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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. Juni 2005 / Time Line June 23, 2005
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CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Defense Technologies Inc., Ranlo, N.C., is being awarded an
$8,821,262 ceiling-priced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity
contract for basic and applied research leading to the development
of a prototype Intelligent Autonomous Unmanned Controls Station
System. Work will be performed in Ranlo, N.C. (70 percent) and
Patuxent River, Md. (30 percent), and is expected to be completed
in June 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under
a Broad Agency Announcement; one proposal was received. The Naval
Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the
contracting activity (N00421-05-D-0055).
Rockwell Collins Government Systems, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being
awarded a $45,334,038 firm fixed price and cost plus fixed fee
contract modification that exercises production options for the
purchase of 19,659 Defense Advanced Global Positioning Satellite
Receivers (DAGRs) and accessories. The DAGR will provide authorized
Department of Defense, and Foreign Military Sales users of GPS User
Equipment a Precise Positioning System, hand-held, dual-frequency,
lightweight receiver (less than one pound) that incorporates the
next generation, tamper-resistant Global Positioning Satellite
(GPS) "SAASM" (Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module)
security module. The DAGR will serve as a replacement for the
Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver in integrated platforms as well
as for the advanced and basis GPS user. This effort supports
foreign military sales to Germany, France, Canada and Australia.
Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by June
2006. The Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los
Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity
(F04701-02-C-0011, P00026).
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Sudbury, Mass., is being
awarded a $752,000,000 cost-plus award-fee, firm fixed price
contract to provide Taiwan with elements of a missile and air
defense capability. Specifically, this system includes a Ultra High
Frequency phased array radar integrated with Taiwan furnished
Identification Friend-or-Foe beacons, two Missile Warning Centers,
communications and interface architecture and protocol to specified
Taiwan mission elements via the Taiwan military communications
infrastructure; consistent with United State Government
restrictions. This effort supports foreign military sales with
Taiwan. At this time, $349,754,206 of the funds have been
obligated. This work will be complete by September 2009.
Solicitation began December 2004. The Headquarters Electronic
Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting
activity (FA8722-05-C-0001).
Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a
$351,850,082 firm fixed price, cost-plus award-fee, time and
materials contract to provide strategic posts and associated mobile
support teams survivable inter-site/intra-site communications paths
to receive emergency action messages (EAMs) and force management
messages from nuclear C2 nodes (inter-site) and disseminate them to
their bomber, tanker, and reconnaissance aircrews (intra-site).
GEMS will be developed and fielded in both a fixed and a
transportable configuration utilizing layered system architecture.
GEMS will provide extremely high frequency and very low
frequency/low frequency communications and aircrew alerting, as
well as receiving, computing, routing, storing, and disseminating
capability for EAM and other force direction and force management
messages from the Nuclear Command and Control Systems nodes to
aircrews in the seats and to nuclear execution ground support
forces. The locations of performances are Rockwell Collins, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa (40 percent), and Rockwell Collins, Richardson, Texas
(60 percent). At this time, $9,900,000 of the funds have been
obligated. This work will be complete by May 2011. Solicitation
began April 2005, and negotiations were completed June 2005. The
Headquarters Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base,
Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8726-05-D-0003, 0001).
06/23/2005
DRS Technologies Receives $44 Million in Orders for Advanced
Intelligence Equipment
PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2005--DRS Technologies,
Inc. announced today that it has received orders with a combined
value of approximately $44 million to provide advanced intelligence
equipment supporting all installation types used in the collection
of communications intelligence (COMINT) and signal intelligence
(SIGINT) data. These products will be used in man-portable,
fixed-site and mobile applications supporting the intelligence
community.
The contracts were awarded to DRS by various intelligence agencies
and U.S. government organizations, as well as domestic and
international defense prime contractors. For these orders, the
company's DRS Signal Solutions unit in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will
provide various high-performance tuners, receivers, demodulators
and direction finding equipment. Product deliveries are expected to
be completed in approximately six months. DRS Signal Solutions
provides advanced military and space communications technologies to
achieve information superiority on the 21st century battlefield. It
offers a wide range of solutions for gathering, exploiting and
protecting critical Command, Control, Communications and
Intelligence (C3I) information, including microwave products with
unmatched signal purity for increased surveillance and compact
satellite communication (SATCOM) converters at half the physical
size of any other available, with low-phase noise and low
distortion.
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