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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 11. Oktober 2006 / Time Line October 11, 2006
Version 3.510. Oktober 2006, 12. Oktober 2006
10/11/2006
National Security Archive Update, October 11, 2006
Cold War Missile Numbers "De-re-classified"
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB197
Washington, DC, October 11, 2006 - On September 26, 2006, the
Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services duly
released, as a result of an administrative appeal, unredacted
versions of 1971 charts depicting U.S. strategic force levels first
published in a public report by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.
This was, as it should have been, a routine decision to correct a
mistake. Pentagon reviewers had previously treated the charts,
which included numbers of U.S. strategic missiles and bombers,
among other weapons systems, as classified documents. Whether
officials at the Defense Department and the Department of Energy
will respond to pending appeals by releasing comparable
non-classified information from other excised documents remains to
be seen.
"We've always known about overclassification, since even the Bush
administration admits that 50% of what is classified should not
be," commented Archive director Thomas Blanton. "But
reclassification of previously public data crossed the line into
absurdity, and now our protests have established a whole new
feature of the secrecy system: de-re-classification!"
The unredacted charts are now available on the Web site of the
National Security Archive:
10/11/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
Tyonek Agile Engineering and Manufacturing, LLC (TEAMCOR) of Warner
Robbins, Ga., is being awarded a 5-year, indefinite delivery
indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $260,000,000.00. The
Psychological Operations Program Office (PMP) of the United States
Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Intelligence and Information
Systems (IIS) Program Executive Office requires engineering and
technical support services to build, field and sustain
Psychological Operations systems and other designated IIS-PMP
projects and programs in accordance with USSOCOM requirements. The
places of performance will be Warner Robbins, Ga. The 5-year
ordering period will be completed October 2011. The contract number
is H92222-06-D-0015.
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded an $18,733,261
cost-plus-fixed-fee, level of effort contract for reactor plant
planning yard services for nuclear-powered submarines and support
yard services for Navy moored training ships. The contractor will
furnish, fabricate, or acquire such materials, supplies and
services as may be necessary to perform the functions of the
planning yard for reactor plants and associated portions of the
propulsion plants for nuclear powered submarines. Work will be
performed in Groton, Conn. (95 percent) and Charleston, S.C. (5
percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2007.
Contract funds in the amount of $18,733,261, will expire at the end
of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively
procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the
contracting activity. (N00024-07-C-2103)
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News Va., is
being awarded a $5,694,917 cost-plus-fixed-fee, level of effort
contract for planning and design yard functions for standard Navy
valves in support of nuclear powered submarines. Work will be
performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by
September 2007. Contract funds in the amount of $5,694,917, will
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not
competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington,
D.C., is the contracting activity. (N00024-07-C-2104)
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