March 27, 2024

Wreckage of Lexington Park Namesake Found off Australian Coast

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CNN has video of the wreckage from the USS Lexington, sunk by the Japanese during World War II, discovered 500 miles off the Australian coast at the bottom of the Coral Sea by a team of explorers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Shortly after this early carrier sunk 72 years ago, the US Navy renamed the civilian neighborhood it had built outside the gate of Patuxent River Naval Air Station from Jarboesville to Lexington Park.

Stealth features are responsible for half of F-35 defects, Defense News reports. VADM Mat Winter, the head of the government’s F-35 Joint Program Office, slammed Lockheed for what he sees as its too-slow progress on eliminating so-called “quality escapes”— errors made by Lockheed’s workforce that could include drilling holes that are too big or installing a dinged part.

Less than 100 women have entered Marine combat arms career fields two years after DoD ordered the corps to open those jobs to females, reports Marine Times.

Army admits mishandling retired bomb-sniffing war dogs, reports Reuters, and announced it would comply with recommendations in a Defense Department Inspector General’s report that called for reforms.

Military Times reports, but declined to post or link, an ISIS propaganda video allegedly showing the deaths of US troops in Niger ambush. The Washington Examiner reports the investigation into the deaths of the four ambushed soldiers is complete and on the desk of DefSec Jim Mattis.

Reuters reports the Pentagon is “cautiously optimistic” about talks between Seoul and Pyongyang, following a meeting between a 10-member South Korean delegation and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Hill reports that North Korea vows to stop missile tests if the US will talk.

Court-martial hearings opened this week on Naval Base Norfolk concerning two Navy officers charged in the “Fat Leonard” scandal, reports Navy Times. Capt. John F. Steinberger and Cmdr. Jason W. Starmer were slated on Tuesday’s court docket for Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.

This is the year Sikorsky catches up on the Future Vertical Lift program, says Breaking Defense, flying three different aircraft showcasing FVL technologies.

Contracts:

Devine Consulting, Inc., Freemont, California (N00173-18-D-2004); Thermoanalytics, Inc., Calumet, Michigan (N00173-18-D-2005); and EOIR Technologies, Inc., Fredericksburg, Virginia (N00173-18-D-2006) are being awarded a combined cumulative $48,500,000 value indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts for the scientific, engineering, and programmatic research and development services for the Signature Technology Office. Work will be performed at the Naval Research Laboratory Washington, District of Columbia (90 percent); and the contractor’s facility (10 percent), and work is expected to be completed March 2023. Fiscal 2018 Working capital funds (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,500 will be obligated at the time of award. No funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Research, development, test and evaluations funds will be used to fund future task orders under the effort. It is anticipated that cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed price, or firm-fixed price orders will be issued against this contract. Each of the three contractors will have the opportunity to compete for the future orders. This contract was competitively procured under a request for proposal N00173-15-R-JHO2, with four proposals received.  The Naval Research Laboratory, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp., Millersville, Maryland, is being awarded a $9,591,435 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-6239) to exercise options for the production of TB-34X towed arrays and cable assemblies. Work will be performed in Millersville, Maryland (57 percent); Liverpool, New York (40 percent); and Ashaway, Rhode Island (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2020. Fiscal 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $9,503,151; and fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) in the amount of $88,284 will be obligated at time of award. Fiscal 2012 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $2,043,146 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity. 

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, was awarded $8,913,587 for firm-fixed-price delivery order N0002418F5265 under a previously awarded contract (N00024-15-D-5217) for 69 Technical Insertion (TI) 16 Common Display System (CDS) Variant A air-cooled production consoles. The CDS is a set of watch station consoles designed to support the implementation of open architecture in Navy combat systems. The TI 16 CDS is the next evolution in the CDS family and consists of a three-eyed horizontal display console. This delivery order combines purchases for the Navy (62 percent); and the government of Japan (38 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales program.  Work will be performed in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed by April 2019. Fiscal 2014, 2016 and 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); foreign military sales funds; fiscal 2018 research, development test and evaluation (Navy); fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy); and fiscal 2017 and 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $8,913,587 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity. Awarded on March 5, 2018

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, was awarded a $22,635,803 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and sustainment support for the tactical operational light detection and range sensing capability. One bid was solicited with one bid received. Work will be performed in Laurel, Maryland, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2023. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $2,500,000 were obligated at the time of the award. US Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity (W56KGY-18-C-0003).

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