L-3

L-3 Communications Corporation, Arlington, Texas, is being awarded approximately $22 million for the hardware and software to upgrade the Canadian Air Force's training system from the existing Advanced Distributed Combat Training System to the current U.S. Navy Tactical Operation Flight Trainers Roadmap Procurement Program baseline. In addition, this contract includes the installation and testing of the hardware and software for six networked CF-18 nine-panel Tactical Operational Flight trainers; 10 Part Task Trainers and six brief and debrief systems; a theater specific visual database; Simulated Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System; new personal computer-based image generation; and operator, maintenance and user defined file training for approximately 10 students. This purchase is for the government of Canada under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Platform Integration Division, Waco, Texas, is being awarded nearly $538 million for the Airborne Sensors Program. Under this contract, L-3 Communications will provide mission support and operations and sustainment for the High Altitude Observatory I, II and III and the Wide-body Airborne Sensor Platform. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, is being awarded an approximate $10 million contract modification for 21 Tactical Common Data Link systems in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Surface/Aviation Interoperability Laboratory. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications EO/IR Incorporated, Santa Rosa, California, has been awarded a $21 million contract for 22 MX-15Di forward looking infrared radar sensors with laser designator for installation on Iraqi Armed 407 helicopters. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Waco, Texas, is being awarded an approximate $104 million contract for services in support of the P-3, EP-3, and NP-3 sustainment modification and installation program. This effort includes planned maintenance interval, structural replacement and fabrication efforts pertaining to special structural inspection kits, center wing assemblies, zone 5 kits, and outer wing installations and refurbishments. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activities.

L-3 Communications Incorporated, Santa Rosa, California, is being awarded a nearly $9 million contract for the procurement of MX-15HDi camera turrets hardware in support of Phase III of the Persistent Ground Surveillance Systems for the U. S. Army.  Hardware to be procured includes 11 camera turrets and 15 custom cable kits. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications Corporation, Systems Company, Camden, New Jersey, is being awarded a more than $10 million contract for interim contractor support in the sustainment capability for the key translation element and central advance extremely high frequency key management station. U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center, San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Services Incorporated, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, is being awarded a more than $8 million contract modification to exercise an option for engineering and technical services in support of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Special Communications Requirements Division. Services will support legacy, current and next-generation telecommunication and related system requirements for various Navy, Army, Air Force, special operations forces, and other agencies. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

The following companies are being awarded contracts potentially valued at $183 million each for Integrated Security Systems Sustainment support services: Lockheed Martin Corporation; Chenega Technical Services Corporation; Dataline; BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services; M.C. Dean; DRS Technical Services; L-3 Services; and Systems Applications and Solutions. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, South Carolina, is the contracting activity.

NASA has signed a contract modification increasing the not-to-exceed value of a support contract with L-3 Services of Fairfax, Virginia, by $49 million, bringing the total value of the contract to $98 million. The contract provides simulation and software technology support to Johnson Space Center's Software, Robotics and Simulation Division in the fields of design, development, testing and operations of intelligent systems, robotic systems, spacecraft flight software systems and real-time simulation systems. This work supports the development and operations of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, the Orion project, the Mission Operations Directorate training systems project and advanced programs for exploration.