A F-35C on the USS Nimitz during 2014 testing. (Photo: Navy).
The Navy has sent a special funding request to Congress seeking $2. 2 billion for buying 12 Boeing [BA] F/A-18 Super Hornets and eight Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C Joint Strike Fighters in the 2016 budget year.The wishlist, requested separately from the fiscal 2016 budget request, said the additional fighters are needed to fill a potential capability gap that could arise at the end of this decade because existing fighters, namely F/A-18 Hornets, are wearing out.“Our legacy strike fighters…are reaching end…
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Portus Stevedoring LLC, Jacksonville, Florida, is awarded a not-to-exceed $8,292,583 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for stevedoring and related terminal services. This contract provides for full range of stevedoring and related terminal services to include the receipt,…
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The Navy has sent a special funding request to Congress seeking $2. 2 billion for buying 12 Boeing [BA] F/A-18 Super Hornets and eight Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C Joint Strike Fighters in the 2016 budget year.
The wishlist, requested separately from the fiscal 2016 budget request, said the additional fighters are needed to fill a potential capability gap that could arise at the end of this decade because existing fighters, namely F/A-18 Hornets, are wearing out.
“Our legacy strike fighters…are reaching end of life faster than planned due to use and wear,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said in a March 13 letter to Congress.
The Navy has said that extending the lives of the Hornets has been complicated by the level of corrosion in the aircraft, as well as budget cuts that slowed work at maintenance depots.
Further, current orders for F/A-18 Super Hornets and sister airframe EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft will only carry Boeing’s production line through 2017, putting it at risk of closure and loss of the capacity.
The Navy had requested zero Super Hornets and Growlers in its formal budget request in February, and sought four F-35Cs, which is the aircraft carrier variant of the jet. Eight F-35Bs were requested for the Marine Corps.
The unfunded priority list also is asking for one additional Northrop Grumman [NOC] unmanned MQ-4C Triton at a cost of $65 million. The Navy requested three in the fiscal 2016 proposal.
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., Boulder, Colorado, was awarded a $48,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the study, design, development, enhancement, testing, and procurement of advanced communication-electronics technologies. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and…
Portus Stevedoring LLC, Jacksonville, Florida, is awarded a not-to-exceed $8,292,583 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for stevedoring and related terminal services. This contract provides for full range of stevedoring and related terminal services to include the receipt,…
Foster Miller, doing business as QinetiQ North America, Waltham, Massachusetts, is awarded an $11,310,230 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00174-21-D-0019) to exercise Option Year Four for production, engineering support, and post-production support of the MK 2 Man…
EnergySolutions Services Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is being awarded a $13,336,650 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract action (N42158-25-D-E001) for nuclear services for the processing, recycling and disposal of radiologic materials through disassembly, decontamination, metal melting, compaction, incineration, resin sluicing/dewater, bulk waste assay…
