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CONTRACTS

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Tatitlek Support Services, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a $319,246,604 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide civilians on the battlefield foreign language specialist role players to support United States Marine Corps pre-deployment training at Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The preponderance of the work will be performed at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, Calif., and work is expected to be completed Mar. 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity (M67854-08-D-8029).    » read more »

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

Boeing Co., of Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a modified contract for $24,960,000. This undefinitized contract action will incorporate Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) 0035, Strategic Networks, into the Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) Increment 1 program. At this time $9,250,000 has been obligated. Hanscom AFB, Mass., is the contracting activity (F19628-02-C-0048/P00141).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated System Sector, of El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a modified contract for $22,300,005. This action will provide T38, 33 wing assemblies and gear boxes, 15 each. At this time $22,300,005 has been obligated. Hill AFB, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8218-07-C-0009-P00003).    » read more »

Adds Schedule Margin to Reduce Risk of Further Delays

EVERETT, Wash., April 09, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced a revised plan for first flight and initial deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner that includes additional schedule margin to reduce risk of further delays on the program.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Photo courtesy of The Boeing Company    » read more »

Bangalore, India, April 2, 2008 -- Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) today announced that The Boeing Company has awarded it a 2007 Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA) for achieving a gold level of performance over the 12-month period. Infosys Technologies was one of fewer than 50 companies out of approximately 10,000 Boeing worldwide suppliers to receive a gold level performance award.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $10,399,123,179 modification to convert a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-07-C-0001) to a fixed-price-incentive-fee multiyear contract for the manufacture and delivery of 141 MV-22 (Marine variant) and 26 CV-22 (Air Force variant) tiltrotor aircraft, including associated rate tooling in support of production rates.    » read more »

March 19, 2008 -- EVERETT – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire delivered the following statement to a rally of Boeing workers this afternoon in Everett.

“As a kid growing up in Auburn, I already knew you were the men and women who made those great airplanes I saw up in the sky, the best airplanes in the world. Two weeks ago I was truly shocked that the U.S. Department of Defense apparently doesn’t know that.

“I couldn’t believe, and still can’t believe, that our own federal government decided to ship thousands of jobs overseas.

“We hope to learn — and we are learning — how the Air Force could mistakenly decide to turn its back on Boeing.    » read more »

March 10, 2008 -- OLYMPIA – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire’s today issued the following statement on Boeing’s appeal of the tanker contract:

“I fully support the Boeing Company’s decision today to formally protest the Air Force contract awarded to Airbus and Northrop Grumman.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

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Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $78,500,000 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the V-22 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and Flight Training Device (FTD) products and revisions. This contract will provide analysis, design, development, upgrade, enhancements, integration, installation, test, training, maintenance, logistical support and configuration management for V-22 FFS and FTD training devices, Aircraft Common Operational Equipment (ACOE), FFS and FTD training device spare parts.    » read more »

Condemns McCain's Lobbying; Calls on Congress to Defund

March 4, 2008 -- PITTSBURGH - The United Steelworkers (USW) today denounced the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for awarding a contract for the construction of Air Force refueling tankers to the European firm, Airbus, and called for its defunding. The contract is worth up to $100 billion, with its value rising to $408 billion over its lifetime. The USW also decried Sen. John McCain for his role in lobbying the DOD on behalf of the French corporation.    » read more »

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March 5, 2008 - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, issued the following statement before today’s open hearing on the Air Force contract award for the tanker replacement program with Ms. Sue Payton, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and LTG John “Jack” Hudson, ASC Commander and Program Executive Officer:

“This committee has done everything it could to speed up the decision by the Air Force to put tankers in the Air Force arsenal.    » read more »

04 March 2008 -- The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has promised an investigation of a contract to build new airborne tanker planes won by a partnership that includes the European parent of Airbus.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Monday the deal posed serious questions that Congress must examine thoroughly.

Last week, the U.S. Air Force awarded a $35-billion contract to build 179 new tanker planes to a partnership between the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company and U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE (Revised)    » read more »

CONTRACTS

AIR FORCE

The Air Force is awarding an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a maximum of $3,000,000,000. There will be twenty-five contracts awarded under Architecture-Engineer selection procedures to the following contractors:    » read more »

February 29, 2008 -- P-28 was designed to be a demonstration of critical technologies and system integration under the broader SBInet initiative. Specifically, its purpose was to demonstrate the feasibility of the SBInet technical approach developed by Boeing, and to show that this type of technology could be deployed to help secure the southwest border of the United States. The intended objective has been achieved – after successful field testing, we formally accepted it from Boeing last week.    » read more »