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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. Mars 2005 / Time Line March 29, 2005
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US admits killing Arab journalists in Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8396.htm
By Aljazeera
The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two
journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya
who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier
this month.
Al-Arabiya cameraman Ali Abd al-Aziz died on 18 March from a
gunshot wound to the head. Correspondent Ali al-Khatib died from
his wounds in hospital the next day. Both were Iraqis ...
03/29/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Suffolk, Va., is
being awarded a $10,344,598 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order contract
for services in support of the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint
Experimentation Program and Joint Futures Lab. Work will be
performed in Suffolk, Va., and work is expected to be completed by
July 2005. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured, with 30
proposals solicited and one offer received. The Fleet and
Industrial Supply Center Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia is the
contracting activity (N00140-04-D-0195) (Order 0023).
Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded an
$8,387,384 not-to-exceed modification to exercise an option to a
previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-01-C-0241)
for technical and engineering services for the Naval Air Warfare
Center Aircraft Division in support of Department of Defense, NATO,
Federal and other sponsor requirements within or outside the
Continental United States, for implementation of advanced
technologies in design, integration, and test and evaluation.
Support to be provided includes life cycles sustainment of tactical
and non-tactical systems, decision support systems, commonality
requirements and a wide spectrum of technical and engineering
services related to emerging technologies, including information
assurance and electronic-enterprise-solutions, acquisition support,
and program management. The estimated level of effort for this
contract is 103,800 man-hours. Work will be performed in Patuxent
River, Md. (76 percent); Alexandria, Va. (23 percent); and
Lithicum, Md. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in March
2006. Contract funds in the amount of $46,805 will expire at the
end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center
Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting
activity.
Boeing Satellite Systems, Los Angeles, Calif., is being awarded a
$12,401,610 firm fixed price contract modification to provide for
the Phase II Parts Obsolescence Study in support of the Wideband
Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) program. This effort will reduce the risk
to the program from parts and equipment going out of production
between WGS satellites 3 and 4. At this time, $8,000,000 of the
funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by September
2006. Solicitation began February 2005. The Headquarters Space and
Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the
contracting activity (F04701-00-C-0011, P00094).
03/29/2005
Humanitarian Mine Action Grants
Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
March 29, 2005
U.S. Department of State Issues "Request for Applications" for
Humanitarian Mine Action Grants
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA) in the U.S.
Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is
issuing a new Request for Applications for grants to advance
humanitarian mine action. Grant applications will be accepted from
non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and
international organizations. The State Department may provide up to
$2 million in funding for the grants for projects ranging from
$20,000 to $500,000. Depending on the quality of the proposals and
changes in programming assumptions, WRA reserves the right to make
no awards.
Four specific categories are being considered: 1.) development of
methodologies to support national mine action planning processes
using current landmine impact survey data; 2.) enabling transition
of mine action programs to host nation management; 3.) encouraging
private sector support for mine action and destruction of abandoned
ordnance; and 4.) to match funds raised from non-U.S. Government
sources, up to a total of $100,000 maximum, for demining and mine
risk education projects in countries that receive U.S. mine action
assistance.
Applications for unsolicited projects relevant to WRA's goals and
objectives, including projects to abate small arms, light weapons
and Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), may also be
submitted.
Details about the grants process; forms; WRA plans for countries to
which it gives mine action assistance; requesting a Data Universal
Numbers System (DUNS) Number; registering with the Central
Contractor Registry; and electronic submission procedures are
available at http://www.Grants.gov .
For consideration, applications for this new round of grants must
be electronically filed through the Grants.gov website no later
than 12:00 midnight Eastern Time on Monday, May 2, 2005 and will
not be accepted by other means unless approved in advance by Mr.
Richard G. Stickels Jr., Grants Officer, telephone (202) 663-0107;
email: Stickels@pmwra.org. To examine the complete Request for
Applications announcement on the Grants.gov website; click "Get
Started" on the homepage; click "Browse by Agency," then click
"Department of State;" and finally scroll to the entry posted by
the WRA office.
General information about WRA office is available at
www.state.gov/t/pm/wra.
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