March 27, 2024

Sailors’ Personal Data Stolen

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The personal data of more than 130,000 sailors in a re-enlistment approval database was stolen from a contractor’s laptop last month, Navy Times reports. The Navy said that a computer supporting a Navy contract was “compromised,” and that the names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current and former sailors were accessed by unknown persons.

The Pentagon continues to explore technologies that are designed to decrease hardware requirements and improve computer encryption to better secure networks. All this without compromising speed and performance, Defense Systems reports. DoD officials declined to comment on specific vendors working on encryption and cyber security,  but they did tell Defense Systems the department consistently works to advance this kind of technology.

Survey says: Troops want better pay. A recent poll by Military Times and Syracuse University’s Institute for Military and Veterans Families reveals that active-duty military personnel see improving their pay and benefits, transforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, and strengthening ties with US allies as the top national security priorities for President-elect Donald Trump.

Several names are being floated for Trump’s homeland security adviser. Among them, Marine Gen. John Kelly, retired chief of the Southern Command, and Frances Townsend, a counterterrorism expert, who served in President George W. Bush’s administration, The Washington Post reports. One News Page reports that Milwaukee County Sheriff had been scheduled to meet with Trump on Monday about the position.

Darlene Mazzone

Todd Balazs, deputy assistant commander for Logistics and Industrial Operations, Naval Air Systems Command (Air-6.0), right, presents Darlene Mazzone, Aviation Readiness and Resources Analysis Department technical director, a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for her work as the assistant program executive officer for Logistics, Tactical Aircraft Programs Nov. 8. Mazzone was instrumental in standing up the Air Warfare Mission Area/From the Air Program Office (PMA-298) which laid the groundwork for all Naval Integrated Fire Counter-Air Programs. (U.S. Navy photo/released)

Darlene Mazzone, Aviation Readiness and Resources Analysis Department technical director, was awarded a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for her work as the assistant program executive officer for Logistics, Tactical Aircraft Programs.

China is warning countries against maintaining military ties with Taiwan, after Singaporean armored troop carriers were seized en route from the island that Beijing regards as a breakaway province, Reuters reports.

The Pentagon wants air-and-sea-based fighter jets to acquire and pass targeting information to land-based artillery and rockets — allowing for land weapons to destroy enemy ships at greater distances, reports The National Interest. The concept also includes Army rockets and artillery to destroy maritime targets such as ships off the coastline, just as sea and air force assets attack targets on land.

The Army is revolutionizing how it trains troops through the use of virtual gaming and cloud-based technologies, C4ISRNET reports. Army officials describe a future where units could be trained with new skills or hone existing ones right before deployment, or in the theater of operations.

Concrete barriers used in Iraq and Afghanistan have redesigned security and operation, an essay written by a former Army ranger states. Forget about mine-resistant vehicles, drones and rifles, Military Times reports. “Many soldiers deployed to Iraq became experts in concrete during their combat tours,” Maj. John Spencer writes. “Concrete is as symbolic to their deployments as the weapons they carried. No other weapon or technology has done more to contribute to achieving strategic goals of providing security, protecting populations, establishing stability, and eliminating terrorist threats.”

Greenland is calling on Denmark to clean up an abandoned under-ice missile project and other US military installations left to rust in the pristine landscape after the Cold War, Military Times reports.

A ship designer has accused the Navy of stealing his concepts for the Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship, The Daily Beast reports.

Contracts:

G-W Management Services LLC, Rockville, Maryland, is being awarded a $7,369,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of four hangar doors at Hangar 111 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The work to be performed provides for the demolition and replacement of the existing four hangar door assemblies, and the entire work to repair the associated asphalt and concrete. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland, and is expected to be completed by August 2018. Fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $7,369,000 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with three proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N40080-17-C-0016).

Fulcrum IT Services LLC, Centreville, Virginia, has been awarded a $168,155,289 ceiling cost-plus-award-fee task order under the General Services Administration (GSA) OASIS Small Business Pool 4 contract to provide the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) with strategic planning, research, analysis, and training services in support of JIDO’s Global Situational Awareness (Global SA) and Communities of Action (CoA) missions. The Global SA task order will provide JIDO, the intelligence community, military service partner organizations, and other Department of Defense (DoD)/federal agencies with professional services that sense, research, and analyze the global operational environment to enhance combatant commands’ ability to combat improvised threats to the warfighter and partner organizations through advanced situational awareness services and training. The task order also provides JIDO with support to influence strategy, plans and policy associated with countering improvised threats by leveraging broad  CoA that include DoD, US government agencies, key partners and allies, academia, and the private sector. The task order provides a key component for JIDO’s mission to enable DoD actions to counter improvised threats with tactical responsiveness and through anticipatory, rapid acquisition in support of combatant commands’ efforts to prepare for, and adapt to, battlefield surprise in support of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and other related mission areas including counter-improvised explosive device. Work will be performed in Virginia and the National Capital Region. The expected completion date is Nov. 30, 2021. Joint IED defeat funds in the amount of $1,988,733 are being obligated at the time of award. This task order was a competitive acquisition and four offers were received. It is part of the JIDO Enterprise Acquisition Strategy Initiative which is intended to meet current and evolving mission requirements; comply with acquisition laws, regulations, and policies; and improve mission effectiveness, output, and organizational synergy. GSA Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) is the contracting activity, in support of JIDO (GSQ0017AJ0008). (Awarded on Nov. 18, 2016)

Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Virginia, is being awarded a $49,777,606 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple award contract to provide shore networks support to include in-service engineering support, design, accreditation, integration, production, sustainment, and life cycle support for non-integrated shore systems, network components and network service solutions for Navy and joint Department of Defense shore units worldwide. This is one of four multiple award contracts: all awardees will have the opportunity to compete for task orders during the ordering period. This three-year contract includes two one-year option ordering periods which, if exercised, would bring the potential value of this contract to $83,855,132. Work will be performed in San Diego, California (40 percent); and various locations inside and outside the continental US (60 percent). Work is expected to be completed Nov. 27, 2019. No contract funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funding will be obligated via task orders as they are issued using operations and maintenance (Navy); other procurement (Navy); and Navy working capital funds. No contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via a request for proposal published on the Federal Business Opportunities website and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command e-Commerce Central website. Eight offers were received and four were selected for award. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N66001-17-D-0003).

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, is being awarded a $46,308,418 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple award contract to provide shore networks support to include in-service engineering support, design, accreditation, integration, production, sustainment, and life cycle support for non-integrated shore systems, network components and network service solutions for Navy and joint Department of Defense shore units worldwide. This is one of four multiple award contracts: all awardees will have the opportunity to compete for task orders during the ordering period. This three-year contract includes two one-year option ordering periods which, if exercised, would bring the potential value of this contract to $78,516,086.  Work will be performed in San Diego, California (40 percent); and various locations inside and outside the continental US (60 percent). Work is expected to be completed Nov. 27, 2019. No contract funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funding will be obligated via task orders as they are issued using operations and maintenance (Navy); other procurement (Navy); and Navy working capital funds. No contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via a request for proposal published on the Federal Business Opportunities website and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command e-Commerce Central website. Eight offers were received and four were selected for award.  Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N66001-17-D-0004).

Kings Bay Support Services LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, is being awarded a $40,579,631 modification under a previously awarded, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N69450-11-D-7578) to exercise an option for base operations support services at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. The work to be performed provides for base operations support services including public safety, harbor security, security operations, supply, personnel support, facilities support, facility management/facility investment, other (swimming pools), pavement clearance, utilities, chiller, electrical, wastewater, steam, water, telecommunications, compressed air, base support vehicles and equipment, environmental, and vertical transportation equipment. After award of this option, the total cumulative contract value will be $237,821,053. Work will be performed in Kings Bay, Georgia (99 percent); and Shellman Bluff, Georgia (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed November 2017. No funds will be obligated at time of award. Fiscal 2017 operation and maintenance (Navy); fiscal 2017 working capital funds (Navy); fiscal 2017 Defense health program funds; and fiscal 2017 family housing operation and maintenance (Navy) in the amount of $4,439,656 for recurring work will be obligated on individual task orders issued during the option period. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity.

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