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Battelle accepted the 2008 Army Aviation Materiel Readiness Award for Contribution by a Major Contractor at a ceremony during the 35th Annual Joseph P. Cribbins Symposium in Huntsville, Ala.
The Cribbins Symposium, hosted by the Tennessee Valley Chapter of the Army Aviation Association of America, is a gathering of senior leaders and stakeholders in the Army Aviation community to share thoughts on the future of Army Aviation logistics. The participants focus specifically on acquisition, logistics and technology challenges as government and industry partners balance aviation sustainment and modernization in support of an Army at war.
Battelle’s award-winning continuous technology refreshment program was cited as a solution to some of the key challenges facing the Army aviation community today. The Battelle program supports the U.S Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) in improving readiness through obsolescence solutions for aging platforms such as the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. In essence, Battelle develops modernized electronic replacement parts, with the same form, fit and function as the aging and increasingly unreliable legacy parts, which were designed decades ago.
As teammates with AMCOM, Battelle and its industry partner, Tyonek Fabrication Co., use current electronics technologies and innovative business practices in updating aging components to improve fleet readiness and enable life cycle cost control. The reduced cost and increased readiness on just a few technology-refreshed parts will save the Army hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade, and will put more reliable and capable equipment in the hands of Army warfighters. The program is now expanding to improve the readiness of several other legacy Army weapons systems.
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Derco Aerospace Supports Honeywell
Derco Aerospace, a Sikorsky Aerospace Services company, has expanded its distribution agreement with Honeywell Defense & Space (D&S) to include support and sales in six additional countries: South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Romania, Austria and Jordan. Derco now supports the Honeywell D&S military fixed wing products and services worldwide, except in Japan. Under the expanded agreement, Derco will further integrate Honeywell products into its supply chain management and fleet sustainment solutions for its customers around the world. Sikorsky Aerospace Services is the worldwide aftermarket business of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.
“Derco is excited to expand on its existing relationship with Honeywell and begin supporting these additional countries with high-quality Honeywell products at reduced lead times,” said Brian Holt, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Derco Aerospace. “Customers will now enjoy the same level of industry-leading support on Honeywell products they have come to expect from Derco on other critical programs.”
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Kari Atkinson,
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Lockheed awarded $5B SOCOM Support Contract
On March 3/09, the Pentagon announced that Lockheed Martin has been chosen as the designated contractor for SOFSA CLS, which has 3 primary components: (1) aircraft, vehicle and equipment maintenance, (2) critical infrastructure support, and (3) business process transformation.
Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will repair and maintain the fleet of Special Operations aircraft, ground vehicles, weaponry and electronics equipment, to include managing a global supply chain of parts, warehouses, and depots. The contracted firm also manages and upgrade SOCOM’s critical infrastructure, from secure IT networks to worldwide facilities. Finally, the firm works with SOFSA at Blue Grass Station, Lexington, Ky., to implement leaner, more efficient business processes that can deliver improvements in reliability, responsiveness, cost, and/or speed.
Jet Fuel Supplier Renews Contract
Jacksonville Jet Port LLC, Jacksonville, Fla., a fixed base operator at Cecil Field, has won the renewal of a $23 million, four-year contract to provide fuel for military aircraft.
The company took over the contract with the Defense Energy Support Center last May when another fixed base operator, Signature Flight Support, ended operations at Cecil Field.
Lawson said the bulk of the fuel the company will provide will be to Boeing, which works on Navy and Marine Corps F-18s at Cecil. It will also provide fuel for the Navy’s repair arm, NADEP, as well as the Coast Guard, Army National Guard and Customs and Border Patrol.
Delivery Order for New and Recapitalized HEMTT A4s
Oshkosh Corp. has announced that its Defense division has received a delivery order for $477 million from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM). The delivery order calls for more than 1,350 new and recapitalized Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) A4s and more than 1,000 Palletized Load System Trailers (PLST).
With this latest order, the value for the Oshkosh Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) III contract has risen to more than $2.1 billion. The delivery order includes 750 new vehicles and 600 recapitalized vehicles, comprised of the Oshkosh HEMTT A4 variants of tankers, wreckers, cargo and Load Handling Systems (LHS).♦
* Compiled by KMI Media Group staff