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Raytheon Awarded $346 Million for Block IV Tomahawk Missile Production
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $346 million contract increment to supply the U.S. and United Kingdom navies with the Block IV (Tactical) Tomahawk cruise missile.
This is the third installment on a multi-year contract whose value could reach US$1.6 billion.
The fiscal year 2006 production contract calls for production of 473 missiles, 65 of which are the submarine torpedo tube-launched variant for the U. K. Manufacturing work will be done at Raytheon's Missile Systems businesses in Tucson, Arizona, and Camden, Ark., and is expected to be completed in 2009. Raytheon began delivering Block IV missiles to the U.S. Navy in mid-2004.
Block IV Tomahawk is the next generation of the Tomahawk family of cruise missiles, incorporating innovative technologies to provide new, flexible operational capability while dramatically reducing acquisition, operations and lifecycle support costs.
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Lockheed Martin Receives $51 Million Contract From Marine Corps
Lockheed Martin received a US$51.6 million contract modification to provide 18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to the U.S. Marine Corps. The contract modification was an option in the U.S. Army’s HIMARS full-rate production contract award to Lockheed Martin in December 2005.
Work on the contract will be performed at the company’s facilities in Camden, AR, and Grand Prairie, TX, and is scheduled for completion by the first quarter of 2008.
HIMARS can accommodate the entire family of Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) munitions, including all variants of the Guided MLRS rocket and Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles. Designed to enable troops to engage and defeat artillery, air defense concentrations, trucks, light armor and personnel carriers, as well as support troop and supply concentrations, HIMARS can move away from the area at high speed following missile launch, well before enemy forces are able to locate the launch site.
Because of its C-130 transportability, HIMARS can be deployed into areas previously inaccessible to heavier launchers and provides a force multiplier to the modular brigade. It also incorporates the self-loading, autonomous features that have made MLRS the premier rocket artillery system in the world. HIMARS carries a single six-pack of MLRS rockets, or one ATACMS missile. Its fire control system, electronics and communications units are interchangeable with the existing MLRS M270A1 launcher, and the crew and training are the same.
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IBM Wins Army JAG Contract
Representatives of IBM announced Wednesday that the company won a contract with the U.S. Army's Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) to provide technical support and project-management services to improve the agency's delivery of legal services, boost computing capacity and reduce overall costs.
The award, made under the Army's Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - Enterprise Mission Support Service Solutions (ITES-EMS3) contract, is worth a potential US$7.4 million over five years.
ITES allows for rapid, cost-effective procurements by allowing government agencies to select goods and services from certain pre-qualified vendors through a vehicle known as Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps provides legal services for soldiers, retirees and their families. It also provides prosecutors and defense attorneys in criminal trials under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
IBM's federal consulting unit, based in Bethesda, will provide consulting services to help JAG revamp its entire IT suite. The agency expects to better manage its case load, improve the speed and quality of legal service to Army customers and provide faster help-desk support.
IBM also will help JAG integrate existing computing systems for improved operation, develop new business applications and improve the agency's network performance.
CIBER, Inc.'s Federal Outsourcing Division of McLean, Virginia, will provide project management and software maintenance services with its systems support professionals. The work will be performed at the JAG's office in Arlington, Va.
JAG expects the new system will reduce routine IT maintenance costs and boost systems performance.
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ExxonMobil and Pertamina Sign Joint Operating Agreement for Cepu Block
Representatives of Exxon Mobil Corporation announced Wednesday that the company’s subsidiaries Mobil Cepu Ltd. and Ampolex (Cepu) Pte. Ltd. have signed a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) with P.T. Pertamina EP Cepu, a subsidiary of P.T. Pertamina, for the Cepu Contract Area located in East and Central Java, Indonesia.
The signing of the JOA follows the execution of the Cepu Cooperation Contract in September of 2005 and enables the parties to begin the activities and make the investments required to develop the discovered resources and further explore the block during the thirty-year contract period. The JOA provides the basis for joint development of the block, which will be managed by the parties under a Joint Operating Committee. Pertamina and ExxonMobil each will provide management oversight, technology and manpower under the agreement.
Ampolex (Cepu) Pte. Ltd. and Mobil Cepu Ltd. acquired their respective interests in the Cepu Contract Area in 1997 and 2000 with the approval of both Pertamina and the Government of Indonesia. In March 2001, Pertamina and ExxonMobil announced the Banyu Urip discovery on the Cepu Contract Area. Banyu Urip is estimated to contain more than 250 million barrels of oil. At peak production, the field is expected to produce up to 165,000 barrels of oil per day. The Area has potential for additional exploration and development opportunities.
Pertamina and ExxonMobil each hold a fifty-percent interest in the Contract, with the parties anticipating entry of a regional entity at the ten-percent level in the future. The ten percent will be provided equally by both parties.
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Boeing Names New Tanker Leader
Boeing has named Mark McGraw vice president of Tanker Programs, under Integrated Defense Systems' recently created Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems unit.
Based in St. Louis, McGraw is responsible for sales, development, production and support of Boeing's tanker programs. Currently, Boeing is building KC-767s for two major international customers -- Italy and Japan. Each country will receive four tankers with initial deliveries scheduled for later this year.
The KC-767 Global Tanker is a fuel-efficient, long-range aircraft specifically sized for diverse air-refueling; cargo, troop and passenger transport; and aeromedical evacuation missions.
Most recently, McGraw served as vice president and program manager of the Weapons Enterprise Capability Center (ECC) and managed the Boeing-St. Charles Missouri site. The ECC included management of major programs such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition, Small Diameter Bomb and Harpoon anti-ship missile.
He has held other leadership positions since joining the company in 1980 including director of Naval Weapons, deputy program manager of Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft and various assignments on the F/A-18 program.
McGraw holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in Engineering Management from Washington University in St. Louis.
