTC711-18-D-C015), are 14 Category A offerors that have been awarded an indefinite–delivery/indefinite–quantity and fixed-price contract. This program has an overall five-year maximum ceiling value of $227,925,866 with a contract guaranteed minimum award amount of $2,500 per awardee. This contract is for international commercial scheduled air cargo transportation services. Services encompass time-definite, door-to-door pickup and delivery, transportation, intransit visibility, government-approved third party payment system participation, and expedited customs processing and clearance of less than full planeloads for the movement of regular and recurring hazardous, refrigerated/cold chain (perishable), life and death, narcotics, and other regular recurring cargo shipments. Work will be performed worldwide. The performance period for the base period is Feb. 1, 2018, to Jan. 31, 2019, with four one-year option periods from Feb. 1, 2019, to Jan. 31, 2023. This contract was a competitive acquisition and 14 proposals were received. Funding for this contract is decentralized. The contracting activity is U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

ARMY

ICF Inc. LLC, Fairfax, Virginia (W911QX-18-D-0002); and Parsons Government Services Inc., Pasadena, California (W911QX-18-D-0001), will share in a $175,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide the Army Research Laboratory’s Computational and Information Sciences Directorate with the research, development, and technology services to support its mission. Bids were solicited via the Internet with five received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 28, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

URS Federal Services Inc., Germantown, Maryland, was awarded an $114,541,892 modification (000316) to contract W52P1J-12-G-0028 for maintenance, supply and transportation logistics support services. Work will be performed in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; and Doha, Qatar, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 2, 2019. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $4,838,834 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Illinois, is the contracting activity.

CRW and Associates LLC,* Bowie, Maryland, was awarded a $66,845,460 firm-fixed-price contract for remote medical record coding services for outpatient medical records. Bids were solicited via the Internet with 20 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2022. U.S. Army Health Contracting Activity, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (W81K04-18-D-0005).

Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia, was awarded a $52,632,100 firm-fixed-price contract for remote medical record coding services for outpatient medical records. Bids were solicited via the Internet with 20 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2022. U.S. Army Health Contracting Activity, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (W81K04-18-D-0002).

Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia, was awarded a $38,066,600 firm-fixed-price contract for remote medical record coding services for outpatient medical records. Bids were solicited via the Internet with 20 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2022. U.S. Army Health Contracting Activity, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (W81K04-18-D-0003).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $25,207,324 modification (000502) to foreign military sales (Egypt) contract W52P1J-17-D-0043 for Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor System kits and spares for the Apache Attack Helicopter. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2020. Fiscal 2017 foreign military sales funds in the amount of $25,207,324 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the contracting activity.

DynCorp International LLC, Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $17,389,735 modification (P00175) to domestic and foreign military sales (Netherlands) contract W58RGZ-13-C-0040 for aviation field maintenance services in support of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Aviation Field Maintenance Division outside the continental U.S. operations. Work will be performed in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, Honduras and Egypt, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2018. Fiscal 2010 and 2018 foreign military sales; and operations maintenance (Army) funds in the combined amount of $17,389,735 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, was awarded a $12,473,773 modification (P00030) to contract W15QKN-14-C-0032 for the continuation of system engineering and technical assistance support services in support of Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Project Management Office Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army. Work will be performed in Arlington, Virginia, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,000,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

Mindseeker,* Ashburn, Virginia, was awarded a $10,169,960 firm-fixed-price contract for remote medical record coding services for outpatient medical records. Bids were solicited via the Internet with 20 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2022. U.S. Army Health Contracting Activity, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (W81K04-18-D-0004).

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $9,605,331 firm-fixed-price contract for 33 variants of Stryker deployment kits. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2019. Fiscal 2016 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $9,605,331 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W56HZV-16-G-0003).

Tetra Tech - Maytag Aircraft Corp. JV, Pasadena, California, was awarded a $7,711,282 firm-fixed-price contract for recurring maintenance and minor repair (to include emergencies) of Defense Logistics Agency capitalized petroleum systems. Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received. Work will be performed in Yuma, Arizona; Bridgeport, California; Twentynine Palms, California; Barstow, California; San Nicholas Island, California; Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California; San Clemente Island, California; Oceanside, California; El Centro, California; Coronado, California; San Diego, California; Fallon, Nevada; Arlington, Washington; Everett, Washington; Oak Harbor, Washington; Bremerton, Washington; and Port Orchard, Washington, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 defense working capital funds in the amount of $7,711,282 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W912DY-18-F-0056).

DEFENSE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SERVICE

KPMG LLP, McLean, Virginia, is being awarded a maximum $39,756,805 modification number P00012 to exercise option year one to previously awarded labor-hour contract HQ0423-17-F-0010 for fiscal 2018 financial statement audit services of the Army general fund and working capital fund. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $66,504,293 from $26,747,488. Work will be performed in McLean, Virginia, with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2018. Fiscal 2018 Army operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $39,756,805 are being obligated at the time of the award. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Contract Services Directorate, Columbus, Ohio is the contracting activity (HQ0423-17-F-0010).

DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY

Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, is scheduled to be awarded a zero dollar blanket purchase agreement (BPA) as a result of General Services Administration eBuy request  for quotation 1225543, for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application - Composite Health Care System enhancements and sustainment services.  Following the award of the BPA, task order 0001 will be awarded; a $25,040,336 fixed price task order will follow with a performance start date of March 1, 2018.  The award is a result of a full and open-competition GSA eBuy request for quotation issued on Aug. 11, 2017, which was a re-competed sourced acquisition under GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $25,040,336 will be obligated at time of award for the task order. The contractor will ensure all operational readiness objectives and requirements are met for the sustainment of the current Department of Defense Electronic Health Record suite of outpatient and inpatient information technology (IT) applications and systems. The Defense Health Agency, Contract Operations – Health Information Technology San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (HT0015-18-A-0001).

*Small Business

Department of Defense Contracts—Dec. 15, 2017

Here are United States Department of Defense Contracts for Dec. 15, 2017.

Contracts valued at $7 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m., eastern, at the U.S. Department of Defense.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts

Release No: CR-242-17
Dec. 15, 2017

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $571,348,690 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components.  Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pennsylvania (67 percent); and Schenectady, New York (33 percent).  Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $571,348,690 will be obligated at time of award and funds and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  No completion date or additional information is provided on Naval Nuclear Propulsion program contracts. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with the statutory authority of 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) – only one responsible source and no other supplier or services will satisfy agency requirements.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-18-C-2124).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is being awarded a $135,834,904 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed fee letter contract for new construction DDG AEGIS weapon system J7 baseline development and integration in support of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.  This contract involves foreign military sales to Japan (100 percent). Work will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey (86 percent); Kawasaki, Japan (8 percent); Dahlgren, Virginia (2 percent); Nagoya, Japan (2 percent); Yokohama, Japan (1 percent); and less than one percent each for Tokyo, Japan and Washington, District of Columbia, and is expected to be completed by December 2018.  Foreign military sales funding in the amount of $65,813,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured under the authority of 10 U.S. Code (c)(4), International Agreement. As such, this procurement was not synopsized in Federal Business Opportunities.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-18-C-5105).

Huntington Ingalls Inc. - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $63,000,000 cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration.  This effort shall provide for the initial collision ripout phase of an availability which will include a combination of maintenance, modernization, and collision repair of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62).  Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and is expected to be completed by September 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $31,500,000 will be obligated at time of award.  Contract funds in the amount of $63,000,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-17-C-4444).

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $50,594,681 cost-plus-fixed fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N0024-16-C-2415) to exercise option year two for life cycle engineering and support services for the LPD-17 class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship program.  The services include post-delivery planning and engineering, homeport technical support, class Integrated Product Data Environment, data maintenance and equipment management, systems integration and engineering support, LPD-17 class design services, research engineering, obsolescence management, class material readiness, emergent repair provision, training and logistics support, ship alteration development and installation, material management, operating cycle integration, availability planning, and configuration data management.  Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (96 percent); Norfolk, Virginia (1 percent); San Diego, California (1 percent); Mayport, Florida (1 percent); and Sasebo, Japan (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2018.  Fiscal 2012 and 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $17,267,150 will be obligated at time of award and $3,807,943 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP, Armament Systems Division, Louisville, Kentucky, is being awarded a $46,753,385 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00174-15-C-0009) to provide four upgraded and overhauled Mk 45 mod 4 five-inch/62 caliber gun mounts.  This modification is to fulfill specified requirements and technical performance requirements for the Mk 45 mod 4 gun system requirements. The Mk 45 gun system provides an effective weapon for anti-surface warfare, naval surface fire support and anti-air warfare missions on DDG 51-class destroyers and CG 47-class cruisers.  Work will be performed in Louisville, Kentucky, and is expected to be completed by January 2021. Fiscal 2017 weapons procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $46,753,385 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The statutory authority for this sole-source award is in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1(a)(2) - only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, Indian Head, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Trivec-Avant Corp., Huntington Beach, California, is being awarded an estimated value $45,517,301 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00039-18-D-0004) to fabricate, test and upgrade the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite communication (SATCOM) Antenna System, which includes the small ship variants (SSV) of the Antenna System, Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) deck box backfit kits, systems spares, as well as engineering and training services.  The Navy currently uses the OE-82/OE-570/OE-570A/WSC Antenna System and SSV to fulfill the antenna requirements of the UHF SATCOM program on various Navy surface and new construction ships.  The SSV provides a UHF SATCOM antenna to coastal patrol craft, littoral combat ships, joint high speed vessels and other disadvantaged users that cannot accommodate the size and topside weight of the full-sized OE-570A Antenna System. MUOS is a narrowband military SATCOM system that supports a worldwide, multi-service population of mobile and fixed-site terminal users in the UHF band, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminal users while still supporting interoperability to legacy terminals.  Work will be performed in Huntington Beach, California, and is expected to be completed by July 2018.  Fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $197,147 will be obligated at the time of award on the first delivery order.  No funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This sole-source contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1).  The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $42,595,747 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00039-16-C-0050) to exercise an option to produce, test and deliver fully integrated Navy multiband terminals (NMT).  NMT is a multiband capable satellite communications terminal that provides protected and wideband communications.  NMT supports extremely high frequency (EHF), advanced EHF low data rate, medium data rate, extended data rate, super high frequency, military Ka (transmit and receive) and global broadcast service receive-only communications.  Work will be performed in Largo, Florida (54 percent); South Deerfield, Massachusetts (25 percent); Stow, Massachusetts (13 percent); and Marlborough, Massachusetts (8 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by November 2019.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); and fiscal 2018 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $42,595,747 will be obligated at the time of award.  Contract funds in the amount of $2,598,411 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This sole-source contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1).  The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.

MEB General Contractors Inc., Chesapeake, Virginia, is being awarded a $40,229,000 firm-fixed-price contract for waterfront utilities upgrades at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.  The work to be performed installs a total of eight new permanent substations providing industrial and shore power to Dry Docks 2 and 3.  This project also installs a new submarine firefighting system and replaces existing domestic water distribution lines and risers around Dry Docks 2, 3 and 4.  In addition, this project will replace existing salt water pipelines and risers around Dry Dock 4.  Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by April 2021.  Fiscal 2016 military construction (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $40,229,000 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with three proposals received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N40085-18-C-1116).

Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, is being awarded a $35,493,358 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for the Sea Hunter II -Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2.

This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the contract value to $43,559,069.  Work will be performed in Gulfport Mississippi (44.70 percent); Long Beach, Mississippi (24.27 percent); Arlington, Virginia (16.40 percent); Pasadena, California (6.53 percent); Bowie, Maryland (2.33 percent); Newport, Rhode Island (1.56 percent); Melbourne, Florida (1.38 percent); Kalama, Washington (1.25 percent); and various places below one percent (1.58 percent).  The base and option periods will run concurrently, therefore, work is expected to be completed Dec. 13, 2020.  Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $36,493,358 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured under N00014-17-S-B001 long range broad agency announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science& Technology. Since proposals will be received throughout the year under the long range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown.  The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-18-C-2006).

Amee Bay,* Anchorage, Alaska (N64498-18-D-0001); NDI Engineering Co.,* Thorofare, New Jersey (N64498-18-D-0002); Orbis Sibro,* Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (N64498-18-D-0003); and Marine Systems Corp.,* Boston, Massachusetts (N64498-18-D-0004), are being awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts for engineering and technical support services for the hull, mechanical and electrical ship systems for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, Philadelphia.  Amee Bay is being awarded $25,086,245; NDI Engineering Co.is being awarded $22,241,465; Orbis Sibro is being awarded $23,016,890; and Marine Systems Corp. is being awarded $23,386,955.  The ordering period for each contract is 60 months after date of award with no option periods.  Work is estimated to be completed at the following government locations Norfolk, Virginia (30 percent); San Diego, California (30 percent); Yokosuka, Japan (15 percent); Sasebo, Japan (10 percent); Mayport, Florida (10 percent); and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (5 percent), and is expected to be completed by December, 2023.  Each task order will be competed amongst multiple award contract holders, and locations will be dependent upon ship schedules.  Fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $400,000 ($100,000 per contract) will be obligated as task order 0001 for each of the four contracts at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The total value of all task orders issued under these multiple award contracts, when combined, shall not exceed the value of the highest proposal received.  The guaranteed minimum for each contract awarded will be $100,000.  This contract was competitively procured via Federal Business Opportunities website, with seven offers received.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co. Integrated Defense Systems, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $22,093,095 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-15-C-2414) to exercise option year three for life cycle engineering and support (LCE&S) services for LPD-17 class Integrated Shipboard Electronic systems.  The services to be provided will include LCE&S services including post-delivery planning, logistics and engineering, homeport technical support, integrated product fata environment, data maintenance, equipment management, systems integration and design engineering, software support, research engineering, obsolescence management (both technical and logistics), material readiness support, emergent repair planning, training and logistics support; planning yard support of integrated electronic systems including Fleet Modernization program planning, ship alteration development and installation, material management, configuration data management, research engineering, logistics documentation, and other logistics and executing activity coordination, management; sustaining engineering and obsolescence management support for unique LPD-17 class Integrated Shipboard Electronic systems.  Work will be performed in San Diego, California (88 percent); Norfolk, Virginia (7 percent); Sasebo, Japan (3 percent); Mayport, Florida (1 percent); and Pascagoula, Mississippi (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2018.  Fiscal 2012, 2017, 2015, and 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); fiscal 2017 and 2018 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $7,764,355 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2016 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,144,837 will be obligated at time of award and will expire by the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Emcor Government Services Inc., Arlington, Virginia, is being awarded a $15,042,323 modification under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N40080-17-D-0303) to extend the period of performance for base operations support at federal installations within a 100 mile radius of the national capitol region.  The work to be performed provides for all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials and equipment required to perform facility investment services for federal installations.  After award of this modification, the total cumulative contract value will be $30,841,427.  Work will be performed at various installations in and around the national capitol region.  This extension covers the period from December 2017 to December 2018.  No funds will be obligated at time of award.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2018 Navy working capital contract funds in the amount of $8,758,655 for recurring work will be obligated on individual task orders issued during the extension period.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Ocean Ships Inc., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $10,924,070 a modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00033-13-C-3333) to exercise an option to extend the period of the contract to continue the services provided for the original contract, by invoking the Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.217-8 - option to extend services.  The extension continues the operation and maintenance of two expeditionary transfer dock ships, USNS Montford Point and USNS John Glenn.  The extension requires the contractor to provide personnel, operational and technical support (ashore and afloat), equipment, tools, provisions and supplies to operate these government-owned vessels.  Work will be performed at sea worldwide, and work is expected to be July 1, 2018.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,924,070 are obligated for at the time of award.  This contract extension was not competitively procured in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-2 and 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(2) - the agency’s need for the services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the U.S. would be seriously injured unless the agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals.  The Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded $10,326,551 for firm-fixed-price, delivery order N0001918F0520 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-16-G-0001).  This delivery order provides for procurement of Harpoon/SLAM-ER missile system and Harpoon launch systems follow-on integrated logistics and engineering services support for the Navy; and various foreign military sales (FMS) customers.  Work will be performed in St. Charles, Missouri (91.84 percent); St. Louis, Missouri (5.47 percent); Yorktown, Virginia (2.64 percent); and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 0(.05 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2020.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $10,326,551 are being obligated on this award; $2,473,484 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract combines purchases for the Navy ($2,473,484; 23.95 percent); and the governments of Korea ($1,035,098; 10.02 percent); Taiwan ($779,021; 7.54 percent); Turkey ($677,959; 6.57 percent); Egypt ($635,628; 6.16 percent); Japan ($611,881; 5.93 percent); Saudi Arabia ($595,464; 5.77 percent); Australia ($445,323; 4.31 percent); United Kingdom ($406,934; 3.94 percent); India ($334,131; 3.24 percent); Canada ($316,590; 3.06 percent); Chile ($309,813; 3 percent); Singapore ($252,498; 2.45 percent); Israel ($251,591; 2.44 percent); Thailand ($228,085; 2.21 percent); Bahrain ($166,383; 1.60 percent); United Arab Emirates ($159,890; 1.55 percent); Kuwait ($133,398; 1.29 percent); Oman ($127,837; 1.24 percent); Malaysia ($121,832; 1.18 percent); Germany ($85,178; 0.82 percent); Portugal ($72,060; 0.70 percent); Netherlands ($63,884; 0.62 percent); and Denmark ($42,589; 0.41 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. 

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

McKesson Technologies LLC, Alpharetta, Georgia, has been awarded a maximum $400,000,000 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for digital imaging network picture archiving communications system products and maintenance. This is the fifth contract awarded under open solicitation SPE2D1-15-R-0004. This was a competitive acquisition with nine offers received. This is a five-year base contract with one five-year option period. Maximum dollar amount is for the life of the contract. Locations of performance are Georgia, and other areas located within and outside the continental U.S., with a Dec. 15, 2027, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2018 through 2028 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE2D1-18-D-0006).

ARMY

CAE Healthcare Inc., Sarasota, Florida (W900KK-18-D-0009); Innovative Tactical Training Solutions,* Goshen, Kentucky (W900KK-18-D-0011); Kforce Government Solutions Inc., Fairfax, Virginia (W900KK-18-D-0012); Laerdal Medical Corp, Wappingers Falls, New York (W900KK-18-D-0013); Operative Experience Inc.,* North East, Maryland (W900KK-18-D-0014); Simulaids Inc., Saugerties, New York (W900KK-18-D-0015); and SynDaver Labs Inc.,* Tampa, Florida (W900KK-18-D-0016), will share in an $186,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to procure high fidelity patient simulators and veterinary simulators in support of the Program Executive Office Simulation Training and Instrumentation, Defense Health Agency, Veterans Health Administration, and other DoD agencies. Bids were solicited via the Internet with seven received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 14, 2022. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity.

Power Secure Inc., Wake Forest, North Carolina, was awarded an $111,675,077 modification (P00005) to contract W912EP-18-C-0003 to repair and restore the electrical grid in Puerto Rico. Work will be performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an estimated completion date of March 7, 2018. Fiscal 2018 Federal Emergency Management Agency funds in the amount of $111,675,077 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, was awarded a $97,865,006 hybrid (cost, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and firm-fixed-price) contract for the Limited Interim Missile Warning System Quick Reaction Capability effort. Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received. Work will be performed in Nashua, New Hampshire, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 15, 2022. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $97,865,006 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-18-C-0001).

General Atomics Aeronautical, Poway, California, was awarded a $94,575,690 modification (P00018) to contract W58RGZ-17-C-0035 for contractor logistics services for the unmanned aircraft system Gray Eagle Block Zero. Work will be performed in Poway, California, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 15, 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $22,781,591 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $50,657,382 modification (P00003) to contract W56HZV-17-C-0108 to upgrade 60 M1A2 SEPv3 tanks. Work will be performed in Lima, Ohio; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Anniston, Alabama; and Tallahassee, Florida; with an estimated completion date of Aug. 31, 2019. Fiscal 2018 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $50,657,382 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity.

AM General LLC, South Bend, Illinois, was awarded a $10,307,200 modification (P00027) to contract W56HZV-14-C-0132 to provide systems technical support services for all High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle family of vehicles variants. Work will be performed in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 31, 2018. Fiscal 2016 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $10,307,200 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

The Boeing Co., Defense, Space & Security, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded an estimated $40,053,442 order (FA8106-18-F-1004) to a previously awarded contract (FA8106-17-D-0002) for the low frequency transmission system modification installation. The contractor will provide installation, integration and testing, support equipment and technical data. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas; and at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, with an expected completion date of Nov. 30, 2019.  Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $14,806,013 are being obligated at the time of award.  Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., Fort Walton Beach, Florida, has been awarded an $18,100,000 modification (P00010) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (FA8509-16-C-0001) for the integrated sustainment support of the AC-130U gunships. This modification provides for the continuation of services for the development, modification, sustainment and maintenance of the AC-130U gunship.  The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $55,097,463.  Work will be performed in Fort Walton Beach, Florida; Hurlburt Field, Florida; Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan; and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $5,900,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded a $7,726,343 contract for engineering support services for C-40B/C aircraft to be upgraded to meet the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast civil mandate, as well as to meet the mode 5 identification of friend or foe Department of Defense mandate. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; San Antonio, Texas; and various locations, with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2018.  Fiscal 2018 procurement funds in the amount of $7,726,343 are being obligated at the time of award. This contract was a sole-source acquisition. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (FA8106-17-D-0002, FA8106-17-F-0042 P00003).

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Department of Defense Contracts—Dec. 13, 2017

Here are United States Department of Defense Contracts for Dec. 13, 2017.

Contracts valued at $7 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m., eastern, at the U.S. Department of Defense.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts

Release No: CR-240-17
Dec. 13, 2017

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Warner Robins, Georgia, has been awarded a $444,600,000 firm-fixed-price requirements contract for support of the AAQ-24 large aircraft infrared counter-measure direct sales public private partnership for repair of 34 national stock numbers.  Work will be performed in Warner Robins, Georgia, with an expected completion date of Dec. 14, 2022.  This contract involves 3.9 percent foreign military sales funds in the amount of $17,200,000 to Canada and Bahrain. This contract was a sole-source acquisition.  Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8522-18-D-0002).

The Boeing Co., El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $21,920,514 modification (P00022) to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (FA8819-15-C-0007) for space-based space surveillance block 10 sustainment. Work will be performed in El Segundo, California; and Colorado Springs, Colorado, with an expected completion date of June 20, 2022.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $14,180,000 are being obligated at the time of award.  The Space Superiority Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity.

ENSCO Inc., Aerospace Sciences and Engineering Division, Falls Church, Virginia, has been awarded a $13,565,300 modification (P00011) to a previously awarded contract (FA8806-17-C-0001) for the continued support in engineering, architectural, and integration efforts. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $187,701,442.  Work will be performed at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California; and Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, with an expected completion date of Oct. 31, 2022.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $900,000 are being obligated at the time of award.  Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity.

The University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics Data Consortium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $7,376,831 cost-reimbursable contract for conflicting account information resources in omnivorous media streams data corpus. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an expected completion date of June 13, 2022.  Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $324,763 are being obligated at the time of award.  This contract was a competitive acquisition, and 49 offers were received.  Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity (FA8750-18-C-0013).

NAVY

General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, is being awarded a $198,082,976 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the continued procurement, manufacturing, testing and delivery of AN/USC-61(C) digital modular radio (DMR) systems, high frequency distribution amplifier group components, spares for both systems, and engineering services to support their continued fielding and maintenance plans.  DMR is a modular, software reprogrammable radio system with embedded cryptography that provides all radio frequency (RF) to-baseband and baseband-to-RF conversion functions required for line-of-sight (LOS), beyond LOS and satellite communications systems operating between 2.0 megahertz to 2.0 gigahertz.  This contract has a five-year ordering period up to the contract award amount.  There is one option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to an estimated $208,938,908.  Work will be performed in Scottsdale, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by December 2022.  No funds will be obligated at the time of award.  Contract actions will be issued and funds obligated as individual delivery orders.  Fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds will be placed on the contract with an initial delivery order issued shortly after award of the base contract.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract is a sole-source acquisition, therefore, it was not competitively procured pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) - only one responsible source (Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 6.302-1).  The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N00039-18-D-0002).

CSRA LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $49,300,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop, support and upgrade modernized training devices for the Navigations Seamanship Shiphandling Trainers program. Work will be performed in Newport, Rhode Island (47.5 percent); San Diego, California (20.3 percent); Norfolk, Virginia (20.3 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (1.7 percent); Everett, Washington (1.7 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1.7 percent); Yokosuka, Japan (1.7 percent); Sasebo, Japan (1.7 percent); Rota, Spain (1.7 percent); and Bahrain (1.7 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2022.  Fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,390,509 are being obligated at time of award, none of which expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via a full and open competitive request for proposals; three offers were received.  The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity (N61340-18-D-0002).

MTFA Architecture Inc.*, Arlington, Virginia, is being awarded a maximum amount $30,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity, architect-engineering contract for engineering and design services for general purpose facilities at various administrative facilities within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington area of responsibility (AOR).  Work will be performed within the NAVFAC Washington AOR, including but not limited to, Maryland (45 percent); Washington, District of Columbia (30 percent); Virginia (20 percent); and may also be performed in the remainder of the U.S. (5 percent).  The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of December 2022.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $10,000 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  No task orders are being issued at this time.  Future task orders will be primarily funded by operations and maintenance (Navy).  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with five proposals received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N40080-18-D-0004).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia, is being awarded a $23,160,822 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-6327) for Joint Counter-Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (CREW) Increment One Block One (I1B1) systems full-rate production in support of the Expeditionary Warfare Program Office. CREW systems provide combat troops protection against radio-controlled improvised explosive devices. CREW systems are designed to provide protection for foot soldiers, vehicles and permanent structures. The Joint CREW I1B1 is the first-generation system that develops a common open architecture across all three capabilities and provides protection for worldwide military operations. This integrated design maximizes commonality across all capabilities, reduces life cycle costs and provides increased protection against worldwide threats.  Work will be performed in San Diego, California (97 percent); and Sierra Vista, Arizona (3 percent), and is expected to be complete by August 2022.  Fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $9,942,971; fiscal 2017 other procurement (Air Force) funding in the amount of $9,288,525; and fiscal 2016 other procurement (Air Force) funding in the amount of $3,929,326 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $9,235,772 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2110) for the material and advance planning of the post-shakedown availability/selected restricted availability (PSA/SRA) of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).  This modification will provide for the continuation of PSA/SRA advanced planning work to prepare for and make ready for the PSA/SRA execution work on USS Gerald R. Ford.  In addition, this effort includes material requirements needed for execution of the CVN-78 PSA/SRA.  The advance planning work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to complete by April 2018.  Fiscal 2016 and 2010 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amounts $3,780,000 and $500,000 respectively, totaling $4,280,000 will be obligated at time of award and not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

ARMY

General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Virginia, was awarded a $10,654,076 firm-fixed-price contract to provide all personnel, supplies, material, tools, equipment, and services necessary to provide operations and training services to all types of Army Reserve medical units and to military services’ active, National Guard, and reserve units. Bids were solicited via the Internet with six received. Work will be performed in Dublin, California; Augusta, Georgia; and Sparta, Wisconsin, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2018. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $10,654,076 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Health Contracting Activity, San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (W81K04-18-C-0001).

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