Hundreds of thousands of servicemen were exposed to asbestos over decades, especially during the period from 1940 to 1980. Asbestos was used in construction of naval vessels as well as shore facilities. All branches of the military used asbestos, which was also widely used in civilian applications. Asbestos can cause mesothelioma. Because this cancer has a particularly long latency period, many servicemen who were exposed years ago are now developing this disease.
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News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 910-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
DTS Aviation Services, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $13,893,827 contract which will provide aircraft backshop maintenance, munitions and equipment support services for the Air Armament Center and for their command and control, communications, computers and intelligence systems testing for a 12 month period. At this time, $11,517,159 has been obligated. 96 CONS/PKB, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08651-02-C-0085, P00066).
Valero Marketing & Supply Co., San Antonio, Texas is being awarded a maximum $118,035,840 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for aviation turbine fuel. Other location of performance is in Corpus Christi, Texas. Using service is Foreign Military Sales. The original proposal was web solicited with two responses. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The date of performance completion is Oct. 31, 2010. The contracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., (SPO600-10-D-0460).
News: A look at "No Accountability". It is the American Way.
Today's New York Times shows all of us a breathtaking view of how the business segments in modern American society try as hard as possible to squeeze the largest amounts of profit out of situations where they are held barely accountable for their actions by the government.
They want something for nothing. They balk at being held accountable. This can seriously harm the health and well being of our nation's people while at the same time change the super-wealthy into the mega-wealthy. How does this serve the nation?
American veterans need to stand up and cry foul. The American people are on the receiving end of this nonsense. Common sense has to reassert itself here.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 900-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $41,100,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5102) for combat systems engineering (CSE) and installation and test aboard KDX-III Ship 2 to support Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Military Sales. ROK competitively selected the U.S. Navy/Lockheed Martin Aegis Combat System (ACS) for its KDX-III shipbuilding program. These requirements include the necessary CSE, computer program development, and ship integration and test support to deliver a variant of the U.S. Navy Aegis weapon system Baseline 7 Phase I computer program and equipment to support the construction of the second Korean ship in the KDX-III class. In addition, this contract funds an integrated test team to assist the Korean shipyard in performing installation and testing of the ACS. Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J. (53 percent), and (Korea 47 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 891-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $96,682,393 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management, research and development, modernization, trade, and industrial support for Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, Ohio SSBN, and Ohio SSGN Class submarines, special mission submersible interfaces, submarine support facilities, as well as Foreign Military Sales programs. This contract includes options which, if exercised, will bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $635,287,686. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $44,473,900 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-10-C-2102).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 888-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Tewksbury, Mass., is being awarded a $46,735,245 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-5346) to exercise an option for the next phase of verification of the production design for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer Program. Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J. (48.2 percent), Tewksbury, Mass. (38.3 percent), Portsmouth, R.I. (7.8 percent), Sudbury, Mass. (4.3 percent), Minneapolis, Minn. (1.2 percent), and Marlborough, Mass. (0.2 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 886-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Nov. 10, 2009, a $438,440,000 firm-fixed-price contract for 1,000 of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) and associated basic items of issue (BII) with an option for 400 M-ATVs and BII. Work is to be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2012. Five bids were solicited with five bids received. U.S. Army TACOM Contracting Center AMSTA-TAC-ATBC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-09-D-0111).
Special Report: Condi Rice and Hadley Now Corporate Mercs
Bush neocons Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley wreaked havoc on the world, incurring incalculable damage onto the United States, and they are landing softly. Talking Points Memo (TPM) reports, “Two top Bush administration officials whose reputations for strategic acumen were badly damaged by the disasters of the Bush years may be about to market their expertise to private-sector clients.” TPM has confirmed that Rice and Hadley will launch their “New Consulting Firm That Will Help U.S. Companies in ‘Key Emerging Markets.’”
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 880-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $110,459,702 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-2102) for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Schenectady, N.Y. (86 percent), and Monroeville, Pa. (14 percent). No contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. No completion date or additional information is provided on contracts supporting the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The contracting activity is the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 879-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., of Herndon, Va., was awarded a $108,771,191 contract which will provide for the operation of a survivability/vulnerability information analysis center for a three-year option period. At this time, no money has been obligated. The contracting activity is 55 CONS/LGCD, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., (SP0700-03-D-1380).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 873-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
BEM-Bay West, JV, Saint Paul, Minn. (FA8903-10-D-8593); CAPE, Inc., San Antonio, Texas (FA8903-10-D-8593); North Wind, Inc., Idaho Falls, Idaho (FA8903-10-D-8597); Sullivan-Weston Services, JV, San Diego, Calif. (FA8903-10-D-8599); Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc., Birmingham, Ala. (FA8903-10-D-8596); Hydrogeologic, Inc., Reston, Va. (FA8903-10-D-8596); Oneida Total Integrated Enterprises, Milwaukee, Wis., were awarded a $350,000,000 contract that will provide environmental restoration and remediation support. ITT Corporation, Systems Division, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., was awarded a $5,847,128 contract which will provide the Eastern and Western Range architecture and requirements option of an additional year. At this time, $3,000 for each contract has been obligated. The contracting activity is AFCEE/ACX, Brooks City-Base, Texas.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
NO. 870-09
CONTRACTS: NAVY
Davis Boat Works, Newport News, Va.* (N50054-10-D-1001); Associated Naval Architects, Portsmouth, Va.* (N50054-10-D-1002); Lyon Shipyard, Norfolk, Va.* (N50054-10-D-1003); and Tecnico Corporation, Chesapeake, Va.* (N50054-10-D-1004), are being awarded combined $127,395,000 maximum value firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts to furnish the necessary non-personal management, administrative and production services, materials, tools, equipment, facilities and required support to accomplish a full range of depot level troubleshooting, repair, renewal, refurbishment, modernization, maintenance and testing of Navy living barges and their auxiliary systems (hull, mechanical and electrical) including the potential of periodic docking. Work will be primarily performed on vessels located at Norfolk, Va., but may be performed worldwide. Work is expected to be completed by November 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $303,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Each contractor will receive $75,750 at time of award. This multiple award contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with seven offers received. The contracting activity is the Norfolk Ship Support Activity, Portsmouth, Va.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 865-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-based contract for $23,685,864 to provide production engineering, integration, testing, inspection and delivery of an integrated system, or other equipment for installation on shore sites and maritime/tactical platforms and vehicles. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to $233,657,727. Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by November 2010. If all options are exercised, work could continue until November 2017. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities web site and the SPAWAR E-commerce web site, with an unlimited number of proposals solicited and four offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic is the contracting activity (N65236-10-C-2841).
News: Washington Post features editor punches colleague over 'charticle'
Forgive me ladies and gentlemen. I had to share this with you. I had no choice. AOL News finance page is reporting a doozie this morning!
There was a major fracas among editors in the newsroom at the Washington Post last Friday and it hit the news today. Trust me. You are gonna' love this! And you thought wewere rough with each other when we disagreed!? Wait until you read this! Here is the story.
For an in-depth analysis of this story by yet another interested reporter, there is this jewel from the City Desk blog.
God I love America! This is why I love the Fourth Estate so much. Reason always prevails...well reason sometimes prevails....well, every now and then, reason prevails. The guy who threw the first punch is a 68 year old Viet Nam veteran who has several decades at the Post as Senior Editor.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 861-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
American Auto Logistics, LP, of Park Ridge, N.J., is being awarded a $207,382,618 firm, fixed-price modification for an earned award term under a previously awarded contract (DAMTOI-03-D-0184) to provide continuing services for the transportation and storage of privately owned vehicles. Work will be performed at worldwide locations and is expected to be completed Oct. 31, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity.
Phantom Products, Inc., Rockledge, Fla.* is being awarded a maximum $31,250,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for flashlights, light kits, and transmitters. There are no other locations of performance. Using service are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The proposal was through an open solicitation with 63 responses. The date of performance completion is Nov. 1, 2014. The contracting activity is the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM200-10-D-8201).
Features: Aon Reaches Out to Wounded Warriors in Chicago
All of us should be very proud of the men and women serving our country and fighting for our freedoms. However, despite their unwavering courage, many of America's service men and women return home from duty only to become part of a group of unemployed veterans that has reached very high levels.
Unemployment, homelessness, hopelessness; all are betrayals.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 850-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
W R Systems Ltd., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $26,946,956 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-based contract for in-service engineering technical support services for various navigation systems. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to an estimated $140,601,392.
This contract combines purchases for the Navy, (97 percent) and the governments of Japan, (0.5 percent), Taiwan, (0.5 percent), Korea, (0.5 percent), Australia, (0.5 percent), Saudi Arabia, (0.5 percent) and Egypt, (0.5 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. Work will be performed in Hampton Roads, Va., (75 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, (4 percent); San Diego, Calif., (3 percent); Groton, Conn., (3 percent); Pascagoula, Miss., (3 percent); Jacksonville, Fla., (3 percent); Ingleside, Texas, (3 percent); Seattle, Wash., (3 percent); and Foreign Military Sites, (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by October 2010.
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 845-09
CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE MWH Americas, Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., and ARGO/LRS JV of Glen Burnie, Md. were awarded a $3 billion contract which will provide primarily environmental requirements that include completion of a conceptual design, construction, implementation, demolition, repair, and operation and maintenance of installed systems prior to delivery to the government. At this time, $3,000 has been obligated for each prime contractor. AFCEE/ACV, Brooks City-Base, Texas is the contracting activity (FA8903-10-D-8573; FA8903-10-D-8551).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 841-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $29,489,406 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-07-C-0013) to exercise an option for approximately 420,000 hours of engineering and technical services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Special Communications Requirements Division's Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Communications-Electronics Program. Work will be performed in St. Inigoes, Md., and is expected to be completed in October 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
AmeriQual Group, LLC D/B/A AmeriQual Packaging, Evansville, Ind., is being awarded a maximum $177,835,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite quantity contract for Meal, Ready-to-Eat and Humanitarian Daily Ration. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were originally three proposals solicited with three responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract is exercising the fourth option year period. The date of performance completion is Dec. 31, 2010. The contracting activity is the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., (SPM3S1-06-D-Z103).
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News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 831-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $24,999,954 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide non-nuclear maintenance and repair support at the Naval Submarine Support Facility, Naval Submarine Base. Under the terms of the contract, Electric Boat will continue to provide services required to support planned and emergent non-nuclear maintenance and repair for operational nuclear submarines, floating dry-docks, support and service craft, and other platforms and equipment. Work will be performed in New London, Conn., and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $5,765,500 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-10-C-4302).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 829-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY
The Lockheed Martin Corporation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $853,305,629 cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPIF/CPFF) contract to provide support in the Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed system support (C4 and D5) in an undefinitized contract action. The contract type will be CPIF/CPFF for this contract only and mature production efforts will transition to fixed-price-incentive in FY11. The place of performance is to be determined pending definitization of the award. Work is expected to be completed Dec. 30, 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $284,965 will expire at the end the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00030-10-C-0100).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 824-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY GE Inspection Technologies LP, Skaneateles, N.Y., is being awarded a $22,679,613 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of up to 1,600 common video borescope sets (CVBS), including associated technical and logistics data and training. The CVBS is used to inspect interior engine components and airframes for cracks, foreign object damage, and corrosion. Work will be performed in Skaneateles, N.Y., and is expected to be completed in October 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; three offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J. is the contracting activity (N68335-10-D-0005).
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee / Cost-Plus-Award-Fee contract with a total value of $1,034,550,502. The contract is for Lockheed Martin to serve as the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Combat System engineering agent and the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System design, development and computer program source for Aegis cruisers and destroyers. Work is to be performed in Moorestown, N.J. The period of performance is from Oct. 1, 2009 through Dec. 31, 2014. FY 09 Research, development, test and evaluation funding will be used to incrementally fund this effort for $15,207,030. The Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity (HQ0276-10-C-0001).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS: ARMY
Sevenson Environmental Services, Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y., was awarded on Oct. 15, 2009 a $17,641,805 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the remediation of the Blackwater Street and Floodplain, Route 55 to the Maurice River Parkway, Vineland Chemical Superfund Site, Operable Unit 3, Phase III Work, Vineland, N.J. Work is to be performed in Vineland, N.J., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 30, 2010. One bid was solicited with one bid received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (W912DQ-04-D-0023).
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $523,530,301 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa., (67 percent); Schenectady, N.Y., (33 percent). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. No completion date or additional information is provided on naval nuclear propulsion program contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity (N00024-10-C-2119).
News: U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp., of Marietta, Ga., was awarded a $827,400,000 contract which will provide for the advance procurement funding for three FY10 Air Force C-130J aircraft, four FY10 HC-130J aircraft, and four FY10 MC-130J aircraft. This option is being established for acquisition of one HC-130J aircraft to be bully funded with FY10 funds. At this time, $8,274,000 has been obligated. 657 AESS/SYKA, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity (FA8625-06-C-6456, P00087).
Lapoint-Blasé Industries, Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri was awarded a $34,649,163 contract which will provide approximately 54 worldwide deployable portable Doppler radars to provide responsive, reliable, and accurate weather information to standard weather systems. At this time, $1,797,550 has been obligated. 651 ESS/PK, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts is the contracting activity (FA8723-10-D-0001).
Bush neocons Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley wreaked havoc on the world, incurring incalculable damage onto the United States, and they are landing softly. 
All of us should be very proud of the men and women serving our country and fighting for our freedoms. However, despite their unwavering courage, many of America's service men and women return home from duty only to become part of a group of unemployed veterans that has reached very high levels. 
