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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 9. november 2006 / Timeline November 9, 2006
Version 3.58. November 2006, 10. November 2006
11/09/2006
Kvindesagsforkæmperen og pacifisten Jeanette Rankin bliver
som den første kvinde medlem af USAs kongres, 1916.
11/09/2006
Krystalnatten i Nazityskland, 1938.
11/09/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Boeing Co., Boeing Helicopter, Ridley Park, Pa., is being awarded a
$712,156,535 cost-plus-award fee/incentive fee contract. This
initial contract award is for Block 0 System Development and
Demonstration (SDD). The Combat Search and Rescue Replacement
Vehicle (CSAR-X) program is an evolutionary acquisition of a
non-developmental, medium lift, vertical take-off and landing
aircraft that replaces the HH-60G pave Hawk Combat Search and
Rescue (CSAR) aircraft and its attendant training and support
systems. The CSAR-X weapon system will correct the shortfalls of
the HH-60G, be rapidly deployable, and be capable of operations at
a main base or austere locations worldwide. At this time$3,000,000
have been obligated. Solicitations began October 2005 and
negotiations were complete September 2006. This work will be
complete fourth quarter FY 2012 initial operational capability.
Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity
(FA8629-07-C-2372).
VBR Joint Venture, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded an $8,080,573
cost-plus-award-fee contract modification. This is a modification
to the Turkey base maintenance contract. The main purpose of this
modification is to incorporate FY07 estimated costs for material
purchases, contractor business travel, and the tankers and cargo
hub contingency effort. At this time, no funds have been obligated.
This work will be complete September 2007. 39th Air Base Wing, APO
AE, is the contracting activity (F61521-03-C-5400/P00061).
Force Protection Industries, Inc., Ladson, S.C., is being awarded a
$125,000,000 letter contract for 100 Joint EOD Rapid Response
Vehicles (JERRV) and 44 Buffalo vehicles with associated manuals,
deployment kits, field representative support and training.
Vehicles will be deployed to and supported in Iraq. This contract
contains options, which if exercised, would bring the total
estimated contract value to $200,000,000. The maximum ordering
quantity will be 200 JERRV vehicles and 82 Buffalo vehicles. Work
will be performed in Ladson, S.C., and is expected to be completed
by November 2007 and their support will continue up to a year after
fielding. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current
fiscal year. This contract is a sole source award to Force
Protection Industries, Inc., based on an urgent and compelling need
for the Government. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico,
Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-07D-5006).
New Mexico Technology Group L.L.C., El Paso, Texas, was awarded on
Nov. 6, 2006, a $77,968,998 cost-plus-award-fee contract for
Mission Support Services for the White Sands Missile
Range. Work will be performed in White Sands Missile Range,
N.M., and is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2016. Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There
were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on
Aug. 18, 2006, and three bids were received. The U.S. Army
Contracting Agency, White Sands Missile Range, N.M., is the
contracting activity (W9124Q-07-C-0504).
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