Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) has recently released the following Requests for Proposals (RFP), modifications and other notifications: * The US Navy adds an additional clause and extends the closing date to 9th September for its RFP for a Firm Fixed Price (FFP)...
* Concerns are raised that the presence of Chinese telecommunications companies in US markets may provide the People's Liberation Army (PLA) with 'back door' opportunities to listen to communications networks. * Analysts outline the pros and cons of the respective...
More than copiers?(click to view full) At the end of August 2011, Xerox Corp. in Rosemont, IL received a 5-year, $103 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for digital copiers and accompanying services, at Defense Logistics Agency...
* The Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC) formally submits Transforming Wartime Contracting - Controlling costs reducing risks [PDF] to Congress. The report says that at least $31 billion has been lost to contract waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, and...
Sniper event gear(click to view full) At the end of August 2011, the U.S. Army Contracting Command in Warren, MI issued a maximum $475 million firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity multiple-award-contract for the Army Targetry Systems program....
BAP Carvajal(click to view full) Italian-built Lupo Class frigates currently form the high-end backbone of Peru's navy, with 8 of the 3,000t Carvajal Class ships serving. Four were built under license from 1984-1987, and the 2nd batch of 4 ships was decommissioned by...
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has a central role in addressing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Their Research and Development Enterprise [PDF] is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from protective gear, to predictive and...
Aug 30/11: The President and Fellows of Harvard College in Cambridge, MA receive a $6.7 million cost reimbursement contract for research to develop technologies and approaches to predict natural viral evolution. We'd all benefit from that, but we're still likely to be...
* The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awards Teledyne Brown Engineering an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $595 million for the development, deployment and sustainment of an Objective Simulation Framework (OSF). *...