Defense Daily Staff
With less than a year before its first unmanned launch, the Orion program will undergo further testing and integration of modules in 2014, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said. The launch window for Orion’s Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) opens on Sept. 18, 2014. A Delta IV Heavy Lift rocket will propel an uncrewed Orion module 3,600 miles above Earth--providing the proof of concept for the NASA project to take human spaceflight beyond lower earth orbit for the first time. In…
ICF Mercantile LLC,* Warren, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $150,000,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SP8000-26-F-0008) issued against an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (SP8000-26-D-0005) for aerospace grade rayon fiber. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 3204 (a)(3)(A), as…
Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, was awarded a ceiling of $328,500,000 undefinitized contract action issued as a letter contract for Department of Defense and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Sniper, Infrared Search and Track, and Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared…
Zapata Black & Veatch JV LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina, was awarded a $29,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for planning, design, construction, and operation services. Bids were solicited via the internet with six received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each…
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, was awarded a $49,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for planning, design, construction, and operation services. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each…
