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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 27. April 2005 / Time Line April 27, 2005
Version 3.026. April 2005, 28. April 2005
04/27/2005
Pentagon proposes sale of 100 bunker-busting bombs to
Israel
Reuters 27/4/05
The Pentagon notified Congress on Tuesday of a proposed sale to
Israel of 100 guided bunker-busting bombs, a move that analysts
said could prompt concerns about a unilateral Israel strike against
Iran.
Israel has requested the sale of the Lockheed Martin Corp. GBU-28s
worth as much as $30 million, the Pentagon's Defense Security
Cooperation Agency said in a notice required by law for
government-to-government military sales.
The GBU-28 was developed for penetrating hardened command centers
located deep underground and would be used by the Israeli Air Force
on their U.S.-built F-15 aircraft, the agency said...
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of
Defense
BAE Systems Applied Technologies Inc., Rockville, Md., is being
awarded a $17,959,754 not-to-exceed modification to a previously
awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-04-C-0069) for
engineering and technical services for Communication-Electronic
(C-E) Platforms, Systems, and Subsystems. The estimated level of
effort for this option is 270,400 man-hours. Work will be performed
in St. Inigoes, Md. (57 percent); Chesapeake, Va. (38 percent); San
Diego, Calif. (1 percent); Fayetteville, N.C. (1 percent); Ft.
Walton Beach, Fla. (1 percent); Tampa, Fla. (1 percent); and Panzer
Kaserne, Germany (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in
April 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft
Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being
awarded an $11,421,796 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the
FY06 award for the United Kingdom Technical Services in support of
the TRIDENT Strategic Weapons System. Work will be performed in
Sunnyvale, Calif., and is expected to be completed March 2006.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's
Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, D.C., is the contracting
activity (N00030-05-C-0039).
Engineering Services Network Inc., Arlington, Va., is being awarded
a $5,904,510 cost-plus-fixed fee,
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide combat
systems engineering and C4I design evaluation, installation
coordination, maintenance, training, program coordination,
logistics, testing, and the development of combat system
documentation to support the Port Hueneme Division Naval Surface
Warfare Center (PHD NSWC), Port Hueneme, Calif. This contract
includes options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative
value of the contract to $67,551,659. Work will be performed aboard
U.S. Navy ships (80 percent) and at government facilities in
Washington, D.C. (15 percent), and Port Hueneme, Calif. (5
percent), and the base year work is expected to be completed by
April 2006. Contract funds in the amount of $2,000,000 will expire
at the end of the current fiscal year. The requirement was
synopsized via Federal Business Opportunities website. The
solicitation was issued competitively, via the PHD NSWC Portal web
page and was limited to firms certified for participation in the
Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program,
with one offer received. The Port Hueneme Division Naval Surface
Warfare Center, Port Hueneme, Calif., is the contracting activity
(N63394-05-D-1269).
04/27/2005
Signature of the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS)
contract
On Thursday, 28th April, 2005, a contract will be signed between
the NATO C3 Agency and the Transatlantic Industrial Proposed
Solution (TIPS) consortium, taking forward the Alliance Ground
Surveillance (AGS) project. This contract, valued at over 20
million euros, will address a number of key issues leading to the
design and development phase of the AGS programme (valued at around
4 billion euros). At the centre of this programme is a development
of a new, cutting-edge radar that will be a joint effort by six
countries and ultimately integrated onto manned aircraft and
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
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