Cyber Studies Added to Midshipman Classes
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Everyday studies at the US Naval Academy will now include lessons for midshipmen in how to operate in the cyber domain, the addition reflects the reality of the world wherever they head next, reports Fifth Domain Cyber.
The CIA formed a computer security committee in 1968, reports FCW, which from the start grappled with problems of access control, physical security, contractor access, data verification, and other issues still plaguing government agencies today.
Despite the national security exemption clause, USNI reports, the federal hiring freeze includes Navy shipyards.
A recent study, Trump’s Swamp, examines which agencies, and contractors, face the greatest risk from President Donald J. Trump’s pledge to radically reform government. Washington Technology reports the exposure for contractors is greatest where agencies both have a large number of contracts that expire in 2017 and also a deep pool of contractors.
Aviation Week suggests more attention to space funding may be forthcoming, noting its mention in Trump’s inaugural address and, given efforts to dismantle the legacy left by President Barack Obama, the former president’s minimal interest in funding space efforts might bode well for space funding in the immediate future.
The White House is studying details of an Iranian ballistic missile test reported to have ended with a “failed” re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, reports Military.com. The UN Security Council will meet over Iran missile test, reports UPI.
The Pentagon, caught by surprise by Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, seeks to compile a list of Iraqi citizens who assisted the US military abroad and get them special consideration to settle in the United States, reports The Washington Post.
While the travel restrictions dominate attention, FCW reports that the order restricting travel from seven countries puts the Dept. of Homeland Security back on notice to expedite development of its biometric entry/exit tracking system to track immigrants entering and leaving the US.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee met this week on a bevy of bills that could impact procurement, reports FCW, including a prohibition on grants or contracts to individuals or companies with “seriously delinquent” tax debt; bolstering anti-discrimination laws; extending the same harassment and discrimination protections afforded federal employees to unpaid interns; prohibiting punishing an employee for refusing to obey an order in violation of a law, a rule, or a regulation; and in facilities contracting expand “design-build” contracts and restrict reverse auctions.
Reuters reports a French-Canadian university student was charged with premeditated murder of six people in shooting at a Quebec City mosque.
Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions helped kill equitable school funding in Alabama, reports Propublica, by fighting a lawsuit in the 1990s that poised Alabama to fund poor black school districts as fairly as wealthy white schools.
The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in an offensive by pro-Russian separatists over the past two days has risen to seven, reports Reuters, the deadliest outbreak of fighting in the east of the country since mid-December.
TASS, the Russian news agency, reports a massive combat readiness check, involving units deployed to 29 Russian constituent entities in the Urals, the Volga region, and Siberia, has been completed in the Central Military District.
Contracts:
Andromeda Systems Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia (N00421-17-D-0022); Ausley Associates, Lexington Park, Maryland (N00421-17-D-0023); Avian LLC, Lexington Park, Maryland (N00421-17-D-0024); Aviation Management Analytical Consultants LLC, Chesapeake, Virginia (N00421-17-D-0025); Eagle Systems Inc., California, Maryland (N00421-17-D-0026); Naval Systems Inc., Lexington Park, Maryland (N00421-17-D-0027); Sierra Management and Technologies Inc., California, Maryland (N00421-17-D-0028); Synectic Solutions Inc., Oxnard, California (N00421-17-D-0029); and VectorCSP LLC, Elizabeth City, North Carolina (N00421-17-D-0030), are each being awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-type indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to provide integrated logistics product support, program management, and logistics support services in acquisition and sustainment for the life cycle of specified weapons systems, system of systems, its sub-systems, and support equipment. These services are in support of the Naval Air Systems Command’s Logistics Integration Department (AIR 6.6). The estimated aggregate ceiling for all contracts is $249,875,555 with the companies having an opportunity to compete for individual orders. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (85 percent); and various awardee’s facility sites (15 percent) in Virginia Beach, Virginia; Lexington Park, Maryland; Chesapeake, Virginia; California, Maryland; Oxnard, California; and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and is expected to be completed in January 2022. No funds will be obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued. These contracts were competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals as a 100 percent small business set-aside; 11 offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
University of Maryland University College, Hyattsville, Maryland, is being awarded a $16,236,452 indefinite-delivery requirements contract, resulting from solicitation N00189-16-R-Z040; that will include terms and conditions for the placement of firm-fixed-price task orders to provide instructional undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs and education support services for the US Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard in the US Central Command and in the US Africa Command areas of responsibility. The contract will include a 54-month ordering period. Work will be performed at various downrange locations to include Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt (Sinai), Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The percentage of work being performed at each location will be determined by task order requirements. The contract also allows for distance learning where the programs are conducted in a virtual environment. The ordering period of the contract is expected to be completed by July 2021. No funding will be obligated at the time of award. Funding will be provided only under task orders issued subsequent to the award of the contract, and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Face-to-face and distance learning courses will be funded on a student-enrollment basis through the military agency’s Tuition Assistance program applicable to the student. One company was solicited for this non-competitive requirement in accordance with 10 US Code 2304(c)(1) and one offer was received. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00189-17-D-Z015).
KPMG LLP, Washington, District of Columbia (SP4703-17-A-0001) $60,627,373; and St. Michaels Inc., Woodbridge, Virginia (SP4703-17-A-0002) $32,645,509, have each been awarded a firm-fixed-price, blanket purchase agreement totaling an estimated $93,272,882 for financial stewardship improvement and sustainment support services. These are one-year base blanket purchase agreements with four one-year option periods. The total dollar amounts listed are for the life of the agreements. This was a competitive acquisition with two responses received. Locations of performance are Washington, District of Columbia; and Virginia, with a Jan. 31, 2022, performance completion date. Using customer is Defense Logistics Agency. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2017 through 2022 defense working capital funds; and various other funding. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Contracting Services Office, Richmond, Virginia.
Alpha-Omega Change Engineering Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, has been awarded an $8,290,188 firm-fixed-price contract for F-15E, F-16 and F-22A aircrew training and courseware development. Contractor will provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and all other items and services that are required to perform F-15E, F-16, F-22A contract aircrew training courseware development to include instrument refresher course instruction, distributed mission operations and distributed mission training. Work will be performed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina; Shaw AFB, South Carolina; Langley AFB, Virginia; Hill AFB, Utah; Mt. Home AFB, Idaho; and Nellis AFB, Nevada, and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2022. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with seven offer received. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $8,290,188 are being obligated at the time of award. Acquisition Management and Integration Center, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, is the contracting activity (FA4890-17-C-0006).
Lockheed Martin Corp. – Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, has been awarded a $7,702,239 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for contractor logistics support for the Iraq integrated air defense system. Work will be performed at Manassas, Virginia, and is expected to be complete by Jan. 31, 2018. This contract is 100 percent foreign military sales to Iraq. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8730-17-C-0008).
TEC-AECOM Pacific JV, Charlottesville, Virginia, is being awarded a $10,000,000 firm-fixed-price modification to increase the maximum dollar value of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for architect-engineering services for the preparation of National Environmental Policy Act documents and environmental studies at various Navy and Marine Corps activities located within the Pacific Basin and Indian Ocean areas. After award of this modification, the total cumulative contract value will be $73,000,000. Work will be performed predominantly in Guam (90 percent); and other areas within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific area of responsibility (AOR); and may include services for other Department of Defense or federal agencies (10 percent), and is expected is to completed by February 2017. No funds will be obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued. Task orders will be primarily funded by customer reimbursable funds. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-11-D-1801).
Raytheon Co., Andover, Maryland, was awarded a $17,108,599 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for depot level diagnosis, clean up, repair, modification, technical assistance and maintenance of PATRIOT missile system major items. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Work will be performed in numerous locations with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2020. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $7,940,851 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-17-C-0003).
ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, was awarded a $7,600,000 cost-plus-award-fee contract for test and engineering support services for the electronic proving ground. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Work will be performed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2017. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $6,300,000 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is the contracting activity (W91RUS-17-C-0006).
