Charter Airline Company Receives $61M DoD Contract

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) handed out several work contracts Wednesday, the largest of which was awarded to Tennessee-based Corporate Flight Management

The company will be will be receiving an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price contract for Domestic Charter Airlift Services. The combined face for the contracts is around $61.2 million. The project will be worked on through the country and should be finished by Sept. 30. According to the DoD, the “type of appropriation is fiscal year 2015 Transportation Working Capital Funds to be obligated on individual task order.”

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L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corporation received the second largest deal, a $20.7 million cost-plus-incentive-fee undefinitized Navy contract (meaning the contract terms and prices weren’t agreed upon before the work began).

The deal tasks L-3 Chesapeake Sciences with producing six TB-29A Compact Towed Array (CTA) production representative units. The units will eventually be put into Virginia Class Submarines.

According to the DoD, the contract is a product of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) topic number N05-125, Compact Towed Sonar Array.

“TB-29A CTA provides the U.S. Naval Fleet with the next generation of array technology to address reliability and maintain mission operational

capability,” said the Department of Defense. “The TB-29A CTA is a reliability improvement array that incorporates CTA telemetry while maintaining TB-29A acoustic performance.”

Half of the work will be performed in Millersville, Md., where the company is headquartered. The remaining labor will be split evenly between Ashaway R.I. and Liverpool, N.Y. The project should be completed by August 2016. The letter contract should be definitized by October. More than $8.8 million in fiscal 2013 to 2015 shipbuilding and conversion funding will be assigned at the time of the award.

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Lockheed Martin Corporation was given a $13.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed price contract modification for F16 modernization. As part of the contract, Lockheed Martin will incorporate a Turkey assigned F16-aircraft with Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare capabilities.

The contract is completely assigned for foreign military sales to Turkey. The work will take place in in Fort Worth, Texas and should be completed by Dec. 31, 2017.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is being granted a $12.2 million modification to a past firm-fixed-price Navy contract. As part of the work, the company will manufacture, build, and test two B Kits, including weapons replaceable assemblies and antennas. The equipment will later be installed into aircraft for future installation into the E6-B aircraft.

The majority of the work (77 percent) will be conducted in Salt Lake City, Utah, while San Diego (20 percent) and Woodland Hills, Calif. (3 percent) will also take in labor. The project should be finished by December 2016.

American American Overseas Corporation of Quincy, Mass. landed a $16.9 million modification to a past firm-fixed-price Navy Contract in order to exercise an operation for work on several large and medium-sized speed roll-on/roll-off ships.

The work was awarded as part of a competitive acquisition in which two offers were received.

The Department of Defense said the ships support military forces deployed throughout the world.

The sea-based work should be completed by Oct. 14, 2015.

received a $9.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Air Force Contract for integrated space environmental technologies. As part of the work, the group will conduct research and development. The project, which should be finished by April 1, 2019.