Sailors Demanding Their Titles Back

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Sailors are demanding their job titles back, but Navy officials are trying to persuade them their future is brighter without them, reports Navy Times.

A bevy of new vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft conceived to take the military beyond the speed, range, and altitude limits of helicopters are scheduled to fly over the next two years. Breaking Defense gives a rundown.

Under Armour will outfit all Major League baseball players beginning in 2020, reports The Baltimore Sun.com, the brands first with a major professional league.

James E. Cartwright, a retired Marine Corps general who as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff served as a key member of President Obama’s national security team,  agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about discussions with reporters concerning Iran’s nuclear program.

The prisoner who wrote Guantánamo Diary, a memoir about his 14 years as a detainee, was released from prison and returned home to Mauritania, reports Time.com.

Russia and Syria are halting Aleppo air strikes for now, reports Reuters, following a promise made by Moscow on Monday to pause strikes Thursday for eight hours. Officials say that stopping the strikes Tuesday will help guarantee the safety of six corridors for civilian evacuation and for removal of the sick and wounded.

The Royal Saudi Air Force has used British-supplied cruise missiles against Houthi rebels in Yemen, reports Defense News. The Storm Shadow long-range cruise missile was among a list of British-supplied, precision-guided weapons named by Defense Secretary Michael Fallon as having been used against the Yemeni rebels since the 2-year-long conflict that followed a Houthi coup which forced the legitimate government into exile in Saudi Arabia.

The fallout is widening in the “Fat Leonard” bribery scandal. Navy Times reports the complete timeline.

Navy and Marine Corps officials dedicated a solar farm in the Arizona desert that will generate one-third of the electricity to power 14 Navy and Marine Corps installations in California, reports usninews.org.

American Systems has received the AS9100C aerospace quality management system certification for the company’s engineering and analytical solutions directorate in Lexington Park, Maryland. EASD went through a two-day external audit of the unit’s contracts management, program management, engineering and production, risk management, configuration management, purchasing and quality processes prior to the certification, reports ExecutiveBiz.com.

NASA’s “biggest show” roars back after explosion. The rocket streaked into the night nearly two years after a fiery explosion shook the program at Wallops Flight Facility, reports Delmarva.com. The rocket is carrying more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and scientific gear to the space station.

Contracts:

Aviation Systems Engineering Co, Lexington Park, Maryland, is being awarded a $35,287,138 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, resulting from solicitation N00189-16-R-Z025, that will include terms and conditions for the placement of both cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price task orders to provide technical, analytical, administrative, and material support services to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron One in support of the test mission of Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland, and the ordering period of the contract is expected to be completed by October 2021. Subject to availability of funds, fiscal 2017 research, development, test, and evaluation; and operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $635,299 will be obligated to fund the contract’s minimum amount and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with the solicitation posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received.  Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00189-17-D-Z001).

Camber Corp., Huntsville, Alabama (N00189-17-D-Z003); URS Federal Services Inc., Germantown, Maryland (N00189-17-D-Z004); General Dynamics Information Technology Inc., Fairfax, Virginia (N00189-17-D-Z005); CACI-CMS Information Systems Inc., Chantilly, Virginia (N00189-17-D-Z006); Salient Federal Solutions Inc., Fairfax, Virginia (N00189-17-D-Z007); and A. Harold and Associates LLC, Jacksonville, Florida (N00189-17-D-Z008), are being awarded an estimated $112,690,718 multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price task order contracts to provide curriculum maintenance and development services in support of Naval Education Training Command’s Naval Training Products and Services Program. Each contract will run concurrently and includes a 36-month base ordering period and 36-month option period.  If all options are exercised, the total estimated value of the contracts combined will be $230,620,020. Work will be performed 100 percent in contractor facilities in response to awarded task orders and cannot be reasonably estimated at the time of contract award. Work is expected to be completed by October 2019; if all options are exercised, work will be completed by October 2022. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $5,000 will be obligated on each of the six contracts to fund the contract’s minimum amount and funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with the solicitation posted to the Federal Business Opportunities online website, with 14 offers received.  Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity.

SURVICE Engineering Co., Belcamp, Maryland, has been awarded an $15,227,012 cost-plus-fixed-fee with a performance incentive modification (P0004) to previously awarded contract FA2486-16-C-0051 for SEEK EAGLE program modeling, analysis, and tools support. SEEK EAGLE program is the Air Force standard process for aircraft stores certification, and designated the AF SEEK EAGLE office as the cognizant engineering agency. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and is expected to be complete by Oct. 22, 2017. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,235,767 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Test Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA2486-16-C-0051).