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NASA Gives Boeing $650 Million Contract Change For Space Station Support
NASA awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010.
The action extends the U.S. On-Orbit Segment Acceptance and Vehicle Sustaining Engineering contract, awarded in January 1995.
Work under the contract extension will include completion of delivery and on-orbit acceptance of the U.S. segment of the station, sustaining engineering of station hardware and software, support of U.S. hardware and software provided to international partners and participants in the station program, and end-to-end subsystem management for the majority of station systems.
The work will be performed at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and at other domestic and international locations.
Northrop Wins Army OK To Compete For IBCS Prize
Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] will lead a team of the largest contractors to compete for Phase 1 of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) program.
As an initial move, the Army gave Northrop a $15 million contract.
IBCS will provide air and missile defense warfighters the advantage of full situational understanding and the tools needed to effectively carry out their mission. The 11-month contract is valued at $15 million.
Raytheon Co. [RTN] also has been seeking to be tapped for the program.
Final award of the development and test phase to one team is expected next year.
"Our warfighters need an integrated fire control capability that maximizes the power of their existing assets and is flexible enough to meet emerging threats," said Larry Dodgen, vice president and deputy general manager of the Missile Defense Division for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.
IBCS will establish a network-centric system-of-systems solution for integrating sensors, shooters, and battle management, command, control, communications and intelligence systems for Army air and missile defense.
Programs such as Patriot, SLAMRAAM, JLENS, Sentinel and THAAD will be connected via an integrated fire control network that allows the warfighter to take advantage of expanded sensor and weapon system combinations. As the system evolves, it will utilize a "plug-and-fight" approach that will ensure future systems can be easily incorporated. The program is expected to be fielded by 2014.
The program is being managed by the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Project Office, in support of the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space in Huntsville, Ala.
Northrop leads a team including The Boeing Co. [BA], Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], Harris Corp., Schafer Corp., Torch Systems LLC, Numerica Corp., Applied Data Trends, COLSA Corp., Space and Missile Defense Technologies LLC, CohesionForce Inc., Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., and RhinoCorps, Ltd. Co. Northrop will headquarter its IBCS program team in Huntsville.
Lockheed, Raytheon, Each Gains $18.7 Million Army JAGM Contract
The Army separately awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Raytheon Co. [RTN] each an $18.7 million contract for the Joint Air Ground Missile, or JAGM, program.
Each firm received a fixed price incentive firm target contract for 27 months of technology development for JAGM, to be finished by Dec. 31, 2010.
Just those two bids were received.
The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., handles the contracts.
L-3 Coleman Aerospace Gains Air Launch Target Contract Change
The Air Force gave L-3 Coleman Aerospace a follow-on award for a target missile system to use in testing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).
L-3 Coleman will provide a second Long Range Air Launch Target (LRALT) as part of the Missile Defense Agency THAAD system.
The award increases the contract value to $36 million.
The THAAD missile system is a transportable defensive weapon system designed to protect high value strategic or tactical sites, such as airfields or population centers. The two LRALTs from L-3 will serve as intercept targets for upcoming THAAD tests.
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