New service contracts, modifications awarded to armed forces

 The Department of Defense recently announced several contracts awarded among the armed forces.

Navy

Fed Con/South Bay JV in San Diego, California; KKP Electrical Contractors LLC (Mountain Power Electrical Contractors) in Boise, Idaho; NEI Contracting and Engineering in Chula Vista, California; Procal Electric in Twentynine Palms, California; and Synergy Electric Co. Inc. in Santee, California, were awarded contracts for construction, repair or  renovation on dry-utilities projects. The work will be done at several sites in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR). The contracts total $99 million. Work will be conducted in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, with options for other NAVFAC Southwest locations. The contracts cannot last longer than 60 months and must be completed by March 2021. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest in San Diego is the contracting entity.

In Bothell, Washington, Lockheed Martin Aculight Corp. was awarded a $10,608,799 contract for multispectral electro-optic infrared (EO/IR) countermeasures work concerning the EO/IR surveillance and response systems. Work will be completed by March 1, 2020, in Bothell. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., is the contracting entity.

Leidos Inc. in Reston, Virginia, was awarded a $9,295,409 modification on an existing contract for software and hardware services concerning the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Ashore Program at several naval bases globally. Work will be completed by June 2016, with an option to extend through November 2016. The contracting entity is the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center in Port Hueneme, California.

In St. Louis, Missouri, Boeing Co. was awarded a $9,085,765 modification of an existing contract for engineering maintenance on aircraft technology. Work will be completed by June 2017 in St. Louis. The contracting entity is the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland.

Army

Modern Technology Solutions of Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $63,799,786 contract for for distributed digital simulation support. Work will be completed by March 1, 2021, and conducted wherever necessary. The contracting entity is the Army Contracting Command of the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

In Charleston, South Carolina, Technica LLC, was awarded a $14,282,213 contract for logistics-readiness support services for the 63rd Regional Support Command. Work will be performed in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, and finished by April 2021. The Army Contracting Command of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, is the contracting entity.

Brayman Construction Corp. in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $9,997,962 modification on an existing contract for dam-safety assurance work at Bluestone Dam in Hinton, West Virginia, through February 2017. The Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington, West Virginia, is the contracting entity.

Air Force

L-3 Communications Corp.'s Link Simulation Training Division in Arlington, Texas, has been awarded a $36.3 million contract to operate an F-16 A/B Block 20 mission training center (MTC). L-3 also will provide MTC hardware, spares and initial software development services. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting entity, and work will be completed by Nov. 1, 2016, in Arlington, Texas.

In Huntsville, Alabama, Pinnacle Solutions has been awarded a $14,743,219 modification of an existing contract to provide KC-10 training system support. Pinnacle will provide operations and maintenance for 39 air-crew training and maintenance training devices, which support maintenance and aircrew training at Air Mobility Command, Air Force Reserve Command and Air Education Training Command. Work will be completed by Dec. 31, 2016, at Travis Air Force Base, California; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey; and the Training System Support Center in Fairfield, California.  The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting entity.