Armed forces award several new service contracts

The Navy, Army, Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command awarded several new service contracts recently.

Navy

Allied Pacific Builders Inc. of Waipahu, Hawaii; Environet Inc. in Kamuela, Hawaii; Hako Plumbing Inc. in Honolulu, Hawaii; Heartwood Pacific LLC in Keaau, Hawaii; Raass Brothers Inc. in Provo, Utah; and TOMCO Corp. in Honolulu, Hawaii, were awarded a combined contract of $245 million for several construction projects mostly located in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii area of responsibility (AOR). Work will be conducted within the NAVFAC Hawaii AOR and finished by March 2021. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting entity.

Johnson Controls Government Systems LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was awarded a $186,086,484 contract to effect energy-infrastructure upgrades at Naval Station Norfolk. Work will be conductefd in Norfolk, Virginia, and will be finished by September 2039. The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center in Port Hueneme, California, is the contracting entity.

Textron Inc. in New Orleans, Louisiana, was awarded a $174,012,150 modification on an existing contract to build landing craft air cushions (LCACs) under the Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) program. Work will be conducted in New Orleans; Indianapolis, Indiana; Camden, New Jersey; Norway;Great Britain; Livonia, Michigan; Chanhassen, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Metairie, Louisiana; Huntington, California; Eatontown, New Jersey; Corona, California; and Gold Beach, Oregon, and will bee finished by October 2020. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., is the contracting entity.

Coherent Technical Services Inc. in Lexington Park, Maryland, was awarded a $49,508,038 contract to provide technical and engineering services for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Combat Integration and Identification Systems Division. Work will be conducted in St. Inigoes, Maryland and some international locations, and will be finished in March 2020. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting entity.

Head Inc./Ballew JV in Columbus, Ohio, was awarded a $24,684,023 contract for airfield repair work at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, that will be completed by March 2018. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command of the Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting entity.

Solpac Construction Inc., working as Soltek Pacific Construction Co., of San Diego, California, was awarded a $18,522,000 contract to effect hangar renovations and additions at Naval Base Ventura County. Work will be conducted in Point Mugu, California, and completed by April 2017. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command of the Southwest in San Diego is the contracting entity.

Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training subsidiary in Baltimore, Maryland, was awarded a $14,977,352 contract to provide engineering and management services for littoral combat ship USS Detroit (LCS-7). Work will be conducted in New York City, Baltimore and Marinette, Wisconsin, and will be finished by May 2017. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair in Bath, Maine, is the contracting entity.

Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona, was awarded $14,053,986 modification to a previous contract to procure material, fabricate parts, then assemble, test, and deliver Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 MK 44 Mod 4 guided missile round packs. Work will be conducted in Tucson; Ottobrunn, Germany; Rocket Center, West Virginia; and Andover, Massachusetts, and will be finished by February 2018. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., is the contracting entity.

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Mission Systems and Training subsidiary in Manassas, Virginia, was awarded a $10,848,978 modification to a previous contract for engineering and production of the Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (A-RCI) sonar system. Work will be conducted in Manassas, and Syracuse, New York, and will be finished by December 2016. The Naval Sea Systems Command of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., is the contracting entity.

DRS Laurel Technologies Inc. in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $10,485,711 modification to a previous contract to provide equipment and installation of the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS) program. Work will be conducted in Johnstown and finished by July 2018. The Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting entity.

LRAD Corp. in San Diego, California, was awarded a $7,393,775 contract to supply the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Situational Awareness System (SAwS) acoustic early-warning system. Work will be conducted in San Diego and finished by March 2021. The Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, is the contracting entity.

Army

DynCorp International LLC in Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $65,681,837 modification on a previous contract for aviation field maintenance. Work will be conducted in Afghanistan and finished by Dec. 31, 2016. The Army Contracting Command of the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama is the contracting entity.

Hydrogeologic in Reston, Virginia, was awarded a $10 million contract for hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste remediation. The work should be completed by March 29, 2021. The Army Corps of Engineers in St. Louis, Missouri, is the contracting entity.

Bowhead in Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $9,786,020 modification to a previous contract to provide IT support for the network command at Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois. The work will be completed by Jan. 31, 2017. The Army Contracting Command of the Rock Island Arsenal is the contracting entity.

Ka’aki Technologies LLC in Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $7,912,366 contract to provide scientific, administrative and logistical services for the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Work will be conducted in Frederick, Maryland, and should be finished by Dec. 30, 2016. The Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity in Frederick is the contracting entity.

Air Force

SiCore Technologies Inc. in Farmingdale, New York, was awarded a $47.9 million contract to develop safeguards that protect Air Force weapons systems from cyberattacks through the Avionics Vulnerability Assessment, Mitigations, and Protections (AVAMP) program. Work will be conducted in Dayton, Ohio, and finished by March 30, 2024. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is the contracting entity.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, was awarded a $47.9 million contract to develop safeguards that protect Air Force weapons systems from cyberattacks through the Avionics Vulnerability Assessment, Mitigations, and Protections (AVAMP) program. Work will be conducted in Dayton, Ohio, and finished by March 30, 2024. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is the contracting entity.

Northrop Grumman Technical Services in Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a $44,708,069  modification to a previous contract for logistics support of the KC-10 program. Work will be conducted at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey; Travis Air Force Base, California; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii; Yakota Air Base, Japan; and Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The work should be finished by March 31, 2018. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at the Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma is the contracting entity.

Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been awarded a $28 million contract for avionics sustaining engineering services to maintain C/KC-135 aircraft avionics systems. Work will be conducted in Cedar Rapids and will be finished by April 2, 2017. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma is the contracting entity.

Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics Co. subsidiary in Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded  a $14,751,859 modification on an existing contract to provide F-22 training system sustainment, system hardware modifications, and distributed mission operations federation management and integration. Work will be conducted at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia; Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska; Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii; Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas; Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; and St. Louis, Missouri, and should be finished by Dec. 31, 2017. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hill Air Force Base in Utah is the contracting entity 

U.S. Special Operations Command

Raytheon Co. in McKinney, Texas, was awarded a $47 million contract to provide life-cycle contractor support for the AN/ZSQ-2 Forward Looking Infrared and Electro-Optical Sensor System for the U.S. Special Operations Command, Technology Applications Program Office. Work mostly will be conducted in McKinney and finished by March 31, 2021. The U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida, is the contracting entity.