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DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated July 5, 2012

DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated July 5, 2012
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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 5, 2012: Comprehensive daily news related to Aerospace/Defense for the world of TODAY.
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 5, 2012

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated July 5, 2012
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 5, 2012: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  July 5, 2012   are undermentioned;


CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
            Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, Mass., is being awarded a $16,848,088 firm-fixed-price contract to procurement components for the organic assembly of 25 Versatile Depot Automatic Test Systems.  The location of the performance is North Reading, Mass.  Work is to be completed by Sept. 30, 2013.  WR-ALC/PKOA, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8571-12-F-0002).

            Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, McKinney, Texas, is being awarded an $8,500,000 cost-reimbursement contract for system imaging from standard definition-infrared to high definition-infrared for the Multi-Spectral Targeting System.  The location of the performance is McKinney, Texas.  Work is to be completed by July 9, 2013.  ASC/WIIK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-11-G-4050-0008).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
            Revision Military, Ltd.*, Essex Junction, Vt., was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM2DE-11-D-7552/P00002.  The award is a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, sole-source contract with a maximum $12,785,652 for selection of prescription lens distributor.  There are no other locations of performance.  Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.  There was one response to the Defense Logistics Agency Internet Bid Board System solicitation.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2011 Defense Working Capital Funds.  The date of performance completion is July 7, 2013.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.

NAVY
            Gibbs & Cox, Inc., New York, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,799,969 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design and integration of manned and unmanned craft systems for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Combatant Craft Division.  The contract is for engineering and technical management support on all programs and projects related to the design and integration of systems for manned and unmanned craft.  Work will primarily be performed in the Virginia Beach, Va., and is expected to be completed by July 2015.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-12-D-0007).

            QinetiQ North America, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a $9,902,317 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design and integration of manned and unmanned craft systems for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Combatant Craft Division.  The contract is for engineering and technical management support on all programs and projects related to the design and integration of systems for manned and unmanned craft.  Work will primarily be performed in the Virginia Beach, Va., and is expected to be completed by July 2015.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-12-D-0006).

            Sealift, Inc., Oyster Bay, N.Y., is being awarded a $9,386,624 firm-fixed-price, reimbursable elements contract for the time charter of U.S.-flagged, self-sustaining ship, MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher, to preposition ammunition and related supplies in support of the Air Force’s at-sea prepositioning program.  Work will be performed at sea, and the ship must be worldwide deployable.  This contract includes four, 12-month option periods, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $41,321,873.  The anticipated primary places of performance are Diego Garcia and Korea.  The contract is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2013; if all options are exercised, work will continue through September 2017.  Contract funds are subject to availability of fiscal 2013 funding.  This contract was competitively procured with more than 50 companies solicited via a solicitation posted to the Military Sealift Command, Navy Electronic Commerce Online and Federal Business Opportunities websites, with two offers received.  The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-12-C-3303).

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY
            Honeywell, Minneapolis, Minn., is being awarded a $9,343,572 modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-08-C-0019, Phase 4 option exercise).  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding Honeywell to design, develop, and deliver a demonstration of a gyroscope with a goal capability of absolute reference navigation in a compact, four-diameter optically integrated gyro-head.  Work will be performed in Minneapolis, Minn. (53 percent); Glendale, Ariz. (35.5 percent); Pasadena, Calif. (8 percent); King of Prussia, Pa. (2.5 percent); and Somerset, N.J. (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by Aug. 5, 2013.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.
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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Air Force To Take Part In USAF Red Flag Training Exercises

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Air Force To Take Part In USAF Red Flag Training Exercises
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources The Voice of Russia
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 5, 2012: Despite a cooling off in relations between Russia and NATO countries, neither party has refused taking part in joint military programs.

One such program is the regular aerial combat training exercise of the US Air Force and its allies, called “Red Flag”. The next exercise is scheduled for October 2012.

US Military command came up with the idea of conducting Red Flag exercises during the Vietnam War, when the USAF and naval aviation primarily used heavy multi-functional bombers such as the F-4 Phantom-II and F-105 Thunderchief. These bombers demonstrated their inability to engage in close combat with Vietnam’s light MIG aircraft. The reason for such failings was the strong reliance placed on powerful radars and medium-range missiles on the new American fighters. However, in practice the engagements very often did not go the way the pre-war theoretical schemes designed them to and the ratio of losses did not benefit the American side.

The situation had to be corrected – especially since at the same time in the other part of Asia above the sands of Levant, pilots of the Israeli Air Force on French and American aircraft showed wonderful results in aerial combat missions against Arabs who had far more powerful aircraft compared to Vietnam and who had gone through the same Soviet school.

The US Air Force then ordered a study known as Project Red Baron II, which showed that a pilot's chances of survival in combat dramatically increased after he had completed 10 combat missions. As a result, Red Flag, since starting in 1976, had the goal of offering every pilot and weapon systems officer (WSO) the opportunity to fly 10 realistically simulated combat missions in a safe training environment to give them more experience in real combat situations.

Today the Red Flag exercise is an advanced aerial combat exercise conducted in several cycles during the year. Besides Red Flag and Red Flag-Alaska, which mainly focus on fighter aerial combat, there are other cycles as well. For instance, the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) – a large scale exercise for the headquarters of the US Air Force and its allies.

There is also Jaded Thunder, which is a series of combat training exercises in the course of which pilots from the US Air Force, Naval, and Marine aviation learn to detect and identify ground targets, including those camouflaged as civilians or civilian objects in a congested urban area.

Finally, there is MAFEX – Mobility Air Forces Exercises. These involve training transport aviation, where pilots learn how to interact using various communications and target detection devices as well as in the situation of a radio-electronic war.

In spring of 2012 it became known that the Russian Air Force is to participate in the Red Flag training exercise in the fall of 2012 together with Americans. From 8 until 19 of October, Red Flag Air Combat Exercise 13-1 will be held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (the exercises are numbered in accordance with the fiscal years, and exercise in the fall will be number one in the 2013 fiscal year). Like India, who participated in the Red Flag several years earlier using its Russian-made SU-30 MKI, Russia will get a chance this year to test its aircraft in realistic combat maneuvers with USAF aircraft. This chance is very important, since up until now the only Russian aircraft of the fourth generation which fought in a real combat situation against western aircraft has been the MIG -29, but the possibility of deploying it in the conditions of very specific wars of 1991 and 1999 was limited. Under such circumstances, the chance to test modernized Russian aircraft such as the SU -27 SM, SU-30M2, MIG -29SM and other strike aircraft – despite simulations, they are still against real western aircraft and pilots – is too attractive to be miss out on.

There is a political question, however: “Who are we friends against?” The answer is very simple: against nobody. Russia and the United States have been successfully talking the same language in the military sphere for a long time. Here, more problems unite the two countries than separate them. At the same time, the existing contradictions can be solved over a short period of time. However, as one could tell, that does not prevent us from continuing to study each other.

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