Source: Missile Defense Agency
July 25, 2005
Air Force Lt. General Henry “Trey” Obering, Missile Defense Agency Director, announced the formal dedication of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar by program officials during a ceremony today at Kiewit offshore Services at Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Source: missilethreat.com
July 21, 2005
Lt. General Henry A. Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has expressed concern about the threat of short-range ballistic missiles launched from ships off the U.S. coast. Obering discussed the possibility of an enemy could carrying a Scud or similar missile to within a few hundred miles of the U.S. coastline before launching it.
Most worrisome is the proliferation of Scud-type missiles throughout the world, many of which have ranges of up to 500 km. “We expect to be surprised,” said Obering, noting the unconventional nature of terrorist attacks. MDA spokesman Rick Lehner is also cited as saying that some $20 million is in next year’s defense budget to study the threat.
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Source: The Japan Times
July 23, 2005
The Diet enacted a revised law Friday that allows the Defense Agency chief to order emergency missile interceptions without waiting for approval from the prime minister and the Cabinet. The move paves the way for introduction of a missile defense system in 2007. During a plenary session Friday afternoon, the House of Councilors passed a bill to add missile-defense provisions to the Self-Defense Forces Law. The bill was passed with a majority vote by the ruling coalition; it cleared the House of Representatives in June.
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Source: U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense
Contracts, July 22, 2005
No. 745-05
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Advanced Product Transitions Corp., McLean, Va., is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with completion and level-of-effort task orders to establish, provide, operate, and manage an industrial partnership. The goal of the industrial partnership is to reach a wide variety of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) industry primes, lower tier suppliers, and small business to address manufacturing, producibility and industrial base issues impacting BMDS development and deployment. The principal place of performance will be Arlington, Va. with a period of performance consisting of a two-year base period with three one-year options. The total contract value, including all options, is $251,133,845. The first task order is valued at approximately $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. The base period, valued at $50,953,585, will use fiscal years 2005 and 2006 research, development, test & evaluation funds. Technical projects, which are developmental in nature, pursued under the Industrial Partnership include electro optics/infra-red, radiation-hardened electronics and components, advanced materials and structures, power systems, radar and radio frequency and propulsion. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity (HQ0006-05-D-0007).
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Source: U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense
Contracts, July 20, 2005
No. 736-05
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a cost-plus- award/incentive-fee contract modification for the continued development and delivery of twelve Standard Missile-3 Block IA Missiles in support of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. The total estimated value of the contract is $124,147,350. The work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. and is expected to be complete by April 2007. None of the funds will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively awarded. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity (N00024-03-C-6111).
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US has sealed deal on Japan’s licensed production of PAC-3 missiles
Source: Forbes
July 17, 2005
TOKYO (AFX) - The United States has concluded a deal to allow Japan’s licensed production of US-developed surface-to-air missiles which will constitute the core of a joint missile defense system, the Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday without citing sources.
The two governments sealed a memorandum of understanding in March on the licensed production of Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) interceptor missiles, the newspaper said.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN AWARDED $124 MILLION CONTRACT FOR JAPANESE SEA-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITY
Source: LOCKHEED MARTIN
July 15, 2005
Moorestown, NJ, July 15, 2005 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has been awarded a $124 million, three year contract for Japanese Foreign Military Sales Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System engineering development. The contract provides the Aegis BMD Weapon System upgrades for the first of a planned group of four Japanese Kongo-class destroyers, DDG 173.
Under the contract, Lockheed Martin is responsible for combat systems engineering, and development and integration of the Aegis BMD Weapon System, as well as upgrades to the Vertical Launching System and the ship Command and Control System.
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Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Contracts, Friday, July 15, 2005
No. 718-05
MISSILE DENFESE AGENCY
Lockheed Martin, Maritime Sensors and Systems, P.O. Box 1027, Moorestown, N.J. 08057 is being awarded a $124,044,965 Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF) contract modification for the development and installation of equipment and computer programs that will upgrade one existing Japanese KONGO-Class Aegis Destroyer to an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Block 2004 capability. The work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J. (78 percent), Baltimore, Md. (15 percent), Eagan, Minn. (4 percent) and Aberdeen, S.D. (3 percent) and is expected to be complete by November 2007. This is Foreign Military Sales funding and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively awarded. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity (N00024-03-C-6110).
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No. 712-05
FOR RELEASE AT
Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 5:00 PM
Contracts, Thursday, July 14, 2005
Army
Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass., was awarded on July 13, 2005, an $11,419,307 modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for FY05 PATROT Engineering Services. Work will be performed in Burlington, Mass. (12 percent), Huntsville, Ala. (1 percent), Andover, Mass. (2 percent), Tewksbury, Mass. (71 percent), El Paso, Texas (1 percent), Bedford, Mass. (12 percent), and Orlando, Fla. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jan. 9, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole source contract initiated on Aug. 26, 2003. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-04-C-0020).
Air Force
Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems, Clearfield, Utah, is being awarded a $10,202,970 cost-plus fixed-fee contract modification to provide for the attrition hardware effort in support of the full rate production year four for the propulsion replacement program on the Minuteman III weapon system. The contractor shall identify and provide for the procurement of GFP components that are known to be in short supply and are needed to preclude production shortages. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by April 2007. Negotiations were completed July 2005. The Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (F42610-98-C-0001).
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Source: Defensenews
July 14, 2005
Japan’s defense chief said July 14 his country could offer interceptor missiles it was developing with the United States to third countries, a sensitive issue under pacifist Japan’s controls on arms exports.
“It is possible to approve it depending on the case,” Defense Agency Director-General Yoshinori Ono told a parliament committee when asked about the issue. Ono said Japan would consider each case carefully and only consider such exports if the United State requested them, Jiji Press News Agency reported.
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