Industry News
Lockheed Martin Wins $135 Million CDC Contract to Support Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response
Lockheed Martin was selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue providing support to the Agency’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER). This is a single award, five-year contract, with an estimated program value of $135 million.
The contract was awarded as a Blanket Purchase Agreement under the General Services Administration schedules program. It calls for Lockheed Martin to provide logistical and operational support through COTPER for several of the organization’s functions, including the Strategic National Stockpile, Office of the Director, Division of Business Services, Division of Emergency Operations, Division of State and Local Readiness, and Division of Select Agents and Toxins.
COTPER provides strategic direction to the Agency for all terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities.
COTPER manages the CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement which provides guidance and funding to state and local jurisdictions to enhance their preparedness and response capacity, oversees the CDC Emergency Operations Center, regulates entities that use or transfer biological agents or toxins, and manages the Strategic National Stockpile.
Lockheed Martin support to COTPER will include business consulting and the performance of technical, professional, logistical, engineering and administrative tasks. By applying continuous process improvement, the company will work to implement automated functions and processes where possible throughout the agency.
Raytheon Awarded $29 Million Contract for Early Warning Radars Sustainment
Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $29 million to provide sustainment support for the Upgraded Early Warning Radar and the Cobra Dane Upgrade.
The award was made by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, the prime contractor for the Ground Based Midcourse Defense segment of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ballistic Missile Defense System. Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will continue to provide engineering services to ensure the sustainment infrastructure of the Upgraded Early Warning Radars at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and Fylingdales, U.K., and the Cobra Dane radar at Shemya, Alaska.
Work will be performed at the company's Missile Defense Center in Woburn, Mass. The award includes a basic period valued at $10 million and an option phase valued at $19 million.
The program upgrades the existing Raytheon-developed PAVE PAWS and Ballistic Missile Early Warning Systems by adding missile defense capabilities while retaining missile warning and space surveillance missions. Upgraded Early Warning Radars provide midcourse target detection and tracking for Ground Based Midcourse Defense.
Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. Army Awards General Dynamics $13 Million for Abrams Tank System Technical Support
The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command recently awarded a $12.6 million contract for M1A1 Abrams tank systems technical support (STS) to General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics.
STS funds engineering studies on Abrams tanks with the purpose of identifying improvements and conducting the change-out of obsolete parts, while keeping Abrams main battle tanks current to their base configurations. The STS program’s objective is to maintain Abrams tanks at high operational readiness rates.
Existing General Dynamics Land Systems employees will perform the work in Sterling Heights, Mich. It is expected to be complete by Dec. 31, 2011.
EDS To Establish National Center of Excellence for Electronic Health Records in Rhode Island
Representative EDS announced it has chosen Rhode Island as the site for its National Center of Excellence for the development and enhancement of systems to support electronic health records across the country.
The Center will be located in EDS' central office in suburban Warwick and initially will create about 25 jobs. EDS expects to host a job fair before the end of February at a location to be announced to identify appropriately skilled professionals.
Electronic health records, or EHRs, will allow hospitals, doctors, pharmacists and other authorized health care providers access to a patient's medical history. EHRs have been shown to increase patient safety, reduce medical redundancies and substantially cut health care costs.
Recent estimates suggest that EHRs could reduce America's annual health care bill by as much as $81 billion.
The Rhode Island Center will focus on developing and streamlining the delivery of EHRs throughout the United States.
EDS already has been selected for two major electronic health record contracts in the United States, both of which are in negotiation. EDS also operates several existing systems in Europe, Canada and Asia Pacific.
EDS has been Rhode Island's Medicaid fiscal agent partner for more than 15 years.
