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Hundreds
of corporations, big and small, comprise the US war industry. Endless war is
the most profitable racket on Earth. Here are the
contracts issued during January 2021.
FOREIGN
MILITARY SALES (FMS)
– The US war
industry sells to capitalist regimes around the world through direct commercial
sales and foreign military sales. FMS tend to deal with big-ticket items or
goods and services of a sensitive nature. Through FMS, the US government
procures and transfers industry goods and services to the allied government. In
fiscal year 2020, the war industry sold $50.8 billion through FMS, and $124.3 billion through direct commercial sales.
Amentum (recently acquired DynCorp) $27,700,947 for FMS (Saudi
Arabia): maintenance support services for Saudi Arabia's Land Forces Aviation
Command Aviation program. AITC-Five Domains JV $19,803,618 for FMS (Saudi
Arabia): train, advise, assist and mentor services in Riyadh.
Boeing $21,670,000 for FMS (Saudi
Arabia): convert Saudi Air Force F-15S into an F-15SA aircraft. Includes
program management, reach-back support for the 48 continental United States and
D.C.; temporary on-site for outside the continental U.S. assistance (if
needed); round robin repairs.
BAE Systems $11,621,232 for 1,512
radio frequency countermeasures for F-35 aircraft for FMS.
Bell Boeing Joint Project
Office $25,523,136 for FMS
(Japan): nine right aft sponson fuel tank kits for V-22.
Also provides development & updates to existing technical data.
Boeing $8,624,300 for P-8A
engine build-up kits and associated mating to core engine—one for New Zealand
and one for Australia.
Boeing $8,756,417 for FMS (UK): contractor
logistics support for the P-8A Poseidon. Work in Seattle, WA (60%), and Lossiemouth,
Scotland (40%).
Boeing $20,864,609 for FMS
(Kuwait): new scope for integrated logistics support for 22 F/A-18E and six
F/A-18F. Kay & Associates Inc. $69,515,496 for FMS
(Kuwait): maintenance and support services for F/A-18 aircraft and associated
equipment in support.
Boeing $20,333,921 for FMS
(Morocco): long lead integrated logistics support, initial spares package and
peculiar ground support equipment.
Lockheed Martin $49,663,781
for 19
AN/AAQ-30A Target Sight Systems; 14 for Bahrain and five for the Czech
Republic.
Lockheed Martin
$254,708,912 for FMS (UAE):
maintenance and sustainment for two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
batteries: logistics management, logistics product database, training, missile
and ground repair and return, hardware/software development and sustainment,
hardware in the loop, engineering services, missile field surveillance program,
and specialty engineering.
Lockheed Martin $64,266,809
for
development, integration, test, and delivery of the F-16 Joint Mission Planning
System Unique Planning Component / Mission Planning Environment software
updates. Involves FMS to Slovakia, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Morocco, Greece, UAE,
Bahrain, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South
Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, and
Thailand.
Lockheed Martin for
engineering and technical services on Aegis Combat System and Aegis weapon
system equipment & computer programs. Involves FMS ($113,612,854) to Japan,
Australia, S. Korea, Norway, Spain, Canada.
Lockheed Martin $13,125,284
for continued
maintenance and sustainment operation support for Norway Italy F-35 Reprogramming
Lab systems and consumables at Eglin AFB, FL. Paid for in part with non-DOD
partnership funds.
Raytheon $8,520,414 to procure long
lead material for Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) FMS production (rounds,
instrumental kits, engineering, spares) for S. Korea, Denmark,
Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, and Japan.
Teledyne Brown Engineering
$39,211,704 for MK11
shallow water combat submersibles. FMS country name withheld per
international agreement.
CORONA
Continuus Pharmaceuticals $69,300,000 to develop
production capability for critical active pharmaceutical ingredients and final
dosage form medicines using their proprietary integrated continuous
manufacturing technology.
Eli Lilly and Co.
$625,000,000 for 500,000
doses of LY-CoV555, a COVID-19 therapeutic drug treatment.
Hardwood Products Co.
$110,085,000 for industrial
base expansion of domestic production capacity (equipment and machinery) for
medical foam tip swabs.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
$2,625,000,000 for 1.25
million courses of a monoclonal antibody therapeutic (a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab) for
COVID-19.
Berry Aviation $179,451,602
for continued
rotary and fixed-wing airlift support services, including passenger, cargo,
casualty evacuation, personnel recovery, and air drop in continental Africa,
African islands, and countries supporting operations in Africa, such as Germany
and Italy.
KBR $8,203,733 IDIQ for base
operating support services at the Navy Compound, Quay 9, Jebel Ali, UAE.
Black Construction/Mace
International JV $28,877,806 to repair
deep-draft wharf infrastructure at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.
San Juan-Black & Veatch
International Ltd. JV $23,145,586 to repair the
north parking apron, phase I, at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.
EUCOM
Black & Veatch, Coplan-Merrick JV, and WSP USA Solutions will compete for orders
under a $49,000,000 total for General
Architect-Engineer Services in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
SAFE Boats International
$19,969,119 for long lead
time material and associated pre-production and planning support for two MK VI
patrol boats to be delivered to Ukraine. Title 10 Ukraine Security Assistance
Initiative funding obligated.
Vectrus $15,785,417 for
information technology (IT) services for 2nd Theater Signal Brigade in Germany and
Italy.
H2O Guam JV $97,995,000 for repair and
modernization of Lima Wharf and appurtenances at Apra Harbor, Naval Base Guam.
InSynergy Engineering, Inc., MK Engineers Ltd., Nakamura Oyama & Associates, Inc. compete for orders under $9,900,000
for
architect-engineer electrical services in the Honolulu area.
Pond Constructors $9,468,778
to maintain
and repair petroleum systems and facilities in Alaska (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Delta
Junction, Shemya, King Salmon) and Hawai‘i (Pohakuloa, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, Ewa
Beach, Kaneohe Bay).
Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS), Federal
Resources Supply, Noble Supply, SupplyCore, Tactical
Survival Specialties, and W.S. Darley & Co. share up to $33,000,000,000
IDIQ for the fifth
generation Special Operations Equipment (SOE) Tailored Logistics Support (TLS)
program: includes the total logistics support for the special operational
equipment requirements of military installations, federal agencies, and other
authorized DLA customers worldwide.
EG Designbuild
$16,239,000 to build a special
operations watercraft maintenance facility at NAS, Key West, FL.
Raytheon’s Rockwell Collins
$12,797,070 for life-cycle
contractor support and hardware for the Common Avionics Architecture System,
Cockpit Management System, Airborne Mission Network, Secure Real Time Video and
Aircraft Management Systems for SOCOM.
MN-BMCD SE JV $60,000,000
IDIQ for
professional architectural and engineering services in support of waterfront
projects in NAVFAC Southeast. Includes Andros Island, Bahamas (10%); Guantánamo
Bay, Cuba (10%).
US Foods Inc $390,000,000 for full-line
food distribution in FL, Cuba and Bahamas.
DEFENSE ADVANCED
RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
General Electric
$10,197,968 to develop a
mobile automated manufacturing platform to provide just-in-time manufacturing
of nucleic acid countermeasures to rapidly produce doses of nucleic acid
therapeutics or prophylactics. For DARPA via the Naval Information Warfare
Center, Pacific, San Diego.
Lockheed Martin $58,905,062
for
development of the integrated OpFires system. Includes
risk reduction testing to achieve a system-level critical design maturity.
Raytheon $17,949,424 to work on the
System of Systems Enhanced Small Unit (SESU) contract
for DARPA.
Raytheon $10,448,906 for a DARPA research
project for the Joint All-Domain Warfighting Software (JAWS) program. Aims
to develop a software suite for better theater scale battle management command &
control using automation and predictive analytics. This would develop the “enabling
software for the warfighter to adaptably setup and execute synchronized kill
webs encompassing the undersea, sea surface, land, air, space and electromagnetic
domains.”
CORPORATE CAPTURE OF
U.S. INTELLIGENCE / ESPIONAGE
Booz Allen Hamilton
$21,744,548 for additional
hours developing electro-optical emerging data sources as part of the Assured
Cyber Enterprise for the Intelligence Community Program.
Buffalo Group LLC $14,093,489
for Department
of the Army Intelligence Information Services intelligence operations support
services, Fort Belvoir, VA.
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY (DIA)
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas
$45,000,000 to provide the
Defense Intelligence Agency with furniture products and services.
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 in any
given season. The lead corporation, Lockheed Martin, does not intend to address 162 of the jet’s
883 known design flaws.
BAE Systems $69,727,000 for 1,512
radio frequency countermeasures for F-35 aircraft.
Lockheed Martin $13,036,252
for non-recurring
site stand-up activity, capability development, IT systems integration, and
associated changes to F-35 program and industry processes as needed to allow DLA and TRANSCOM “to
assume North American regional warehouse and global transportation and
distribution product support provider responsibilities.”
Lockheed Martin $64,121,341
for
procurement of Digital Channelized Receiver/Techniques Generator and Tuner
Insertion program technology to upgrade F-35 aircraft with Digital Tuner
Insertion Program electronic warfare racks and high efficiency low voltage
power supply.
Martin-Baker Aircraft Co.
Ltd. $8,764,364 to manufacture
explosive cartridges kits and different explosive cartridges used in the US16E
ejection seat in F-35 aircraft.
Container Research Corp.
$11,539,383 IDIQ for up to 275
V-22 Mission Auxiliary Tank System storage containers for DOD and FMS.
Rolls-Royce Corp.
$72,874,164 for 33
production AE1107C V-22 Osprey engines.
EAGLE (F-15)
Woodward HRT Inc. maximum
$9,662,562 for F-15
rotary vane assemblies.
FALCON (F-16)
AAR Allen Service Inc.,
d.b.a. AAR Aircraft Component $9,188,386 IDIQ for F-16 accessory
drive gearbox (ADG) and jet fuel starter (JFS) repairs.
HORNET (F-18)
Boeing $19,680,950 to repair
various avionics equipment used on the F/A-18 aircraft and AV-8B
aircraft.
ELECTRONIC WARFARE
AIRCRAFT (GROWLER & PROWLER)
Raytheon $34,298,657 for engineering
and test support services for the ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) in
development for EA-18G aircraft.
AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING
(HAWKEYE & SENTRY)
Northrop Grumman
$29,776,196 for five
aerial refueling retrofit kits and installation on the E-2D Advanced
Hawkeye.
North Star Scientific Corp.
$9,557,740 for 42 high
power amplifier (HPA) units. Also provides engineering and engineering data
support for HPA units kitting, installation and testing.
STRATOFORTRESS (B-52)
Merrill Corp. $10,123,784 for B-52 strut
repair.
POSEIDON
(P-8) & ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE
Lockheed Martin $11,403,660
IDIQ for engineering
and logistics services in support of the Maritime Patrol & Reconnaissance
Aircraft program to monitor and manage fatigue and obsolescence issues and
operational and/or technical problems arising from P-3 fleet usage for US Navy,
other government agencies, and FMS.
Raytheon $7,825,657 to repair 10
line items associated with the APY-10 radar system used on P-8A aircraft.
AIRLIFT
Lockheed Martin
$129,363,552 IDIQ for contractor
logistic support services on C-5 aircraft. Involves
supply chain management, repair and technical support services.
Sierra Nevada Corp.
$29,791,307 for the MC-130J
Airborne Mission Networking program low rate initial production (LRIP): production
kits, spares, and weapon system trainer support.
AERIAL
REFUELING
Boeing $1,687,359,008
to produce twelve
KC-46 aircraft (lot 6), data, subscriptions & licenses, and G081 flat
file. Boeing $2,124,531,149 to produce
fifteen KC-46 aircraft (lot 7), data, subscriptions & licenses, and G081
flat file.
Raytheon estimated $27,000,000
for KC-135
Aero-I satellite communications replacement: identify, develop, integrate, and
test a commercial off the shelf (COTS) Iridium
Satellite Communication system to replace the current C/KC-135 International
Marine/Maritime Satellite system. Some FMS to Turkey and France.
MILITARY
RESEARCH – A recent report from the
Government Accountability Office indicated, “DOD does not know how contractors’
independent R&D projects fit into the department’s technology goals.”
Mile Two LLC $14,788,874 to support the
AFRL Autonomy
Capabilities Team Three mission—through development of production level
software systems and rapid prototyping of new operational concepts for
application development by expanding, extending, or enhancing work performed
under the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Phase II, entitled “TechSuite: TechScout and
Project Tracking Prototype Applications.”
Taitech $31,587,310 IDIQ for technology
for sustained supersonic combustion (TSSC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. R&D
for “investigation of basic concepts, components, sub-systems, and diagnostics,
for high-speed air breathing propulsion systems, airframe structures and
internal/external aerodynamics including integration into air vehicles, weapons
and launch systems.”
Team Corp. $26,417,062 for 24
environmental testing systems that simulate the effects of climatic, induced
thermal, dynamic and loads environments to help with development, design,
environmental qualification, airworthiness, product improvement and failure
investigations of DOD weapon and target systems.
PROVING
GROUND
GP Strategies Corp.
$40,671,032 for life cycle
logistics support and chemical demilitarization training facility operations
and maintenance to facilitate the mission of the Chemical Materiel Training
Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Jacobs $9,238,191 to support
field, chamber, laboratory and range developmental and operational testing at
Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and other locations.
HELICOPTERS
Boeing $25,343,186 to improve the
quality of AH-64E and
lessen associated “post production maintenance burden.”
General Electric
$101,470,782 for 21
T408-GE-400 turboshaft engines and associated engine, programmatic and
logistics services in support of CH-53K low rate initial production aircraft,
or LRIP (lot 5).
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky
$26,009,930 for two Army
Black Hawk Exchange and Sales Team UH-60M aircraft.
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky
$10,587,984 to develop Phase
One structural repair manuals for CH-53K aircraft.
GENERAL
AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE
Amentum (DynCorp) $32,521,640 for maintenance
and logistics support on F/A-18C/D/E/F, EA-18G, MH-60S, F-16A/B, and E-2C/D
aircraft for U.S. Navy in Fallon, NV.
Boeing $123,114,183 for
engineering support services on commercial derivative aircraft in Oklahoma
City, OK; Offutt AFB, NE; Warner Robins AFB, GA; and San Antonio, TX.
Essex Electro Engineers
$46,638,225 IDIQ for up to 575
land-based mobile electric power plant units to support general aircraft
maintenance for all Navy aircraft platforms.
General Dynamics Gulfstream
$83,831,036 for C-20/C-37
fleet sustainment in Savannah, GA; NAS Sigonella, Italy; Ramstein Air Base,
Germany; Joint Base Andrews, MD; Hickam AFB, HI; Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i, and
Reagan National Airport, D.C.
General Dynamics Gulfstream
$612,000,000 for C20/C37
engineering services support: engineering and data support on a recurring basis
for all Gulfstream executive aircraft in Savannah, GA; NAS Sigonella, Italy;
Ramstein Air Base, Germany; Joint Base Andrews, MD; Hickam AFB, HI; Marine
Corps Base HI, HI; and Reagan National Airport, D.C.
M1 Support Services
$77,369,924 for the
back-shop and flight-line maintenance of multiple aircraft types at Nellis AFB, NV.
Teradyne Inc. $78,232,776 for Versatile
Diagnostic Automatic Test Station (VDATS) kits. A VDATS consists of
standardized, commercially available test equipment, components and
software. Current configurations support these aircraft: A-10, B-1, B-2,
B-52, C-5, C-17, C-130, E-3, E-8C, F-15, F16, F-22, H-53, H-60, KC-135 MC-4,
MQ-9, Navy ships and UH-1 weapon systems.
AIRBORNE
COUNTERMEASURES
Lockheed Martin $33,229,494
IDIQ for large
aircraft infrared countermeasures (LAIRCM) A-kits, supplemental kits, bench
stock kits, and advanced threat warning a-kit replacement parts for the
C/KC-130J aircraft.
Lockheed Martin $617,520,000
for
engineering and technical services for Aegis in-service engineering, computer
program maintenance, logistics support, and planning and in-country support. Includes
engineering, technical and logistical support related to the maintenance & modernization
of the FMS Aegis Combat System and Aegis weapon system equipment and computer
programs.
LITTORAL
COMBAT SHIP (LCS)
Raytheon $16,095,857 for
maintenance and support of AN/AQS-20 sonar mine detecting set.
LANDING PLATFORM, DOCK
(LPD)
American Superconductor
Corp. $14,940,659 IDIQ in support of
the supplies and services to deliver a high temperature superconducting
degaussing system (HTS), in accordance with the landing platform-dock
configuration.
ZUMWALT-CLASS
DESTROYERS (DDG-1000) – DDG-1000 class ships are
marketed as fulfilling “volume firepower and precision strike requirements.”
These ships are packed with electronic goods from war corporations.
Raytheon $8,963,961 for DDG 1000
ship class integrated logistics support: Total Ship Activation (TSA) contract
includes mission system activation, hull mechanical and electrical activation
efforts to include waterfront integration, activation and test of Zumwalt class
mission systems and mission system equipment at the system and subsystem
levels; development & conduct of the Zumwalt class TSA test program;
personnel, program management, planning, training, and other efforts; development
& review of design drawings, technical data packages, installation control
drawings, and change documentation for Zumwalt TSA; and development & implementation
of government-approved proposed changes and the implementation of Zumwalt class
cybersecurity / information assurance requirements.
NIMITZ-CLASS AIRCRAFT
CARRIERS (CVN) – This class of aircraft
carrier is plagued with problems.
Huntington Ingalls
$174,910,371 IDIQ to provide
Navy aircraft carrier Elevator Support Unit maintenance and repair.
SUBMARINES
General Dynamics
$41,554,227 for
engineering and technical design effort to support research & development
concept formulation for current and future submarine platforms.
Wartsila Defense Inc.
$12,287,373 IDIQ for Navy
submarine propeller and propulsor for on-site repairs.
Alberici-Mortenson JV
$359,738,706 for
recapitalization of the dry dock at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, GA.
SURFACE SHIP
MAINTENANCE
Alabama Shipyard LLC
$19,679,483 for a
76-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul/dry docking on
USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE 1).
Detyens Shipyard $19,150,225 for a
76-calendar day shipyard availability for regular overhaul availability and
dry-docking services for the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in
Charleston, SC.
East Coast Repair & Fabrication
LLC $12,131,903 for a
50-calendar day shipyard availability on the fleet replenishment oiler USNS
Kanawha (T-AO 196) in Newport News, VA.
Kampi Components Inc. maximum $26,650,143 IDIQ for valves and
valve accessories for US Navy.
La Playa Inc. of Virginia, Life
Cycle Engineering Inc., Q.E.D. Systems Inc., Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc.,
Continental Tide Defense Systems Inc. combined $67,512,167 IDIQ for support
services for the Navy’s air conditioning and refrigeration systems on all types
of military vessels and small crafts in the continental US and overseas (Yokosuka,
Japan; Bahrain; UAE; Hawai‘i; and Guam).
LTM Inc. $124,083,257 IDIQ to assist the
Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) East Fleet Support Team with integration of Naval
Aviation Enterprise maintenance and supply functions, maintenance scheduling, as
well as provide logistics and technical support services in Cherry Point, NC
(85.94%); Richmond, VA (3.63%); San Diego, CA (3.63%); Norfolk, VA (1.82%);
Yuma, AZ (1.37%); Patuxent River, MD (1.36%); locations within continental U.S.
(2.25%).
Vigor Marine LLC
$21,543,401 for a
76-calendar day shipyard availability of the fleet oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO
202).
14 corporations share $235,000,000
for
on-condition cyclic maintenance, modifications, modernizations and repairs,
requiring the use of a dry dock as well as sustainment maintenance,
modernization efforts on the Army Watercraft Fleet of vessels.
7 corporations (1 from USA,
1 from Kuwait, 3 from Japan, 2 from South Korea) compete for portions of $180,000,000
for follow-on
efforts for the Watercraft Inspection Branch and Army Watercraft Systems
Product Directorate to execute modifications, modernizations and on-condition
cyclic maintenance efforts for its existing fleet of vessels.
14 corporations, including Colonna's
Shipyard Inc., Huntington Ingalls, and L3Harris, compete for portions of an
overall $155,000,000 for
unprogrammed maintenance, emergency repair, modification and modernization
efforts that do not require the use of a dry dock.
SHIP WEAPONRY
DRS $11,044,416 for
Programmable Power Supply MK 179 Mod 0 production units in support of Vertical
Launch System (VLS).
NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS
COMMAND (NAVSEA)
GSE Dynamics Inc.
$18,889,829 IDIQ, to
manufacture, test and deliver composite structures.
Oceaneering International
Inc. $56,878,408 for
configuration changes, engineering services, material, maintenance and repair.
Progeny Systems Corp.
$15,480,788 for
engineering and technical services for Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
WR Systems Ltd. $19,191,662
for
engineering and program support services in support of the Relocatable
Over-the-Horizon Radar Life Cycle Management Department (Forces Surveillance
Support Center) in Chesapeake, VA (42%); Fairfax, VA (39%); New Kent, VA (6%);
Corpus Christi, TX (3%); San Juan, Puerto Rico (3%); Adelaide, Australia (1%);
San Diego, CA (1%); Dayton, OH (1%); Colorado Springs, CO (1%); D.C. (1%);
Arlington, VA (1%); Key West, FL (1%).
NAVAL AIR WARFARE
CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD)
Electrical Equipment Co.
$10,976,873 IDIQ for XVR16 and
XVR19 Versa Module Eurocard Single Board computers; annual XVR19 Open Linux
software development kit maintenance licenses; and RES-3000 Ethernet Switch
System components for multiple AN/UPX-24(V) Interrogator Set and AN/UPX-46(V)
Interrogator System projects in support of NAWCAD Combat Integration & Identification
Systems.
The MIL Corp. $80,864,126 for systems
engineering services for assigned Global Radio Frequency Intelligence Networks
related technologies and systems in support of NAWCAD Webster Outlying Field
Integrated Command, Control & Intel Division, Saint Inigoes,
MD.
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Agile-Bot II LLC
$14,075,424 for advanced
cyber support services in support of the Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations
Group, Quantico, VA.
EC America Inc. $9,053,930 for the
renewal of Tanium brand software license subscriptions currently deployed in
the Marine Corps Enterprise Network environment and associated onsite technical
support in Quantico, VA (100%).
ECS Federal $32,303,584 to develop an
environment plan, a model plan and cloud services.
Perspecta Enterprise Solutions $15,304,502 for 8 months continued
support (integrate, sustain, modernize, and protect) IT architecture,
infrastructure, and services for Human Resource Command in Fort Knox, KY.
Technica Corp. $22,040,950 for weapon
system engineering and maintenance services to include incremental software
version development and installation, security patch installations,
preventative maintenance, trouble shooting and responsive Tier 1, 2 and 3
support for the Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter weapon system.
MACHINE
LEARNING
36 corporations, including
KPMG and Perspecta Labs awarded $950,000,000 IDIQ to
compete for
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). 5 such large contracts have been issued in the past two
fiscal years.
COMMUNICATIONS
Atlantic Signal $45,128,388
IDIQ for hearing
enhancement devices, cables, push-to-talks, hygiene kits, and helmet adapters.
Data Link Solutions and DRS
are each awarded $150,000,000 blanket purchase agreements (BPA) for electronic
equipment cabinets (along with the associated program management, testing and
logistics support to deliver the units).
General Dynamics
$24,922,524 for system
engineering and program management services for Product Manager Tactical
Network - Mission Network and Tactical Network-Transport on the Move systems
and equipment.
iGov Technologies Inc. $30,906,705 for Tactical
Air Control Party - Mobile Communications System Block Two kits, training and
support of the system.
Northrop Grumman
$3,600,000,000 IDIQ for R&D, test,
& evaluation, integration, and operations & sustainment for existing
and future payloads contained in or connected to Battlefield Airborne
Communications Node (BACN) and
associated ground stations or controls, ancillary equipment, support equipment
and system integration labs.
Raytheon $19,950,844 to produce,
test and deliver fully integrated Navy Multiband Terminals (NMT), a “multiband
capable satellite communications terminal that provides protected and wideband
communications.”
Transoceanic Cable Ship Co.
$37,772,000 to provide one
U.S. flagged cable ship CS Global Sentinel, which will be utilized to lay and
repair cable for the DOD worldwide.
SATELLITES
& SPACE SUPPORT
Chugach Range & Facilities
Services JV $112,991,156 for radar
tracking, space surveillance tracking, telemetry, timing and sequencing,
communications, airfield operations, operations, maintenance and engineering
support for facilities, systems, equipment, utilities and base operations on
Ascension Island Auxiliary Airfield.
L3Harris $89,712,422 to update &
revise the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities
system sustainment performance requirements in Colorado Springs, CO, and
Dahlgren, VA. L3Harris $9,513,345 for Space
Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities system sustainment in Colorado
Springs, CO, and Dahlgren, VA.
Lockheed Martin
$4,934,360,150 for all work
associated with the manufacturing, assembly, integration, test, and delivery of
three Next Generation Geosynchronous (NGG) Earth orbiting space vehicles (SV),
and delivery of ground mission unique software and ground sensor processing
software. Also includes engineering support for launch vehicle integration and
launch and early on-orbit checkout for all three NGG SV.
Range Generation Next (a.k.a.
RGNext) $14,600,345 for a
telemetry end-to-end processing system at Eastern Range (Patrick AFB, Cape
Canaveral Air Station, and Kennedy Space Center, FL).
MISSILE
DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA) – After intense lobbying by the US
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 US war industry to develop, market, and sell “ballistic
missile defense” weaponry. This weaponry is a lucrative business sector of war.
L3Harris $121,634,954 for an on-orbit
prototype demonstration, culminating with launch and early orbit testing for MDA’s
Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program. Northrop Grumman
$155,030,206 for the same.
BALLISTIC
MISSILES / NUCLEAR WEAPONRY
Draper Lab $23,185,000 to provide
guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) subject matter expertise and
resources to explore and evaluate current maturing concepts and technologies to
enable follow on, full-scale development of strategic guidance, navigation, and
control “solutions” for the Second Life Extension of the Trident II (D5). Also
provides R&D into new and alternate GN&C technologies & concepts to
support alternate and developing strategic systems programs missions.
Lockheed Martin $10,952,454
for Trident II
(D5) deployed systems support in Denver, CO (40.1%); Bangor, WA (17.9%); Kings
Bay, GA (8.8%); Magna, UT (8.2%); Oak Ridge, TN (7.3%); D.C. (6.3%); Sunnyvale,
CA (5.6%); Cape Canaveral, FL (3.5%); other various locations (less than 1%
each, 2.3% total).
MISSILES,
BOMBS, ROCKETS, PROJECTILES
Boeing $10,953,284 for 16
refurbished harpoon [pdf] capsules
and four All-Up Round encapsulated harpoon missiles for US Navy. Roughly
70% of work is overseas in Burnley, UK.
Lockheed Martin $15,925,901
to develop a
second source for the qualification and facilitization
of the Electromechanical Control Actuation System for the Hellfire
missile.
Pollock Research &
Design $7,954,311 for continued
crane maintenance for the U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and
Distribution Command. Maintains ship-to-shore and rail mounted gantry cranes at
Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, Southport, NC; the Military Ocean Terminal
Concord, Concord, CA; and Naval Magazine Indian Island, Port Hadlock, WA.
PREPOSITIONED STOCK
KBRwyle $78,252,029 for
maintenance, supply, transportation and other logistics functions for Army
Prepositioned Stock-3 Charleston Afloat program,
Goose Creek, SC.
LAND
VEHICLES
BAE Systems $77,475,197
IDIQ for interim
contractor support for Amphibious Combat Vehicle replacement parts, support and
test equipment and the repair of repairables/repairable
parts.
Caterpillar maximum
$19,495,185 IDIQ for engines
with containers for US Army.
DRS maximum $55,678,715 to repair and
return Bradley weapon system parts for US Army.
General Dynamics
$21,428,678 for technical
support on Abrams tanks.
Melton Sales & Service
$14,133,474 IDIQ for truck
hoist assemblies for US Army.
Oshkosh Defense $15,261,587
for vehicles
and kits for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle for USMC and some FMS (Macedonia,
Slovenia, and Montenegro).
SMALL
ARMS & LIGHT WEAPONRY (SALW)
Conflict
Kinetics Corp. $28,164,522 for Tactical
Ocular Reaction Area™ (TORA™) small arms simulator support services. Includes
on-site hardware; software and contracted IT system security; air compressors; and
replacement equipment.
GEAR
& EQUIPMENT
Alamo Strategic
Manufacturing $8,700,000 for knee and
elbow pads. Work in Puerto Rico and Texas.
Filius Corp. $70,617,597 IDIQ for AN/TYQ-23A
Tactical Air Operations Modules contractor logistics support.
Haight Bey & Associates
$35,888,778 IDIQ for spares,
repairs, obsolescence management, engineering change proposals and special
projects in support of AN/TMQ-53 Tactical Meteorological Observing System.
Lions Services Inc. maximum
$10,480,000 for improved
combat helmet chinstraps.
SAIC $95,000,000 IDIQ for facilities
maintenance, repair and operation supplies.
Unimex Corp. maximum $12,000,000 IDIQ for
environmental controllers for US Navy.
CLOTHING
Federal Prison Industries
maximum $24,708,000 for various
types of trousers.
Puerto Rico Apparel
Manufacturing Corp. (Mayaguez) $12,775,524 for coats and
trousers for Army and Air Force.
San Antonio Light House for
the Blind $8,295,000 IDIQ for trousers for
US Army and Air Force.
EDUCATION
Indtai Inc. $8,021,713 for educational
support services in education centers located on over 60 Army garrisons in the
continental U.S., AK, HI, Puerto Rico, Japan and South Korea.
TRAINING
– ARMY
Amentum $68,290,284 for undergraduate
initial entry rotary wing and selected graduate course flight training,
simulator flight training and flight academics at Fort Rucker, AL.
High Desert Support
Services $54,000,000 for operations
support services at Fort Irwin, CA.
TRAINING
– AIR FORCE
MilSup LLC $50,628,080 for
RC/OC/WC-135 and E-4B Contract Aircrew Training and Courseware Development program
at Offutt AFB, NE.
TRAINING
– NAVY/USMC
Advanced Computer Learning
Co. $8,207,152 IDIQ for
development of curriculum material and instruction on the use of networks in
the Joint Staff Joint Tactical Operations Interface Training Program and the
U.S. Message Text Formatting Training Program, Joint Multi-Tactical School, Fort
Bragg, NC.
Barnhart-Reese Construction
$19,108,424 to design and
build a new academic training building at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake,
CA.
General Dynamics (CSRA)
$57,000,000 IDIQ to provide the
Navigation Seamanship Shiphandling Trainers program,
training systems, and upgrades.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Abel Unlimited Inc. ($160,548,560);
Hilo Enterprises LLC ($149,109,475); Odell International ($90,509,251); At Ease
Sustainment ($50,171,425); Seaich Card & Souvenir
Corp. ($35,251,200); for disposable
surgical gowns for the Department of Health and Human Services and Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Beacon Point Associates
$49,000,000 IDIQ for medical
and surgical supplies.
Dispensers Optical Services
Corp. maximum $18,000,000 IDIQ for optical
lenses. Genesis Vision, d.b.a. Rochester
Optical maximum $29,700,000 IDIQ for optical
lenses.
FedMedical Inc. maximum $30,000,000 IDIQ for pulse
oximeters, exam/surgical lights and related accessories for DOD and federal
civilian agencies.
MEDICAL
SERVICES
American Systems Corp.
$17,734,184 for 8 months
of sustainment of the software suites contained in the Theater Medical
Information Program-Joint.
Goodwill Industries of San
Antonio $17,454,530 to support
Army, Air Force and Air National Guard, medical record processing and storage
services.
TRANSPORTATION _
USTRANSCOM
American Airlines, Air
Transportation International, Atlas Air, Delta, FedEx, Hawaiian Airlines,
National Air Cargo Inc., Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, UPS, USA Jet Airlines,
Western Global Airlines $34,732,959 for international
commercial air cargo transportation services.
Eastern Airlines
$284,932,621 for door-to-door
pick-up and delivery, transportation, shipment tracking, government third party
payment system participation, customs clearance processing (if applicable), and
shipment data reporting.
Transportation Management
Services $13,874,720 for transportation
services for Army National Guard in the National Capital Region during 16-31
Jan 2021.
ENVIRONMENTAL
– The
US 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.
Jacobs maximum
$480,000,000 for
comprehensive long-term environmental action services in NAVFAC Atlantic.
Sundance-EA Associates II
$30,000,000 IDIQ for 5 years of
environmental compliance services at Joint Region Marianas, Guam.
FOOD
SERVICES
US Foods Inc. $377,791,948 for full-line
food distribution.
BASE
OPERATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES (BOSS) - BOSS typically includes some
combination of the following services: custodial, electrical, fire &
emergency services, grounds maintenance, janitorial services, management &
administration, pavement clearance, pest control, public safety, vehicles &
equipment service, waste management, wastewater. Security is sometimes
included. This work
was once done by the troops, prior to the Pentagon’s full adoption of neoliberal
economic policies.
ACE Maintenance &
Services $90,175,044 IDIQ for janitorial
services at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, MD.
Bering Global Solutions
$44,636,195 IDIQ for BOSS at
Naval Support Activity Northwest Annex, Chesapeake, VA.
TechFlow Mission Support LLC $128,970,744 IDIQ for BOSS at
NAS Patuxent River, MD; Webster Field, St. Inigoes,
MD; Solomons Annex, Solomons,
MD; and Point Lookout, St. Mary’s County, MD.
CONSULTING
Alutiiq Solutions LLC
$7,677,543 IDIQ for research
and analysis, strategic initiative, executive leadership management,
administrative, operational and technical program support for the Command
Strategic Leadership Service Team in support of the commander, NAVAIR and
direct reporting teams, the NAVAIR Corporate Operations Group, the Business
Financial Management Competency, the [F-35] Joint Strike Fighter front office,
and the NAVAIR Washington Liaison Office.
Boston Consulting Group $29,978,698 for programs
and resources support for Marine Corps organizational requirements, resourcing,
risk and reporting requirements (similar to a 10-K).
BUSINESS
& OFFICE & ADMIN – A January 2015 report noted that trimming some outsourced administrative
waste would have saved roughly $125 billion over five years. The Pentagon
leadership (many of whom come from leadership positions in US war corporations)
buried the report, fearing Congress might use it to cut the Pentagon’s budget.
Maxon Furniture Inc.
$34,924,508 IDIQ for furniture
finishes and equipment “to ensure office furniture standardization,
sustainability and maximum flexibility of personnel office spaces including
design services and installation.”
FINANCES
IBM $17,758,596 for services
and solutions to support and maintain the General Fund Enterprise Business
System Financial System Army-wide.
MAINLAND
INFRASTRUCTURE
Eastman Aggregate
Enterprises $11,013,889 for shore
protection and beach renourishment in Fort
Lauderdale, FL. Eastman Aggregate Enterprises $14,040,069 for the Beach
Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project beach renourishment
in Sunny Isles Beach, FL.
H&L Contracting
$30,628,978 for construction/rehabilitation
of the seawall system at Montauk Point Lighthouse, Suffolk County, NY.
Nordic Industries Inc.
$29,554,401 to build approximately
1.8 miles of varying types of seepage cutoff walls in Sacramento, CA.
Poseidon Barge Ltd.
$8,379,000 to purchase and
modify the structure of pontoons.
MAINLAND CONSTRUCTION
& ENGINEERING – Military construction physically
lays the foundation that expands and extends the permanent warfare state. An
added bonus for the Pentagon and the U.S. war industry is how this construction
activity effectively co-opts construction workers within the working class,
making them feel like they’re on the same team as the troops. It is a very
powerful narcotic.
ACC Construction Co.
$31,229,066 to build a
consolidated mission complex at Warner Robins AFB.
Barkley Andross
Corp. $20,000,000 IDIQ for electrical
and other wiring installation projects at various installations, including Camp
Pendleton and Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, CA.
Chatmon-VJR JV LLC $49,000,000 IDIQ for roofing
projects at military installations in the metropolitan San Diego, CA, area,
including Naval Base Coronado, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Base San Diego, and
MCAS Miramar.
Heffler Contracting Group $15,000,000 for specialty
trade work, additions, alterations and repairs at facilities located at Travis
AFB, CA.
Jacobs $15,000,000 for
architectural/engineering design services within NAVFAC
D.C.
Mason & Hanger Group
Inc. $10,000,000 IDIQ for construction,
repair, replacement, alteration, or demolition of facilities/systems mostly at MCAS
Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune, NC.
Premier Scaffold Inc., Vertical
Horizon Marine LLC, W. V. Construction Co., Leading Edge Scaffold Inc. for scaffolding
services within a 50-mile radius of San Diego, CA, for Southwest Regional
Maintenance Center.
Sterling Shipyard LP
$8,980,400 to build,
test, and deliver a new deck barge that will be paired with a government
purchased crawler crane to form a crane barge in Port Naches, TX.
Walga Ross Group $8,575,943 to
repair/replace HVAC to Building 2210 located on Tinker AFB, OK.
The Whiting-Turner
Contracting Co. $32,070,700 for
construction of design-build project P224 Operations Support Facility and P999
Training Facility at Joint Expeditionary Base, Little Creek, VA.
6 construction firms $76,000,000
for facility,
sustainment, restoration and modernization work “for civil and military
stakeholders.”
8 firms received a
collective $750,000,000 IDIQ for
construction, repair, and renovation of waterfront facilities at installations
located in NAVFAC Southwest.
DREDGING
Manson Construction Co.
$9,847,000 for
maintenance dredging in the Port of Alaska, Anchorage.
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Christian
Sorensen is an author and independent journalist. His work focuses on the U.S.
war industry. Sorensen (@cp_sorensen) is the author
of Understanding the War Industry and a Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower
Media Network (EMN).