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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 22. december 2006 / Time Line December 22, 2006
Version 3.521. December 2006, 23. December 2006
12/22/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Boeing Satellite Systems Inc., El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $50,699,088 fixed-price-incentive contract modification. This contract action will exercise of a priced option for the Advance Procurement of Long Lead Parts for the manufacture of MILSATCOM Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) Space Vehicle 5. The Long Lead Parts include high reliability items and major components of spacecraft subsystems. At this time, total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete June 2008. Headquarters Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8808-06-C-0001/P0007).
Honeywell International, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $14,994,978 firm-fixed-price contract modification. This action will exercise and option to purchase two hundred and twenty-six (226) Embedded Global Position System/Inertial Navigation System (EGI) Production Install Units and two hundred and thirty-three (233) EGI contractor Depot Repair (CDR) through the Tri-Service EGI office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. At this time, total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete November 2008. Headquarters 77 Aeronautics Systems Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8626-06-C-2065/P00018).
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Sunnyvale, California, is being awarded a $619,179,334 cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-award-fee contract for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense fire unit fielding, support equipment and initial spares. Work will be performed at Sunnyvale, California, and is expected to be completed February 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract award. The contracting activity is the Missile Defense Agency, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Project Office, Huntsville, AL (HQ0147-07-C-0196).
Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support (BSAS) is being awarded a $52,344,004.88 firm fixed price and cost contract for rotary wing aircraft Life Cycle Contractor Support (LCCS) in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command, Technology Applications Contracting Office, Fort Eustis, Virginia. The work will be performed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and is expected to be completed by December 31, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was awarded through other than full and open competition. The contract number is H92241-07-C-0001.
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Schenectady, N.Y., is being awarded a $35,848,784 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-2100) to exercise options for additional Naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Pittsburgh, Pa. (93 percent) and Schenectady, N.Y. (7 percent). No work completion date or additional information is provided on Naval nuclear propulsion program contracts. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical Division, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $17,642,709 modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-6241) to exercise an option for production of nine Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems (ISIS). The ISIS will provide mission critical, all weather, visual, and electronic search, digital image management, indication, warning, and platform architecture interface capabilities for SSN 688, SSN 21, and SSGN Class submarines. Work will be performed in Northampton, Mass. (70 percent); Waterford Conn. (15 percent); Manassas, Va. (12 percent), Brattaboro, Vt. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
12/22/2006
France Orders Six Barracuda Class Nuclear-Driven Submarines
Paris (AFP)
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/France_Orders_Six_Barracuda_Class_Nuclear_Driven_Submarines_999.html
France placed an order worth 7.9 billion euros (10.4 billion dollars) for six nuclear-powered but conventionally armed Barracuda class attack submarines on Friday, marking one of the main French weapons programmes for coming decades.
The submarines will be put into service from 2016 to 2027 and the contract was placed with state-controlled DCN shipyards and power company Areva-Technicatome which will provide the nuclear power units.
The work will involve about 100 small and medium-sized companies.
The submarines will replace Rubis class submarines. Some of these boats have been in service for 20 years and will have served for 30 years when they are retired...
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