air traffic control

Flintco Limited Liability Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was awarded a $16,915,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of a new air traffic control tower located at March Air Reserve Base, California. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Kentucky, is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics C4 Systems recently received a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deliver radios that allow air traffic control personnel to communicate with commercial and military aircraft throughout the National Airspace System (NAS). The 10-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a potential value of $363 million if all options are exercised. The contract is part of the FAA's Next Generation Air-Ground Communications (NEXCOM) Segment 2 program which includes replacing outmoded air traffic control (ATC) air-to-ground radios with radios using the latest in communications technology. The software-defined CM300/350 VHF and UHF air traffic control radios will provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities along with improved ground-to-air communications performance.

Raytheon Network Centric Systems, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $7,027,114 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for engineering and technical services in support of the air traffic, navigation, integration, and coordination system for the Air Traffic Control Systems Division. These services will provide engineering changes, field support, maintenance support, depot requirements, and system restoration. In addition, the work provided will include fault isolation, assembly, disassembly, fabrication, refurbishment, upgrading, purchasing of parts, components, assemblies, and materials, and fleet support activities to return the system to a level of serviceability comparable to a new system. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Gallium Visual Systems, Damascus, Maryland, has announced that it was recently awarded a a $3 million contract for the delivery and integration of an embedded trainer for the U.S. Navy AN/TPX-42(V) identification friend or foe systems. The AN/TPX-42(V) provides the primary air traffic control capability in the carrier air traffic control centers and amphibious air traffic control centers aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. The firm fixed price contract, competitively awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, provides options for up to 50 production systems.

Trandes Corporation, Lanham, Maryland, is being awarded a potential value $51,186,607 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide various Defense Department systems commands technical and engineering services support for a variety of airspace systems; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; Marine air traffic control and landing/air traffic control and landing and mobile fixed/tactical fixed systems. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Company of Marlborough, Massachusetts, is being awarded about $21 million for: a wide-area, multilateration, en-route airway surveillance system for the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in support of the U.S. combatant forces in Afghanistan and the Kyrgyzstan Republic; air traffic control tower construction at Manas International Airport; and relocation of existing Kyrgyz Aero Navigatzia equipment to the new tower. The contracting activity is Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.

Raytheon Company, Marlborough, Massachusetts, was awarded a more than $19 million contract for the program management and engineering services relating to the Air Traffic Navigation Integration Coordination System hardware and the radio retrofitting project. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $10 million contract modification to support system design, engineering, integration, installation, training, operational support, and in-service engineering for the Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems used by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and other Department of Defense activities. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, signed a contract valued at $16 million to provide the Kuwait General directorate of civil aviation with air traffic control systems. The company will equip the international airport of Kuwait City with an ATCR-33/S primary radar, an SIR-S secondary radar and a ground station Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, a high-performance system for en-route, terminal area and airport surveillance applications. The contract, which will last about three years, also includes the supply of the logistic and post sales support and the relevant civil works.