Hundreds
of corporations, big and small, comprise the U.S. war industry. Endless war is
the most profitable racket on Earth. Here are all
the public DOD contracts from August 2020.
FOREIGN
MILITARY SALES (FMS)
– Through FMS, the U.S. government
procures and transfers industry goods and services to allied governments, regimes,
and international organizations.
General
Atomics $188,866,819 for FMS (Belgium): four MQ-9B SkyGuardian
air vehicles, two ground control stations, spares, and support equipment.
Iron Mountain Solutions $15,541,629 for
technical support for the Utility Helicopter Project Office, Huntsville, AL.
Some unspecified FMS (UAE).
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Lab $49,999,000 (IDIQ) for air
warfare systems. Services develop, acquire, and test & eval aerospace
systems (including munitions, cyber warfare, and electronic warfare elements).
KBRWyle $8,740,605 for FMS (Finland
and Kuwait): technical assistance, program management, engineering, and financial
& logistics support for the “integrated product teams” that acquire and sustain
F-18 aircraft
for FMS.
Lockheed Martin $18,836,895
for FMS (Japan):
continued engineering design support and analysis of alternative services
necessary for continuation of planning and risk reduction in support of Aegis
Ashore Japan analysis of alternatives and FMS.
Lockheed Martin $181,744,524 for
production, delivery and integration of 24 Airborne Low Frequency Sonars (ALFS)
for India; eight ALFS for U.S. Navy, and seven ALFS for Denmark,
into MH-60R Seahawk.
FMS $144,463,596.
Lockheed
Martin $62,000,000,000 ten-year, IDIQ (initial delivery order of $4,941,105,246)
for FMS (unspecified): new F-16 aircraft. The initial delivery order is for 90
aircraft. FMS funds $3,881,168,384 currently obligated. The Times of India cites a Eurasian Times report indicating
that 66 of the aircraft are headed to Taiwan with the rest for Morocco.
Lockheed Martin
$183,182,541 for M142 High
Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers. Some FMS (Romania).
Northrop
Grumman $10,008,657 for FMS (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar):
re-manufacture and deliver APR-39C(V)1 radar data processor.
Raytheon $33,735,474 for
FMS (Qatar): National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS)
integration and alternate Air Defense Operations Center (ADOC)
installation.
Raytheon $92,500,000 IDIQ for standoff
precision guided munition situational awareness datalink radios, along with
integration, test, qualification and operational support.
United States Marine Inc. $7,572,364 for
15 9-meter Multi-Use EOD Response Craft
for Azerbaijan.
UNINHABITED
AIR VEHICLES & CRAFT
General Atomics $15,485,103
for site
relocation activities and exercises an option to extend ISR services
utilizing contractor-owned / contractor-operated MQ-9 in Yuma, AZ (34%); Poway,
CA (14%); overseas locations (52%).
UNINHABITED
SEA VEHICLES & CRAFT
Areté Associates $9,745,580
for
integration services supporting incremental upgrades, block upgrades, and
future generations of MK 18 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and remotely
operated vehicles.
COUNTER-UAS
Black
River Systems Co. $89,280,441 for
work at AFRL
to support rapid R&D, prototyping, demonstration, evaluation, and of transition
counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) open systems architecture.
SRC Inc. $90,000,000
IDIQ for force
protection C-sUAS with Medusa: acquisition, upgrade, sustainment, installation
support, and design & analysis support.
CORONA
Abbott Rapid DX North
America $760,000,000 initial order for production
and delivery of BinaxNOW rapid point-of-care antigen tests for COVID-19. For
150 million tests and distribution.
Carefusion Solutions LLC
$16,773,863 for Pharmacy
Inpatient Automation Solutions – Enterprise. Carefusion will “provide critical
capabilities in support of Military Treatment Facilities responding to the
ongoing healthcare crisis across the Military health system.” Will also provide
pharmacy operations division relocation of equipment, as well as maintenance
and support for existing proprietary hardware and software.
Copan Industries Inc. (Puerto
Rico) $10,000,000 for increased
manufacturing capability of diagnostic sample collection supplies (e.g., nasal
swabs). Retrofit a production facility (including procuring machinery) to
increase production capacity.
Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing $160,000,000
for
domestic aseptic fill & finish manufacturing capacity for COVID-19 vaccines
and therapeutics. Ology Bioservices Inc. $106,300,002 to reserve
production capacity of approximately 186,840,000 doses to satisfy a need for
domestic aseptic fill & finish manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics.
Moderna
TX Inc. $1,525,000,000 for 100 million filled drug production doses of a
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine.
For
safety needles/syringes in support of COVID-19 pandemic response and Operation
Warp Speed, Cardinal Health Inc. $14,826,870; Duopross
Meditech Corp. $48,310,000; Gold Coast Medical Supply L.P. $13,575,307; HTL-Strefa
Inc. $12,330,000; Quality Impact Inc. $8,800,000.
BORDER
BFBC LLC $13,387,621 to design and build
roughly 15 miles of three-phase power distribution system, lighting, and all
supports, closed-circuit TV, linear ground detection system, electronic
equipment shelters, and a fiber optic shelter, Yuma, AZ.
Atlantic Diving Supply $28,000,000 IDIQ for facility
maintenance, repair and operations supplies and related incidental services in Southwest
Africa.
KBR $75,000,000 for
construction projects at Camp Lemonnier and Chabelley
Air Field, Djibouti.
Construction Helicopters
Inc. $168,759,265 for continued
rotary wing airlift within Central Command.
DynCorp $12,853,147 for aviation
maintenance services in Afghanistan.
KBR $9,885,076 for one month
of base operations support services (BOSS) at Isa Air Base, Bahrain.
Leidos $35,778,346 for continued
contractor logistics support on “special mission” Mi-17/PC-12 aircraft in
support of Afghanistan. FY2020 Afghanistan Security Forces funds obligated.
Vectrus $116,821,426 for continued
support of operation and maintenance of Army communications, U.S. Central
Command (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE in particular).
EUCOM
KBR $974,000,000 IDIQ for base
operating support services in Spain (Morón Air Base) and Turkey (Incirlik AB, Izmir Air Station,
Office of Defense Cooperation-Turkey, and Ankara Support Facility).
6 firms – 3 from Europe (Astlanda
Ehitus Ou of Harjumaa, Estonia; Semi SA of Madrid, Spain; SKE Support Services
GmbH of Goldbach, Germany) and 3 from USA (Framaco International Inc., Relyant
Global LLC, Tartu Bryan JV) – will compete for orders under an overall $49,950,000
for repair and
maintenance, design build, environmental work, force protection work, and
construction services for U.S. forces and/or facilities throughout Estonia.
This is a concrete example of how hyping up the “threat” of Russia pays
dividends.
Black Construction-Tutor Perini JV $44,093,863
for
design and construction of explosive ordnance facilities, Naval Base Guam.
DZSP 21 LLC $50,794,396 for base
operating support services (BOSS) at Joint Region Marianas. DZSP 21 LLC $48,586,983 for BOSS at Joint Region Marianas.
Great
Eastern Group $9,108,903 for Offshore Support Vessel Hercules,
utilized to support refueling and resupply of the special mission ship SBX-1 in
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
ITC
Defense Corp of Arlington, VA $28,567,455 to provide the Missile Defense Agency with
system support (including maintenance and supply support; packaging, handling, storage,
and transportation; forward stationing for theater support; training and training
support; and limited missile support to THAAD). Additionally, the contractor “will
also be responsible for providing supply support, maintenance, material and
personnel necessary to support THAAD peculiar equipment.” Work in Fort Bliss,
TX; Fort Hood, TX; Fort Sill, OK; and locations in INDOPACOM.
RiverTech LLC $8,939,038 for Pacific
Air Forces Aviation Squadron administrative support, especially for flying
squadron operations at Japan, South Korea, Alaska, Hawai‘i. This is a
great example of corporations doing what military officers and their staff
should be doing. If officers can’t/won’t administer their units, what good are
they?
Airbus
DS $10,000,000 to
support of U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command for the sustainment
and modernization of five CASA 212-200 CC60 aircraft with new avionics suites
and maintenance refreshes.
Cubic (GATR Technologies) $172,000,000 for
1.2 meter and 2.4 meter Ground Antenna Transmit & Receive (GATR) inflatable
satellite communications terminals and ancillary equipment in support of SOCOM.
General Dynamics
$48,901,837 for production
of Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 in Anniston, AL, for SOCOM, Tampa, FL.
Quantico Tactical and Rapid
Response Defense Systems $950,000,000, 10-year, IDIQ for equipment,
training, and product support to roughly 3,500 Air Force special operators, as
well as authorized users in support of mission requirements.
Veraxx Engineering Corp.
$218,000,000 for advanced
planning and preview systems, mission simulators, and rehearsal capabilities
that training in support of SOCOM’s “unique joint training and mission
requirements.”
DEFENSE ADVANCED
RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
S2 Corp. $9,003,679 for a DARPA
project to prototype and demonstrate a broadband, electro-magnetic spectrum
receiver system. Issued via Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic,
Charleston, SC.
Raytheon $32,493,889 for Phase 3
tasks re Multi- Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System
(MAD-FIRES) program. During the 27-month Phase 3 baseline, Raytheon will focus
on seeker development and performance. Raytheon proposes to make performance
enhancements to the successful Phase 2 projectile and develop a functional
demonstration illuminator and engagement manager to engage and defeat a
representative surrogate target.
Radiance Technologies Inc.
$10,110,811 for a DARPA
research project for the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation & Modeling
(SAFE-SiM) program. SAFE-SiM seeks to build a faster-than-real time modeling &
simulation (M&S) capability. This capability would “enable rapid analysis
supporting senior-level decisions for concept of operations development, force
structure composition, resource allocation and targeted technology insertion.” Cole
Engineering Services $9,141,146 for a DARPA
research project for the SAFE-SiM program.
CORPORATE CAPTURE OF
U.S. INTELLIGENCE / ESPIONAGE
Dataminr Inc. $12,180,000 to provide
web-based mobile and email alerting of events and breaking news based on global
sources of publicly available information to DOD users for force protection and
first response.
Messer
Construction $126,324,295 to build the National Air & Space
Intelligence Center (NASIC) Intelligence Production Center at Wright-Patterson
AFB.
LANGUAGE
American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages $9,274,000 to provide
Defense Language Proficiency Test quality control and validations support for
the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
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.
University of Connecticut $7,953,698
for research (for
AFRL) to develop
capabilities to predict performance of aerospace materials in the manufacturing
environment as well as when subjugated to extreme thermomechanical influences.
University of Nebraska,
National Strategic Research Institute $92,000,000 IDIQ for R&D
services supporting U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and other government
agencies: engineering, R&D capabilities, and mission-related research
including test, evaluation, and systems analysis of related topics for STRATCOM
“in the defined core competencies of nuclear detection and forensics, detection
of chemical and biological weapons, active and passive defense against WMD and
consequence management.”
INVASIVE AIRCRAFT
Leidos $11,916,585 to
support continued system operations & sustainment services and test and
training services for Saturn Arch Aerial Intelligence Systems.
Northrop Grumman
$18,137,372 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 $20,630,000 for
various materials required for the 30P05 capability upgrade to all fielded F-35
pilot and maintenance training systems. FMS portion = $1,385,000.
Lockheed Martin $77,400,000 to
develop and install flight test instrumentation on one F-35B Lot 14 aircraft
and one F-35C Lot 14 aircraft for government testing.
Lockheed Martin $7,469,472 to procure
Intel Diminishing Manufacturing Sources parts that have reached end of life, for
F-35 program future aircraft production and deliveries to Air Force and Navy.
Lockheed Martin $7,955,000 to consolidate
known issues (from lots 12-14), funding and requirements on a single vehicle “to
ensure the most fiscally responsible business deals for customers.” Supports
concurrency related and retrofit activities for delivered air systems for F-35
for non-DOD participants and FMS. FMS portion is $1,720,000. “Non-DOD international partners” are distinct
from FMS. The former are purchased by the U.S. government, while the latter are
purchased by the U.S. government (which is then reimbursed by foreign
governments upon receipt of the good or service).
EAGLE (F-15)
Honeywell $20,798,038 IDIQ to repair the
advanced display core processor and digital mapping service in F-15E at Robins
AFB, GA, and Phoenix, AZ.
FALCON (F-16)
General Dynamics
$17,536,819 for wide band
radomes supporting Air Force F-16 aircraft outfitted with Active Electronically
Scanned Array radars.
HORNET (F-18)
Leidos $58,905,547 for
development of Adaptive Radar Countermeasure (ARC) Software/Firmware (SW/FW)
capabilities, and integration of ARC SW/FW on AN/ALQ-214A electronic
countermeasure host. ARC SW/FW supplements F/A-18C-F survivability in the
presence of radio frequency guided surface-to-air and air-to-air weapons
systems.
Teledyne Defense Electronics
$23,619,080 to repair
electron tubes associated with the ALQ-99 system for F/A-18G.
ELECTRONIC WARFARE
AIRCRAFT (GROWLER & PROWLER)
Raytheon $8,357,826 for additional
contractor logistics support maintainers for pre-operational support to
facilitate logistics and maintenance in support of Next Generation Jammer
engineering and manufacturing development and test and evaluation.
AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING
(HAWKEYE & SENTRY)
Boeing $50,000,000 for
the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Internet Protocol Enabled
Communication (IPEC) program. Provides continued acquisition of supplies and
services directly associated with the functions of IPEC in the overarching
AWACS upgrade. Work Tinker AFB, OK.
PLEXSYS Interface Products
$66,771,502 for time and
materials to AWACS Mission Crew Training Set (MCTS), so eight MCTS systems are
ready for training at the beginning of each training day and stay operational
throughout training. Contractor secures the systems at the end of the day. Work
at Tinker AFB; Kadena AB, Japan; Nellis AFB; and Joint Base Elmendorf, AK.
Northrop Grumman $34,712,366 for
non-recurring engineering for requirements development and systems engineering
technical reviews and certification planning; initial requirements change
requests; procurement strategy source selection package; performance based
navigation certification plan; initial system safety; cyber; program protection
and exportability analysis; integrated master schedule; and other associated
technical deliverables in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye cockpit
redesign.
POSEIDON
(P-8) & ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE
Boeing
$12,825,294 for non-recurring and recurring engineering for
development and integration of a modified Nose Radome into P-8A aircraft in
support of Lot 10 full rate production VI for the U.S. Navy and FMS.
Pole/Zero Acquisition Inc. $8,858,994 for
up to 12 additional Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Antenna Interface Units (AIUs);
22 Very/Ultra High Frequency (V/UHF) AIUs; 12 UHF AIU Communications Tray
(COMM-Tray); 18 V/UHF AIU COMM-Tray assemblies and subassemblies in support of
the P-8A aircraft.
STRATEGIC
/ TACTICAL AIRLIFT
Day & Zimmermann
($2,047,464) and AMTEC Corp. d.b.a. Tech Ord ($1,455,992) estimated $39,437,018
for
manufacture of M500 cartridge actuated cutters used on the C-130 and C-17
aircraft during load airdrop sequence.
MILITARY
RESEARCH – A recent report from the
Government Accountability Office indicated, “Contractors decide what independent
R&D projects to conduct,” for which DOD pays, and “DOD does not know how
contractors’ independent R&D projects fit into the department’s technology
goals.”
Apogee Research $41,663,526 for
development and testing of technologies (for AFRL)
to “enable the transition of system technology integration tool chain for
heterogeneous electronic systems.” This “will allow capabilities to rapidly
integrate into new mission capabilities for interoperability within and across
DOD platforms.”
Cromulence
LLC $9,912,581 for software and hardware deliverables for AFRL. Provides
research, design, development, testing, demonstration, integration, and
delivery of integrated software & hardware cyber capabilities that will
raise awareness of cyber risks of space systems. A “‘Space Security Challenge
2020: Hack-a-Sat’ competition will be held to bridge the security knowledge gap
between space and cyber security communities.”
First
RF Corp. maximum $24,900,000 IDIQ for radio frequency electronic antenna
cancellation / beamforming technology software/hardware prototypes for AFRL.
These systems may support various RF functions, such as radar, communications,
electronic warfare, signals intelligence, direction finding, etc.
J G Contracting $55,000,000 IDIQ for
all management, labor, material, equipment, transportation, supervision and
minimal designs to accomplish maintenance, repair and minor construction work
at Edwards AFB and Air Force owned/operated facilities located at Plant
42, Palmdale, CA.
Lockheed
Martin $14,756,832 for R&D of a prototype semantic forensic
system that automatically detects, attributes and characterizes falsified,
multi-modal media assets to defend against large-scale, automated
disinformation attacks and supports a variety of potential transition partners.
Scope: design, develop, evaluate and refine a semantic forensics system capable
of implementation on a number of local and cloud computing architectures for a
variety of end users.
L3Harris $55,000,000 IDIQ for innovative
R&D and to provide the Integrated Demonstrations and Applications
Laboratory (AFRL, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH) simulation and testbed capabilities
to develop, integrate, mature, insert and transition technologies/systems “to
meet critical/urgent warfighter mission requirements.”
MorseCorp
Inc. $14,000,000 to develop a variety of technologies to support
military airdrop of cargo and personnel, including hardware and software.
MultiBeam Corp. $37,586,245
for R&D of
“mask-less full-wafer patterning of all interconnect layers at state-of-practice
technology nodes, thereby protecting integrated circuit designs and
intellectual property critical to national security” for AFRL, Wright-Patterson
AFB, OH.
Nalej Corp. $14,865,391 for a System
of Systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic
Systems (STITCHES) Warfighter Applications Team (SWAT) development operations
(DevOps) prototype. Deliver DevOps “capabilities to the System of Systems
Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE) STITCHES platform managing
DevOps toolchains in addition to providing a team dedicated to the effort.” Aims
to enable DOD “with push-button deployment and management capabilities for the
SoSITE STITCHES system that supports the further development and subsequent
continued and expanded usage of the system as a whole.”
Navatek LLC $9,653,744 for systematic
advances in asymmetric Naval forces and logistics. Research (for the Office of
Naval Research) to identify opportunities in the current operating fleet and
operational methods where asymmetric concepts can be evaluated for further
development. Research will focus on increased robustness of autonomous systems,
study of the power systems related to small systems and platforms, investigate
hydro-mechanical interactions with resilient composite structures, examine the
system components ancillary to large resilient composite structures, and ID and
evaluate opportunities in Navy’s fleet and operational methods.
ROCCOR LLC $15,998,168 to
develop, build, and test a flight quality demonstration unit [featuring a structurally
combined aperture and reticulated locking expandable truss] for AFRL. The
system will consist of a scaled and/or truncated system that provides guidance
for the structural feasibility of a full-scale meter operational system.
Southwest Research
Institute $10,753,325 for the
Multiple Threat Emitter System (MUTES) and Mini-MUTES program: repair of
circuit cards and circuit card assemblies for multiple threat emitters.
Textron $84,734,180 for support (technical,
engineering, scientific logistical) to the S3I Directorate’s Joint Systems
Integration Laboratory in the areas of R&D, integration, experimentation,
test & evaluation, maintenance, sustainment, and operation.
Tangram Flex $95,000,000 IDIQ for
software and reports for AFRL. Perform research, development, prototyping,
enhancement, testing, evaluation, integration, transition and operational
assessment to enhance and commercialize the Tangram Platform resulting in
flexible system engineering componentization that allows system integrators and
maintainers to ease the difficulty in interface versioning and generation.
Toyon Research Corp.
$8,653,279 for algorithm
development for on-orbit image processing for AFRL, Kirtland AFB.
ABERDEEN
PROVING GROUND
TSI Inc. $48,213,673 for
approximately 3,500 M41A1 protection assessment test systems conformance
testing certifications, technical documentation and logistics support
equipment.
HELICOPTERS
Boeing
$11,701,146 for remanufactured AH-64E “Apache” aircraft. DigiFlight
Inc. $15,304,730 for logistic support services for the Apache
Attack Helicopter Project Manager's Office.
Lockheed
Martin $25,127,577 for non-recurring engineering to develop logistics
support products for the Maintenance Task Analysis Phase II, a provisioning
database of technical information to include 2D drawings that supports
maintenance for the CH-53K helicopter. Overseas work in St. Marcel, France
(5%); Titchfield, England (2%); the rest is spread across the U.S.
Lockheed Martin $35,317,218
to procure labor
and hardware for development of preliminary software for Phase 2 Network
Enabled Weapons (NEW) capabilities. Specifically, this order provides software
coding, testing and integration of NEW into a software development branch of
the MH-60R/S software configuration with a merge into MH-60R/S fleet release
baseline after the capability has established maturity.
Lockheed Martin $13,500,000
for
technologies that will be developed & demonstrated in the Future Attack
Reconnaissance Aircraft technology risk mitigation and maturation effort.
Northrop Grumman
$44,550,267 for production
and delivery of an additional 228 H-1 Tech Refresh Mission Computers,
increasing the quantity from 545 to 773 in support of domestic and FMS UH-1Y
and AH-1Z aircraft. Textron $30,400,000 for
non-recurring engineering and integrated logistics support to produce and
qualify the structural improvement and electrical power upgrade solution for
the UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper aircraft.
GENERAL
AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE
AMG Engineering &
Machining ($17,236,056) and Janel’s Industries ($13,155,156) for aircraft
structural fittings.
Beaver Aerospace &
Defense $14,658,882 IDIQ for for remanufacture,
shipping, testing and packaging for the Fast Rising B-Plug components used for
the Fast Rising B-Plug program by the Air Force.
Communications & Power
Industries $9,500,000 for electron
tubes repair. Includes teardown, test and evaluation, minor repair, major
repair and total rebuild of the electron tubes.
Northrop Grumman
$93,000,000 IDIQ for a
follow-on to continue performance of highly specialized technical services in
support of product data systems, data management, migration processes and
transformation initiatives, Robins AFB, GA.
AIRCRAFT
INSTRUMENTATION, PODS & SENSORS
BAE Systems estimated $144,000,000 for
common avionics and electronic components applicable to B1-B, ASQ-151, APX-113,
ALQ-172, USM-464, AN/ALQ-155, ALQ-161, USM-638, B-52 platforms. Provides
sustainment of spares/buys, repairs and engineering services related to various
systems and components that are sole source to BAE.
Northrop
Grumman $19,689,152 for guardian laser transmitter assemblies,
countermeasure transmitters in support of the Common Avionics program.
Telephonics
Corp. $44,999,380 for communication interface units.
FLIGHT
TRAINING
Textron
$11,312,199 for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System
T-6, Sustaining Engineering and Program Management, Enhanced Onboard Oxygen
Generating System.
AIRCRAFT
PERSONNEL DEVICES
Capco
$13,296,000 IDIQ for M943 impulse cartridges used on B-1B and
B-52H aircraft during ejection.
Cobham Mission System
$13,028,470 for oxygen
concentrators.
Vision
Systems LLC (Collins-Elbit) $12,915,360 for production, delivery, and support of the
Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) Night Vision Cueing and Display
(NVCD) System and its parts for U.S. Navy, Canada, Kuwait, Malaysia, Australia,
Switzerland. FMS funds $644,660.
AIRBORNE
COUNTERMEASURES
Raytheon $21,803,804 for
sustainment services associated with the ADM-160B, ADM-160C and C-1 Miniature
Air Launched Decoy Jammer.
AIRCRAFT PROPULSION
Raytheon
$30,143,455 for TF-33 aircraft engine spare-components.
AEGIS
Lockheed Martin $65,283,976 for
FY2020 Aegis modernization, new construction of guided missile destroyers and
FMS production requirements (production and delivery of multi-mission signal
processor equipment sets; Aegis Combat System support equipment; electronic
equipment fluid coolers and kill assessment system 5.1 equipment; MK 6 Mod 0
equipment for Japan and Spain FMS requirements) for U.S. Navy (96.9%); Spain
(2.3%); Japan (0.8%).
SUBMARINES
Lockheed Martin
$191,723,019 for
engineering design development services and associated material and travel,
supporting Navy submarines and FMS requirements for U.S. Navy (90%); Canada
(8%); Japan (1%); Australia (1%).
Oceaneering International
$9,746,030 for configuration
changes and fit ups to Navy submarines. For engineering, technical and
installation services.
SURFACE SHIP MAINTENANCE
Boston
Ship Repair $16,567,594 for a 64-calendar day shipyard availability for
the mid-term availability of the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S.
Diehl (T-AO 193).
General Dynamics $106,923,080 for
USS Bataan (LHD 5) FY2020 selected restricted availability. General Dynamics $125,819,311 for the labor and material efforts required to
plan the USS Hartford (SSN 768) engineered overhaul (EOH) availability. General Dynamics $37,195,489, for
USS Lake Erie (CG 70) fiscal 2021 selected restricted availability.
BAE
Systems $103,590,841 to prepare for and accomplish repair and
alteration requirements for USS Preble (DDG 88) Chief of Naval
Operations scheduled depot maintenance period. BAE Systems
$83,501,649 for
the execution of USS Carney (DDG 64) FY2020 extended dry-docking
selected restricted availability and the USS Winston Churchill (DDG 81)
fiscal 2021 depot modernization period.
Coastal Marine Services
Inc. and Thermcor Inc. ($18,903,577 and $23,020,821, respectively; for a total
of $41,924,398) IDIQ to provide
insulation and lagging removal and installation, Norfolk, VA.
Continental
Tide, Gibbs & Cox Inc., McKean Defense Group LLC, NDI Engineering Co., Q.E.D.
Systems combined $165,092,379 to provide engineering, technical, logistics and
program management services for Navy and Army surface ships, submarines, and
assault craft. Includes engineering, technical and logistics support for
in-service ship systems and equipment, refurbishment and testing of electrical
and electrical control equipment, program management, programmatic, engineering
and implementation coordination support for equipment upgrades and ship
modernization initiatives and direct fleet support for afloat units at the
waterfront.
Mare Island Dry Dock
$15,378,728 for the
mid-term availability of the oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187).
Pacific
Maritime Industries Corp., Tri-Way Industries, Spec-Built Systems estimated
$25,938,325 IDIQ for task orders to provide a means to purchase of
light weight modular berths and related materials in support of the Shipboard
Habitability Improvement Program in accordance with the delivery schedules
listed on the statement of work.
SHIP WEAPONRY
DRS $24,036,708 for
programmable power supply MK 179 Mod 0 production for Vertical Launch System.
SAIC
$84,823,556 to supply All Up Round torpedo [MK 48 Mod 7
Heavyweight torpedo] equipment and support for U.S. Navy (93 %); Australia (6%)
and Taiwan (1%).
NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS
COMMAND (NAVSEA)
Amentum
Services Inc. $430,016,852 for operation and maintenance of the Atlantic
Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC). Contractor is also responsible for
operating a one square mile Navy outpost. Work in Andros Island, Bahamas (64%);
West Palm Beach, FL (36%). PAE used to do this job.
BAE Systems $19,914,240 for Archerfish
Destructor full rate production, maintenance and associated technical services.
Includes maintenance, spare and repair parts, and evolution of the Archerfish
Destructors. BAE Systems will manage the destructor configuration and integrate
new/upgraded capability and assess the destructor configuration for application
to in-service upgrade efforts.
Gryphon
Technologies $14,620,466 for technical and engineering services to perform
ship checks to collect data and develop ship installation drawings for landing
helicopter dock platforms.
Management Services Group
$13,601,735 for network,
processing, and storage technical Insertion 16 (NPS), 1 storage equipment,
which will be incorporated into area storage area network cabinets during
production. The NPS program consists of enterprise products in use across
surface Navy combat systems which introduce powerful commercially available
off-the-shelf processors as part of a general strategy to achieve a modular and
open architecture design. Some government of Australia funding.
Marotta
Controls $22,190,510 IDIQ, for motor operated pilot valve supplies for the
Navy's engineering agent for damage control equipment and systems, fire
protection systems and equipment, and damage & fire recoverability.
Ribcraft
USA $38,608,278 to build 132 seven-meter (7M) Rigid Hull
Inflatable Boats (RHIBs). At the time of award, 48 7M RHIBs are purchased.
Rhoads Industries $49,000,000 for
construction related industrial support services to the Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Philadelphia Division.
NAVAL AIR WARFARE
CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD)
Hydraulics International
$8,002,881 to procure 38
diesel portable hydraulic power supplies and 16 electric portable hydraulic
power supplies in support of V-22 aircraft for U.S. Navy and Japan. Supplies
are to power the aircraft hydraulic systems for operational maintenance and
testing of aircraft hydraulic components.
SeaLandAire Technologies
Inc. $9,706,013 for continued
advanced technology R&D of airborne anti-submarine warfare systems under
SBIR topic N010-014, “High Gain Array of Velocity Sensors.” Further R&D will
include systems engineering, modeling & analyses, measurement of target and
environment data, architecture, fabrication, installation, test, maintenance,
aircrew training and procurement activities. Provides engineering services for
prototyping and delivery of 36 digital directional frequency analysis and
reporting vertical line array sonobuoys in order to transfer this SBIR
technology to the UnderSea Advantage Next Generation Multistatic Active
Coherent system.
NAVAL
INFORMATION WARFARE CENTER PACIFIC (NAVWAR)
Basic Commerce & Industries
Inc. $12,281,171 IDIQ, for research,
development, production, integration, installation, software support and
maintenance of Weather Radar Through-the-Sensor systems.
CYBER,
SIGINT & CRYPTOGRAPHY
BAE Systems $11,723,000 to provide
U.S. Army Cyber Command with command, control, communications, computers and
information management augmentation services. Work in Augusta, GA.
Federal Contracting Inc.
$41,906,264 for
construction of a Cyberworx building at
the U.S. Air Force Academy.
La Jolla Logic, Pueo Business
Solutions LLC, Axcend, Inc., Lumbee Tribe Enterprises LLC, Trillion Technology
Solutions, Inc. $46,000,000 IDIQ for network,
engineering, testing and cybersecurity support services, Camp Pendleton, CA.
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY & THE CLOUD
Immix Technology Inc.
$17,637,924 for IBM
software maintenance support renewal.
Nexagen Networks Inc.
$45,970,509 IDIQ to provide
subject matter expertise in the areas of program management; development
management; operation support; systems engineering support; systems
administration; information assurance; network security; configuration
management; service desk support; web application development and technical
writing in support of the management and operation of the coalition and allied
programs and the Naval Tool for Interoperability and Risk Assessment under Naval Information Forces.
PTC Inc. $17,131,314 for integration and development efforts in
support of Model Based Production Support.
SAIC $36,290,371 for IT
services in Huntsville, AL, Corpus Christi, TX.
Total
Technology Inc., Logisys Technical Services Inc., Pioneering Decisive Solutions
Inc. will compete for each order of a $92,992,323 for an automated test system testing/diagnostics
and netcentric support program.
31 firms, including Carahsoft and Red
River, will compete for orders under the
$13,000,000,000 to support the
Army, DOD and all federal agencies in their “enterprise infrastructure and
infostructure goals by leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf software products
and maintenance in specific product categories.”
MACHINE
LEARNING
Deloitte
roughly $106,352,518 to design and build the Joint Common Foundation
artificial intelligence development environment for the DOD Joint Artificial
Intelligence Center (JAIC).
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
$18,808,103 for research
to implement an artificial intelligence initiative at the Biotechnology
High-Performance Computing Software Applications Institute (BHSAI) to support scientific research of military medicine
for U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, MD.
COMPUTING POWER
Liqid Inc. $31,850,000 for high-performance computing modernization
programs, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Liqid Inc. $16,480,000 for DOD high
performing computing modernization programs, Vicksburg, MS.
COMMUNICATIONS
Sierra Nevada Corp. $318,952,224 for
simple key loader production, engineering and sustainment support services.
Viasat Inc. $13,965,530
$17,822,995 for KOR 24A
multi-channel small tactical terminals. The KOR 24A is interoperable with the
Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) family of radios. This
supports FMS cases.
SATELLITE
LAUNCHES
SpaceX $316,000,000 and United Launch Services
LLC $337,000,000 for
the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract, supporting launches
planned during FY2022-2027. Launch service includes early integration studies,
launch service support, fleet surveillance, launch vehicle production, mission
integration, mission launch operations, mission assurance, spaceflight
worthiness, and mission unique activities for each mission. Both corporations work
in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL, and Vandenberg AFB, CA. ULS works in
Centennial, CO; SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.
SATELLITES
& SPACE SUPPORT
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
$9,682,027 for
work on Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI). For
AFRL, Ball tries to “establish the ability to communicate with Air Force
platforms via multiple commercial space internet constellations using common
user terminal hardware elements.”
Bowhead $115,752,117 for system
engineering and technical assistance support for the Center of Excellence,
Space & Missile Defense School.
Consortium
Management Group $98,567,402 for resilient embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation
System prototype development. Rapid prototyping includes development of design
prototypes, production representative prototypes, non-recurring engineering,
travel, and development of a technical data package. Paid for via other transaction agreement.
Frontier Technology Inc.
$18,838,565 for additional
support and analysis to aid in the rapid prototyping and delivery of Enterprise
Ground Services for U.S. Space Force missions.
Lockheed Martin
$187,542,461 for the Space
Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 0. Work includes on-time delivery of
space vehicles and paths to optical intersatellite link interoperability success.
York Space Systems $94,036,666 for the Space
Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 0.
ManTech $16,255,475 for systems
engineering and integration (SE&I) support to the Space and Missile System
Launch Enterprise (SMC/ECL). Continued SMC/ECL SE&I supporting National
Security Space Launch (NSSL) to include the overarching integration of launch
and range programs, which require interfacing with both current and future NSSL
launch systems. Work at Los Angeles AFB, CA; Vandenberg AFB, CA; Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, FL; and Peterson AFB, CO.
Net-centric
Design Professionals LLC $28,613,576 for Tools, Applications and Processing Laboratory
and Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC)
support services. Provides a research, development, test and evaluation
(RDT&E) “innovation environment” for enhancing and/or developing
operational capabilities. Also provides an environment accessible to other DOD,
civil, and commercial users to find new innovative uses of remote sensing data.
The acquisition will also support OPIR OBAC co-located with the Space Based
Infrared System Mission Control Station, Buckley AFB,
CO. Work in Boulder and Aurora, CO.
Radiant Mission Solutions $12,000,000 to
provide the Army Geospatial Center with remote ground terminal systems.
RGNext (a JV between
Raytheon and General Dynamics) $17,620,089 for cyber
hardened infrastructure support Phases 3 and 4, supporting an increase in
launch and test range requirements at Eastern and Western Ranges.
Raytheon $14,000,000 for
services and supplies in support of modernization, expansion, and contractor
logistic support for “Scope Command’s” High Frequency Global Communications
System (HFGCS).
I think the clerk who wrote this contract announcement meant to write “Space
Command.”
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.
Lockheed Martin
$911,765,000 for Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element
development and support services (from $2,335,000,000 to $3,246,765,000). Extends
the period of performance for additional incremental development, support to
flight and ground test programs, and “responsive support” to warfighter
requirements to sustain the Ballistic Missile Defense System throughout the
acquisition life cycle.
BALLISTIC
MISSILES / NUCLEAR WEAPONRY
Northrop Grumman $21,948,817 for
the Minuteman
III Fast Rising B-Plug service life extension.
MISSILES,
BOMBS, ROCKETS, PROJECTILES
Boeing
$15,620,949 for production & delivery of 25 Harpoon Block
II+ captive air training missiles and 24 tactical missiles.
Boeing
$95,000,000 for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) technical support and integration. Support
for studies and analysis; product improvement and upgrades; integration
including, but not limited to, software integration and aircraft integration;
and associated hardware and testing.
General Dynamics $8,598,384
for
recapitalization and/or repair on Switch Multiplexer Units (SMU), SMU power
supplies, and circuit card assemblies used in the PATRIOT missile system.
J.F.
Taylor Inc. $23,155,111 for first article test external quick-disconnect
umbilical cable assemblies and external quick-disconnect umbilical cable assemblies
in support of advanced anti-radiation guided missile (AARGM) production and various military
standard 1760 compliant weapons for the F/A-18 series and EA-18G aircraft. Northrop Grumman
$12,190,753 for
depot sustainment support, guidance section and control section repair and
common munitions built-in test/reprogramming equipment box 4 and 5 test and
inspection on AARGM for the U.S. Navy, Italy, Australia, and perhaps
unspecified FMS. Northrop Grumman $80,963,388 IDIQ for
development of new technology to increase AARGM capability. Provides technology
demonstrations, product improvement initiatives, technology insertion, and
transition activities, integration and testing of various warfare systems,
mission analysis and mission architecture development. Additionally, this
effort will provide recommendations in support of Concept of Operations
development and military utility analysis.
Kaman
Precision Products $57,334,714 for joint programmable fuze-152: a
cockpit-selectable bomb fuze employed in MK-80 warheads (both guided and unguided
variations). Involves unspecified FMS “for 25 countries”.
Lockheed Martin $9,958,534 for
field support technicians.
Raytheon $10,242,679 for non-recurring
engineering in support of integration and testing of the modified Cryptographic
Modernization Tactical Air Command Network 1.0 data link radio onto the
air-to-ground missile 154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapon.
Toyal America Inc.
$12,715,574 to provide
aluminum powder in support of production at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant,
OK.
Krempp Construction $35,000,000 for
magazine and inert building maintenance and repairs at the Naval Support
Activity Crane, IN.
Nan Inc. $33,491,868 for
construction of four magazines at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Each will be equipped
with electronically-operated doors at ground level, lightning protection system,
and grounding system.
PREPOSITIONED STOCK
KBRwyle
$23,727,971 for maintenance, supply, transportation and other
logistics functions for the Army Prepositioned Stock-3 Charleston Afloat Program.
LAND
VEHICLES
AM General $7,232,621 IDIQ for High
Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle diesel engine cylinder heads.
Breton Industries Inc. max.
$17,810,477 for vehicular
door handles, soft top parts kits, vehicular fitted covers and vehicular
curtain assemblies.
General Dynamics $428,229,970 for
field level maintenance, field service representative support, contingency
maintenance support, new equipment training, and total package fielding for
Stryker vehicles.
Northrop Grumman Remotec $48,600,000 for
reset, sustainment, maintenance and recap to support the overall sustainment of
the Remotec family of robots.
Seiler Instrument & Manufacturing
Co. $8,972,159 for production
of the panoramic telescope for U.S. Army.
SMALL
ARMS & LIGHT WEAPONRY (SALW)
Elbit Fort Worth (an
Apartheid Israel corporation) $55,365,964 to procure
hardware in support of the Mortar Fire Control System.
GEAR
& EQUIPMENT
Atlantic
Diving Supply and Vizocom Government Services $17,000,000 for
soft wall shelters and shelter repair parts.
Avon Protection Systems
Canadian Commercial Corp. $127,200,000 to qualify and
procure M61 canisters for the Joint Service General Purpose Mask.
Point Blank Protective
Apparel & Uniform (Guanica, Puerto Rico) $20,953,625 for MOLLE 4000
rucksack sets.
CLOTHING
Atlantic Diving Supply $49,000,000 for the Cold
Weather Glove System.
Aurora Industries (Orocovis,
Puerto Rico) $25,608,088 IDIQ for coats for Army
and Air Force. Tennier Industries Inc. maximum $17,148,584 for extreme
cold/wet weather jackets. Bremen-Bowdon Investment Co. $8,125,822 for men’s
trousers for Air Force. Campbellsville Apparel Co. $7,709,600 for
undershirts and moisture wicking t-shirts. Excel Garment Manufacturing
$25,009,200 IDIQ for flame-resistant
utility coveralls. Silver Oak Leaf Inc. $10,716,250 for working
uniform blouses and trousers (with some work in Puerto Rico).
TRAINING
– ARMY
Advanced Systems Technology
$24,331,428 to replace the
existing tactical communication subsystems towers and antenna system equipment
for Joint Readiness Training Center instrumented systems, Fort Polk, LA, and
Lawton, OK.
TRAINING
– AIR FORCE
Aptima Inc. $9,900,000 for
R&D of operational experimentation, technology refinement, and “operational
alignment” related to improving and personalizing individual, team, and group
training methods and “better blending of live, virtual and constructive
environments in and across operational contexts.” Work primarily at Wright-Patterson
AFB.
Bowhead
$16,362,847 for flying training operations support: Air Education & Training Command (AETC) fighter training and special
operations forces, as well as personnel recovery training units, aircrew
training support and standardization & evaluation support across Fairchild
AFB, WA; Eglin AFB, FL; Holloman AFB, NM; Luke AFB, AZ; Kirtland AFB, NM; and
Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base, OR.
CAE
USA Inc. $16,093,432 to extend the KC‐135 aircraft training system
six months. “This action is being awarded under the Availability of Funds Clause.”
Credence Management
Solutions LLC $8,661,142 to continue
providing flight training operations support to AETC fighter aircrew at Joint
Base San Antonio (JBSA) Randolph and Lackland, TX; Columbus AFB, MS; Laughlin
AFB, TX; Vance AFB, OK; Tucson Air National Guard (ANG) Base, AZ; Little Rock
ANG Base, AR; Altus AFB, OK; Pensacola NAS, FL; Fort Rucker, AL; and U.S. Air
Force Academy, CO. This task order incorporates the addition of two schedulers
at JBSA–Randolph, and the Service Labor Standards, Department of Labor Wage
Determinations and the Collective Bargaining Unit for Altus AFB.
Korte Construction Co. $34,420,210 to
design and construct a two-story 72,140 square-foot Joint Simulation
Environment facility, Edwards AFB.
Martin Baker (Uxbridge, UK) $150,000,000 for
T-6 and T-38 replenishment spares. Some NASA funds obligated.
M1 Support Services
$25,649,894 for
maintenance of T‐38 aircraft (for Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel
Command, and Air Force Global Strike Command) at Beale AFB, CA; Holloman AFB,
NM; JB Langley-Eustis, VA; Tyndall AFB, FL; and Whiteman AFB, MO.
PAE
$19,766,706 for an
additional year of the Aerial Targets Program (Tyndall AFB, FL, and Holloman
AFB, NM): support live-fire weapon system testing and enable the 53rd Weapons
Evaluation Group to perform developmental and operational weapons testing for
all air-to-air missiles for F-15, F-16, F-22, and F-35 aircraft.
The Ross Group Construction
Corp. $35,396,600 to design &
build a C-130 H/J fuselage trainer facility, Little Rock AFB.
TRAINING
– NAVY/USMC
Cubic $8,838,026 for
engineering services in support of the Interim Joint Secure Interoperable
Live-Virtual-Constructive (JSILS) and Secure Live Virtual Constructive (LVC)
Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) – Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD)
“for future consideration as a usable operational LVC training environment
capability.” Provides design, engineering, and test/demo to mature aforementioned
technologies.
FlightSafety Services Corp.
$220,766,476 IDIQ for aircrew
training services on the TH-73A Advanced Helicopter Training System to include
flight training devices (FTD) and classroom instruction to train student naval
aviators to meet an annual pilot production rate of over 600 advanced rotary
wing and intermediate tilt-rotor student naval aviators. Additionally, provides
for the operation and maintenance of FTDs.
Koman Construction $10,000,000 for
construction and repairs at U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
FORCE PROTECTION
B.L. Harbert International
LLC $23,160,000 for entry
control facility upgrades at NAS Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans.
ProSecure LLC $10,083,876
IDIQ for armed
security guard services at various installations in NAVFAC Northwest.
Huntington
Ingalls $15,933,605 to provide Headquarters Marine Corps, Plans,
Policies and Operations, Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) and
Commander Navy Installations Command with technical and engineering support for
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosive
Consequence Management program.
DEFENSE THREAT
REDUCTION AGENCY (DTRA)
Northrup Grumman $4,000,000 for
the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. The Program’s mission is to “partner
with willing countries to reduce threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction and
related materials, technologies, facilities and expertise.”
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.
Choctawhatchee Electric
Cooperative $13,547,690 for electric
operations, maintenance, renewal and replacement utility service charge. For
Air Force. Dominion Privatization TX LLC
$42,075,122 for additional utility services for the electric
and natural gas utility systems at Fort Hood, TX. Emerald
Coast Utility Services $23,227,776 for water and
wastewater utility services for Air Force.
Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust $617,452,596 regulated tariff for the
ownership, operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater utility
systems at Tinker AFB, OK.
“GREEN”ING
THE MILITARY – You
cannot “green” a massive military whose primary purpose, aside from profiting
industry, is to utilize fossil fuels (barring nuclear-powered submarines and
aircraft carriers) to kill, destroy infrastructure, garrison the globe, open
countries to U.S. corporate interests, and snoop on global citizens. But
“greening” looks great to rising military officers and PR-friendly
congresspersons.
Alstom Renewable US LLC
$15,943,367 to rewind two
hydroelectric generating units at Hartwell Powerhouse, GA.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Argentum Medical LLC maximum $14,780,000 for
medical surgical products. Claflin Service Co. maximum
$49,500,000 IDIQ for medical equipment and accessories for the DLA
electronic catalog. Sonosim Inc. $14,000,000 IDIQ for medical
equipment and accessories for the DLA electronic catalog. Thomas Scientific $12,644,524 IDIQ for medical
and surgical products.
MEDICAL
SERVICES
International SOS
Government Services $960,362,689 for health
care support services by the Defense Health Agency (DHA). Supports TRICARE
Overseas Program by supplementing healthcare capabilities & capacities of
overseas military treatment facilities and provides healthcare in remote
overseas locations.
Terra Klean Solutions
$13,500,000 for
non-personal healthcare housekeeping services, William Beaumont Army Medical
Center, Fort Bliss, TX.
GiaCare and MedTrust JV LLC
$7,779,386 for registered
nursing services for the San Antonio Military Health System.
Hamilton Enterprises
$21,676,458 for health
insurance billing and collection activities for Defense Health Agency medical
treatment facilities, using a government-provided billing program (Government
Billing Solution, or GBS).
SAFETY
Alliance Technical Services
$10,021,402 for third
party logistics hazmat support services for Army.
FUEL
& ENERGY – The U.S. Armed Forces consume more fossil fuels than any other organization in the
world.
Petro Star ($62,088,432);
Delta Western ($32,629,727); Crowley Government Services ($26,468,885); Petro
49 Inc. ($15,852,473); for various
types of fuel. Bristol Engineering Services Co. $8,819,114 task order to replace
fuel farm tanks at Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, San Clemente Island.
WAREHOUSING &
DISTRIBUTION
Korte Construction
$21,894,868 to build a new
consolidated storage and distribution center (approximately 95,000 square feet)
at Joint Base Charleston.
Lakota
Solutions, LLC $22,937,145 IDIQ for material handling equipment maintenance.
Native
American Services $8,315,231 for building a general purpose storage building
at Fort Hood, TX.
PrimeTech International Inc. $19,185,938 for
logistics services to manage, support and operate the Marine Corps Consolidated
Storage Program warehouse network. Paid for in part with overseas contingency
operations funds.
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.
Bethel-Tech Pacific JV, ECC Environmental,
CAPE-Weston $240,000,000 for
environmental remediation projects primarily in the southwest. Work provides
for environmental remediation, removal, remedial design, expedited and
emergency response, pilot & treatability studies, remedial systems
operation and maintenance, corrective actions, and groundwater monitoring and
other related activities associated with returning sites to safe and acceptable
levels of contamination. In the corporatized mindset of Pentagon
officials, there is an “acceptable” level of contamination, while in the eyes
of the U.S. public no contamination is acceptable.
Brice Environmental
Services Corp. $40,899,412 for
environmental remediation activities at Beale AFB.
Cape Environmental
Management $90,300,000 IDIQ for Base
Realignment and Closure (BRAC) environmental construction optimization services
to support the Air Force Civil Engineer Center installations directorate. Supports
a variety of environmental restoration services and construction necessary to
maintain regulatory selected remedies, implement optimization to enhance
remedial progress, and advance sites to completion in a cost-effective manner.
Work at former Castle, Mather and McClellan AFB, CA. Environmental Chemical Corp. ceiling
$60,000,000 IDIQ for BRAC
environmental construction optimization services at Pease Air National Guard
Base, NH; Loring AFB (deactivated), ME; Griffiss AFB (deactivated), NY; and
Plattsburgh AFB (deactivated), NY.
EA Engineering, Science &
Technology Inc. $8,025,292 to address
groundwater contamination resulting from historical releases at Kirtland AFB, NM.
Environmental Compliance
Consultants $24,984,533 to provide
fence-to-fence environmental operations and services in support of customers
serviced by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Alaska District.
HGL-APTIM
JV $110,000,000 for environmental construction activities in
support of the Welsbach General Gas Mantle Superfund Site in Camden and
Gloucester City, Camden County, NJ.
PHE-Baker JV2 LLC, Stell Environmental
Enterprises Inc., Swift River Vesar SB JV, Vernadero Group Inc. will compete
for orders under the $40,000,000 for
architect and engineering services, USACE South Atlantic Division Mobile
District's planning and environmental division.
Sevenson-USA Environmental
JV II $95,000,000 IDIQ for remedial
actions at environmentally contaminated sites predominately located at Navy and
Marine Corps installations and other government agencies. Sites consist of
those on the Superfund National Priority List (NPL) as well as non-NPL sites
regulated under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; underground storage
tanks regulations; state specific regulations; and other sites which might
require remedial action.
Weston-ER Federal Services
$80,000,000 for rapid
response environmental remediation services.
FOOD
SERVICES
Chico Produce Inc. ($135,000,000), Coast
Citrus Distributors ($15,000,000) for
fresh fruit and vegetable support for the Northern California and Northwestern Nevada
zones. Military Produce Group LLC
$51,205,744 for fresh
fruits and vegetable products. Norfolk
Banana Distributors $48,800,000 for fresh
fruits and vegetables. US
Foods $51,600,000 for full-line food distribution. Sysco $13,586,862 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 of the Pentagon.
Helping Hands of Goodwill
of Kansas City, MO $13,113,289 for custodial
services at Fort Leavenworth, KS.
IAP Worldwide Services
$9,571,580 for BOSS at
Naval Support Activity Annapolis.
CONSULTING,
ADMIN, BUSINESS, OFFICE – A January 2015 military report noted that trimming some outsourced
administrative waste (like we see in this category of consulting, admin, etc.)
would have saved roughly $125 billion over five years. Pentagon leadership
(many of whom come from war corporations) buried the report, fearing Congress
might use it to cut the war budget.
Boeing $19,818,043 for supply
chain management, logistics support, and individually priced parts—basically
what the Defense Logistics Agency is supposed to do.
Katmai
Integrated Solutions LLC $8,004,940 for a wide range of experimentation, business,
and operational support services in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat
Development Command Warfighting Laboratory.
Kiliuda
Consulting LLC $18,883,593 IDIQ to provide business support services for the
Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division corporate operations. Services
provide facilities support (workspace design and physical reconfiguration);
visual information support (illustration and photography/videography); security
support (excluding law enforcement); Manager’s Internal Control program
support; material and equipment property management support; travel accounting,
management and program analysis; and quality office and office clerical
support.
Serco-IPS
Corp. $22,617,450 for professional support services for the Naval
Sea System Command's Deputy Commander for Surface Ship Maintenance and
Modernization. Services are in the areas of program management, admin support,
surface ship modernization, inactive ships, surface ships readiness, surface
training systems, business & financial management, records management, and
information technology. This will “ensure that the fleet undergoes a multitude
of upgrades that will provide for the continuation of system capabilities and
readiness.” Will “ensure the Chief of Naval Operations surface training master
plan and the Navy training system plan requirements are fulfilled for
validating all surface training systems procured and managed by participating
acquisition resource managers.” Also ensures that budgeting, financial
management, and business processes are “executed to provide support and respond
to fleet life cycle requirements for in-service mine warfare, surface
combatant, amphibious, auxiliary and command ship classes of ships.” Most work
in D.C. and Norfolk. Overseas work in Yokosuka, Japan (2%); Manama, Bahrain
(1%); Sasebo, Japan (1%).
FINANCES
– The
corporations below were all involved in the failed FY2019 audit.
CACI
$59,296,656 for comptroller mission systems support in
Chantilly and Arlington, VA.
Ernst & Young LLP estimated $61,223,977 for
audit readiness support at Defense Health Agency (DHA). “The Financial
Operations Directorate (J-8), Defense Health Program Financial Reporting &
Compliance Division has a continuing need for the services. Exercising the
fourth option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling the government’s
need with regards to price efficiency, past performance and experience. Ernst
& Young’s performance is satisfactory and fulfills the contract’s needs.”
CONSTRUCTION,
Hawai‘i – The
militarization of Hawai‘i is ongoing.
Crown Architectural Metal
Co. $45,000,000 for temporary
roofing for HIan Islands Oahu and Kauai. GM/Bulltrack JV LLC $9,165,646 for Wharf 2 structural repairs at Joint Base
Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Mechanical Engineers of Hawai‘i Corp.
$15,000,000 for design and
engineering services for mechanical engineering projects and related projects
at various locations in NAVFAC Hawai‘i. An initial task order of $281,952 issued
for construction consisting of full plans, specifications, detailed cost
estimate, and other services to repair the Marine Corps Forces Pacific
Telephone Exchange Building, Camp Smith. Pacific Federal
Contractors $20,402,508 for
construction of a single 61,800 square-foot hangar bay addition at Joint Base
Pearl Harbor-Hickam. MNDPI Pacific JV $14,000,000 for various
structural and waterfront projects and other projects at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam. Conduct a geotechnical investigation in the area west of Dry
Dock 3 “to provide data for a proposed future project to construct a new dry
dock.”
MAINLAND
INFRASTRUCTURE
AECOM $40,000,000 for civil
works, hydraulic and hydrologic services for the USACE, Albuquerque District.
Affolter Contracting Co.
$12,364,000 to construct
the Upper Yazoo Projects in Tallahatchie County, MS.
Barnett
Southern $7,775,643 for raising dikes and berms, and installation of
new spillway systems in the Atlantic Intercoastal Water Way, SC.
B&K Construction Co.
$15,218,859 for
construction of hurricane protection features in Plaquemines Parrish, LA.
Carbro Constructors Corp. $7,832,976 to
build flood-control measures, Green Brook Segment C1, Middlesex, NJ.
Choctaw
Transportation Co. $30,000,000 to provide stone repairs to revetments and dikes
along the Mississippi River.
C.J. Mahan Construction
$29,707,005 for demolition
& removal of Lock and Dam 53, Olmsted Lock & Dam, Grand Chain, IL.
CPP Construction $9,627,000
for the
McMillan backwash discharge to sewer construction project, D.C.
Curtin Maritime Corp.
$7,999,999 to deepen the
Port of Hueneme federal navigation channels in Ventura County, CA.
McMillen LLC $12,231,000 for equipment,
structures and all labor, plant, equipment and materials for rehabilitation of
the two low-level outlets of the Coolidge Dam, AZ.
Morrish-Walace
Construction $7,276,650 to replace the mechanical drive system,
excluding the motor, used to operate the four filling and emptying tainter valves
on the MacArthur Lock, Sault Sainte Marie, MI.
Power
& Instrumentation Service (Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) $45,000,000 for numerous rapid-response temporary roofing
projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
R&D
Maintenance Services $7,146,969 for operation and maintenance of government-owned
facilities and equipment at TN-Tombigbee Waterway and Okatibbee Lake projects
in AL and MS.
Southwest Water Design
$40,000,000 for civil
works and hydrology and hydraulics services.
APC
Construction LLC $8,942,389 for work in New Orleans, LA: clearing and
grubbing; structural excavation and backfill, excavation and embankments;
placement of steel sheet and H-piling; construction of reinforced concrete
floodwalls and deployable floodwalls; concrete scour protection, asphaltic
pavement; chain link fences; concrete curbs and gutters; pavement markings;
miscellaneous metal work, painting, turf establishment; and related work.
AIRFIELD
REHABILITATION
Alutiiq General Contractors
$9,367,399 for
maintenance, repair and minor construction work on vehicle roadways and
airfield paving projects at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA.
MAPPING
The Atlantic Group LLC
$16,000,000 for
photogrammetric and LiDAR surveying and mapping.
Fugro Earthdata Inc. and Quantum
Spatial Inc. compete for orders under $22,666,666 for basic site
plan mapping, land-use/land-type classification and/or change-analysis mapping.
ARCHITECT-ENGINEERING
SERVICES
DR Reed and Associates Inc. $9,800,000 for
architecture and engineering services for civil works projects at various
locations in the Los Angeles District. HD CW JV, GHD Inc., CDM Federal Programs Corp. will
compete for orders under the $15,000,000 for
architect-engineer general design services for civil works. Olgoonik
Enterprises LLC $75,000,000 IDIQ for the Fort
Riley, KS; and McConnell AFB, KS, Sunflower Simplified Acquisition Base
Engineering Requirements (SABER) to maintain facilities and infrastructure at
both bases.
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.
AHTNA Construction, APC Construction LLC,
Gideon Contracting LLC, Pontchartrain Partners LLC, Southwind Construction will
compete for orders under $49,500,000 for
civil works construction projects in support of various military and civil
works projects within the USACE Tulsa District's boundaries.
AJ
Commercial Services ceiling $7,000,000 IDIQ for exterior and interior painting, Eglin AFB, FL.
APTIM/AECOM Decommissioning
$42,861,305 for
decommissioning and disposal activities for the Stationary Medium Power Plant
Number 1 Reactor Facility, Fort Belvoir, VA.
Aspen Construction Co. $8,354,252 for
Phase II redevelopment site construction in Martin, KY.
Bates Engineers/Contractors Inc. $46,000,000 for
construction, demolition, paving, grading, drainage, excavation, clearing &
grubbing, utility work, environmental permitting, site safety and health
efforts and field investigations related to construction for the North Alabama Area
Office Region.
HDR Architects & Engineers
P.C. $15,000,000 to provide
planning, engineering design services and consulting services in support of the
planning, design and assistance during construction for a new research facility
and greenhouse.
HHI Corp., Pro-Mark Services, Inc., Native
American Services Corp., Creative Times Dayschool LLC $422,222,224 for
design-bid-build/design-build services up to 100% and maintenance, repair and
minor construction work on real property along the Front Range of Colorado and
Wyoming: Fort Carson Army Base, CO, to include Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, and
Pueblo Chemical Depot; Cheyenne Mountain AFS, CO; Peterson AFB, CO; Schriever
AFB, CO; Air Force Academy, CO, to include Farish Memorial Recreation and Bulls
Eye Auxiliary Airfield; Buckley AFB, CO; and F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
Kekolu Contracting LLC
$111,700,000 IDIQ for
streamlined acquisition base engineering requirements, providing minor
construction projects, maintenance and repair of real property, Joint Base
Andrews, MD; and Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, D.C.
Legacy Joint Venture Group
$49,000,000 to provide
rapid response for construction, renovation, upgrades, improvement, maintenance,
or repair of government facilities.
Mechworks Mechanical
Contractors, North State Mechanical, R&W Construction Co., Siler Excavating
LLC for various
construction projects primarily in Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and the
surrounding area. $240,000,000.
Nora Contracting LLC
$10,576,854 to construct a
columbarium (a place to store and/or display urns) for the Veterans
Administration (VA) at the Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis.
Phillips Contracting Co.
$24,000,000 for rental of
construction equipment.
RQ
Construction $33,602,000 to build an operations complex for the
activation of 5th Battalion, 10th Marines High Mobility Artillery Rocket System,
Camp Lejeune.
RQ Construction $33,146,000
for design and
construction of a new child development center complex (children between 6 weeks
and 5 years of age; capacity about 462 kids) at MCAS Miramar.
Stronghold Engineering
$17,277,000 for
construction of an air traffic control tower in Palmdale, CA.
Archer Western Federal JV
$326,625,000 for
construction: Hurricane Florence Recovery Package 7, MCAS New River, Camp
Lejeune, NC. The proposed replacements consist of construction of the Center
for Naval Aviation Technical Training classroom building. Site improvements
include demolition, utilities, parking, and construction of a bachelor enlisted
quarters. Improvements include demolition, utilities, roadways, and flight line
fencing; and construction of the C-12W aircraft maintenance hangar, an aircraft
maintenance hangar and aircraft operations facility to support air station
C-12W operations. RQ-W.M. Jordan JV
$191,120,897 for
construction: Hurricane Florence Recovery Package 3, storage and training
facilities, Camp Lejeune. Proposed replacements consist of construction of the
Marine Corps Combat Service Support School (MCCSSS) Logistics Operations
School, a practical application facility for military occupancy specialty motor
transport entry / intermediate level training and a joint reception center
facility to include headquarters/support functions and student in-processing
functions for MCCSSS at Camp Johnson. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. $149,115,855
for construction: Hurricane Florence Recovery
Package 1, MCAS Cherry Point. Replaces buildings damaged during Hurricane
Florence.
Health Facility Solutions,
MC Furham & Associates, Vernerdaro Group Inc. $9,900,000 for support of
the U.S. Army Reserve Command, Army Reserve Installation Management
Directorate, Army Reserve Division and regional support commands on various
programs within the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
10 firms (including such industry giants as AECOM,
Jacobs, and Leidos) will compete for orders under an overall $209,000,000 for
architect and engineering services to support the USACE South Atlantic Division.
6 firms allocated combined
$245,000,000 (including the base period and four option years) for
construction projects located primarily within NAVFAC Hawai‘i.
DREDGING
Great
Lakes Dredge & Dock $14,602,000 for maintenance dredging of Wilmington
Harbor Inner Ocean Bar, Wilmington, NC. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
$44,851,000 for dredging the Mississippi River, Venice, LA. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock $10,342,655 for
maintenance dredging in Jefferson County, TX, and Cameron Parish, LA. J.
F. Brennan Co. $13,617,770 for
dredging of Duluth-Superior Harbor, Superior, WI. Ponchartrain Partners $15,242,620 for a channel
cleanout of the St. Francis River, Piggot, AR.
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Christian Sorensen is an author and an independent
journalist.
His work focuses on the U.S. war industry.