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02/25/2005
Conference; Reaching Nuclear
Disarmament: New challenges and possibilities.
02/25/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co., King of Prussia, Pa., is
being awarded a $25,882,750 cost-plus incentive-fee contract to
provide for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The objective of
the Safety Enhanced Re-entry Vehicle (SERV) Support Equipment
program is to provide the capability to deploy the MK21 Re-entry
Vehicle (RV), from the Peacekeeper weapon system, into the
Minuteman III (MMIII) weapons system. The MK21RV will replace the
MK12RV presently in the MMIII inventory. To support this
replacement program, the SERV, Support Equipment is being bought to
provide the capability to handle testing and allow for movement and
handling of the MK21RV at the MMIII Wings, Vandenberg AFB, and
depot support at Hill Air Force Base. Total funds have been
obligated. This work will be complete by August 2007. Solicitation
began September 2004 and negotiations were completed December 2004.
The Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base,
Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8204-05-C-0005).
Integral Systems, Lanham, Md., is being awarded a $23,776,375
cost-plus award-fee contract to provide for first developmental
step (Spiral 1) of the Rapid Attack Identification Detection
Reporting System program intended for global satellite
communications interference detection, characterization, event
reporting, and mission impact assessment for US owned, operated, or
used space systems through delivery of a suite of RF interference
sensors, geolocation equipment, and centralized control. At this
time, $4,000,000 of the funds has been obligated. This work will be
complete by March 2007. Solicitation began October 2004. The
Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air
Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity
(FA8819-05-C0018).
Rockwell Collins Government Systems, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being
awarded a $7,338,336 firm fixed price contract modification to
provide for six Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) Lot III
production kits and Installation for the KC-135 GATM Modification.
Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by
April 2006. Negotiations were completed February 2005. The
Headquarters Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force
Base, Okla., is the contracting activity
(F33657-98-C-0036-P00058).
02/25/2005
Halliburton: $9.6 billion in Iraq so far
By Pamela Hess
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050225-060936-9499r.htm
Washington, DC, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Halliburton's logistics contract
with the U.S. Army in Iraq has been worth at least $9.6 billion
since the start of the war and is mounting at a cost of about $6
billion a year, according to Army documents and officials.
The company, headed by Vice President Dick Cheney for five years
prior to his election in 2000, has been paid $6.6 billion for its
work so far, with another $3 billion in payments pending completion
of the work, said Dan Carlson, spokesman for Army Field Support
Command, Rock Island, Ill.
The logistics contract is not just for work performed in Iraq, but
that ongoing war accounts for the lion's share of the work. The
money obligated to the company under the contract amounts to $10.5
billion, with a little under a billion for work in Afghanistan. In
2005, the Iraq contract is expected to be worth more than $6
billion, with $500 million for Afghanistan and $500 million for
other projects, according to an Army budget official and Army
documents.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR -- formerly known as Kellogg, Brown
& Root -- holds the contract, known as the Army's Logistics
Civil Augmentation Contract, or LOGCAP, an open-ended "cost plus"
contract. The Army issues "task orders" for logistics work it needs
done -- meals served, facilities constructed -- and KBR charges a
percentage of the cost of the work as its profit.
The LOGCAP arrangement began in 1992, with KBR's predecessor Brown
& Root the first winner. It held the contract until 1997 when
the General Accounting Office discovered Brown & Root had
overcharged the Army for its work on the war and peacekeeping
mission in Bosnia. DynCorp won the contract in 1997, but KBR won it
back in December 2001 and will hold it for 10 years, according to
the contract terms.
KBR has a separate contract originally worth up to $7 billion to
restore Iraq's oil infrastructure, awarded on the brink of the war
in March 2003. That contract was later divided and opened for
competition; KBR won a contract for the restoration of the southern
oil fields only for a maximum value of $1.2 billion.
Halliburton's fortunes increased dramatically with the onset of the
Iraq war. In 2003 alone it received contracts from the Defense
Department worth $4.3 billion, more in one year than it won in
Pentagon contracts over the previous five years combined, according
to the Center for Public Integrity. The total worth of DOD
contracts from 1998 to 2003 was $2.5 billion.
In January 2004, Halliburton fired two of its employees in Kuwait
who accepted a $6 million bribe in exchange for awarding Army
subcontracts to a Kuwaiti-based company involved in Iraq
reconstruction. The next month, Pentagon auditors discovered
Halliburton overcharged the military $27.4 million for meals served
to American troops at five military bases in Iraq and Kuwait last
year.
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