Hundreds
of corporations, big and small, comprise the U.S. war industry. Endless war is
the most profitable racket on Earth. Here are all
DOD contracts issued during July 2020.
FOREIGN
MILITARY SALES (FMS)
– Through FMS, the U.S. government
procures and transfers industry goods and services to allied governments and
international organizations.
ASMD LLC $100,000,000 (IDIQ) for projects
funded by Japan direct cash contributions (the “Mamizu funds”) and U.S. funds
for development of infrastructure & facilities covered by the Defense
Policy Review Initiative under NAVFAC Pacific (Hawaii, Guam, Northern Marianas).
Work: services for plans and specifications, including design-build request for
proposal contract documents and design-bid-build contract documents; technical
surveys and reports including engineering investigation, site investigation,
topographical survey, geotechnical investigation and munitions of explosive
concern investigation; functional analysis concept development / design
charrettes; construction cost estimates; and post construction award services.
An earlier example of Mamizu funds is here.
BAE Systems $35,683,004 for MK90
grain, shipping of the grains, and return of the empty grain cages to Radford
Army Ammunition Plant, which BAE Systems runs. Some FMS (Afghanistan,
Indonesia, Iraq, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore).
Boeing $12,201,000 for FMS (Kuwait):
flight control surfaces for F/A-18 E-G aircraft. General Dynamics
$9,203,685 for FMS (Kuwait):
adjust delivery schedule for 217 Kuwait M1A2K Abrams tanks.
General Dynamics
$10,260,921 for FMS (Taiwan):
Abrams systems technical support.
Lockheed Martin $34,177,354
for FMS (S.
Korea): the Service Life Extension Program for South Korea's F-16 aircraft.
Lockheed Martin $62,479,903
for support
equipment, autonomic logistics information system (ALIS) hardware,
training systems, site activations and contractor support for the F-35. Additionally,
definitized line items on this contract support tasking that “will result in
improvements to the reliability, availability, maintainability and total
ownership cost” of the F-35.
Lockheed Martin $18,100,000
for FMS (India):
non-recurring efforts and modification of three MH-60R helicopters to the
initial India configuration.
Raytheon $12,966,192 for a life of
type procurement of known obsolete component in support of AMRAAM production and
sustainment. FMS (Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Spain).
Raytheon $416,765 for one lot of
AIM-9X spares assets for Finland, Apartheid Israel, the Netherlands, Norway,
Singapore, Turkey, and Poland.
Raytheon $71,687,560 for production
of MK54 Lightweight Torpedo common part kits and spare components for Canada,
S. Korea, Denmark, Australia, and Spain.
Boeing $16,800,000
W58RGZ-16-C-0023 for FMS (UAE):
AH-64E program work. Translang Ltd.
$7,336,562 for FMS (UAE):
training and support to ensure continued sustainment and development of UAE National
Defense College.
UNINHABITED
AIR VEHICLES & CRAFT
Boeing, General Atomics, Kratos,
Northrop Grumman IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $400,000,000 for work on the
Skyborg Vanguard Program. Skyborg is
marketed as being “an autonomous attritable aircraft capable of achieving a
diverse set of missions to generate massed combat power; delivering a future
Air Force which can deter, blunt and defeat peer adversaries.” [This is a
great example of how the industry’s push for great power competition results in
concrete contracts, profiting industry.] Prototyping, experimentation,
and autonomy development will be “used to deliver missionized prototypes in
support of operational experimentation and develop the first Skyborg air
platform with modular hardware and software payloads that will incorporate the
Skyborg autonomy core system and enable manned/unmanned teaming.”
Curtiss-Wright
$7,532,963 for an
advanced mission management system in support of MQ-4C Triton.
UNINHABITED
SEA VEHICLES & CRAFT
General Dynamics
$13,553,807 for
engineering support of ongoing development, test and production of Knifefish, which “will provide
persistent volume and bottom mine hunting capability in a contested environment,”
according to the contract announcement.
L3Harris $34,999,948 for design and
fabrication of a prototype Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV).
COUNTER-UAS
DRS $189,828,895 for
development, production, deployment, and support of the Mobile-Low, Slow, Small
Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System. SRC Inc. $425,870,432 for
development, production, deployment and support of the Expeditionary-Low, Slow,
Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System (E-LIDS).
CORONAVIRUS
Advanced Technology
International $450,392,000 for
large-scale manufacturing of antibodies directed to novel coronavirus.
Becton, Dickinson & Co.
$24,281,829 for Veritor
COVID-19 test kit production expansion, to establish additional domestic
manufacturing capabilities. The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care
Enhancement Act under the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act
funds are being obligated at the time of award.
GlaxoSmithKline LLC $342,000,000
to procure
COVID-19 vaccines from multiple vendors to support military locations and
personnel throughout the continental U.S. and outside the continental U.S. Work
in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Gotham LLC $42,096,543 for operations
of high capacity lab SARS-CoV-2 Clinical Lab Improvement Amendments certified
lab, laboratory validation studies, training, custom software interfaces to the
electronic health records, and 250,000 collection kits, shipping, and test
results. Work at all DOD clinical military treatment facilities within the U.S.
Hardwood Products Co.
$51,150,000 for industrial
base expansion for U.S. domestic production capacity for medical flock tip
swabs. Funded “through the CARES Act to enable and support domestic
industrial base expansion for critical medical resources.” Primary tasks
include procurement, assembly, and installation of flock tip swab assembly and
packaging machinery and buildout of a production facility.
Hologic Inc. $7,597,607 to build and
validate equipment used in manufacturing COVID-19 testing consumables intended
to expand domestically manufactured test availability. Work in San Diego, CA;
Marlborough, MA; and Menomonie and Somerset, WI.
Renco Corp. $22,400,000 for capacity
expansion of Nitrile beutadine rubber (NBR) gloves production for Department of
Health & Human Services.
BORDER
MILITARIZATION – Perla Trevizo has been doing
outstanding investigative journalism for ProPublica regarding the militarized
southern border of the U.S.
BFBC LLC $138,335,455 to modify the
existing electrical attributes (closed-circuit TV, linear ground detection
system, shelters) on the Barry M. Goldwater Range, Yuma 10/27 design-build
border infrastructure project, Arizona. BFBC LLC $57,738,442 to design and
construct approximately nine miles of three-phase power distribution, lighting,
closed-circuit television camera, linear ground detection system and shelters
in Yuma. Southwest Valley Constructors
$22,303,760 to modify existing barrier wall electrical attributes in Lukeville,
AZ. Southwest Valley Constructors $24,577,981
to design and build
roughly 31.65 miles of power distribution, lighting, closed-circuit television
camera, linear ground detection system, and shelters for the Barrier Wall
Project, Lukeville, AZ.
SJC-BVIL $9,592,555 for converting
the overhead power and telephone lines to underground, from the Navy ammunition
area to the Air Force ammunition area along DG1 at Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia.
Vectrus Systems Corp.
$529,058,476 for base
operations support services (BOSS), including security, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
USEUCOM
Amentum Services Inc.
$15,000,000 for Army
prepositioned stock logistics support services in support of maintenance,
supply and transportation at Mannheim and Dulmen, Germany.
J&J Worldwide Services $17,152,516
IDIQ for base
operating support services (BOSS) at Naval Station Rota, Spain.
6 firms (2 from the U.S., 1
from Spain, 2 from Turkey, and 1 from Italy) will compete for order under an
overall $49,950,000 for construction
services in Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Erickson Helicopters
$30,180,354 for continued
air transportation services at Edwin Andrews
Air Base, Philippines.
Northrop Grumman $7,845,596
to provide
U.S. Forces Korea (Pyongtaek, South Korea) with IT, architecture and
engineering, command and control networks, and associated systems support
services.
Schuyler Line Navigation
Co. $10,420,750 to support
Military Sealift Command’s sealift program for transportation and/or
prepositioning of cargo by MT SLNC Pax. Work in the Western Pacific (Japan, S. Korea).
Aircraft Services Alliance
LLC $17,550,227 for labor
services to accomplish on-site depot level maintenance and modification work on
all Air Force Special Operations Command C-130s and
sub-systems at Hurlburt Field, FL.
Boeing $18,186,000 for MH-47G
long lead components and parts for SOCOM. Boeing $265,022,000 for nine
MH-47G Chinook aircraft for SOCOM.
Raytheon Technologies (Collins
Aerospace) $126,000,000 IDIQ for continued R&D,
production, and sustainment of the common avionics architecture system,
avionics management system, and cockpit management system used on Army special
operations aircraft.
Sierra Nevada Corp. $700,000,000
for
development and procurement of Radio Frequency Countermeasure systems, to be
integrated onto AC-130J and MC-130J
aircraft “to help protect aircrews from air- and land-based enemy radar and
missile systems.” The “under secretary of defense for acquisition and
sustainment determined requirements of Title 10 U.S. Code 2371b (d) were met
and approved the use of the authority of Section 2371b as essential to meet
critical national security objectives.”
SPECIAL OPERATIONS CONSTRUCTION – Construction on special operations facilities has taken
off in recent years.
Patriot Construction Co.
$7,173,707 for
construction of training facilities at Camp Lejeune, NC: Special Operations
Forces Human Performance Training Facilities, supporting structures, and modifications
to buildings (RR-136 and RR-136A), utilities, parking, roadways and site
work.
Russell Construction Co.
$10,284,300 to build a
Special Operations Forces assessment and selection training complex at Fort
Bragg, NC.
DEFENSE ADVANCED
RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
Applied Physical Sciences
Corp. $10,305,072 to support a DARPA
research program.
Lockheed Martin $11,196,098
to support a DARPA
program.
Lockheed Martin $7,451,558 for
development, building, integration, assembly, testing, and checkout of the
propulsion components for the Stage 2 section of the missile, part of Operational
Fires Integrated Weapon System, Phase 3.
Mercury Defense Systems
Inc. $7,280,300 for additional
in-scope work on a DARPA research project.
Northrop Grumman
$19,660,934 for the base
period of a research project for hypersonic boost glide systems.
Raytheon $7,788,259 for a DARPA research
project.
SRI International
$10,991,741 for a research
project under the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program. The SemaFor
program “will develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute and
characterize falsified, multi-modal media assets (e.g., text, audio, image,
video) to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.” Kitware
Inc. $11,947,912 for a research
project under the SemaFor program. SemaFor program will “develop methods
that exploit semantic inconsistencies in falsified media to perform tasks
across media modalities and at scale.” Work in Clifton Park, New York;
Corvallis, Oregon; and at university laboratories in New York, New York;
Albany, New York; Tempe, Arizona; Urbana, Illinois; and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Systems & Technology
Research $7,735,180 to develop a
binary structure inference system to extract software properties from binary
code to support repository-based reverse engineering for assured micro-patching
that minimizes lifecycle maintenance and sustainment costs.
CORPORATE CAPTURE OF
U.S. INTELLIGENCE
IT Concepts Inc.
$26,308,755 to develop,
update, sustain, operate, and enhance a software tool to be “used by members of
the acquisition, requirements, operational and intelligence communities” to
support and aid in the identification of intel requirements, management of
priorities, planning & production of intelligence products, enterprise data
analytics, communication, and other associated processes. Work in Vienna and
Charlottesville, VA, for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
METIS Solutions LLC
$26,951,536 for “counter
threat finance” in Afghanistan, National Capital Region, and Florida.
ACADEMIA – U.S. academia is part of
the U.S. war industry. Faculty and staff often justify this flagrant ethical
compromise by claiming that the funding is too
good to turn down and that they, the academics, are ultimately not the ones
determining when, where, or how to use the weaponry being developed.
119 academic institutions $147,050,000
to provide educational
services to the entire enlisted workforce and to establish the U.S. Naval
Community College in support of the Office of the Chief Learning Officer.
The Carnegie Mellon
University Software Engineering Institute (CMU-SEI) $2,697,568,646 for operation
of the CMU-SEI Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC). Advanced
technology R&D focusing on computer software technology development and
cyber security.
Florida Atlantic University
$11,179,001 for the
development of a next-generation, high-intake, compact, defined excitation
bathyphotometer sensor for natural oceanic bioluminescence assessments.
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Lab $29,702,388 to provide
technical and programmatic support of Tactical Space and Small Satellite
Portfolio’s core competencies and mission lifecycle. Includes support of
mission phases—from concept through design, implementation, operations, and
transition of space assets.
INVASIVE AIRCRAFT
Leidos Inc. $34,951,039 for system
operations and sustainment services and test and training services in support
of the Saturn Arch Aerial Intelligence Systems Quick Reaction Capability
Program.
Northrop Grumman
$20,715,078 for contractor
logistics support services for government-owned, fixed-wing fleet performing “special
electronic mission aircraft” missions.
JOINT
STRIKE FIGHTER (F-35) – It is an understatement
to call the F-35 a boondoggle. The
Manhattan Project cost about $2 billion in
1945 dollars (roughly $28.4 billion in 2019 dollars). The F-35 burns through that kind of money
every few years.
Lockheed Martin $56,100,000
for systems
integration engineering support and procures long lead material to ensure ASQ-239
electronic warfare/countermeasures production capability remains on track to
meet lot 17 deliveries. Provides continuation of Block 4 electronic warfare
development without creating a gap in engineering resources.
Lockheed Martin $87,498,287
IDIQ for non-recurring
engineering for the development and maturation of the Autonomic Logistics
Information System (ALIS) in
support of data migration and transition to the newly developed F-35
Operational Integrated Data Network (ODIN). Additionally, this contract provides
software and hardware engineering in support of F-35 ODIN development, delivery
and associated data management activities for DOD and non-DOD participants.
Lockheed Martin $873,050,699
for support
equipment, ALIS hardware, training systems, site activations and integrated
contractor support for the F-35. Additionally, definitized line items on this
contract support tasking that will result in improvements to the reliability,
availability, maintainability and total ownership cost of the F-35 for U.S., non-DOD
participants, and FMS.
Lockheed Martin $861,731,778
to procure
eight Lot 14 F-35A repositioned aircraft as a result of Turkey’s removal from
the F-35 program, and six Lot 14 F-35A aircraft for the Air
Force. Additionally, this establishes undefinitized line items that
provides recurring engineering in support of the modification of the eight Lot
14 F-35A repositioned aircraft to a full operationally capable F-35A Air Force
configuration.
United Technologies Corp.
$21,227,308 to procure
additional F135 propulsion systems long lead components, parts and materials in
support of USA, UK, and Italy F-35 aircraft.
Walsh Federal LLC
$37,327,630 to build an
F-35 training and simulator facility, NCAS New River, NC.
EAGLE (F-15)
Boeing $22,890,000,000
IDIQ ($53,000,000 obligated) for the F-15EX
system: design, development, integration, manufacturing, test, verification,
certification, delivery, sustainment, and modification of F-15EX aircraft, as
well as spares, support equipment, training materials, technical data and
technical support.
AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING
(HAWKEYE & SENTRY)
BAE Systems $26,305,633 for E-2D
aircraft electronic phase shifters for USA and Japan. Northrop Grumman
$8,269,563 for aircrew,
flight test engineering, instrumentation, aircraft technicians and test
management personnel to support E-2D Integrated Test Team Delta System / software
configuration builds.
MERCURY
(E-6)
L3Harris $20,102,664 for
installation of auxiliary power units, digital red switch systems and Beyond
Line-of-Sight Terminals / Presidential National Voice Conferencing
modifications and support on two E-6B aircraft.
STRATOFORTRESS (B-52)
Northrop Grumman
$35,964,710 to repair 174
Engine Nose Cowls for the B-52. Work in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
POSEIDON
(P-8) & ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE
ERAPSCO JV and USSI
$71,801,600 for a maximum
quantity of 20,000 AN/SSQ-125 Sonobuoys production. Sonobuoys are air
launched expendable acoustic sensors that relay underwater sounds associated
with ships and submarines.
Lockheed Martin $16,345,048
to refurbish
rocket motors and thrust vector control used on vertical launch assemblies for
anti-submarine rocket assisted torpedoes.
Signal Systems Corp.
$13,467,258 for products
for airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and undersea warfare continued R&D
efforts: Applications to be further developed include acoustic ASW sensors and
systems; telemetry and recording systems; signal and data processing; algorithm
development; mathematical modeling; system and application prototyping; active
and passive display enhancements; information assurance, anti-tampering and
cybersecurity concepts; and techniques and analysis to predict the performance
of the associated ASW systems.
STRATEGIC
/ TACTICAL AIRLIFT
Lockheed Martin
$15,000,000,000 IDIQ for C-130J
development, integration, retrofit and production activities for all C-130J
variants. Provides ”flexibility to accommodate the broad enterprise of
activities associated with the C-130J program.” Involves unspecified FMS.
Thomas Instrument
$7,100,000 for the
depot-level overhaul of the C-5 visor door actuator.
AERIAL
REFUELING
Boeing $16,414,050 for KC-135
aircraft structural component fittings (landing gear trunnions).
MILITARY
RESEARCH LABS
Analysis, Computing &
Engineering Solutions $19,062,904 for R&D on
C4ISR for Naval
Research Lab.
A-Tech Corp. $16,923,957 for a
communication system with two-way time transfer operating within W/V-bands and
incorporating Free Space Optical links. System “will model Heterogeneous
Optical W/V-band Demonstration, evaluate and develop its components and
demonstrate its potential at meeting these objectives.”
Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. $7,687,489 for Infrared
Radiation Effects Laboratory (IRREL) operation and improvements program. Aims to
provide radiometric and radiation characterizations of focal plane arrays (FPA)
and associated devices. Work includes development of characterization and
analytical techniques, test hardware and operational, and test procedures that
advance the experimental capabilities of the IRREL. Work for AFRL, Kirtland
Air Force Base, NM.
Innovative Scientific
Solutions Inc. $20,000,000 for advanced
propulsion concepts and cycles R&D for AFRL.
Leidos $30,000,000 IDIQ (first
task order $341,500) for high speed
attack munitions research. The five-year contract will support R&D, “advancing
state of the art in weapons airframe research to explore the impacts of complex
flight environments on advanced weapon systems.” Work at Eglin AFB, FL.
Navatek LLC $9,170,852 to “advance
the state-of-the-art autonomous command and control of shipboard power systems…
in order to harness the full energy available in the Navy’s ships to meet
critical mission needs.”
Undersea Signal Systems
$28,323,687 to develop a
prototype sonobuoy: Extended Range Directional Frequency Analysis & Recording
(ER-DIFAR), “to address new and quiet threat submarine targets.” For Office of
Naval Research.
ABERDEEN
PROVING GROUND
Nextech Solutions
$8,873,184 for procuring
REDCOM Sigma System core and maintenance at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
HELICOPTERS
Airbus Helicopters Inc. $73,999,755
for UH-72 D-2
aircraft, 18 jettisonable cockpit doors, 14 engine inlet barrier filters and 14
environmental control units.
Boeing $11,250,000 to update
critical safety items for the AH-64E “Apache” attack helicopter.
Kearfott Corp. $7,190,506 for
maintenance and overhaul of the electro-mechanical actuator, a Lockheed Martin
UH-60 “Blackhawk” helicopter part. Lockheed Martin Sikorsky $19,511,833 to overhaul &
repair the tail rotor blade with pitch horn replacement for UH-60 aircraft.
GENERAL
AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE
AECOM, AKIMA Logistics
Services LLC, DynCorp, Jacobs, Leidos, M1 Support Services LP, PAE, Vertex
Aerospace $14 billion IDIQ for Aircraft
Maintenance Enterprise Solution – “a strategic sourcing vehicle for Air
Force-wide contracted aircraft maintenance” focused on fixed-wing aircraft.
DynCorp $17,760,615 for J85 engine
maintenance at Laughlin AFB, TX.
Moog Inc. $9,587,599 for slip ring
assemblies.
PAE $25,918,520 for ongoing maintenance
and logistics support for Northrop F-5F and F-5N aircraft in Key West, FL
(40%); Fallon, NV (30%); and Yuma, AZ (30%).
INDUSTRIAL
BASE – GENERAL
A Finkl & Sons Finkl
Steel-Chicago $7,181,165 for hollow
preform forgings for Watervliet Arsenal, New York.
GMS Industrial Supply Inc.
$92,711,938 for shop
equipment.
Raytheon $6,000,000,000
for
depot-level repairables and consumable spare parts, as well as repair and
engineering services for multiple weapon systems. The facility (Andover, MA)
that received this contract typically works on the PATRIOT missile system,
radomes, radio frequency exciters, and antennae.
AIRCRAFT
INSTRUMENTATION, PODS & SENSORS
Howell Instruments Inc.
$8,034,280 for production
of environmental control test sets.
AIRCRAFT PROPULSION
General Electric
$259,403,817 for supplies
related to airplane engine platform support. Some unspecified FMS.
AEGIS
Lockheed Martin $7,344,470 for AEGIS
Platform Systems Engineering Agent efforts for the integration and delivery of
AEGIS Baseline 9 capabilities. Provides completion of the development & fielding
of the AEGIS Baseline 9 AEGIS Weapon System and integrated AEGIS Combat System
on the remaining AEGIS Technical Insertion (TI) 12 configured destroyers as
well as TI 12 and TI 08 configured cruisers.
Lockheed Martin $7,634,002 for production
and delivery of AEGIS weapon system MK 6 MOD 1 spares for new construction and
AEGIS modernization guided missile destroyers.
SUBMARINES
General Atomics $32,320,871
IDIQ for submarine
demonstration hardware: manufacturing design drawings, engineering,
fabrication, inspection and assembly of prototype submarine components, as well
as the equipment required to support proposed R&D, testing, and evaluation.
General Dynamics $8,127,069
for alterations
during the USS South Dakota (SSN 790) post-delivery work period (PDWP). General
Dynamics $7,829,633 for alterations
during the USS South Dakota (SSN 790) PDWP. General Dynamics $7,765,664 for planning
and execution of USS Delaware (SSN 791) PDWP.
Huntington Ingalls
$35,346,618 to continue
repair, maintenance, upgrades and modernization efforts on the USS Helena
(SSN 725) dry-docking selected restricted availability (DSRA). Includes
upgrades and modernization efforts.
Huntington Ingalls
$36,566,645 for
engineering, technical, trade and program management support of industrial type
work for operational and decommissioning submarines, submarines undergoing
availabilities/conversion, special mission submersibles, and submarine support
facilities. R&D includes “studies to support the future development,
production and sustainment phases of the platforms.”
L3Harris $25,713,600 for
engineering and technical services for the design, development, testing, system
support and production of submarine photonics masts.
Progeny Systems Corp.
$18,063,794 for
engineering and technical services for Navy submarines that will include
software development, commercial off-the-shelf products, and hardware and
software integration. Supplies … will lead to the development of new
designs that will replace obsolete subsystems, provide recommendations to
reduce acquisition life cycle costs and improve reliability.
SURFACE SHIP
MAINTENANCE
Curtiss-Wright $13,308,348
IDIQ for labor,
parts, support to installations, troubleshooting, repair and maintenance of
Navy equipment manufactured and serviced by Curtiss-Wright Fleet
Solutions.
General Dynamics $10,000,000
for USS Bonhomme
Richard (LHD-6)
emergency firefighting support, dewatering, safety, and initial clean-up
efforts.
Vigor Marine $133,406,869 to prepare for
and accomplish repair and alteration requirements for USS McCampbell
(DDG 85) chief of naval operations scheduled depot maintenance availability. Vigor
Marine $10,000,000 to support USS
Chosin (CG 65) extended dry-docking selected restricted availability, Seattle,
WA.
9 firms $49,000,000, increasing
the ceiling for a total of $98,000,000 IDIQ for the
procurement-involving repair, maintenance, and alteration of U.S. government
waterborne vessels and surface ships visiting or homeported in the Hawaiian
Islands. Trades required include ship fitting, sheet metal, welding, pipefitting,
painting, machining / mechanical, electrical, electronics, woodworking, lagging,
and rigging. Sample work might include HVAC, tank work, structural repairs,
fumigation, electrical system repair, pump repair, fan repair, decking, fire
system repairs, and updates.
SHIP INSTRUMENTATION
Dynalec Corp. $17,685,523 for electronic
and communication components for U.S. Navy.
Ultra Electronics Ocean
Systems $42,192,128 for production
of Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR) systems. The NGSSR is marketed
as able to replace all variants of the current AN/SPS-67, AN/SPS-73, BridgeMaster
E series and commercial-off-the-shelf radar systems. The primary objective of
NGSSR is “to replace legacy systems due to current military threats and
obsolescence issues.” In this contract announcement, we see how MIC hype
of “threats” blends with [planned] obsolescence in order to jack up profits for
war corporations.
SHIP WEAPONRY
Raytheon $32,192,842 to complete
engineering and manufacturing development software development, testing and
support to complete the government operational test and evaluation of the Block
II Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM). Work in dozens of locations in the U.S.
and abroad. ESSM “provides enhanced ship defense.”
Raytheon $16,362,950 for MK54
Lightweight Torpedo common part kits and spare torpedo components.
Raytheon (Collins
Aerospace) $125,881,928 for the
Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar low rate initial production (LRIP) to be
deployed on U.S. Navy ships.
NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS
COMMAND (NAVSEA)
AERMOR LCC $27,000,000 IDIQ
to provide
test & evaluation support services for the commander, Operational Test &
Evaluation Force Undersea Warfare Division.
Amentum Services Inc.
$9,209,590 for one more
month of operations, maintenance, engineering and management services in support
of combined tactical training range systems and equipment.
Appleton Marine Inc.
$23,375,696 IDIQ to replace up
to 35 Navy slewing arm davits (SLAD), associated test reports, and spare parts
for each SLAD, and 11,300 hours of engineering support services for Naval
Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division.
Caterpillar $18,233,057 IDIQ
for
engineering, logistics and program management services: enhanced life cycle
manager, management, and in-service engineering agent support services for military
and Coast Guard engine lines under Caterpillar’s cognizance.
DRS $10,048,979 for production
of Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) AN/USG-3B equipment sets and
installation and checkout replacement components. CEC “is a sensor netting
system that significantly improves battle force capability by extracting and
distributing sensor-derived information, such as the superset of data that is
available to all participating CEC units. The CEC also improves overall
situational awareness by enabling longer range, cooperative, multiple, or
layered engagement strategies.” Selling technology that merges data is a
major theme in contract listings of the past few years.
Global (a 1st Flagship Co.)
$8,912,327 for services
and material to support & maintain all vessels assigned to NAVSEA Inactive
Ship Maintenance Office, Bremerton, WA. Some work in San Diego, CA. Services
include receipt, inspection, survey, maintenance, and disposal of
vessels. Contractor may perform structural, mechanical and electrical
repairs.
Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC (d.b.a.
Metal Shark Boats) $7,027,703 for
construction, shipping, and item unique identification and documentation of
four 40-foot patrol boats.
Lockheed Martin $12,805,321
IDIQ for materials
and engineering services required to develop and integrate technological
improvements for the DDG-51 hull; mechanical and electrical machinery control
systems (MCS); Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Freedom class MCS; and Landing
Helicopter Dock/A (LHD/A) MCS installed onboard current Navy ships in support
of Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division. “This statement of
work requests highly specialized services that only Lockheed Martin can
support. As such, Lockheed Martin has developed proprietary test scripts and
test equipment to provide for delivery and support of MCS systems and
components.”
Lyme Computer Systems Inc.
$31,819,843 IDIQ for commercial
off-the-shelf industrial-grade networking hardware and components manufactured
by Siemens/RuggedCom. The equipment is used for installation across multiple ship
classes, including the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), as part of their
hull, mechanical, electrical and navigation network infrastructures. Bloomberg
News recently reported on the exorbitant cost of the USS Gerald R. Ford.
Q.E.D. Systems Inc.
$18,105,774 for support of
engineering services and technical services at various locations throughout the
world as assigned by each task order. Q.E.D. Systems $18,105,774 for support of
engineering services and technical services. Work at various locations
throughout the world as assigned by each task order. Naval Surface Warfare
Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) engineering, technical, production, and
logistic support services (including personnel and facilities) “require
establishment and maintenance of rotatable pools of steam propulsion plant main
steam and auxiliary steam system components, steam boiler appurtenances and
associated equipment and spares required by NSWCPD Code 412.”
Raytheon $9,686,463 for
engineering design and component replacement parts for Dual Band Radar systems.
Raytheon $26,463,116 for Air and
Missile Defense Radar AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support
efforts.
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS
COMMAND (NAVAIR)
Advanced Acoustic Concepts
LLC $9,599,727 for updates to
the common acoustic simulation environment fidelity implementation software and
associated hardware for airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training systems.
These updates “will correct known deficiencies, provide capability upgrades and
resolve obsolescence issues for installation and integration into ASW training
systems for the Navy’s P-8A Poseidon weapons and tactics trainers, part task
trainers and tactical operational flight trainers.” These improvements “will
narrow the gap between the physics-based ocean environmental simulation and
those seen during real world at-sea operations enabling a marked improvement in
trainer fidelity and training effectiveness.” These are bold corporate
claims in government contracts.
Avian-Precise Co.
$19,700,000 for sustainment
engineering, training and tools in support of NAVAIR engineering group, Patuxent
River, MD (91%), and Jacksonville, FL (9%).
L3Harris $104,029,328 to procure
Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) AN/ALQ-214A(V)4 Onboard
Jammer (OBJ) systems and Weapons Replaceable Assemblies, and to repair test
assets and field support for in service IDECM OBJ.
NAVAL AIR WARFARE
CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD)
Beckman Coulter Inc.
$14,916,335 IDIQ for
production, test, and delivery of up to 800 particle counter units to replace
all existing obsolete units in use throughout fleet. Units measure particle
contamination in fluids from aircraft equipment in hangars and depots. Supports
the Navy Hydraulic Contamination Program.
Northrop Grumman $9,061,423
for two
additional Advanced Tactical Datalink test units and five additional detailed
technical demonstrations. Also provides for “studies and analysis of the system
relative to emerging mission threats not previously anticipated.” Threats
beget profit.
Olympus America Inc.
$10,570,631 IDIQ for
production, test and delivery of up to 330 Eddy Current Testing Systems,
replacing the currently fielded system, to perform nondestructive inspection of
aircraft components and support equipment for fatigue cracks and other surface
defects on conductive materials.
NAVAL
INFORMATION WARFARE CENTER (NAVWAR)
Deloitte $13,296,822 for
engineering changes to the Order to Payment System (OTPS), also known as NEST, to
“enable effective management of the current Next Generation Enterprise Network
contracts,” as well as obtain the full range of systems engineering, software
engineering, project management, integration and application sustainment
services to assist and support the Navy’s Program Executive Office Digital and
Enterprise Services to complete OPTS/NEST engineering changes.
L3Harris $47,604,086 to design,
develop, test, integrate and verify the Navy Wideband Anti-Jam Modem (WAM) and
provide engineering support services (ESS). WAM “is the Navy’s next generation
wideband satellite communications modem that will be integrated with the Navy
multiband terminal on ships and submarines, as well as the modernization of
enterprise terminal on shore for communications over the wideband global
satellite communications constellation.”
Ultra Electronics (Montreal)
$145,375,113 for delivery
of Amphibious Tactical Communications Systems (ATCS). ATCS “is a system that
leverages the Ultra Orion X500 radio to provide line-of-sight shipboard systems.”
ATCS is marketed as supporting “reliable, high-capacity terrestrial,
ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore voice, data and video communications.”
Advanced Technology Systems
Co., Forward Slope Inc., ITC Defense, Solute Inc., and Veterans First
Initiative $75,000,000 IDIQ for C4I
integrated international support services in support of U.S. security
assistance and security cooperation programs. This contract utilizes FMS
funding from various security cooperation partners that will be identified as
individual task orders are issued. Work performed in various overseas locations.
CYBER,
SIGINT & CRYPTOGRAPHY
Ad HOC Research Associates
$11,040,092 IDIQ to support the
Cyber Battle Lab, Capabilities Development Integration Division, Futures & Concept
Center, Army Futures Command development and experimentation regarding all
areas of cyber electromagnetic activities “to include cyberspace operations,
electronic warfare, DOD Information Network-Army (DODIN-A), and information operations.” Work
at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
L3Harris $64,232,376 IDIQ for Telemetry
Security Products (TSP) and ancillary services. Manufacture and deliver
all TSP, National Security Agency (NSA) approved class one encryption products
and NSA-approved encryption accessories, in accordance with individual delivery
orders. L3Harris goods and services rendered: telecommunications
electronics materials protected from emanating spurious transmissions test,
electromagnetic interference / radio frequency interference test, product
upgrade/enhancement, repair and technical support as required.
SRC Inc. $7,458,946 for the sensor
beam program: research, analyze, technically document and perform reviews
on electromagnetic systems, events and signatures at Joint Base San
Antonio-Lackland, TX. SRC Inc. $7,627,257 for primarily
platform electronic fit and supporting telecommunication parametric data
support under IDIQ for the sensor beam program. Research, analyze,
document, and review electromagnetic systems, events, and signatures required
by all services and other U.S. agencies.
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY & THE CLOUD
Accenture $89,615,577 to
sustain existing infrastructures and establish new cloud common infrastructure
and services for Air Force enterprise resource planning: Air Force
Integrated Personnel & Pay System, Defense Enterprise Accounting & Management
System, and maintenance, repair and overhaul initiative.
Carahsoft $29,837,009 for moving the
logistics modernization program to the cloud at Fort Belvoir, VA. NCI Information System $57,285,857 for IT and
audiovisual engineering and installation services at Fort Belvoir, VA.
Transcend Technological
Systems $485,000,000 IDIQ for the Hill
Enterprise Data Center (HEDC) – sustainment, modernization, and consolidation, Hill
Air Force Base, Utah.
ARES Security, AT&T, Centauri,
Cogniac, NanoVMs, Pacific Defense, SRC Inc., Systematic $950 million IDIQ
for work on maturation,
demonstration, and proliferation of “capability across platforms and domains, leveraging
open systems design, modern software and algorithm development in order to
enable” Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Provides
“development and operation of systems as a unified force across all domains
(air, land, sea, space, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum) in an open
architecture family of systems that enables capabilities via multiple
integrated platforms.” Accenture, Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Black River Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton,
CAE USA, CUBIC, Global Air Logistics & Training, Leidos, Mercury Defense
Systems, Metron Inc., NetScoutsystems Inc., Octo Consulting Group Inc., Omni
Fed LLC, Rincon Research Corp., Rise8 Inc., SAIC, Strategic Mission Elements, Wind
River Systems were awarded what seems to be a separate $950 million IDIQ
for work on the
maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and
domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software and algorithm development
in order to enable Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2).
Provides “development and operation of systems as a unified force across all
domains (air, land, sea, space, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum) in an open
architecture family of systems that enables capabilities via multiple
integrated platforms.”
COMMUNICATIONS
Advanced Concepts
Enterprises $43,099,833 for services
for training support/mission system interface and staff support services to the
Control and Reporting Center, Battle Control Center, Air Operations Center and
Tactical Air Control Party missions at various locations.
Filius Corp. $70,617,597 IDIQ
for AN/TYQ-23A
(V)1 Tactical Air Operations Module
logistics support, including software/firmware upgrades. Includes
maintenance for any future technologies designed to be implemented in the
TYQ-23A.
L3Harris $7,791,645 M67004-19-D-0002
for refurbishing
Marine Corps radio components associated with controlled cryptographic
communications.
SATELLITES
& SPACE SUPPORT
LinQuest $76,637,171 for system
engineering, integration and test support for programs with increased security
requirements, El Segundo, CA.
Lockheed Martin $8,093,513 for delivery
of two Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) space vehicles, modifying the
On-Orbit Test Process of Space Vehicle 6 under the basic contract.
Motorola $9,887,739 for Land
Mobile Radio (LMR) trunking system operations and maintenance of the Air Force
Space Command zone core.
Range Generation Next “RG
Next” $9,159,458 FA8806-15-C-0001 for the Range
Communications Facility timing and sequencing project. Supports on-going launch
and test range requirements in Eastern and Western Range (Patrick AFB and Vandenberg
AFB, respectively).
MISSILE
DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA) – After intense lobbying by the
U.S. war industry, the D.C. regime pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty in 2002. This paved the way for the establishment of the Missile Defense
Agency, and allowed the U.S. war industry to develop, market, and sell
“ballistic missile defense” weaponry. This weaponry is one of the most
lucrative sectors of the U.S. war industry.
Boeing $150,000,000 for four
additional Configuration 2 Ground Based Interceptor boost vehicles to maintain
the fleet and flight test programs, part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense
development and sustainment contract (DSC), the overall scope of which includes
development, fielding, test, systems engineering, integration and configuration
management, equipment manufacturing and refurbishment, training and operations and
sustainment for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense weapon system and associated
support facilities.
BALLISTIC
MISSILES / NUCLEAR WEAPONRY
Hensel Phelps $91,819,195 for a ground
based strategic deterrent mission integration facility at Hill Air Force
Base.
L3Harris $73,752,927 for X-ray
simulators for test and evaluation of nuclear survivability.
Northrop Grumman
$16,284,463 for Minuteman
III general sustainment in Layton, Utah.
Vanguard Pacific LLC $7,304,129
for airfield
rubber removal, striping of airfield, streets and parking lots, protective
coating and sign maintenance at Joint Base Andrews, MD, and Davidsonville and
Brandywine communications sites.
MISSILES,
BOMBS, ROCKETS, PROJECTILES
AC Inc. $27,403,200 for Standoff
Precision Guided Munitions shipping containers.
American Ordnance LLC
$12,744,313 to install
package boilers at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, Iowa.
Applied Research Associates
$17,600,000 IDIQ for the
Lethality, Vulnerability and Survivability 2020 effort at Eglin AFB, Florida.
R&D of “new LVS models and methodologies, thus allowing analysts to assess
concept weapons against existing and developing targets.”
Lockheed Martin
$702,881,910 for Hellfire
missiles.
Raytheon $495,058,000 IDIQ for advanced
medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) program support and annual
sustainment. Provides non-warranty repairs, program support, contractor
logistics support and service life prediction program analysis supporting
AMRAAM. Raytheon $14,000,000 (approx.) for a life of
type procurement of known obsolete component in support of AMRAAM production
and sustainment through the program of record.
Raytheon $34,300,000
(approx.) for AIM-9X
Block II all up round tactical missiles, Captive Air Training Missiles, and all
up round containers for U.S. Navy and Air Force.
Raytheon $17,229,374 for non-recurring
engineering in support of upgrading the existing Tactical Tomahawk Guidance
Test Set (TTGTS) product baseline to eliminate obsolescence and production
issues. Additionally, this order provides for the development, test and
delivery of six new TTGTS.
Raytheon $15,296,009 for
engineering and technical services and obsolescence solution in support of
Standard Missile-2/6 for U.S. (68.2%); Australia, Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan,
Spain, Netherlands, Denmark (31.8% combined).
Raytheon $375,000,000
IDIQ for R&D of
a flight-test ready miniature self-defense missile.
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin
Javelin JV $47,239,843 for full rate
production of the Javelin weapon system.
ORDNANCE DISPOSAL
Northrop Grumman
$24,348,775 for support
equipment and spares for Joint Counter Radio-Controlled IED Electronic Warfare
Increment One Block One Systems for USA (12%) and Australia (88%).
SCD.USA Infrared LLC
$17,425,550 for
sustainment support services for the AN/VSQ-6B Vehicle Optics Sensor
system.
MOBILE
RADAR
Northrop Grumman
$11,300,000 for transitional development and sustaining engineering services for the
Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), to include software support activity
transition, low/slow/small capability development and ground weapons locating
radar improvements.
LAND
VEHICLES
AM General $44,095,015 for High
Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle diesel engines with containers. AM
General $29,096,971 for the same.
BAE Systems $10,066,599 for technical
support services for the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the Multiple Launch Rocket
System carrier, and M113 Armored Personnel Carrier vehicles. BAE Systems
$8,488,692 for technical
support services for the same.
Bridgestone Americas Tire
Operations $8,709,450 for M870
series low bed semitrailer wheel pneumatic tires. Melton Sales & Service
10,093,553 for transfer
transmissions for U.S. Army.
DCX-CHOL Enterprises Inc.
$8,125,000 IDIQ for grip
assemblies for U.S. Army. EFW Inc. (an
Israeli Apartheid corporation) $11,999,844 for Bradley
Fighting Vehicle controller grip assemblies.
General Dynamics
$249,000,000 for Increment
I of the Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport. General Dynamic $44,415,556 to procure
improved fire control electronics units in support of Abrams expedited active protection system-trophy.
Oshkosh Defense $14,434,397
to retrofit
mufflers, forward facing cameras, larger rear door transparent armor and
muffler robustness into the baseline configuration of the Joint Light Tactical
Vehicle family of vehicles. Oshkosh Defense $9,073,083 to perform
system technical support efforts.
Schroth Safety Products
$9,847,500 for safety
harnesses to secure Stryker vehicle occupants.
TAC Industries $69,422,312 for cargo nets
for the support equipment and vehicles division at Robins AFB, Georgia.
Walsh Motor City JV
$22,344,000 for design and
construction of a high-voltage substation at Detroit Arsenal, MI.
GEAR
& EQUIPMENT
DRS $250,000,000 to replace
aging Joint Tactical Terminals scheduled for end of life in fiscal 2025.
VS2 LLC $36,672,648 for logistics
support services (maintenance, supply and transportation) at Fort Benning, GA.
CLOTHING
Aurora Industries (Puerto
Rico) $17,203,245 and Coachys & Associates $15,965,766 for extreme
cold/wet weather jackets for U.S. Army and Air Force.
Crown Clothing Co.
$12,518,363 for various types of men's coats for USMC.
Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR)
$14,220,050 for physical
fitness uniform trunks.
New MD Clothing $12,268,935
IDIQ for men’s and
women’s Army uniform dress coats.
Valley Apparel LLC
$9,894,000 for working
parkas.
Owyhee Group Co. $9,209,263
for Army cold
weather combat boots.
EDUCATION
Indtai Inc. $9,598,566 for
educational support services in support of the U.S. Army Continuing Education
System.
Qbase LLC blanket purchase
agreement (BPA) with an overall ceiling of $103,569,634 to provide a
broad range of IT support services for all of the Defense Acquisition
University locations. The BPA will support video services operations,
enterprise service desk/regional IT, transition services, enterprise
architecture, enterprise/network infrastructure, enterprise cybersecurity,
telecommunications, web application design/development/maintenance and
software, data warehousing, acquisition workforce qualification initiatives,
systems engineering, talent management system, learning management system,
human resources system and hardware installation.
TRAINING
Northrop Grumman
$70,337,682 IDIQ for
development and delivery of the PC-based Open-architecture for Reconfigurable
Training Systems (PORTS). Also provides PORTS life cycle support.
FSCX Inc. $82,000,000 for survival,
evasion, resistance and escape (SERE) training support services. Provides
contractor personnel to augment 336 Training Group active SERE specialists in the instruction of academics, laboratories,
and field operations at Fairchild AFB, WA, and Joint Base San Antonio –
Lackland, TX.
Threat Tech-Yorktown
Systems Group JV $31,362,444 for core
functions support services for U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command, Fort
Eustis, VA.
RQ Construction $61,305,341
task order for
construction services for the Mariner Skills Training Center, Naval Station
Norfolk, Virginia. The two-story building will accommodate office, administration,
and training spaces along with a high-bay area (for large bridge trainers to simulate
conditions from the bridge of a ship).
SIMULATION
Cubic Defense Applications
$99,100,000 IDIQ to development,
delivery and total life cycle support of a new virtual environment training
system. Includes updates, maintenance, upgrades, and modifications to surface
ship trainers and associated courseware. This system will be one of the pillars
under the Surface Training Advanced Virtual Environment Program.
Modern Technology Solutions
Inc. $23,182,248, more money to enhance and
maintain the current suite of distributed digital simulation and system of
systems unique development facilities.
FORCE PROTECTION
Advantor IDS $9,999,999 IDIQ
for intrusion
detection system (IDS) supplies and ancillary services at Edwards AFB, CA.
Catalyst Engineering Inc.
$15,000,000 IDIQ for fencing
construction at government installations within metro San Diego, CA; Naval
Bases San Diego, Coronado and Point Loma; and MCAS Miramar.
Leidos $58,487,824 to meet the
requirements of the Automated Installation Entry system [pdf].
Oceanetics $11,811,782 for design,
fabrication, and installation of a waterside security barrier (WSB) system at
three commercial shipyards located in San Diego Bay: General Dynamics, BAE
Systems, and Huntington Ingalls. Includes training of personnel on maintenance &
operation of the system. The new WSB “will meet force protection requirements
and allow for the cessation of manned security patrols.”
TeamGOV Inc. $7,531,979 to maintain
complete and functional access control point control systems at Killeen and
Fort Bliss, TX; McAlester and Fort Sill, OK; Fort Polk, LA; White Hall, AR;
Camp Roberts and Fort Irwin, CA; Dugway Proving Ground, UT; Fort Huachuca, AZ;
and White Sands Missile Range, NM.
UTILITIES – Privatizing utilities is never a good idea. It prioritizes
profit over the health and wellbeing of the people. Additionally, water is a human
right; corporate greed should
be nowhere near it.
American Water Operations &
Maintenance $26,919,360 for ownership,
operation and maintenance of water and wastewater utility systems at Fort Polk,
LA. American Water Operations & Maintenance
$7,636,368 to increase
the operations, maintenance, renewal, and replacement charges for the water and
wastewater utility systems at Vandenberg AFB, CA.
The Whiting-Turner Contracting
Co., $13,833,549 task order for repairs
and improvements to the industrial wastewater treatment plant at Marine Corps
Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
American Surgical
Instrument Repair $33,000,000 IDIQ for medical
equipment and accessories for the DLA electronic catalog.
Altitude Technologies
$46,445,291 IDIQ for numerous
medical surgical products.
Government Marketing & Procurement
$18,000,000 for Vocera
wireless hands-free communications systems and supporting hardware/software
infrastructure. Paid for with Defense Health Program funds.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA
$42,907,336 IDIQ for various
pharmaceutical products. Fresenius Kabi USA $39,209,282 IDIQ for numerous
pharmaceutical products. Marlex Pharmaceuticals $9,274,712 for various
pharmaceutical products.
New Market Veterans ($15,061,167),
Big Apple Visual Group ($14,604,768), Hilo Enterprises ($13,235,571) for surgical
masks. Locations of performance are Virginia, New York, China, and
Taiwan
Stryker Corp. $225,000,000 IDIQ
for patient
monitoring and capital equipment systems and accessories. Draeger $60,000,000 for patient
monitoring systems, subsystems, accessories, consumables and training.
MEDICAL
SERVICES
Teledyne Brown Engineering
$83,647,556 IDIQ for R&D support
services for the Medical Modeling and Simulation Planning Tools Sustainment,
Enhancement & Application program for Naval Health Research Center, San
Diego, CA.
MEDICAL
CONSTRUCTION
HDR Architecture
$13,781,605 (first increment $3,000,000) to provide
post-construction award services for the Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center addition / alteration at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, MD. Per FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)…
this contract was sole sourced because of the corporation’s “uniquely qualified
position to perform the required work.” Non-competitive contracts are awarded
all the time. Non-competitive construction contracts are fairly rare.
FUEL
& ENERGY – The U.S. Armed Forces consume more fossil fuels than any other organization in the
world.
EA-Baker JV $99,000,000 to support the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in executing the Defense Logistics Agency Energy
fuels infrastructure mission for fuel leak detection.
Stonewin LLC $7,775,696 for various
types of fuel.
BP ($382,860,418), Chevron ($62,422,099),
PAR Hawaii Refining ($202,881,454), Petro Star ($143,705,408), Phillips 66 ($103,018,608),
Sinclair Oil ($43,766,148), Tesoro ($474,879,154), US Oil & Refining Co. ($133,711,119),
Valero ($292,395,776), Wyoming Refining Co. ($12,203,836) IDIQ for various
types of fuel.
FUEL TRANSPORT
American Petroleum Tankers
$26,462,500 for the U.S.
Flagged, West Coast, Jones Act tanker vessel M/T Empire State.
TRANSPORTATION _
TRANSCOM
Crowley Government Services
$328,000,000 for continued
surface transportation coordination services for the movement of freight within
the continental U.S. (CONUS) and Canada under the DOD Freight Transportation
Services program to DLA and Defense Contract Management Agency.
James J. Flanagan Shipping
Corp. $144,135,422 for stevedoring
and related terminal services at ports in Beaumont, Corpus Christi, and Port
Arthur, Texas.
Northrop Grumman
$10,445,294 task order to provide
non-personal advisory and assistance service for analytic and engineering
support for Transportation Command and its component commands in support of the
Joint Deployment & Distribution Enterprise. Work at Scott AFB, Illinois.
TRANSPORTATION _
MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
Alpha Marine Services LLC
$9,754,990 for the time
charter of seven tractor-like tugs in support of Navy bases at Kings Bay,
Georgia, and Mayport, Florida.
Crowley Government Services
$24,070,898 to continue
the operation and maintenance of five T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships and two
T-AGM missile range instrumentation ships. Work at sea worldwide.
TOTE Services LLC
$7,965,634 for operations
and maintenance of the offshore petroleum discharge system vessels, USNS Wheeler
and USNS Fast Tempo. Vessels continue to support MSC’s worldwide
prepositioning.
Transoceanic Cable Ship Co.
$18,577,008 to continue with
CS Global Sentinel, utilized to lay and repair cable for the DOD worldwide.
WAREHOUSING &
DISTRIBUTION
Savi Technology Inc.
$45,805,123 for active
radio frequency identification transponder tags to track equipment worldwide.
Synergy Logistics Services
$10,480,079 SP3300-20-D-5001 for
warehousing services.
ENVIRONMENTAL
– The
U.S. military is the single greatest institutional polluter in the world (in
terms of carbon pollution, particulates, nuclear waste, runoff, etc.). The
Pentagon hires Corporate America to remediate a fraction of the military’s
pollution.
HDR
$75,000,000 IDIQ to conduct
marine species monitoring services and implement components of the Navy’s
Integrated Comprehensive Monitoring Program in NAVFAC Atlantic and Pacific.
Liberty JV $40,000,000 IDIQ
for
environmental restoration projects in NAVFAC Northwest. Restoration services
under DOD’s Environmental Restoration Program, which includes Installation
Restoration Program and Munitions Response Program, complies with CERCLA (“Superfund”), and supports Navy & Marine Corps base
realignment and closure effort and “similarly complex local and state environmental
investigations.”
Kanto Kosan Co. and Seaon
Environmental LLC $35,201,535 IDIQ to provide
oily wastewater purification services. Includes providing an oily water
disposal barge, arranging oil/chemical separating barge consisting of a
receiving tank, oil collecting tank, and a minimum of three settling tanks and
purifying collected water/oil and discharge to the sea in accordance with
applicable regulations in support of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility
and Japan Regional Maintenance Center, Yokosuka and Commander, Fleet Activities
Yokosuka Port Operations.
TEC-AECOM Pacific JV
$15,000,000 (raising contract to $88 million) for
architect-engineering services for the preparation of National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) documents and environmental studies for Navy and Marine Corps
within the Pacific Basin and Indian Ocean areas.
“GREEN”ING
THE MILITARY
Duke Energy Progress
$50,998,450 to install the
energy conservation measures to meet Fort Bragg's energy goals and objectives.
Duke Energy Progress $54,380,341 task order for the
implementation of eight energy conservation measures at Marine Corps Base, Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina. Provides for implementation of energy conservation
measures that include energy management control system integration; surgical
control repairs and legacy designs; water/waste water infrastructure repair and
enhancements; emergency operation centers for water/waste water; supervisory
controls and data acquisition life cycle operational standards; bipolar
ionization up-fits for air handling units at bachelor enlisted quarters
buildings; and parking lot and roadway lighting controls. The primary goal of
the project “is to reduce energy consumption and provide more resilient and
sustainable facility infrastructure.” These are superficial measures
insofar as there is no real emphasis on reducing unnecessary and elective DOD
operations worldwide, which are the source of vast pollution.
FOOD
SERVICES
Grasmick Produce Co.
$20,304,000 for fresh
fruit and vegetables for DOD, Department of Agriculture schools, and
reservations. Texas Workforce Commission (Austin) $38,802,551 for full food
services at Fort Bliss, Texas. US Foods Inc. $33,298,080 for full-line
food distribution. US Foods Inc. $22,000,000 for full-line
food distribution.
BASE
OPERATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES (BOSS) - BOSS typically includes some
combination of the following services: air operations, bachelor quarters,
custodial, electrical, environmental services, facilities investment, fire
& emergency services, galley, grounds maintenance, housing, integrated &
waste, janitorial services, management & administration,
morale-welfare-recreation, ordnance, pavement clearance, pest control, port
operations, public safety, supply, utilities, vehicles & equipment service,
visual services, waste management, wastewater, and water. Security is sometimes
included. This work
was once done by the troops, prior to the corporate takeover.
Coastal Enterprises of
Jacksonville $8,248,306 for grounds
maintenance services at Camp Lejeune; MCAS New River, NC; and other outlying
locations. Includes landscaping, mowing, trimming grass, weed control, and fire
ant treatment.
Nugate Group LLC
$36,074,891 for custodial
services at Fort Hood,
including cleaning and trash removal.
Perry Management Corp.
$15,041,798 IDIQ for refuse collection/disposal—includes
asbestos disposal specific to Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, Texas.
TSAY/Ferguson-Williams LLC
$7,294,065 for base
operations and maintenance services at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Air Field.
Jones Stevedoring Co.
$23,924,794 for
stevedoring and terminal services at ports in Tacoma, Olympia, Everett, and Grays
Harbor, Washington.
RUNNING
THE RANGES
BAE Systems $495,482,136 IDIQ
for the
Instrumentation Range Support Program: Provides for serviceable components
and subsystems for instrumentation tracking systems, worldwide for both foreign
and domestic government agencies to include radars, telemetry and optical range
mission systems, flight termination systems, data acquisition systems and GPS. Work
on participating ranges in the program, including DOD, NASA, Department of
Energy, as well as foreign ranges in the U.K., Germany, Norway, Sweden, S. Korea,
and Switzerland.
Scientific Research Corp. (Atlanta)
$28,543,191 to provide a
full spectrum of support to the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex at Eielson
Air Force Base.
CONSULTING,
ADMIN & LOGISTICS – A January 2015 report noted that trimming some outsourced
administrative waste (like we see in this category of consulting, admin, and
business logistics) would have saved roughly $125 billion over five years. The
Pentagon leadership (many of whom come from leadership positions in U.S. war corporations)
buried the report, fearing Congress might use it to cut the war budget.
Boeing $81,000,000 for broad
supply chain management of industrial hardware relating to maintenance, repair,
and overhaul missions. In this contract, DLA
pays Boeing to do what DLA is supposed to do.
Boston Consulting Group
$8,340,080 for planning,
programming, budget execution and assessment, to include audit processes to
modernize Marine Corps corporate governance. The objective of this action is to
explore, rationalize, analyze, and report on requirements, resources, risks and
their impacts (direct, secondary, tertiary).
Carahsoft $16,043,475 for contractor
staff augmentation services “to migrate the Army Enterprise Systems Integration
Program components and Global Combat Support System-Army” [GCSS] system at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Kearney & Co. P.C.
$11,119,320 for advisory
and assistance support: continues support for Total Force analysis to include
capability and capacity analysis of Air Force mission areas; linking results
to the strategy, planning, and programming process; performing planning,
programming, and budgeting study excursions; analytically supporting Total
Force initiatives, strategy review and assessment, and planning support.
Salient CRGT Inc.
$21,984,298 to provide
support with program management, program planning and execution, Joint Staff
actions process training, Actions Division customer service help desk services,
strategic planning and analysis assistance, correspondence management,
and communications and editorial functions.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Calibre
Systems, Janus Research Group, Tec-Masters, Yorktown Systems Group $247,000,000
to provide support to the Fires Center of Excellence; all commands on Fort
Sill, Oklahoma; and Army Futures Command, to develop and produce training
strategies, doctrine, concepts, instruction and products for the current and
future force.
OVERSEAS
CONSTRUCTION
MNDPI Pacific JV $99,000,000
IDIQ for projects
under NAVFAC Pacific: Guam and the Northern Marianas (70%); Australia (10%);
Japan (10%); and Hawaii (10%). Services include military construction
(MILCON) project documentation (DOD Form 1391); functional analysis &
concept development workshops; design charrettes; design-build request for
proposal; design contract documents; technical surveys and reports, including
concept and engineering studies, site engineering investigation, topographic
survey, geotechnical investigation, hazardous material survey, munitions of
explosive concern survey, hydrographic survey and others; construction cost
estimates; collateral equipment buy packages; furniture, fixtures and
equipment; and post construction award services.
POWER Engineers Inc.
$60,000,000 IDIQ for
architect-engineer (AE) services for various electrical engineering projects
and related services at multiple locations in NAVFAC Pacific, including, Guam
and the Northern Marianas (70%); Australia (10%); Hawaii (10%); and other areas
(10%). Services include engineering studies; preparation of DOD 1391
documents; plans, specifications and cost estimates/parametric cost estimates,
including preparation of design-build request for proposal contract documents
or design-bid-build contract documents; functional analysis and conceptual
design development; as-built drawings; and post-construction services.
Jacobs/B&M JV
$99,000,000 for
architect-engineer services: includes design, engineering, specification
writing, cost estimating and related services under NAVFAC Pacific: Guam and
the Northern Marianas (75%); Australia (15%); Hawaii (5%); and Diego Garcia
(5%). Work: preparation of region/Facilities Engineering Command team; DD Form
1391 project documentation; engineering studies; specifications utilizing the
Department of Defense SpecsIntact program; cost estimates utilizing the
micro-computer aided cost estimating system (second generation); design and
engineering services for functional analysis and concept development; request for
proposal (RFP) documentation for design-build projects; and RFP documentation,
plans and specifications for design-bid-build projects.
Venegas JV Inc. (Ponce, the
colony of Puerto Rico) $45,000,000 to support the
advanced contract initiative for emergency temporary roof repairs for the
eastern region of Puerto Rico. Power Instrumentation Services (Vega Baja,
Puerto Rico) $45,000,000 to support the
advanced contract initiative for emergency temporary roof repairs for the
western region of Puerto Rico.
MAINLAND
INFRASTRUCTURE
Babcock SDV LLC $7,962,753 for clearing
and snagging, top bank shaping, channel excavation, disposal of excavated
materials, shoal removal and seeding and mulching, Caruthersville, Missouri. ESI
Contracting Corp. $11,662,196 for Missouri
River levee system repair in Brunswick, Missouri. Randy Kinder Excavating
$8,890,292 for clearing,
snagging and channel excavation of Ditch 251 Upper in New Madrid and Pemiscot
Counties, Missouri.
Geo Consultants Corp. $25,000,000
for foundation
pressure relief well engineering with geophysical surveying for the Great Lakes
and Ohio River.
Great Lakes Dredge &
Dock Co. $30,695,071 for beach
nourishment from Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, Absecon Island,
Atlantic County, NJ.
JLC Trucking LLC $8,353,878
for levee
gravel resurfacing and related work along the St. Francis Levee in Wynne, AR.
Joseph B. Fay Co.
$12,938,950 for repair and
rehabilitation of the gate hoist machinery and the performance of
control-system upgrades at the Montgomery Locks and Dam, Monaca, PA.
Kiewit Infrastructure South
$7,015,443 to restore the
North Jetty at Ponce de Leon Inlet, Volusia County, FL.
Phylway Construction
$51,702,210 for
construction of hurricane protection features, Plaquemines Parrish, LA.
Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel
$48,002,240 for flood
control on the Mississippi River and tributaries.
ASPHALT
& PAVING
Airfield Contracting
$21,456,750 to repair
airfield drainage at Laughlin AFB.
Mathy Construction Co.
$8,870,763 for asphalt
paving at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.
South Dade Air Conditioning
& Refrigeration $49,877,832 to provide
road repair and paving in support of Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, GA.
S&S Concrete
Construction $10,000,000 for asphalt
paving & concrete work at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia.
MAINLAND CONSTRUCTION
& ENGINEERING – Endless war requires
endless construction and building repair. An added bonus for the Pentagon and
the U.S. war industry is how this construction activity effectively co-opts the
working class, making them feel like they’re on the same team as the troops. It
is a very powerful narcotic.
Agile Infrastructure
Services $13,000,000 for
construction, repair, maintenance of facilities, Fort Jackson, SC.
Ashford Leebcor Enterprises
III $8,134,009 to renovate
Building 11 for Defense Logistics Agency in Richmond, VA. Ashford Leebcor
Enterprises $7,711,655 to renovate
Building 32 into a fitness center at DLA & Defense Supply Center, Richmond,
VA.
Bamforth Engineers &
Surveyors Inc. $8,144,376 task order for the full
design of aircraft maintenance hangar P475 at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina. Bristol
General Contractors LLC $22,974,412 for a Mission
Training Complex at Shaw Air Force Base: a small standard design complex that
includes security access facility, tactical operations center pads, building
information systems, energy monitoring and control system connection and
intrusion detection system installation.
B.C. Schmidt Construction
$10,000,000 IDIQ for new
flooring work, additions, alterations, maintenance and repairs at various
locations within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Naval Weapons Station
Seal Beach, California. Bilbro Construction Co. $10,580,888 to repair a
firefighting operations facility at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, CA. Heffler
Contracting Group $25,000,000 IDIQ for heavy and
civil engineering construction at various locations within the metro San Diego,
CA area (Naval Bases San Diego, Coronado, Point Loma and Marine Corps Air
Station Miramar). Heffler Contracting Group $24,000,000 for new
electrical work, additions, alterations, maintenance and repairs within the
Naval Base Coronado, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Base San Diego, and MCAS Miramar.
Jacobs-EwingCole JV $29,944,543 for post-award design services (PADS) and
post-construction award services (PCAS) to support
multiple construction projects related to earthquake recovery and repair at
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, CA. Public Works Contractor $9,586,249
task order to repair
boiler buildings 1577E1, 1577E2 and 1577E3 at Twentynine Palms, CA. Include
hydro testing, boiler inspections, emissions testing and provisions for the
cyber security of facility-related control systems. R. A. Burch Construction
Co. $8,359,504 to renovate
Building F at NAS North Island, Naval Base Coronado. Interior improvements
create additional office space on the north side of the building, landscape
improvements for the southern courtyard and provide exposed ceilings in the
building. 8 firms (7 from Cali and one from Jersey) $99,999,000 IDIQ for new
construction, renovation and repair by design-build or design-bid-build of
general construction projects located primarily within NAVFAC Southwest in California.
Construction projects may include, but are not limited to, administration
buildings; academic and applied instruction training facilities;
maintenance/repair facilities; military operations facilities; aircraft
hangars; fire stations; office buildings; laboratories; dining facilities;
related structures; and other similar facilities located in California. Wu &
Associates Inc.’s initial task order ($633,000) is for repairs, Building 16139,
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, CA.
Barlovento LLC $45,000,000 to support
emergency temporary roof repairs for the Gulf Coast of the continental U.S.
Burns & McDonnell
Engineering Co., Cromwell Architects Engineers Inc., Exp Federal Inc. will
compete for each order of the $49,900,000 for
multidiscipline architect-engineer services.
CBGG JV LLC $12,982,363 for trailer
procurement, delivery, and set-up at Camp Lejeune and MCAS Cherry Point, North
Carolina. The new facilities will include admin, classroom, post office,
medical aid, computer lab, chapel, fire station. RQ-DPR JV $143,587,704 for replacements
for buildings damaged during Hurricane Florence, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Archer
Western Construction $117,995,000 for
replacements for bridges damaged during Hurricane Florence, Camp Lejeune.
C2RL Inc. $9,000,000 for architect
and engineering in support of the Tennessee Air and Army National Guard. Richland
Industries LLC $24,800,000 IDIQ for a
streamlined means to complete minor construction projects at Arnold Engineering
Development Complex, Arnold AFB, Tennessee.
HDR Architecture Inc.
$21,000,000 to provide
architectural and engineering services in support of construction projects at
the Veteran Administration American Lake Campus.
Jacobs EwingCole JV
$52,000,000 for
multi-discipline architect-engineering services for large projects under the
military construction program within NAVFAC Southwest.
LGC Global Inc. $7,506,196 to build a
youth center annex at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ. USA Environmental
Management $9,473,200 for hot cargo
hydrant system replacement at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
MDJ Contracting Inc.,
Olgoonik Specialty Contractors LLC, Reese Equipment Co., Vazquez Commercial
Contracting LLC will compete for each order of the $42,000,000 for
construction requirements at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
Military & Federal
Construction Co. $10,823,608 for repairs to
the bachelor enlisted quarters (BEQ 4313) at Marine Corp Air Station, Cherry
Point, North Carolina.
Modern Technology Solutions
Inc. $8,613,292 for continued
modernization and engineering for the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve
Command Test Center, Tucson, Arizona.
National Native American
Construction Inc., Northcon Inc., Alutiiq General Contractors LLC, RORE Inc.,
M.J. Takisaki Inc., WHH Nisqually-Garco JV 2 $95,000,000 IDIQ for
design-build construction efforts at Fairchild AFB, Washington.
River City Construction
$30,100,000 for
construction of a consolidated communications building at Scott AFB,
Illinois.
Speegle Construction
$10,373,085 to construct
two new facilities at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
Vision Building Energy
Efficiency LLC $9,700,000 for HVAC
recommissioning and energy optimization services (REOS) to support base-level
civil engineers at Air Force facilities throughout the U.S.
Wiley Wilson Burns &
McDonnell JV $75,000,000 IDIQ for
multi-discipline architect-engineer services for general and administrative
facilities within NAVFAC Washington: roughly Maryland (40%); Virginia (40%);
and D.C. (20%). Work is design and engineering services of facilities,
including child development care, general admin spaces, dining facilities,
commissary and exchange, educational, sports and fitness facilities, museums
and memorials, training and instructional facilities, wet labs and electronic
laboratories.
Blue Tarpon Construction
$45,000,000 for
rapid-response temporary roofing projects in the event of an emergency. Hughes
Construction Services $45,000,000 for
rapid-response temporary roofing projects in the continental U.S. coastal
regions in the event of an emergency. Swan Contracting LLC $45,000,000 for
rapid-response temporary roofing projects in the event of an emergency. Venegas
Construction Corp. (Ponce, Puerto Rico) $45,000,000 for
rapid-response temporary roofing projects in the event of an emergency.
6 construction firms $90,000,000
(bringing total to $339,000,000) for
construction within Marine Corps Installations East.
7 firms (4 based in
Hawai‘i) $90,000,000 for
construction projects located primarily within NAVFAC Hawaii.
14 firms will compete for
each order under overall $92,000,000 for construction support on Detroit
Arsenal and surrounding locations.
DREDGING
Don Jon Marine Co.
$19,697,607 for dredging
the Newark Bay main channel, New Jersey. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
$8,841,345 for
maintenance dredging of the inland waterway C&D Canal federal navigation
project, Chesapeake City, MD. Inland Dredging Co. $24,000,000 for rental of
24-inch cutterhead pipeline for dredging navigation projects in AL, MS, FL. Manson
Construction Co. $8,330,800 for dredge
work in the Mississippi River in Venice, LA. Mike Hooks LLC $10,207,400 for pipeline
dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel, Bay City, TX.
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Christian Sorensen is an author and an independent
journalist.
His work focuses on the U.S. war industry.