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The sluggish growth of the economy will make it difficult to maintain current defense funding, the Defense Department’s chief financial officer told attendees at the 2011 Defense Logistics Agency Industry Conference and Exhibition here yesterday.

The Navy is awarding indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts to 333 contractors that will provide for their competition for service requirements solicited by Naval Sea Systems Command

The Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $258,335,789 modification to a fixed-price award fee contract to exercise the fiscal 2011, fourth quarter, option contract line items.

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, LP, Platform Integration Division, Waco, Texas, is being awarded a $537,971,180 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order contract consisting of cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee line items for the Airborne Sensors Program for a five-year base and five one-year options.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $182,341,825 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-5305) for low-rate initial production of fiscal 2011 Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) Block I all up rounds (AUR).

Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on June 16 a $226,277,100 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the purchase of 5,131 underbody improvement kits for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Plymouth, Minn., was awarded on June 15 a $45,735,354 firm-fixed-price contract.

ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Annapolis, Md. (N61331-11-D-0011); Falcon Fabrication, Inc., Lacey's Spring, Ala. (N61331-11-D-0012); and L-3 Services, Inc., Mount Laurel, N.J. (N61331-11-D-0013), are each being awarded firm-fixed-price

L-3 Stratis, Reston, Va. (H92222-11-D-0014); General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Va. (H92222-11-D-0015); Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va. (H92222-11-D-0016);

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded on June 10 a $438,206,796 contract.

The effort to get a Force Multiplier for Gulf War Veterans is gaining strength through Community Building on Facebook.

Defense Department officials want to hear by July 6 from the civilian employers of reservists and National Guardsmen in a survey intended to measure the impact of service members on the civilian workplace.

The Defense Department is raising objections to key parts of a bipartisan veterans employment bill, but it may end up being costs — not those complaints — that force lawmakers to scale back on the ambitious legislation.

Vortex Marine Construction, Inc., Oakland, Calif., was awarded on June 6 a $500,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award-task-order contract.

Mountain Movers Ainesworth-Benning, LLC, Rapid City, S.D. (FA4690-11-D-1005); Pro-Mark Services, Inc., West Fargo, N.D. (FA4690-11-D-1006); Rangel

Vitol, Inc.*, Houston, Texas, was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $114,438,946 for aviation turbine fuel.

Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Orlando, Fla., is being awarded a $70,300,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter training facility and training hangar at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

Recognizing the huge national security implications of compromised U.S. computer networks, a senior Pentagon official said the Defense Department is working hand in hand with the Department of Homeland Security and others to shore up vulnerabilities against an increasingly sophisticated threat.

On May 31, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) multiple-award Omnibus contracts were extended as a modification to each of the three existing contracts: TASC-M, Andover, Mass

The Boeing Co., Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $61,138,793 firm-fixed-price contract modification for the C-130 Avionic Modernization Program (AMP) low rate initial production, part two to Lot 2, including two C-130 AMP kits;

ITT Communications Systems, Fort Wayne, Ind., was awarded on May 27 a $569,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract.

CH2M Hill, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded a maximum amount $170,000,000 cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for comprehensive long-term environmental action services on Navy and Marine Corps installations

General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $744,129,956 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2229) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of two mobile landing platform ships.

Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee modification under contract HQ0276-10-C-0005, P00011. The total award value of this action is $110,678,886, resulting in a new cumulative contract value of $275,967,245.

Recently, VA Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould testified to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on VA and DoD collaboration. The Deputy focused on joint initiatives to make the transition from Servicemember to Veteran seamless. Read the statement here.

The PTSD Coach smartphone application (app), launched in April by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), has already helped more than 5,000 users connect with important mental health information and resources.

During the debate over the repeal of Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell, social conservatives in congress argued that the repeal of the military’s policy banned openly gay and lesbian troops would have an adverse impact on the religious freedom and careers of military chaplains….

Researchers from the Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) have produced a new 56-page guidebook to spur more collaboration between the agencies on clinical health research.

This is excellent news and should be distributed to all gulf war and current troops and family members as soon as possible and widely. I want all veterans to know that the IOM and their chair actively have changed their position and are now on the side of the veterans! This took a while to break them from just following DOD and VA directions and to function on the side of getting real answers to a real health problem! They are now advocating for us! It may not be all you want but it is definitely a step in right direction!

MINNETONKA, Minn. (April 7, 2011) – The Department of Defense (DoD) has sustained a protest by UnitedHealthcare’s Military & Veterans business and will undertake corrective action regarding the TRICARE West Region contract award. The DoD has indicated that it will update its solicitation for the contract and invite updated proposals. The decision pertains to the July 2009 award of the TRICARE West Region contract to the incumbent administrator.

As we look at twenty years since the Gulf War 1990-91/Operation Desert Storm the writer has to wonder have we made headway? The writer wants the President, the VA, the DOD, the legislators both US Senators and Representatives to hear from the veterans that counted on our government to do the right thing morally and ethically. If we had really been tuned into the history of the veterans of World War 1, Atomic Veterans, and Agent Orange Veterans we would not have been so deceived. Maybe the All Volunteer Force would not have been reality. Maybe a draft would still be in affect. But the troops felt it a DUTY, A Sacred Duty to serve their country. They were well educated and trained. Many were college graduates, almost all had completed high school and had a beginning on college level education, in total a different profile than the Vietnam Veterans. Many had families with military traditions and service.

The aim to tie the story of environmental hazards to all that have been concerned from the patient sufferers be it civilian or military, to the lead Senator that exposed the Plight of the Gulf War Veterans in 1994(Senator Reigle), to the doctors that cared to try to answer the needs despite government interference, to the researchers that are finally now being funded thanks to the Gulf War Veterans efforts, and to the government agencies that were to have our backs but that have interfered and delayed help to those that need it the most. This not a story about whiners, this is the investigative report that covers the science and the research that has taken over 20 years to finally have an awakening that millions are truly sufferring.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, Calif., was awarded a $148,255,502 contract which will procure 24 MQ-9 Reaper production aircraft.

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Hurst, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $95,946,830 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for various assembly parts

Hey, General Peter Chiarelli, the suicides must some of that 'risky behavior' done in blatant violation of existing Army policies and standards, you dolt! You ever wish the DoD had...

Hot News Is Expected for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers XMRV Findings More Expected This is exciting news in the civilian world for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers that may...

- The politicians, generals (if there be a difference), and assorted hacks and kiss-asses appearing on the news shows to discuss the epidemic of suicide...

It is with the purpose of freedom- of being able to read all sides of the issue- that I share this resource I found...

The bill would cut the DoD's budget and use that money to make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free. Last week, as Congress prepared to pass yet another “emergency” spending bill to cover America’s costly operations in Iraq and Afghanistan -- to the tune of $159 billion this time around -- Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, introduced a bill that would force the Pentagon to pick up the tab out of its ample regular budget.

The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, of Oakville, Ontario, and U.S. Colonel John McHugh, 46, of W. Caldwell, New Jersey. It also claimed the lives of Lieutenant Colonels Paul Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, Wis., and Thomas Belkofer, 44, of Perrysburg, Ohio. Other fatalities were Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., and Specialist Joshua Tomlinson, 24, of Dubberly, La.

Warring against waste, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday he is ordering a top-to-bottom paring of the military bureaucracy in search of at least $10 billion in annual savings needed to prevent an erosion of U.S. combat power. He took aim at what he called a bloated bureaucracy, wasteful business practices and too many generals and admirals, and outlined an ambitious plan for reform that's almost certain to stir opposition in the corridors of Congress and Pentagon.

Though informed sources who shot down the Bush-Cheney administration's false propaganda program on Iraq are now knocking down the AIPAC-pushed "Iran threat," the Obama administration appears...