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01 Jun 16. Airbus Defence and Space has been contracted by the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) to supply commercial satellite communications. Valued at €113.8m, the contract requires the company to provide commercial satellite communication services for the German Armed Forces until 2023. The firm will also provide access to selected C- and Ku-band transponders that are used for a variety of applications, including voice and data connections in Germany. (Source: army-technology.com)
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01 Jun 16. Babcock International Group and BAE Systems have jointly won a five-year contract worth £41m — with the potential to extend another five years — to deliver a greatly enhanced “total gun support” service package to the Royal Navy’s Medium Calibre Gun (MCG) weapon system. Babcock, the UK’s leading engineering support services company and the current in-service support provider for the Navy’s MCGs, has teamed up with the gun’s designer, BAE Systems, to provide an enhanced complex equipment support service that will increase reliability and functionality, and reduce obsolescence risk. The collaboration brings together complementary and long-standing expertise. Supporting the guns from specialised facilities, the Babcock and BAE Systems approach offers the capacity, proven capabilities, and infrastructure to safely and effectively run in-service support. The collaborative approach will look beyond the duration of the support contract and aims to sustain up to all of the 20 in-service 4.5-inch Mark8 guns until 2039. Babcock complements the design expertise that BAE Systems brings to the collaboration with its capability of providing more than a decade of performance data, gathered during the current in-service support contract and the experience of upgrading 13, 4.5-inch guns at bespoke facilities at Devonport. The five-year support contract will sustain around 40 jobs in Barrow-in-Furness and Devonport.
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27 May 16. C. E. Niehoff & Co., Evanston, Illinois, has been awarded a maximum $27,354,883 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for generators. This was a competitive acquisition with one response received. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Illinois, with a June 15, 2021, performance completion date. Using service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2016 through fiscal 2021 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Warren, Michigan (SPRDL1-16-D-0048).
27 May 16. DRS Environmental Systems Inc., Florence, Kentucky, has been awarded a $7,237,235 modification (P00022) to previously awarded contract FA8204-13-C-0010 for the Transporter Erector Replacement Program. Contractor will address newly clarified government requirements that include providing the Transporter Erector with the capability of turning onto 16-foot wide roads or greater. Work will be performed at Florence, Kentucky, and is expected to be complete by Oct. 31, 2019. Fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $2,498,837 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8204-13-C-0010).
30 May 16. Kongsberg has Signed Orders to the CROWS Program Valued MNOK 235. The orders with the U.S. Army are for delivery of Low Profile CROWS configuration for the M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank. The orders are related to the CROWS contract signed in August 2012. (Source: ASD Network)
01 Jun 16. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a 5-year, single award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling value of $424m by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center – Weapons Division to support the Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactical Training Range (AEWTTR) program in Ridgecrest, Calif. The company w