Senate Sees Final Vote Sunday, House Faces Quick Turnaround
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Senate leaders say they hope to hold a final vote on their short-term continuing resolution on Sunday, giving the House just over 24 hours to either take up that measure or send back another version before the government lights go out October 1, Defense News reports.
A Pentagon spokeswoman said military officials from the United States and eight other countries that helped fund development of the F-35 will meet in Istanbul this week to review progress on the fighter jet that will replace the popular F-16 and a dozen other warplanes now in use around the world, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Boeing says it’s “deeply disappointed” by South Korea’s rejection of its F-15 Silent Eagle; concerns rise about fairness of the re-bid process, Flightglobal reports.
The Marine Corps is working on a contract with Lockheed Martin to extend the deployment of the K-MAX unmanned cargo helicopter to Afghanistan through 2014, industry officials told Defense Tech.
U.S. will begin falling behind on its financial obligations Oct. 17 unless the debt ceiling is raised, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday estimated the government would run out of cash to pay its bills between Oct. 22 and Oct. 31.
Arms control treaty signed Wednesday by Secretary of State John Kerry faces high hurdles in path to Senate ratification, CNN Security Clearance reports.
China bans technology exports to North Korea that could be used for weaponry, Agence France-Press reports via Defence Talk.
DoD may cease using private contractors for security clearance processing, The Hill reports.
Sole source contracts: Is the source really the sole option? NextGov asks.
CONTRACT: Wyle Laboratories Inc., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a $16,608,029 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for aircrew, engineering, operations, and scheduling services to ensure essential testing and evaluation of all Naval Test Wing Atlantic manned air vehicles. Work will be performed at the NAS Patuxent River, Md. (94 percent), NAS Pt. Mugu, Calif. (5 percent); and NAS China Lake, Calif. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2018. Navy working capital funds in the amount of $10,970,000 are being obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; one offer was received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-13-C-0032).
