Contracts for October 15, 2012

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Contracts for October 15, 2012
10/15/2012 05:00 PM CDT
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET		 No. 818-12
October 15, 2012

CONTRACTS

NAVY

            General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $459,005,270 option under a previously awarder contract (N00024-11-C-2111) for design agent, planning yard, engineering and technical support for active nuclear submarines.  The efforts provide for drawings and related technical data; design change documentation; logistics technical data; configuration management; hull, mechanical and electrical engineering; submarine safety design review; non-propulsion plant electrical system engineering; propulsion plant engineering; maintenance engineering; refit/availability technical support; on-site support; configuration change program design and installation support; configuration change program material support; submarine technical trade support; training and facility support; research, development, test and engineering program support; research and development submarine/submersibles support; miscellaneous special studies; temporary alteration support; modernization of submarine/submersible systems/subsystems; and affordability/cost reduction technical support.  Contract funds in the amount of $5,900,000 will be obligated at the time of award.  Work will be performed in Groton, Conn. (73 percent); Kings Bay, Ga. (11 percent); Bangor, Wash. (8 percent); Quonset, R.I. (6 percent); and Newport, R.I. (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2013.  Contract funds in the amount of $118,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity.  

            Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $72,493,111 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to previously awarded contract (N62793-07-C-0001) to exercise an option for the fiscal 2013 continuation of advance planning efforts to prepare and make ready for the defueling and inactivation of USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and its reactor plants.  This effort will provide advanced planning, ship checks, design, documentation, engineering, procurement, fabrication and preliminary shipyard or support facility work.  Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 2013.  Funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Va., is the contracting activity. 

            The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded an $8,490,131 firm-fixed-price delivery order issued under Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-11-G-0001) to procure 12 Virtual Mission Training System kits and spares in support of the T-45 aircraft platform.  Work will be performed in Hazelwood, Mo. (96 percent), El Paso, Texas (3 percent), and Mesa, Ariz. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2014.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River Md., is the contracting activity. 

AIR FORCE

            Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.,Albuquerque, N.M., (FA9453-13-C-0206) is being awarded a $9,493,351 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development for the  Air Force Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory.  The location of the performance is Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.  Work is expected to be completed by Jan. 26, 2018.  The contracting activity is Det 8 ARFL/RVKVS, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.