Raul DIEGO

The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it, financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and HHS’ BARDA.

The revolutionary breakthrough came to a Canadian scientist named Derek Rossi in 2010 purely by accident. The now-retired Harvard professor claimed in an interview with the National Post that he found a way to “reprogram” the molecules that carry the genetic instructions for cell development in the human body, not to mention all biological lifeforms.

These molecules are called ‘messenger ribonucleic acid’ or mRNA and the newfound ability to rewrite those instructions to produce any kind of cell within a biological organism has radically changed the course of Western medicine and science, even if no one has really noticed yet. As Rossi, himself, puts it: “The real important discovery here was you could now use mRNA, and if you got it into the cells, then you could get the mRNA to express any protein in the cells, and this was the big thing.”

It was so big that by 2014, Rossi was able to retire after the company he co-founded with Flagship Pioneering private equity firm to exploit his innovation, – Moderna Inc., attracted almost a half billion dollars in federal award monies to begin developing vaccines using the technology. No longer affiliated with Moderna beyond his stock holdings, Rossi is just “watching for what happens next” and if he’s anything like the doting “hockey dad” he is portrayed to be, he must be horrified.

Remote control biology

As early as 2006, DARPA was already researching how to identify viral, upper respiratory pathogens through its Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) program, which led to the creation of the agency’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), as reported by Whitney Webb in a May article for The Last American Vagabond. In 2014, DARPA’s BTO launched its “In Vivo Nanoplatforms” (IVN) program, which researches implantable nanotechnologies, leading to the development of ‘hydrogel’.

Hydrogel is a nanotechnology whose inventor early on boasted that “If [it] pans out, with approval from FDA, then consumers could get the sensors implanted in their core to measure their levels of glucose, oxygen, and lactate.” This contact lens-like material requires a special injector to be introduced under the skin where it can transmit light-based digital signals through a wireless network like 5G.

Once firmly implanted inside the body, human cells are at the mercy of any mRNA program delivered via this substrate, unleashing a nightmare of possibilities. It is, perhaps, the first true step towards full-on transhumanism; a “philosophy” that is in vogue with many powerful and influential people, such as Google’s Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt and whose proponents see the fusion of technology and biology as an inevitable consequence of human progress.

The private company created to market this technology, that allows for biological processes to be controlled remotely and opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses and, ultimately, our entire existence, is called Profusa Inc and its operations are funded with millions from NIH and DARPA. In March, the company was quietly inserted into the crowded COVID-19 bazaar in March 2020, when it announced an injectable biochip for the detection of viral respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.

A wholly-owned subsidiary

In July, a preliminary report funded by Fauci’s NIAID and the NIH on an mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluding that mRNA-1273 vaccine. provided by Moderna for the study, “induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified,” and supported “further development of this vaccine.”

A month earlier, the NIH had claimed a joint stake in Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, citing a contract signed in December, 2019, stipulating that the “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates [are] developed and jointly owned” by both parties. Moderna disputes the federal government’s position, stating that the company “has a broad owned and licensed IP estate” and is “not aware of any IP that would prevent us from commercializing our product candidates, including mRNA-1273.”

The only obstacle is a delivery system, which though Moderna claims to be developing separately, is unlikely to get FDA approval before the federal government’s own DARPA-developed hydrogel technology, in tandem with Profusa’s DARPA-funded light sensor technology, which is expected to receive fast track authorization from the Food and Drug Administration by early 2021 and, more than likely, used to deploy a coronavirus vaccine with the capacity to literally change our DNA.

In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is currently investigating Moderna’s patent filings, claiming it failed to disclose “federal government support” in its COVID vaccine candidate patent applications, as required by law. The technicality could result in the federal government owning a 100 percent stake in mRNA-1273.

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Do you lay awake at night terrified that the Russians are able to control your mind with information warfare while the US government’s slavish devotion to democratic values leaves it powerless to stop them? Me neither. But according to The Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor and Pentagon board member bent on hijacking the underlying infrastructure of the economy, we should be.

WaPo columnist David Ignatius, who has been one of the more hyperbolic promulgators of western Russia hysteria in written media, has published an article titled “Why America is losing the information war to Russia” about a new book by former State Department undersecretary for public diplomacy Richard Stengel. Stengel and Ignatius engage in a joyful Red Scare frolic with the exuberance of two little boys with a box of spray paints, each trying to one-up the other in hysterical apocalyptic ominousness about the way evil, authoritarian governments like Russia have been able to weaponize information while freedom-loving democracies can only look on in passive despair.

“The cruel paradox of the Internet, once hailed as a liberating force, is that it empowers governments that control information and enfeebles those that let it run free,” warns Ignatius.

“[Authoritarian governments] have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting it,” cautions Stengel. “They understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer its undoing.”

Unsurprisingly, at no point during this brotherly romp does Ignatius bother to make mention of the fact that Stengel is actually on record saying he supports the use of propaganda and believes the US government should be using it on its own citizens.

“Basically, every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief propagandist’ job,” Stengel said last year at an event organized by the shockingly ubiquitous narrative management firm Council on Foreign Relations.

“I’m not against propaganda,” Stengel said. “Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”

When an audience member objected to what he’d just heard, Stengel curtly dismissed him and ended the talk.

So anyway, that’s what the CIA/Pentagon/plutocracy-tied Washington Post wants you to be sure of: that evil governments are controlling your mind with information warfare, and that the US government is struggling to rescue you from that fate. Lucky for you, this report just so happens to be coming out at the same time as we’re learning that the Pentagon is already currently working on a program to protect you from wrongthink by controlling your access to information.

Congratulations to “online disinformation” alarmists who gave implicit approval to this new Pentagon initiative to “detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society” https://t.co/LDQcNld55y

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) 3 сентября 2019 г.

A recent Bloomberg article titled “U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation” reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a new project called the Semantic Forensics program with which “the military research agency hopes it can spot fake news with malicious intent before going viral.”

“If successful, the system after four years of trials may expand to detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society,” Bloomberg reports.

DARPA (formerly ARPA) is a top contender among some very stiff competition for the absolute creepiest of all US government agencies. Journalist Yasha Levine has done a lot of work documenting the way the agency has been intimately involved in internet surveillance since before the internet was even really a thing, beginning in the 1960s with its ARPANET program whose technologies went on to form the foundation of the World Wide Web. DARPA is also engaged in such charming activities as exploring ways to knit AI into human neurology, funding programs to control America’s election infrastructure, pouring billions of dollars into the creation of a robot army and constructing robotic insects which can crawl up walls.

Futurists have long envisioned a utopia where mankind reaps the benefits of soaring technological innovations which will overcome our every obstacle and lead us to an unprecedented state of human thriving. What they failed to account for was sociopathic government agencies like DARPA being intimately involved in those technologies from the very beginning.

Let’s please ban the word “narrative” from our discussion of the news and this president. There is only one version of the facts and the truth. Full stop.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) 26 августа 2019 г.

Power is being able to control what happens. Absolute power is being able to control what people think about what happens. If you can control what happens, you can have power until the public gets sick of your bullshit and tosses you out on your ass. If you can control what people think about what happens, you can have power forever. As long as you can control how people are interpreting circumstances and events, there’s no limit to the evils you can get away with.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Governments understand this and so do their propagandists, and so, increasingly, do the rank-and-file public. Which is why you’ve now got establishment narrative managers like CNN’s Jim Sciutto saying things like “Let’s please ban the word ‘narrative’ from our discussion of the news and this president. There is only one version of the facts and the truth.” Mass media propagandists would like nothing better than to have people cease paying attention to the concept of narrative and go back to believing that when they turn on CNN they are receiving objective truth from the authoritative arbiters of absolute reality.

But that cat’s out of the bag. What has been seen cannot be unseen. A large number of people are aware that there are some very powerful forces who have a vested interest in controlling the thoughts that are in their head, and that number is growing every day. These powerful forces have responded to this new development by becoming increasingly ham-fisted in regulating the public’s access to ideas and information, and now it’s a race to see if they can slam the gates on us before we escape our cage forever.

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September marked the end of the fiscal year, a time when the Pentagon ramps up its spending spree.

The U.S. Department of Defense spent at least $68,624,394,000 on 689 individual contracts during September 2018. This amount does not include 35 Foreign Military Sales transactions worth $2,065,896,000.

War is a racket. Here are the corporations making a killing.

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS) – Through FMS, the U.S. government procures and transfers materiel to allied nations and international organizations.

AeroVironment received $8,868,341 for FMS (Estonia): RQ-20B Puma AE II.

American Ordnance received $56,883,137 for FMS (Austria and Lebanon): 155mm HE projectile M795 TNT.

Antenna Associates Inc. received $12,735,759 for Band III semi-omni antennas in support of the AN/SLQ-32(V) Electronic Countermeasure Warfare System, which provides surveillance, warning, and countermeasures against missiles. 40% of this deal is FMS (Egypt, Poland, Taiwan).

BAE Systems received $28,900,000 for FMS to Japan (68%); Australia (22%); South Korea (6%); Netherlands (4%): MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) MK 13 MOD 0 canisters and coding plugs for SM-2. Canisters provide rocket motor exhaust gas containment and a launch rail during missile firing. Canisters also serve as missile shipping and storage containers.

Bethel Industries received roughly $34,907,000 for coats for the Afghan National Army.

Colt received $57,722,819 for FMS (Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Senegal, Tunisia, Pakistan): up to 10,000 additional M4 and M4A1 5.56mm carbines.

General Dynamics received $44,353,964 for FMS (Afghanistan, Nigeria, Australia, Lebanon, Philippines) Hydra rockets.

General Electric received $58,569,065 for FMS (Saudi Arabia): sustainment of Saudi F-15SA. Provides F110-129 engine consumables, spares, war-readiness spare kits, and support equipment.

Lockheed Martin received $59,941,683 for USA and FMS (U.K., Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea): modernized-radar frequency interferometers, spares, sustainment hardware, and associated support functions.

Lockheed Martin received $28,741,847 FMS (Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, UAE): field service representative support for UH-60 helicopters.

Navistar Defense received $31,437,478 and received $22,103,643 for FMS (Iraq): 4×4 and 6×6 trucks.

Northrop Grumman (Orbital ATK) received $12,072,734 for Common Munitions Built-In Test Reprogramming Equipment test sets; ADU-891(V)1/E and V(3)/E adaptor units; spares; and spares for USA, Morocco, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and Oman.

Raytheon received $1,528,780,740 for FMS (Poland): PATRIOT systems.

Raytheon received $59,104,375 for FMS (UAE): radar sustainment and/or logistics support, spares, repair and return services, training, technical and engineering services, and logistics readiness support. Raytheon received $13,579,174 for FMS (UAE, Australia, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Thailand): ARC-231 hardware.

Raytheon received $8,932,665 for FMS (Jordan) for repair and return of Integrated Fire Control System.

Universal Propulsion Co. received $10,688,524 for sequencers used in ejection seats on some aircraft. Involves FMS to Oman, Portugal, Poland, Bahrain, Romania, Denmark, Singapore, Greece, Egypt, South Korea, Netherlands, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan.

UNINHABITED VEHICLES & CRAFT

Aretè Associates Inc. received $40,378,366 for coastal battlefield reconnaissance & analysis (COBRA) AN/DVS-1 systems, program support, and item orders / spares for COBRA Block 1 System.

General Atomics received $50,000- $15,000,000 for integration and testing support for Medium Altitude, Long Endurance Tactical (MALET) MQ-9 and MQ-1C SOF-peculiar modifications. Includes procurement of aircraft kits and analysis & studies to inform future MALET decisions / modifications.

General Atomics received $15,796,523 for MQ-1C Gray Eagle extended range aircraft unique initial spares and ground support equipment. General Atomics received$441,634,278 for technical services for MQ-1C.

General Atomics received $92,203,130 for MQ-9 FY2018 Block 30 Ground Control Station (GCS) retrofits (MD-1A Block 15 to MD-1A Block 30).

Leidos Inc. received $9,805,063 and received $9,805,063 to complete the integration, testing, qualification of the RQ-7B Shadow Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing program at Redstone Arsenal, AL. L3 Technologies received $9,054,373 for RQ-7B Shadow spares. Rockwell Collins received $14,986,216 for Airborne Computer Equipment V Architecture Zero equipment for the RQ-7B Shadow.

L3 received $8,082,879 for Sensor Operator Fidelity Improvements IV. L3 received$7,209,803 for Block 30 Phase 3 Hardware effort on Predator Mission Aircrew Training System (PMATS).

L3 received $8,514,907 for R&D to design, test and build high gain antenna (HGA) common data link (CDL) engineering development models and production HGA/CDL for Maritime Patrol & Reconnaissance Aircraft (PMA-290) and Persistent Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-262).

Northrop Grumman received $11,900,000 for continuing operations & maintenance efforts in support of Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator Program (BAMS-D).

Northrop Grumman received $14,105,649 for Identification Friend or Foe Mode 5 for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) platform fleet. Northrop Grumman received $15,156,662 for operational systems. Northrop Grumman received $80,228,674 for military GPS in support of BACN fleet.

Northrop Grumman received $14,243,026 for reconstitution and rehabilitation of 10 ground-control station shelters, Sierra Vista, AZ.

Northrop Grumman received $64,800,000 for MQ-4C Triton Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) LRIP 3 initial spares maintenance. L3 Technologies received $7,736,715 and received $11,370,507 for Triton spare parts for U.S. Navy.

Raytheon received $10,688,510 for MQ-8 tactical control system 2016 Linux cyber baseline implementation of build 9 software release. Telephonics Corp. received$23,523,298 for AN/ZPY-4 Radar supplies (radar sets, antenna pedestals, transmitters, etc.) for MQ-8B Fire Scout for U.S. Navy.

Six corporations will compete for $49,999,976 for Autonomous Unmanned Systems Teaming and Collaboration in GPS-Denied Environments Program.

COUNTER-UAS

Syracuse Research Corp. received $25,720,017 for logistics and engineering support of deployed systems and for continued development, production, integration, spares, delivery, deployment and logistics support for the Low-Slow-Small UAS Integrated Defeat System.

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION – The Pentagon spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to convince U.S. citizens to fight in elective wars.

Blue Skies Furniture LLC received $11,364,203 for branded furniture in support of Marine Corps Recruiting.

USAFRICOM

URS Group received $12,278,673 for “global contingency construction,” specifically runway repairs at Camp Baledogle, Somalia.

USCENTCOM

ACC Construction Co. received $29,856,621 for Access Control Point at Fort Gordon, GA. Gilbane Federal received $23,008,511 to repair Allen Hall (Building 29813) in Fort Gordon, GA. Gilbane Federal received $12,255,392 to build automation-aided instructional building, Fort Gordon, GA. Leebcor Services LLC received $12,710,399 to build a Naval Operational Support Center (NOSC), serving as the Navy Reserve headquarters, training, operations, medical service center, and gathering location at Fort Gordon. I put this group of contracts in the CENTCOM category because a good chunk of Fort Gordon’s SIGINT work focuses on the Middle East.

Black Construction MACE International JV (Barrigada, Guam) received $13,152,622 to repair Transmitter Building, Facility 601, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia.

Iron Bow Technologies received $8,083,310 for Cisco networking software, licenses and equipment for 408th Combat Support Battalion, Qatar.

JM Ship received $10,192,260 to transport dry cargo utilizing M/V Mohawk, with the bulk of the cargo moving between the U.S. East Coast and the Persian Gulf.

Mission 1st Group received $14,538,390 for subject matter experts to assist with communications and networking infrastructure, as well as perform project management and information assurance in Kuwait, Afghanistan, Jordan.

Sierra Nevada Corp. received $1,808,000,000 for potential procurement, sustainment, modifications, ferry, and related equipment for the A-29. Work at Moody AFB, GA; and Kabul, Kandahar, and Mazari Sharif Air Bases in Afghanistan. Involves FMS to Afghanistan, but is initially funded using Afghanistan Security Forces funds.

USEUCOM

Aerovironment Inc. received $8,868,341 for providing RQ-20B Puma AE II systems and support to Estonia.

USINDOPACOM

Alan Shintani Inc. received $11,577,000 for converting the five high traffic aircraft turning areas from asphalt to concrete at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

Erickson Helicopters received $28,447,076 for dedicated rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft in the Pacific with a focus on the Philippines.

USSOCOM

Chesapeake Technology International received $30,000,000 for data management architecture synchronization, sustainment and support to USSOCOM. Work in Colorado Springs, CO.

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense received $25,000,000 for detonators used in close quarter breaching, military demolition, and explosive ordnance disposal.

Geoweb3d Inc. received $17,233,795 for Special Operations Mission Planning & Execution Plan next generation three-dimension mapping engine (design, develop, integrate).

Hardwire LLC received $8,000,000 for SOF personal equipment advanced requirements (SPEAR) soft body armor ballistic inserts.

Harris Corp. received $93,500,000 for a suite of radio frequency countermeasure components and services for technology applications and CV-22 program offices.

Harris Corp. received $255,421,604 for B-52 and C-130 SOF aircraft parts. 

Leonardo DRS received $11,662,795 to repair AN/APQ-170 Multi-Mode Radar System components. This radar is used on MC-130H aircraft.

Leonardo DRS received $20,966,982 for improved day/night observation devices (INOD). INOD is a cooled thermal mid-wave infrared imager that is marketed as being able to import data, export images, & engage targets beyond 800 meters.

L3 received $23,637,320 for Miniature Aiming System – Day Optics close quarter combat sights and clip-on magnifiers in support of USSOCOM. L3 received $48,500,000 for Squad Aiming Lasers (SAL), spare parts, and training in support of USSOCOM. SAL is a laser system for compact rifles and assault rifles.

Oceaneering International Inc. received $68,879,200 for Dry Deck Shelter (DDS) Program maintenance, product improvement, and design services for Naval Special Warfare Command.

RQ Construction received $63,586,000 for design and construction of Special Operations Forces, SEAL Operations Facilities for Teams 1 and 3 at the Naval Special Warfare Coastal Campus, Coronado, CA. Solpac Construction received $10,183,000 for design and construction of the Mobile Communication Detachment Facility at the Naval Special Warfare Coastal Campus, Coronado.

Solpac Construction received $24,597,000 to design and build the SOF Desert Warfare Training Center at MCAS Camp Billy Machen, Brawley, CA.

USSOUTHCOM

Airtec Inc. received $26,948,745 for ISR flight hours, operations, maintenance, development, testing, and evaluation of currently integrated aircraft systems and associated ground systems in support of the Falcon-I program. Work in Bogotá, Colombia (85%) and California, MD (15%).

Hornbeck Offshore received $7,471,447 to charter HOS Mystique supporting U.S. Southern Command. This vessel provides “proof of concept for a single vessel to meet various training, exercise, experimentation, and operational mission support requirements.”

Maytag Aircraft Corp. received $20,950,164 for alongside aircraft refueling services for the U.S. Navy in Colorado and Cuba.

Support Systems Associates received $31,195,898 for RC-26 avionics upgrade.

Six construction corporations received $75,000,000 each for construction projects at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay (NSGB) Cuba.

Six construction corporations including Centerra and an AECOM-RQ joint venture received a max. shared $240,000,000 for construction projects located primarily within NAVFAC Southeast, specifically Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)

Chenega Infinity received $8,244,812 for physical security support (developing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving programs) complementing DARPA’s missions, to help accomplish Security & Intelligence Directorate’s mission; and “fully comply with public law, national policy, applicable executive orders, and DOD directives, instructions, and regulations.”

Packet Forensics received $10,000,000 for DARPA Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems (HACCS) research project.

CORPORATE CAPTURE OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE / ESPIONAGE

ADC Ltd. NM received roughly $34,711,000 to conduct background investigations for DIAPersonnel Security Division’s mission. Part of its work is determining who gets access to sensitive compartmented information (SCI).

AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, Harris Corp., KeyW, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Macaulay-Brown Inc., Northrop Grumman, Southwest Research Institute received a shared $500,000,000 (max.) for research, development, technical, and engineering services to support DIA Directorate for Science & Technology.

Deloitte Consulting Group LLP received $9,042,536 for conceptualizing, designing, and supporting a DOD-led Personnel Vetting Transformation Office (PVTO) within the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. This supports transforming and modernizing personnel vetting, and moves background investigations from OPM to the Department of War.

Grand Ground Enterprise received roughly $61,261,000 to provide DIA’s Office of Counterintelligence and the Joint Staff Counterintelligence & Human Intelligence Deputy Directorate with counterintelligence analysis support. These services help “identify and neutralize threats to DIA personnel, information and missions” and “includes strategic-level analysis focused on all-source analysis.” Prescient Edge Corp. received $65,080,499 to provide DIA’s Office of Counterintelligence Counterespionage with counterintelligence activity support. These services also help “identify and neutralize threats to DIA personnel, information and missions.”

Mantech received $12,918,248 for SCI and Special Access Program (SAP) security services to Space & Missile Systems Center and Air Force Space Command operational units (e.g. Los Angeles, Vandenberg, Peterson, and Schriever AFB).

ACADEMIA – U.S. academia has largely supported the U.S. war industry. Faculty and staff often justify this ethical compromise by claiming that the funding is too good to turn down and that they, the academics, are ultimately not the ones determining when, where, or how to use the weaponry being developed.

University of Alabama received $27,358,213 for testing, evaluation, and analysis of experiments and development in applied optics, directed energy, propulsion, counter-IED, laser sensors, hypervelocity light gas gun experiments and missile warheads.

University of Alaska Fairbanks received $46,730,000 for DOD-wide University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) in geophysical detection of nuclear proliferation. The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control (reporting to the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs) will manage the UARC.

UC-San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) received $9,568,563 for mid-life re-fit and overhaul of Roger Revelle (AGOR 24) in Portland, OR, for the Office of Naval Research. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received $37,524,183 for RV Atlantis (AGOR 25) mid-life re-fit and overhaul for the Office of Naval Research.

Georgia Tech received $29,669,132 to reactivate the band 8 transmitter associated with AN/ALQ-161A avionics system supporting B-1B aircraft.

Johns Hopkins University, which is currently the Department of War’s most favored academic institution based on number of contracts issued, received $23,848,171 to provide “the technical and program support of Tactical Space and small satellite portfolio’s core competencies and mission lifecycle to include support of the mission phases from concept through design, implementation, operations, and transition of space assets” for AFRL, Kirtland AFB. This jargon-filled description unintentionally demonstrates how corporatized the Department of War / academia alliance has become.

Johns Hopkins University received $14,995,942 to help the Pentagon assess and provide alternatives of offensive capabilities, which asymmetrically “mitigate threat effectiveness, impose cost, and/or create ambiguity in adversary decision-making.”

University of Southern California (USC) received $8,032,625 for DARPA Circuit Realization at Faster Timescales (CRAFT) research program, phase 3.

Utah State received $92,000,000 to help AFRL maintain engineering and R&D capabilities in sensor development, image processing, and data analysis.

TELECOM COMPLICITY

AT&T received $87,377,959 for experimentation of a secure, reliable, measured, commercial data and voice network in order to enable access to DOD data and applications from DOD facilities, as well as enable access for mobile and remotely located users. Work at Buckley AFB, Offutt AFB, JB Elmendorf Richardson. AT&T received $17,910,517 to provide Combat Trainer Data Subsystems for the Combat Training Center Instrumentation System Range Communication System at Fort Polk.

Sprint received $10,815,551 for continued operation and maintenance of telecommunications fiber in Europe.

General Dynamics received $11,395,466 to upgrade existing telecommunication network architecture at Kaneohe Bay, HI (50%); Camp Smith, HI (50%).

INVASIVE AIRCRAFT

Honeywell received $10,080,902 for Jet Fuel Starter repair components for RC-135 aircraft. This provides the remaining stock of Jet Fuel Starter components necessary to sustain the RC-135 fleet through 2040. RC-135 have been flying since the Vietnam War. Aircrew joke that they’re held together with duct tape.

Northrop Grumman received $75,038,991 for operational requirements for logistics support for government-owned fixed-wing fleet performing special electronic mission aircraft missions (MC-12S, RC-12S, EO-5C, TO-5C, RO-6A).

Sierra Nevada Corp. received $9,424,000 for high band common chassis and spares components to support the Maritime Patrol Reconnaissance Aircraft Program. This chassis is essentially a signals intelligence sensor “derived from extensive history of predecessor digital receiving systems for signal exploitation.”

JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (F-35)

IDSC Holdings LLC received $11,924,503 for commercial hand tools and toolboxes for F-35 aircraft (Lot 11 LRIP) for U.S. Navy ($9,565,654; 80.2%); Apartheid Israel ($1,174,474; 9.9%); Japan ($777,715; 6.5%); South Korea ($406,660; 3.4%).

Lockheed Martin received $29,254,101 for various diminishing manufacturing sources parts to protect deliveries for future F-35. FMS = $29,254,101.

Lockheed Martin received $39,223,382 for F-35 annual sustainment: more software sustainment and flight test support for Air Systems for USAF ($15,714,454; 40.06%); USMC ($7,857,620; 20.03%); Navy ($7,857,620; 20.03%); non-DOD ($7,793,688; 19.88%).

Lockheed Martin received $88,029,912 for F-35 LRIP Lot XI support equipment. Lockheed Martin received $315,773,716 for F-35 LRIP Lot XI aircraft support equipment for USAF ($108,665,198; 34.41%); USN ($31,062,358; 9.84%); USMC ($5,186,434; 1.64%); non-DOD ($170,859,726; 54.11%).

Lockheed Martin received $116,311,183 for 440 F-35 Generation 3 Helmet Mounted Display Systems (LRIP 11), oxygen masks, and initial spares for Air Force (180 worth $47,120,086; 40.5%); Navy (60 worth $15,711,725; 13.5%); Marine Corps (69 worth $18,944,511; 16.3%); non-DOD (119 worth $31,599,088; 27.2%); FMS (12 worth $2,935,773; 2.5%).

Northern Construction received $8,958,380 for the design and construction of an F-35A munitions maintenance complex at Hill AFB, UT.

Northrop Grumman received $9,967,000 to support F-35 Reprogramming Labs (with spare equipment, on-site technical support, repairs, upgrades, and travel) at Eglin AFB, FL; Linthicum Heights, MD. Northrop Grumman received $7,680,000 for spare equipment, on-site technical support, repairs, upgrades, and travel supporting F-35 reprogramming labs at Eglin AFB, FL; Buffalo, NY.

United Technologies received $39,266,691 for additional long lead-time components, parts, and materials (Lot 13) F-35 propulsion systems for USMC ($29,054,685; 73.99%); Air Force ($582,821; 1.49%); Navy ($109,186; 0.28%); non-U.S. DOD ($9,228,392; 23.50%); FMS ($291,607; 0.74%). United Technologies received $63,499,364 for non-recurring engineering for early identification, development, and qualification of corrections to potential and current operational issues for U.S. Navy ($25,813,010; 41%); Air Force ($19,181,577; 30%); non-U.S. DOD ($12,599,197; 20%); FMS ($5,905,581; 9%). United Technologies received $187,553,466 for F-35 engine (F135) initial spare common fan modules, augmentors, power and gearbox modules, engine nozzles, lift fans and clutches for FMS ($17,374,702; 9%) and DOD (91%).

United Technologies received $209,601,517 for additional long-lead materials, parts, and components in support of F-35 LRIP Lot 13 propulsion systems for USAF ($73,537,179; 35%); USMC ($35,477,475; 17%); Navy ($21,888,984; 10%); non-DOD ($41,929,486; 20%); FMS ($36,768,394; 18%). United Technologies received $266,062,462 for program administrative labor (for non-recurring sustainment activities; supplies, services and planning for depot activations; material & support equipment for depot maintenance facilities and mockup engines and modules for test cells) in support of F-35 for USAF ($83,646,823, 31%); USMC ($43,446,086, 16%); U.S. Navy ($32,271,482, 12%); non-U.S. DOD ($99,075,389; 37%); FMS ($7,662,682; 3%).

OSPREY (V-22)

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office (JPO) received $32,350,663 for new Large Aircraft Infra-Red Countermeasure System Processor Replacement non-recurring engineering and 60 kits for the MV-22 and CV-22 aircraft.

Bell-Boeing JPO received $10,810,033 for 12 additional MV-22 Integrated Aircraft Survivability Equipment (IASE) retrofit A-Kits Block C; 12 MV-22 IASE retrofit kit installations; IASE configuration B retrofit A and B-Kit installation; five CV-22 IASE advanced mission computer A-Kits for U.S. Navy ($9,577,130; 88%) and USAF ($1,232,903; 12%).

Elbit received $16,471,564 for standby flight displays for MV-22, including FMS production spares. Hydraulics International received $13,330,088 for support equipment for V-22 for USA and Japan.

Kranze Technology Solutions received $37,370,955 to support an emerging Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) suite of equipment known as Roll On/Roll Off Communications Suite for the V-22. Support involves production, testing, installation, supportability, and technical documentation upgrades via NAWCAD Lakehurst, NJ.

Textron (Bell) received $48,365,907 for V-22 PRGB right hand aircraft assembly parts and received $48,365,907 for V-22 PRGB left hand aircraft assembly parts for U.S. Navy. Textron (Bell) received $18,439,388 and received $13,655,072 in support of the V-22 aircraft platform hub assembly for U.S. Navy.

EAGLE (F-15)

Boeing received $208,279,000 for F-15 Legion Pod infrared search and track (IRST) pods. Boeing received $85,533,183 for F-15 Advanced Display Core Processor II (ADCPII). Boeing received $15,186,972 for APG-82 Radar Modernization Program test requirements document. Boeing received $7,275,000 for F-15E Aircraft Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Moveable Canopies.

Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems received $11,865,688 to support the Joint Helmet Mounting Cueing System for F-15 and F-16 aircraft. Work in Texas and Apartheid Israel.

FALCON (F-16)

BAE Systems received $9,695,000 and received $12,000,000 for F-16 Commercial Fire Control Computer (CFCC) repair program at Hill AFB, UT.

GasTOPS, Inc. received $7,661,190 for the Portable Debris Analyzer ChipCheck Machine. Provides 75 machines, which allow for in-the-field ability to analyze debris found in aircraft engine oil, specifically, the F-110 engine.

L3 Technologies received $8,655,585 to incorporate the F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) distributed mission operations mission package 18 standards update engineering change proposal.

Northrop Grumman received $9,800,000 for LITENING Targeting Pod – Operational Flight Program software updates and / or incidental firmware and hardware. Provides integration with F-16 Pre-Block 30 / 32 system capability.

Rockwell Collins received $29,830,000 for Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System for Pre-Block F-16 aircraft.

HORNET (F-18)

Aerokool Aviation Corp. received $8,221,363 to repair F/A-18 turbines.

Boeing received $167,788,112 for F/A-18 aircraft depot-level reparables. Boeing received$17,350,724 for F/A-18 aircraft radomes.

Elbit Fort Worth, one of many Israeli corporations imbricated in the U.S. war industry, received $68,255,051 for various display replacements for F/A-18.

General Dynamics received $7,858,577 for gas generators for use in the suppression system on F/A 18E/F to protect the dry bays under the fuel tanks.

General Electric received $52,462,485 for F/A-18 aircraft generators.

Northrop Grumman received $22,480,020 for F/A-18 doors.

R.A. Burch Construction received $46,480,700 for design and construction of an F/A-18 aircraft avionics repair facility replacement at NAS Lemoore.

Raytheon received $8,127,897 to repair 193 units across weapon repairable assemblies used on F-18 active electronically scanned array radar system.

HORNET & GROWLER COMMON AIRFRAME

Boeing received $17,924,406 for Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) that aims to tackle a problem with air regulators and shut off valves so the Department of War can eliminate “physiological episodes” in F/A-18E/F and EA-18G. Boeing received $22,757,050 for engineering, logistics, and program management on F/A-18A-D, E-F and EA-18G aircraft to reduce fleet out of reporting rates and maintenance planning. Boeing received$40,323,606 for aircraft armament equipment for 12 F/A-18E/F and 14 EA-18G aircraft for U.S. Navy.

General Electric received $12,080,440 for 1,815 main long spraybars and 265 kits for F/A-18E/F/G aircraft.

Raytheon received $35,516,020 for APG-79 Radar System spare parts.

Rockwell Collins received $81,433,819 for logistics & repair on F/A-18 A-F and E/A-18 G components and additional components common across several platforms (e.g. KC-130, MH-60, V-22, P-3C, EP-3E).

Rosemount Aerospace received $7,161,480 for 360 alternate angle of attack transmitters for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.

ELECTRONIC WARFARE AIRCRAFT (GROWLER & PROWLER)

CPI Radant Technologies Division received $11,995,376 for Extended Low-Band Radomes in support of AN/ALQ-99(V) aboard the EA-18G aircraft. 

Northrop Grumman received $13,483,882 to support the EA-18G CP-2640/ALQ Electronic Attack Unit (EAU) Software Modernization Program (SMP). EAU SMP is an EAU Operational Flight Program upgrade.

Raytheon received $183,486,207 for Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) engineering and manufacturing development.

AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING (HAWKEYE & SENTRY)

Northrop Grumman received $164,326,263 for one E-2D aircraft for Japan. Overseas work in Aire-sur-l’Adour, France (1.49%); Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, Canada (1.58%); Longueil, Quebec, Canada (0.69%); Laval, Quebec, Canada (0.63%); Latina, Italy (0.13%); Wimborne, U.K. (0.06%). Overseas work effectively co-opts the capitalist elites of foreign nations into working with and purchasing from the U.S. war industry.

Northrop Grumman received $31,010,405 for two engineering development model operational test program sets in support of the E-2D.

Northrop Grumman received $13,517,256 for non-recurring engineering necessary to incorporate E-2D Link-16 Crypto Modernization & Frequency Remapping capability by integrating the Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) Concurrent Multi Netting 4 terminal and a low volume Link-16 High Power Amplifier into E-2D aircraft.

Raytheon received $14,071,825 for Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) Phase II risk reduction, AWACS-specific modifications to existing sensor electronics unit, and other work.

Raytheon received $7,973,280 for engineering support services, maintenance, and repair for Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS) on Navy EP-3 aircraft.

Rolls-Royce received $17,599,557 for T56-A-427A engines, power section modules and reduction gearbox modules for E-2D aircraft.

SPIRIT (B-2)

Aviation Training Consulting received $20,892,865 for B-52 Training System Delta Merge.

Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. received $9,182,513 to overhaul 22 B-2/B-52 Common Strategic Rotary Launchers.

Lockheed Martin received $47,478,899 for repair & overhaul on the B-2 digital countermeasure receiver.

POSEIDON (P-8) & ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE

Boeing received $194,517,924 for P-8A Aircrew Training System production concurrency upgrades, required for training devises to be ready for initial training for U.S. Navy ($154,776,918; 80%) and Australia ($39,741,006; 20%).

Boeing received $15,422,132 for air launch accessory engineering in support of the P-8A integration efforts and 14 telemetry kits for the air launch accessory of the High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability.

Boeing received $9,044,214 to incorporate P-8A change proposals about Optical Sensor Capability and A-Kit & Aircraft Updates into 18 P-8A aircraft.

Pole/Zero Acquisition Inc. received $66,673,285 for antenna interface units and communication tray; technical data, spares, and repair of repairables for P-8A for U.S. Navy ($33,404,335; 50%); U.K. ($9,538,692; 14%); Norway ($6,766,623; 10%); Australia ($3,866,043; 6%); New Zealand ($5,365,506; 8%); South Korea ($7,732,086; 12%).

Raytheon received $46,114,946 for APY-10 production kits and related services in support of P-8A aircraft for U.S. Navy (4 for $11,371,053; 25%); FMS ($34,743,893; 75%: 4 Australia, 8 UK).

STRATEGIC / TACTICAL AIRLIFT

General Electric received $19,565,172 and received $19,565,172 to establish organic depot repair / overhaul capability for C-130J R391 propellers at Robins AFB. Includes training for organic repair/overhaul capability for line and shop replaceable units.

AERIAL REFUELING

Boeing received $2,858,701,741 for lot 4 production KC-46 aircraft, initial spares, and support equipment. TDX Quality received $15,150,516 for KC-46A alterations of apron and fire hydrants at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Woodward Inc. received $7,128,800.00 to overhaul F108-100 Main Engine Control, KC-135.

WARTHOG (A-10)

Merex Aircraft received an estimated $9,610,406 for A-10 speed brake assembles and aileron trim tabs.

MILITARY RESEARCH LABS

The Assurance Technology Corp. received $11,511,435 for R&D of the C4ISR System for Naval Research Laboratory’s Space Systems Development Department (SSDD).

IBM received $14,863,208 for NorthPole software/hardware. Provides work for software and hardware specification for NorthPole, the next generation neural inference machine.

Integrated Solutions for Systems received $17,500,000 for Weapons Effects Simulation Testing effort: R&D on concepts & conventional inventory weapon systems, Eglin AFB.

Raytheon received $8,464,299 for advanced technologies to support platform acoustic signature management for Office of Naval Research.

Texas Research Institute (TRI) Austin Inc. received $9,650,000 for research in the area of developing a spatial registration for the Material State Awareness system. Universal Technology Corp. received $9,650,000 to help AFRL research a spatial registration for the Material State Awareness system.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND

ECS Federal LLC received $78,826,837 for machine learning and computer vision engineering, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Leonardo DRS received $435,000,000 for horizontal technology integration second generation forward looking infrared thermal receiver units, kit components, spares, repairs, and engineering and technical services.

HELICOPTERS

Boeing received $33,786,581 for cargo platform health environment kits for cargo helicopters.

Boeing received $92,500,000 for engineering, analysis, test and technical support to substantiate candidate concepts / designs and to achieve technology mission objectives for goods and services for AH-64, A/MH-6M, and H-47.

Boeing received $198,927,812 for performance-based logistics support of the CH-47forward and aft rotor blades and associated containers.

Boeing received $375,550,368 for non-developmental item integration of four aircraft to replace the UH-1N: acquisition & sustainment of up to 84 MH-139 helicopters, training devices, and associated support equipment.

General Electric received $17,818,296 for UH-60 pipe exhausts. General Electric received$84,100,298 for logistics and repair support on four T700 engine components in support of U.S. Navy’s H-60 and USMC AH-1 helicopters.

Lockheed Martin (Sikorsky) received $58,395,297 for 866 spare parts to repair and maintain CH-53K aircraft.

Lockheed Martin received $36,024,134 for MH-60 product line software configuration 20 fleet release for U.S. Navy ($12,047,419; 33%) and FMS ($23,976,715; 67%). Additionally, includes work on development / integration of enhanced fuel & power management and work on replacement of MIDS and other technology.

Lockheed Martin received $60,947,957 to repair UH-60 transmission.

Northrop Grumman received $89,046,682 for R&D and upgrades of AH-1Z and UH-1YSystem Configuration Sets (SCSs) mission computers.

Textron (Bell) received $27,042,247 for main gear shafts, rotor hubs, swashplate controls, transmission case assemblies, mechanical housings, and pinion assemblies in support of USAF UH-1N and TH-1H helicopters.

GENERAL AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE

Aerocontrolex Group received maximum $7,536,743 for aviation spare parts.

Boeing received $10,000,000 for multi-platform engineering services & support.

Boeing received an estimated $69,726,565 for consumable items supporting various aircraft. Includes unnamed FMS.

ES3 Primary Logistics Group received $475,000,000 for supplies in support of aircraft landing gear.

Lockheed Martin received $38,722,467 for CLS (program management, engineering, repair services) of Common Organization Level Tester System.

Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems received $322,691,461 for aircraft consumable and reparable parts. Nasco Aircraft Brake received $41,955,000 (max.) for aircraft consumable and reparable parts.

Northrop Grumman received $9,532,773 for additional aft deck production units. Northrup Grumman received $13,825,722 for product data management and migration support, Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins AFB.

Northrop Grumman received $7,458,047 for continuing engineering services, providing a sustainment depot for the Mission Data File Generator, Intermediate Level Support Equipment, Millicomputer Replacement, Operational Flight Program (OFP) and Digital Receiver Exciter OFP, as well as interfacing firmware and software support tools (ensuring corrections to deficiencies are identified during government testing and initial fielding) at Warner Robins, GA.

Northrop Grumman received $13,500,000 for engineering services providing all of Northrop designed platforms managed by the 424th Supply Chain Management Squadron, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker AFB.

Triumph Engine Control Systems received $77,507,491 (max.) for control units.

United Technologies received $2,460,000,000 for DLA to supply the Air Force depot level repairables and consumable parts.

INDUSTRIAL BASE – GENERAL

Eccalon LLC received $8,448,706 to provide National Security Technology Accelerator Program support for the Office of Manufacturing & Industrial Base Policy. Work at the Mark Center, VA.

Huntington Ingalls received $34,037,115 for a temporary storage period and preparations for towing of the aircraft carrier ex-USS Enterprise. The carrier will be held for a temporary storage period while DOD evaluates disposal alternatives, conducts an environmental impact statement, and plans for towing.

Pietro Carnaghi USA Inc. received $12,305,331 for a Gantry Mill machine.

Tompco-Triton received $10,050,800 for repairs to bridges at Military Ocean Terminal Concord, CA. Power Engineering Construction Co., Alameda, CA, received $7,110,250 for pier repairs at Military Ocean Terminal Concord, CA.

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTATION, PODS & SENSORS

Calculex Inc. received $46,623,715 basic for Air Data Recorders (ADR) and support services. Provides spare equipment, support services, and improvement of ADR capabilities for use in Air Force Test mission. Telspan Data LLC received $46,183,433 for air data recorders (ADR), ground recorder systems (GRS), data replay systems (DRS) and support services.

Engility Corp. received $49,500,000 to sustain the Joint Range Extension/Joint Range Extension Tactical Equipment Package program in San Diego, CA; Shaw AFB; and Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

L3 received $10,159,587 for flight test instrumentation engineering services and support.

Rockwell Collins received $9,550,512.00 for control-display units.

Support Systems Associates Inc. received $31,195,898 for RC-26 avionics upgrade to meet FAA mandates.

Textron received $7,263,870 for 255 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out production kits for the T-6 aircraft. ADS-B Out aims for real-time information sharing and good situational awareness for pilots and controllers.

Mesotech International received $20,000,000 to consolidate sustainment of FMQ-19 (pdf) and FMQ-22 weather system programs used at airports.

AIRCRAFT PERSONNEL DEVICES

Gentex Corp. received $12,719,425 for aircrew integrated helmet system, HGU-56/P and components.

Gentex Corp. and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging each received $98,300,000 for aircrew laser eye protection.

Omni Medical Systems received $15,498,493 for bladder relief devices (for aircrew; hands-free, eyes-free, seated, harnessed; for operating at positive or negative Gs and high altitude), training, and six months of supplies.

AIRBORNE COUNTERMEASURES

Alloy Surfaces Co. received $94,000,000 for MJU-66 decoy flares.

Armtec Countermeasures and Kilgore Flares received a shared $48,600,000 for MJU-61 A/B infrared countermeasure flares for USA (96%), South Korea (3%), and various unnamed FMS (1%).

Northrop Grumman received $210,500,224 for FY2018 Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) production requirements for U.S. Navy ($161,240,756; 77%); Army ($27,756,313; 13%); Air Force ($19,784,658; 9%); U.K. ($1,718,497; 1%).

Raytheon received $46,663,856 for technical maturation and risk reduction of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Navy (MALD).

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION

Aero Turbine Inc. received $128,757,513 for overhaul of J85-GE-5/-21 engine components.

General Electric received $12,031,431 for aircraft engine combustion chambers.

United Technologies received $436,688,397 for next generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction for air superiority applications, mainly complete, flight-weight adaptive engines (design, test, build, integrate).

Aerojet Rocketdyne received $20,000,000 for Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability (ATTAM) Phase I to develop, demonstrate, and transition advanced turbine propulsion, power and thermal technologies that improve affordable mission capability. United Technologies received $250,000,000 for Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability (ATTAM) Phase I.

AEGIS

Global Research & Technology Corp. received $12,803,365 for services in support of NAWCWD Aegis Externally Directed Team Leader and Weapons Test and Evaluation Division. Services to be provided include systems engineering, test and evaluation, instrumentation, logistics and life cycle management, management, and training for U.S. Navy ($10,243,365; 80%); Japan ($1,280,000; 10%); Australia ($640,000; 5%); Spain ($640,000; 5%).

Lockheed Martin received $78,276,516 for Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent efforts for the design, development, integration, test and delivery of Advanced Capability Build 20.

Lockheed Martin received $13,020,091 for Aegis design agent field engineering services for U.S. Navy (77%); Japan (19%); Spain (4%).

Lockheed Martin received $11,603,840 for operational and support services to the Aegis Combat System and its elements at the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, HI.

Lockheed Martin received $10,638,240 for AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense equipment.

LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP (LCS)

Austal USA received undisclosed funding to build two littoral combat ships (LCS). Lockheed Martin received undisclosed funding to build one LCS.

Austal USA received $16,459,663 for engineering and management services in support of work specification development, prefabrication efforts, and material procurement for USS Charleston (LCS-18) post shakedown availability.

LANDING CRAFT, AIR CUSHION (LCAC)

Tecnico Corp. received $25,598,667 for Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) service life extension program (SLEP) in Little Creek, VA.

Textron received $98,045,961 for additional long-lead-time material (LLTM) for the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) program, Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 100-class craft 109 through 112, and for the procurement of LLTM and pre-fabrication activities for LCACs 113 through 118.

ARLEIGH BURKE-CLASS DESTROYERS (DDG)

General Dynamics received $3,904,735,559 to build four DDG 51 class ships, one each in FY2019 through 2022. Huntington Ingalls received $5,104,668,778 to build six DDG 51 class ships, two in FY2018 and one each in FY2019 through 2022.

Huntington Ingalls received $9,236,208 for program management, advanced planning, engineering, design, material procurement/kitting, liaison, scheduling, and participation in planning conferences and design reviews in support of the post shakedown availability for DDG-117.

Huntington Ingalls received $48,532,386 for USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration.

ZUMWALT-CLASS DESTROYERS (DDG-1000)

General Dynamics received $55,963,902 for guided-missile destroyer (DDG) 1000 class unique wholesale spare parts and equipment.

NIMITZ-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (CVN)

Federal Equipment Co. received $13,204,230 for Advanced Weapons Elevator (AWE) land-based unit (LBU) for the Land-Based Engineering Test Site (LBETS), installation, and technical support for LBETS & AWE on CVN-class ships.

Huntington Ingalls received $26,804,899 for engineering and technical services in support of operational Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) class and propulsion plant related efforts for Nimitz (CVN 68) class aircraft carriers. Huntington Ingalls received $94,583,325 for additional advance fabrication, R&D, testing, engineering in support of CVN 80.

SUBMARINES

AECOM (URS) received $35,700,172 for phase two of Hurricane Irma repairs at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

BAE Systems received $37,566,503 for long-lead-time material procurement and manufacturing of propulsors & tailcones for Virginia-class subs SSN 800-803.

Desbuild Inc. received $8,387,000 to repair Building 5044 concrete caisson at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. 

D.L. Martin Co., Epsilon Systems Solutions, GSE Dynamics Inc., Rhoads Industries received a shared $14,500,000 to support the assembly and test services for submarine mast, antenna, periscope and communication systems hull, mechanical and electrical assemblies. Work at various Navy bases, ship yards, repair facilities and contractor facilities in the continental U.S.

Erie Forge & Steel received $7,323,320 to manufacture propulsion shaft sections for Virgina-class submarines.

General Dynamics received $480,601,156 for fiscal 2019 and 2020 lead ship advance procurement/advance construction, and long lead time material funding of Columbia class fleet ballistic missile subs.

General Dynamics received $22,483,141 for engineering and technical design effort to support R&D concept formulation for submarine platforms.

General Dynamics received $12,880,531 for sustainment of U.S./U.K. SSBN Fire Control System, the U.S. SSGN Attack Weapon Control System, including training and support equipment. Included is the Missile Fire Control for U.S. Columbia-class and UK Dreadnought-class Common Missile Compartment (CMC) program development, through first unit UK production, and Strategic Weapon Interface Simulator. 

Huntington Ingalls received $104,260,102 for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management, R&D, modernization and industrial support for nuclear submarines.

Leidos received $13,934,702 to design and develop Acoustic Device Countermeasure (ADC) MK5 developmental devices including engineering and technical services and non-recurring engineering services, including software and hardware development in support of the ADC MK 5 devices.

Lockheed Martin received $15,587,081 for TB-37 arrays and ancillary equipment.

Lockheed Martin received $16,310,246 for AN/BVY-1 Integrated Submarine Imaging System (ISIS) Technical Insertion 20-24 production and engineering services. ISIS provides visual and other capabilities for Navy submarines.

Lockheed Martin received $132,267,899 for engineering services to support the AN/BVY-1 Integrated Submarine Imaging System.

L3 Technologies received $49,364,268 to provide support and repair services for the TB-23 towed array systems and related test equipment.

MACNAK Construction received $11,737,841 for the removal and replacement of three generators at Naval Radio Station Jim Creek.

M.A. Mortenson received $50,207,000 for phase two repairs and improvements to the explosive handling wharf one facility, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. Mark Dunning Industries Inc. received $7,887,182 for base operations support services at Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay.

Northrop Grumman received $7,250,350 for sonar acoustic baffles.

Orbis Sibro Inc., Q.E.D. Systems, Delphinus Engineering, Oceaneering Intl. received a shared $166,961,483 for non-nuclear production support of U.S. naval submarine projects / repair in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME. Services cover electrician, pipefitters, machinists, painters, weight handler, shipwright, welders, sheet metal, insulation, etc. for upcoming submarine availabilities.

Five construction corporations received a shared $95,000,000 for waterfront construction projects within NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic Hampton Roads. Crofton Construction Services, for example, is repairing submarine berth 18/19, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA.

SURFACE SHIP MAINTENANCE

BAE Systems received $31,927,422 for scheduled extended docking selected restricted availability (EDSRA) for USS Hopper (DDG 70), Honolulu, HI. BAE Systems received$24,757,239 for additional growth requirements identified during USS Tortuga (LSD 46) FY2018 modernization period Chief of Naval Operations-scheduled availability.

Boston Ship Repair received $17,422,472 for regular overhaul and dry docking of U.S. Naval Ships (USNS) Supply (T-AOE 6).

Confluence Corp., Marisco Ltd., and Integrated Marine Services Inc. each received$17,095,520 for repair, maintenance and alteration of U.S. government waterborne vessels and surface ships at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

General Dynamics received $218,717,565 for USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) fiscal year 2018 docking phased maintenance availability.

Huntington Ingalls received $42,600,000 to continue repair, maintenance, upgrades, modernization of USS Helena (SSN 725) dry-docking SRA.

American Scaffold and W.V. Construction received $10,869,649 and $18,892,889, respectively, for scaffolding at the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center.

Pacific Shipyards International received $10,031,114 for Essayons Dredge ship overhaul, Honolulu, HI.

For engineering and technical services to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division’s hull, mechanical and electrical modernization programs, corporations received funding [AMSEC $337,933,499; Delphinus Engineering $356,681,184; Epsilon Systems Solutions $385,896,145; General Dynamics $367,206,298; Q.E.D. Systems $360,558,151]. Work at various Navy bases, shipyards, repair facilities and contractor facilities, both inside and outside the continental U.S.

SHIP WEAPONRY

BAE Systems received $18,499,843 for Mk 38 machine gun system coaxial kits.

Boeing received $14,253,926 for 53 Harpoon Block II Plus tactical missile upgrade kits for U.S. Navy.

Leidos received $20,987,917 for ship-installation, integrated logistic support, fleet support, and life-cycle-sustainment of AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Undersea Warfare Systems. Lockheed Martin received $54,551,523 for AN/SQQ-89A(V)15.

Lockheed Martin received $8,100,000 for multi-mission signal processor capability restorations (MMSP-CR) for Surface Combat System Center and Aegis Training & Readiness Center.

Lockheed Martin received $14,746,989 for AN/SLQ-32(V)6 design agent engineering services, incidental material and travel, supporting the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP). Northrup Grumman received $9,000,000 for long lead material for Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 LRIP.

Raytheon received $482,276,572 for MK 15 Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) upgrade, conversion, overhaul, & hardware for USA (41%); Army (5%); Taiwan (38%); Saudi Arabia (9%); Japan (5%); New Zealand (1%); Australia (<1%). Serco Inc. received $8,302,798 for CIWS waterfront installation support, including at Yokosuka, Japan (6%); Jubail & Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (4%); Rota, Spain (1%).

Sechan Electronics received $7,247,704 for target detecting devices used to detonate mines for the U.S. Navy.

Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems received $42,058,477 to test, produce and deliver MK54MOD 0 Lightweight Torpedo (LWT) array kits, related spares, production support material, engineering & hardware repair, and maintenance of equipment for U.S. Navy (51%); Taiwan (46%); Canada (3%).

SHIP PROPULSION

Life Cycle Engineering received $46,254,486 for engineering support on electrical power and propulsion systems during the construction and life cycle of Navy ships, submarines, etc.

NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVSEA)

FlightFab Inc. received $12,620,604 for solid waste processing equipment (plastic shredders, metal glass shredders, large pulpers, small pulpers and control valves for small and large pulpers) for naval ships. 

General Electric received $19,671,429 for replacement hot-section materials for LM2500 marine gas turbine engines. 

Huntington Ingalls received $11,865,451 for acceleration of LPD 17 Flight II ship design.

Huntron Inc. received $11,956,849 for Model 32 test instruments, accessory kits, and transit cases for Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, RI. (Includes $137,228 unnamed FMS.)

Hydroid Inc. received $12,816,907 for the bathymetry mapping system sensor suite, technical support, post mission analysis tools, software licensing, and spares. Work in Horten, Norway (85%); Pocasset, MA (15%).

Johnson Controls Navy Systems received $38,941,842 for engineering & technical services in support of research, development, testing, & evaluation (RDT&E) of shipboard air conditioning and refrigeration programs.

Lake Shore Systems Inc. (LSSI) received $14,547,102 for services (training, inspection, material, labor) to explore & resolve in-service problems associated with federal government-owned LSSI (formerly Oldenburg Group Inc.) hull and deck machinery systems to minimize down time and ensure safe operation.

Leonardo DRS received $11,844,365 for weapons elevator and stores elevator electromechanical actuator controllers, digital interfaces, equipment, and support services for Naval Surface Warfare Center.

Northrop Grumman received roughly $8,302,000 for Navy Electronic Chart and Display Information System software (ECIS SW). ECIS SW system is the primary navigation plotting system.

Raytheon received $17,607,696 for AN/SPY-3 (V)1 radar equipment conversion and restoration on Zumwalt class ships. Raytheon received $20,038,146 for circuit card assembly kits, signal processor circuit card assembly kits, and digital processor circuit card assembly kits.

Systems Application & Technologies Inc. received $39,688,979 to operate small watercraft, industrial maintenance & repair, and research and development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) project support. Includes transition, program management, operations management of Building V-47 Naval Station Norfolk reporting and safety compliance oversight.

VT Halter Marine Inc. received $77,898,158 for detail design and construction of the Auxiliary Personnel Lighter – Small.

Eight corporations [Alion Science & Technology Corp. $38,625,259; Amee Bay LLC $42,193,792; American Systems Corp. $38,369,064; Gibbs & Cox Inc. $33,953,721; L-3 Unidyne Inc. $44,042,794; Life Cycle Engineering Inc. $45,122,812; McKean Defense Group LLC $41,480,653; NDI Engineering Co. $42,555,850] received funding for technical & engineering services in support of in-service engineering roles and responsibilities for electrical power and generation systems installed on surface ships, submarines and assault craft.

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVAIR)

Kairos Autonomi received $8,153,599 for up to 75 each Moving Land Target (MLT) Command Control Systems, ground control stations, ground communication relay stations, GPS cables, etc. for NAVAIR Patuxent River.

Wyle Laboratories received $21,907,000 for support services aircrew to augment Naval Test Wing Atlantic/Pacific (NTWL/NTWP) squadrons to ensure completion of mission essential testing and evaluation of all NTWL/NTWP manned air vehicles at NAS Patuxent River, MD (94%); NAS Pt. Mugu, CA (5%); NAS China Lake, CA (1%) for U.S. Navy ($21,014,500; 96%); Germany ($556,000; 2.5%); Taiwan ($200,500.00; 0.9%); Greece ($115,000; 0.5%); Brazil ($21,000; 0.1%).

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD)

Creare LLC received $23,817,898 for up to 22 Compact Swaging Machines (CSM) in support of the Aircraft Launch & Recovery System Recovery Program. CSM is a hydraulic system that uses up to 800 tons of pressure to swage a terminal onto an aircraft carrier purchase cable.

Frontier Technology, Inc. received $32,372,531 for technical services on “Advanced Prognostic & Health Management and Model Based Prognostic Useful Life Remaining Capabilities for Aircraft Tactical Information and Communication Systems” and “Innovative Data Anomaly Detection and Transformation for Analysis Applications.”

Saab received $8,184,781 for R&D of an X-Band Active Aperture Array radar prototype in support of the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Foreign Comparative Testing Program. Work in Gothenburg, Sweden (80%), and East Syracuse, NY (20%).

Sierra Nevada Corp. received $10,850,638 for engineering analysis & technical services to assess and investigate hardware & software trouble reports and take corrective action re: Landing System Upgrade program for Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems at NAWCAD facilities in St. Inigoes, MD.

Ultra Electronics Advanced Tactical Systems received $47,000,000 for Joint Air Defense Systems Integrator software sustainment.

Vista Research Inc. received $36,226,053 for up to eight Vista F50-ER1 Air Surveillance Radar (ASR) systems.

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION (NAWCWD)

Computer Technology Associates Inc. received $18,535,563 for programmatic support to the Advanced Weapons Laboratory’s (AWL) Software Management Information System applications and tools. Applications include planning, estimation, risk management, event scheduling (including flight test events), anomaly tracking, project execution, project monitoring and control, and reporting at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA.

SPACE & NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND (SPAWAR)

Deloitte Consulting LLP received $8,118,024 for office support for PEO Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Navy Enterprise Networks Program Office, specifically Naval enterprise Order to Payment System.

Enterprise Services LLC received $787,318,898 for existing Next Generation Enterprise Network work throughout USA, Europe, Guam, Korea and Japan.

KOAM Engineering Systems received $23,543,089 for program management and engineering support for SSC Pacific Network Integration Engineering Facility. Work includes design, engineering, production, integration, testing of command, control, communications, computers & intelligence (C4I) systems.

For engineering services to provide Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory software R&D, systems engineering, logistics, and test support (including integrated logistics, radar signal processing, radio frequency data acquisition, graphical user interface design, and onsite technical assistance and security), the following corporations received funding: Booz Allen Hamilton $29,535,487; G2 Software Systems Inc. $33,597,580; Integration Innovation Inc. $27,419,256; Northrop Grumman $30,282,347; Scientific Research Corp. $25,760,035.

For analysis and test engineering services to provide research, development, test, & evaluation (RDT&E) services for C5ISR and combat direction systems, Highbury Defense Group, San Diego, CA, received $32,373,744; KOAM Engineering Systems Inc., San Diego, CA, received $32,362,238; Tactical Engineering & Analysis Inc., San Diego, CA, received $36,437,112.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & THE CLOUD

Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, SAIC, Capstone Corp., Serco received a shared $103,355,805 to provide various U.S. Navy recruiting, manpower, and training apparatuses with technical support for functions (chief information officer strategic support; data & information management; engineering support; IT system support; network support; information assurance/cyber security; “enterprise business intelligence” / enterprise business analytics; software analysis; hardware maintenance & development; and business process reengineering).

Booz Allen Hamilton received $20,016,798 for professional engineering staff support, Arlington, VA.

Booz Allen Hamilton received $8,647,532 for system engineering and technical assistance support services, Arlington, VA.

CACI received $10,407,551 for IT and information management services, Fort Detrick.

Carasoft Technology Corp. received $25,017,802 to migrate Army Enterprise System Integration Program Hub to Cloud along with managed services to accomplish their mission. General Dynamics received $22,496,620 to deliver commercial cloud services by the use of multiple cloud service providers to accelerate Navy cloud adoption. GD team members include Amazon, Beyond20, Carahsoft, Microsoft, and Minburn Technology Group.

Daylight Defense received $16,286,704 to design, develop, build, integrate, and conduct testing and evaluation of optical transceiver demonstration systems.

General Dynamics received $465,000,000 for implementation of a hardware product line.

Quanterion Solutions Inc. received $31,651,414 for the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center basic center operations. This “provides the Defense Technical Information Center centralized operation of DOD services, databases, systems, or networks for the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of scientific and technical information supporting DOD research and development, engineering, analysis, and studies programs.”

Agile Innovative Solutions JV, Barbaricum, BRTRC Federal Solutions, Delta Constellation Group, Data Systems Analysis, Integrity Applications, Naval Systems Inc., Sonalysts Inc., Systems Planning & Analysis-Envisioneering, Varen Technologies received a maximum $28,000,000,000 each for R&D for Information Analysis Center Program Management Office (DOD IAC PMO).

System Implementers Inc. received $21,500,000 for IT professional subject matter expertise at Hill AFB. Areas of expertise include enterprise architecture, engineering and services support including engineering, infrastructure architecture design, technology counsels, modernization, consolidation, hosting, business case analysis, economic analysis, analysis of alternatives, conference room pilots, and technical and program/project management support services.

Twelve corporations will compete for $1,521,531,661 for recruiting, management and administrative support services for U.S. Army program executive office enterprise information systems (PEO EIS .pdf) and human resource solutions.

Twenty corporations will provide a full range of IT services and solutions required by Defense Information Systems Agency, DOD, and other government agencies. Funding is $10,000 shared minimum and $17.5 billion shared maximum. Performance across the globe wherever IT services required.

COMMUNICATIONS

DCX-CHOL Enterprises Inc. received $13,050,285 for Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System cable assemblies. Fidelity Technologies Corp. received $14,210,683 for Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) installation kits.

Microsoft received $34,350,473 to experiment setting up a secure, reliable, measured, commercial data & voice network with access to DOD data and applications from DOD facilities (including access for mobile and remote users).

Raytheon received $61,992,392 for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) design and engineering for U.S. Navy (86%), Australia (9%), Japan (5%).

Sierra Nevada Corp. received $7,285,595 for First Article Testing prototypes of a Medical Hands-Free Ultra-Wideband Broadcast device capable of meeting airworthiness.

ViaSat Inc. received $96,182,729 for more production to continue Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) efforts. Purchases U.S. Navy, Air Force and MIDS Program Office, as well as Austria, Chile, Finland, Israel, Jordan, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.K. This also includes purchases to NATO and all NATO nations. Data Link Solutions received $386,917,271 for a similar contract.This ceiling increase for Data Link Solutions will enable continued MIDS JTRS efforts for USA, the Department of War’s MIDS Program Office, Austria, Chile, Finland, Israel, Jordan, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.K. Includes purchases to NATO and all NATO nations under the FMS program.

MICROELECTRONICS

Logistics & Technology Services received $9,000,000 for Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) Facilities Maintenance & Operational Services program. Program includes preventative & corrective maintenance and operational services in and around DMEA’s campus. Photronics Idaho Inc. received $14,890,000 to establish a non-captive trusted advanced photomask source for 130 nanometer node technology for DMEA.

COMPUTING POWER

Dell received $25,701,792 for servers, hardware, network switches, operating system, database software, planning, installation, and project services at Department of War medical and dental facilities. Dell received $10,908,800 for 13,636 general purpose laptops.

Cray Inc. received $12,500,000 to increase the processing capability of the current Cray XC 40 High Performance Supercomputer in Vicksburg, MS, and to purchase 2083 additional nodes compatible with the existing system architecture. Leidos received$17,800,000 for IT services and support in Vicksburg, MS.

SATELLITE LAUNCHES

Range Generation Next received $113,047,562 for support of operations, maintenance, and sustainment on Launch & Test Range System at Vandenberg AFB and Patrick AFB. Range Generation Next received $18,713,546 for relocating communications systems to the newly constructed Eastern Range communications facility at Patrick AFB.

United Launch Services (a Lockheed Martin / Boeing joint venture) received $867,081,864 for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch capability for Delta IV & Atlas V at Centennial, CO; Vandenberg AFB; Cape Canaveral AS.

SATELLITES & SPACE SUPPORT

Advanced Technology International received $400,000,000 for work on the Space Enterprise Consortium, covering prototypes for broad space-related technologies (e.g. ground segment, launch segment, space segment, software, processes, or any combination). Objectives include: minimizing barriers to entry for small businesses and non-traditional vendors to work with the Department of War and to identify & realize teaming opportunities within the U.S. war industry to promote integrated research / prototyping efficiencies and reduce cost. This is one of many ways the Pentagon co-opts small businesses.

The Aerospace Corp. (TAC) received $1,051,818,540 for Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FRDC) support in El Segundo, CA. This is for life-cycle systems engineering & integration, planning, systems definition, and technical specification support, and work on interoperability, manufacturing, and quality control. It also assists with test and evaluation, launch support, flight tests, orbital operations, and integration of space systems.

CACI received $9,709,489 for Cavalieri software (for Space Situational Awareness and Space Battle Management Command & Control).

Corp Ten International received $8,010,965 for services & materials required to support the existing surveillance Data Collection System (DCS) to include hardware, software, airtime, technical and engineering services. The existing DCS integrates all sensors & transmitters currently used in a comprehensive client-server architecture that is expandable to accommodate new sensors, transmitters, and communication systems as required.

Harris Corp. received $9,747,503 for continued space control depot support (SCDS), which supports a diverse portfolio of space control systems, including development, sustainment engineering, and ongoing logistics support.

Honeywell International received $80,112,194 for Embedded Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation System (EGI). This includes platform integration, modernization, diminishing manufacturing sources, flight test support, technical support following integration efforts, training, engineering support / studies,or depot repair, spares, and data. Involves FMS to India, Turkey, Singapore, Oman, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Slovenia, Israel, Egypt, Australia, Ghana, Taiwan, Kuwait, and Iraq.

KBR received $40,230,542 for Air Force Satellite Control Network Hybrid upgrades at New Hampshire Tracking Station A-Side in New Boston, NH, and Telemetry & Command Station A-Side in Oakhanger, England.

Lockheed Martin received $1,362,089,314 for engineering, space vehicle test bed & simulators, and production of GPS IIIF Space Vehicles 11 & 12 via Space & Missile System Center, Los Angeles AFB.

Lockheed Martin received $137,187,386 for operations, sustainment & factory infrastructure support for space-based infrared system, SBIRS (from 1 Oct 2018 to 30 Sept 2019) in Sunnyvale, CA; Azusa, CA; Boulder, CO; Aurora, CO; Colorado Springs, CO. Lockheed Martin received $45,430,528 for SBIRS or logistics support for studies & projects at Peterson AFB, CO; Buckley AFB, CO; Greeley Air National Guard Station, CO; Boulder, CO.

Lockheed Martin received $7,378,400 to sustain AN/UMQ-13 Meteorological Data Station MARK IV-B systems.

L3 received $9,238,925 for Agile Small-Satellite Experimental Telescope.

Northrop Grumman received $19,165,385 for on-orbit satellite and anomaly resolution support.

Pacific Defense Solutions received $39,894,065 for spacecraft object tracking and characterization capabilities.

Raytheon received $81,800,000 for Miniaturized Airborne Global Positioning System Receiver (MAGR) production and sustainment. “This will allow FMS.”

Rockwell Collins received $28,914,642 for production & repair of Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR), providing users a lightweight, hand-held, dual frequency, Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module-based and Precise Positioning Service receiver.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA) & ICBM

General Dynamics received $7,658,054 for labor & material items in support of Strategic Weapons Systems Ashore, SSGN Repair, U.K. Dreadnought Trainer upgrades and training for Strategic Systems Programs.

L.C. Wright Inc. received $8,497,407 (min. $3,384,136) for Protocol Support. Protocol professionals provide support for the director and general officer / Senior Executive Service (SES) members that are geographically dispersed throughout the U.S., specifically National Capital Region; Dahlgren, VA; Huntsville, AL; Fort Greely; Vandenberg AFB; Colorado Springs, CO.

Lockheed Martin received $9,084,783 for various material items in support of Missile Service Units (MSU), consisting of the actual MSUs, bridge cranes, pads, floor inserts, access covers, transfer slings, cable assembly, adjustment pads, adjustment rods, tag line cleats, and supporting equipment.

Lockheed Martin received $103,919,058 for Trident II (D5) missile production, D5 Life Extension production, and D5 Deployed Systems Support. Lockheed Martin received$333,299,488 for Trident II (D5) Deployed Systems Support in Cape Canaveral, FL (29.06%); Sunnyvale, CA (26.58%); Kings Bay, GA (13.8%); Bangor, WA (13.64%); Denver, CO (5.14%); Titusville, FL (3.48%); Magna, UT (3.08%); Orlando, FL (1.54%); various locations (<1% each; 3.68% total).

LSINC Corp. received $38,968,314 ($13,207,721 min.) for advisory & assistance services for Human Resources in support of technical, engineering, advisory, and management support. Supports the development, implementation, sustainment, and assessment of human resources processes, procedures, plans, and policies to support MDA workforce in Huntsville, AL; Fort Belvoir; and Colorado Springs.

L3 received $10,000,000 for S-Band Mobile Array Telemetry (SMART) Antenna Component Refresh.

Northrop Grumman received $19,594,487 for electronic chart display information systems and corresponding X-Band Radar and S-Band Radar units. This equipment will replace, update, and improve MSC’s navigational capabilities.

Northrop Grumman (Orbital ATK) received $34,239,122 for three Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target kits and support services. Northrop Grumman (Orbital ATK) received$86,387,000 for aging surveillance (AS) services, which provide motor & component test, evaluation, engineering support, and disposal for all stages of Minuteman and Peacekeeper systems at Promontory, UT; and UT’s Test and Training Range. Northrop Grumman received $289,331,060 for engineering, logistics, integration, test & evaluation, and program management to improve software & production representative hardware (presumably on the Integrated Air & Missile Defense Battle Command System).

Peraton Inc. received $11,680,714 for continued support services including critical system assessment and vulnerability services and reentry systems development support for Trident II (D5) in Colorado Springs, CO (71.1%); D.C. (22.5%); Cape Canaveral, FL (4.6%); Albuquerque, NM (1.8%).

Raytheon received $16,909,342 for receiver exciter line replaceable units in support of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System / Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Weapon System (PAVE PAWS).

Textron received $11,075,000 for Minuteman III ICBM sustainment.

MISSILES, BOMBS, ROCKETS, PROJECTILES

American Ordnance received $92,341,823 for M918E1 40mm high velocity target practice cartridge. Armtec Defense Products received $35,850,854 for modular artillery charge systems M231/M232-series combustible case cartridges.

BAE Systems received $16,185,983 to repair/replace electrical circuit components and replace electrical infrastructure, Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP). BAE Systems received $96,609,852 to build a natural-gas fired steam plant at Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, TN. BAE Systems received $59,856,516 to build a fluid energy mill at Holston Army Ammunition Plant. BAE Systems received $20,285,513 for sewer line repair and replacement at Holston Army Ammunition Plant.

Boeing received $14,073,337 for Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB) focused lethality munition production assets (weapons, shipping, storage containers).

General Dynamics received $20,471,717 for bomb bodies. General Dynamics received$19,979,953 for 120mm M1002 new production cartridges for 120mm tank training ammunition.

Lockheed Martin received $51,078,802 for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extreme Range (JASSM-XR) engineering and programmatic activities.

Lockheed Martin received $49,618,289 for Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM).

Lockheed Martin received $7,364,514 for PAC-3 missile segment enhancement and solid rocket motor dechlorane plus obsolescence.

Lockheed Martin received $289,176,455 for 24 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) launchers, training, spares, and enhanced product improvement modifications.

Manu Kai LLC received $90,000,000 for range operations support and base operations support at Pacific Missile Range Facility, Island of Kauai, HI.

Northrop Grumman received $22,005,520 for Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) full-rate production Lot 7 for U.S. Navy ($1,732,059; 8%) and other countries ($20,273,461; 92%, including Italy).

Northrop Grumman (Orbital ATK) and General Dynamics received a shared $1,850,000,000for 20 mm, 25mm, 30x113mm, and 30x173mm ammunition.

Polymer Technologies and RTI Technologies received $36,320,000 for meltable fuze plug (manufacture, inspect, test, package) for 155mm artillery projectiles.

Raytheon received $7,498,680 to repair 134 HARM AGM-88B/C guidance sections, procure 12 HARM AGM-88B/C control sections, and provide associated support technical data for Air Force ($5,802,828; 77%); Navy ($1,695,852; 23%).

Raytheon received $13,465,722 for TOW 2 Subsystem engineering services.

Raytheon received $24,693,652 for AIM-9X training missiles, spares, containers, materials.

Raytheon received $19,314,871 for SM-2 and SM-6 FY2018 obsolete components and upgrade kits. Raytheon received $22,619,574 for SM-2 and SM-6 FY2018 depot- and intermediate-level provisioned items ordered spares. Raytheon received $395,549,739 for FY2017 and 2018 SM-6 full rate production requirements and spares.

Javelin JV (b/w Raytheon/Lockheed Martin) received $27,595,202 for FMS (Australia, Estonia, Lithuania, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine): Javelin production.

Whiting-Turnering Co. received $31,092,000 for design and construction of Chambers Field Magazine Recap, Phase I at Naval Station Norfolk.

ORDNANCE DISPOSAL

Advanced Technology International ($8,613,209) and PAE ($8,170,700) received funding for support services for Demonstration & Assessment Team, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head EOD Technology Division, MD.

BAE Systems received $9,919,748 for munitions handling & management services. Involves receiving, storing, segregating, issuing, inspecting, and transporting various types of ammunition, explosives, ordnance, and weapons for Joint Service commands.

Foster-Miller Inc. received $10,878,416 for post-production support under the Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) MK2 robotic systems program. iRobot received$10,134,415 for services on MTRS MK1 Robotic Systems program (production units, spares, consumables, engineering enhancements, and configuration management).

SRCTEC LLC received $20,429,720 for reliability, maintainability, and improvement kits to upgrade the Duke V3 system for use in EOD. 

PREPOSITIONED STOCK

KBR received $51,866,922 for prepositioning and Marine Corps logistics support services for Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, FL (85%); aboard 12 Maritime Prepositioning Ships (12%); Norway (2%); Kuwait (1%).

LAND VEHICLES

Allison Transmission received $30,062,763 for M1 Abrams new and upgraded transmissions, sustainment kits and system technical services.

AM General received $51,302,430 for HMMWV recapitalization. AM General received$562,478,542 for HMMWV ambulance. Oshkosh Defense received $13,948,623 for fire extinguishers. Oshkosh Defense received $35,262,656 for HMMWV parts for U.S. Army. Ranger Land Systems received $15,512,732 for commercial maintenance, refurbishment, inspection, and repair of Bearcats, HMMWV, Logistics Vehicle System Replacement, 7-ton trucks, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, aircraft rescue firefighting and tactical trailers.

BAE Systems received $215,797,886 for M109A7 Self-Propelled Howitzer and the M992A3 Carrier Ammunition Tracked vehicles. BAE Systems received $9,746,243 for system technical support services for the M109 family of vehicles.

BAE Systems received $91,176,702 for eight Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) common module logic items. Honeywell received $8,578,415 for Bradley Fighting Vehicle System generators. LOC Performance received $58,838,967 for 345 Bradley Engineering Change Proposal kits and installation.

General Dynamics received $15,561,864 for vehicle spare parts.

Hydraulics International Inc. received $43,599,667 for up to 305 MHU-83D production units, truck, lift, aerial stores loaders for ordnance/store loading operations on AV-8B, F/A-18, AH-1W, AH-1Z, UH-1Y, and F-35 B/C.

JCB Inc. received $72,757,904 for High Mobility Engineer Excavator Type-1 vehicles.

Leonardo DRS received $19,868,043 for Intelligent Video Surveillance and initial spares packages.

Leonardo DRS received $112,777,000 for Maintenance Support Device Version 4 Light maintenance, accessories and support services.

L-3 received $43,008,895 for 184 Hydro Mechanically Propelled Transmissions for Bradley and Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and ancillary hardware.

MACRO-Z-Technology Co. received $8,762,000 to repair vehicle wash racks at JB Lewis-McChord, WA.

Navistar Defense received $13,416,393 for cargo troop carriers, contractor spare parts, special tools, operator and maintenance training, and workshop repair manuals, laptop computer, and contractor publications.

Northrop Grumman received $11,284,790 for additional provisioning spares to support ongoing Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (GATOR) Gallium Nitride efforts in support of PEO Land Systems, Quantico, VA.

Ruta Supplies Inc. received $15,241,323 for pneumatic supplies.

Tru Hitch Inc. received $10,675,995 for XM20 fifth wheel towing recovery devices, XM1250 tilt deck recovery trailers, field light kits, and winch control kits.

SMALL ARMS & LIGHT WEAPONRY (SALW)

American Ordnance LLC received $23,178,756 for Mine Clearing Line Charge systems.

Day & Zimmermann received $10,375,695 for M67 fragmentation hand grenades.

FN America LLC received $7,190,077 for machine gun barrels.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KDA) received $498,289,506 for continued production, sustainment and engineering services for the M153 CROWS.

Nammo Talley Inc. received $135,060,000 for the Bunker Defeat Munition, XM808 Subcaliber Trainer, and the Field Handling Trainer.

U.S. Ordnance received $13,499,098 to procure M60 weapon systems, spare barrels, conversion kits, training, and spare parts.

Bryan Construction received $14,796,430 to build a combat arms facility at McConnell AFB, KS. LS Black Constructors received $7,634,890 to build an indoor small arms range at the Saint Paul Air Reserve Station, MN. Watermark Environmental Inc. received$9,318,087 to build a small arms range located at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA, Chicopee, MA.

Nation Ford Chemical received $34,400,000 for specialty dyes for M18 smoke grenades.

GEAR & EQUIPMENT

Airborne Systems North America received $9,575,711 for Advanced Tactical Parachute System.

Avox Systems Inc. received $7,075,107 for Joint Service Aircrew Mask – Rotary Wing mask protective unit mask systems and spares.

Carter Enterprises received $7,508,923 for ballistic battle belt. Carter Enterprises received$24,177,388 for improved Generation IV outer tactical vests. Federal Prison Industries received $110,231,607 for interceptor body armor and outer tactical vests.

Leonardo DRS received $292,091,753 for maintenance support device version four Rugged/Marine Configuration (MSD V4R), Semi-Rugged (MSD V4S), (MSD V4-R/S).

North American Manufacturing received maximum $30,000,000 for military folding cots.

Provengo LLC received maximum $9,085,675 for up 8,005 Military Ski Systems (MSS). MSS will replace the current ski in the Marine Corps inventory and will provide the Marine Corps with a universal ski binding.

Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind received $33,204,950 for multi-purpose personal hydration systems and components.

Syracuse Research Corp. received $93,000,000 for AN/TPQ-49A Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar System. FMS (10%).

Vertical Protective Apparel received $62,612,464 for up to 225,886 Plate Carrier Generation IIIs and data reports for USMC.

OLD ELECTRONICS

AECOM (URS) received $25,000,000 in support of Naval Tactical Computer Resource (NTCR) program for reutilization, repair, or refurbishment of legacy electronic equipment. Types of equipment being reutilized or refurbished include: combat system displays, computer systems, peripheral systems, and videocassette tape recorders.

RANGE FINDER & TARGET LOCATION DEVICE

Leonardo DRS received $231,467,028 for lightweight laser designator rangefinder.

CLOTHING

Bethel Industries received $65,320,000 for flame resistant ACU trousers. Bluewater Defense (Corazol, Puerto Rico) received $12,315,000 for ACU coats and trousers.

Carter Industries Inc. received $8,517,755 for various types of coveralls. Coachys & Associates LLC received $12,499,907 for camouflage parkas.

Creighton AB Inc. received $19,918,381 for various Navy men’s shirts for USAF.

Pentaq Manufacturing Corp. (Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico) received $32,908,000 for various coats and trousers.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Advancia Technologies received $20,054,685 for role players at 11 active duty and reserve Fleet Marine Force training locations.

Alpha-Omega Change Engineering received $44,738,911 for academic and simulator formal training and continuation training for multiple mission design series at Kirtland AFB, Davis-Monthan AFB, JB Andrews, Moody AFB.

American Rheinmetall Munition received $59,703,284 for up 2,135,026 MK281 MOD 3 40MM high velocity day/night practice cartridges. MK281 MOD 3 cartridges are for training under day and night/low-light conditions.

Bering Straits Technical Services received $13,335,173 for operations, maintenance, and sustainment of training areas, 413th Combat Support Battalion, Fort Wainwright.

Boeing received $9,202,568,686 for Advanced Pilot Training aircraft and ground-based training systems.

CAE USA received $25,352,844 for fixed-wing courses, academic and flight simulator, flight training and support in Dothan, AL, just east of Fort Rucker.

Creative Times Dayschool received $20,264,866 to build classrooms, conference rooms, training space, instructor offices, supply rooms, administrative space, elevator, building information systems, and covered training area (General Instruction Building), Tucson, AZ.

Delaware Resource Group received $12,675,528 for Pacific Air Forces Distributed Mission Operations/Live, Synthetic and Blended Operational Training environment. Allows aircrew to practice basic & emergency procedures and experience weapon-systems and hone skills to operate in a combat environment.

Dynamic Systems Technology received $7,794,248 to help the quality of life and resilience of Army National Guard children and youth by providing support services and age-appropriate development programs in Arlington, VA.

DynCorp received $173,174,040 for maintenance and logistics on 16 T-34, 54 T-44, and 287 T-6 aircraft. 

Eastern Construction & Electric received $11,905,555 to construct an addition to the B2324 MX training facility at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Harper Construction Co. received$44,127,541 for basic training Starship Barracks Building 6007 at Fort Sill, OK.

Flight Safety International received $40,730,664 for one AH-1Z and one UH-1Y flight training device (FTD). Also provides technical refreshes for 4 FTD.

Jacobs received $10,000,000 for planning, design, and construction phase services in support of Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA). NCS Technologies received $15,844,337 for life-cycle replacement of laptop & desktop computers with storage carts to be delivered to multiple DODEA schools and offices in U.S., Europe, and the Pacific.

L3 received $202,936,338 for maintenance, logistics, and engineering on Navy T-45 aircraft, aircraft systems, and related support equipment for flight and test & evaluation operations at NAS Kingsville (45.7%); NAS Meridian (41.7%); NAS Pensacola (10.1%); NAS Patuxent River (2.5%). L3 received $16,332,950 for maintenance, repair, logistics on training aircraft at NAS Pensacola (50%), NAS Corpus Christi (45%), NAS Whiting Field (5%).

Northrop Grumman received $61,060,108 for mission command training program (MCTP) work and activities at Fort Leavenworth, KS.

Oak Grove Technologies received $18,019,000 for squad advanced marksmanship training.

Tuva LLC received $8,999,621 for 100 Mobile Training Suites (MTS) in support of Global Combat Support System-Marine Corps (GCSS-MC). The kits are a combination of equipment, software, databases, documentation, and procedures. Kits used in the training of GCSS-MC users and key personnel in locations where network connectivity to the enterprise training environment is not available.

URS Group received $44,246,994 to build a New Consolidated Squadron Operations, Academic and Flight Training Building at NAS Corpus Christi. The Department of War justifies and expedites this construction as “global contingency construction.”

Web Business Solutions received $70,553,538 to provide support for the Command and Control Training and Education Center of Excellence. Camp Pendleton, CA (27%); Quantico, VA (23%); Camp Lejeune, NC (17%); Okinawa, Japan (16%); Twenty-nine Palms, CA (10%); Marine Corps Base HI (7%).

FORCE PROTECTION

Q.B.S. Inc. received $7,041,017 to replace Building 546 Navy Foundry & Propeller Center Compound perimeter fencing at Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex.

Sagres Construction received $10,980,000 for a protective barrier ornamental fence and associated access gates and construction of approximately 9,600 LF of an 8 ft. perimeter ornamental security fence at Fort Myer, VA.

White Mountain Construction received $14,850,000 for construction of Entry Control Facility, Clear Air Force Station, AK.

3e Technologies International received $16,620,671 for continued implementation of a facilities critical infrastructure control and monitoring system interface to the Navy Virtual Perimeter Monitoring System.

CBRNE

GP Strategies Corp. received $13,356,046 to operate & maintain logistics and chemical demilitarization training facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Leidos received $12,989,305 for systemization, operations, and support management of pilot testing, systemization, operations, and closure of chemical demilitarization facilities to destroy chemical weapons stockpiles.

Eight corporations will compete for $249,000,000 to provide resources in support of the Joint PEO for Chemical & Biological Defense to include its headquarters, directorates and five joint project managers. Six corporations will compete $249,000,000 for resources in support of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical & Biological Defense to include its headquarters, directorates and five joint project manager.

DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY (DTRA)

Culmen International received $150,000,000 (max.) for Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, worldwide. CTR mission “is to partner with willing countries to reduce threat from weapons of mass destruction and related materials, technologies, facilities, and expertise.”

Raytheon received $7,542,049 for Task Order 12 Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation Prevention Program on the Jordan Border Security Project. URS Federal Services received $42,825,276 for technical services in Vietnam to support the Weapons of Mass Destruction – Proliferation Prevention Program run by Defense Threat Reduction Agency out of Fort Belvoir.

Summit Technologies Inc., Analytic Services Inc., The Tauri Group, Information International Associates, Battelle Memorial Institute received a shared $27,866,000 to provide professional services in the areas of CBRN defense and countering WMD operational and risk analysis.

FUEL & ENERGY

Amports Inc. received $16,676,897 for aviation jet fuel.

BAE Systems received $13,488,069 to design a new energy center allowing for complete isolation from a legacy coal-fired powerhouse and incorporating it into a natural gas-fired package boiler facility, Rock Island Arsenal, IL.

Georgia Power received $9,798,186 for energy project Utility Energy Service, Warner Robins, GA.

Helix Electric Inc. received $21,160,000 for power grid consolidation at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kekaha, Kauai, HI.

Koontz Electric Company Inc. received $8,369,963 for two forced gas-cooled and forced air-cooled type and class GDAF transformers.

Lykins Oil Co., ($22,925,649), Fannon Petroleum Services ($9,084,858), Petroleum Traders ($9,052,780) received funding for various types of fuel.

Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services received $7,397,000 for full food services at Keesler AFB.

Noresco LLC received $30,799,190 for energy improvements at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI. 

FUEL TRANSPORT

American Petroleum Tankers received $32,850,000 to provide U.S. flagged Jones Act Tanker M/T Empire State for worldwide transportation of petroleum products. U.S Marine Management Inc. received $10,545,649 for one U.S. flagged Jones Act Tanker, M/T Maersk Peary for transportation of petroleum products in support of Operation Deep Freeze. Schuyler Lines Navigation Co. received $16,425,000 for the Far East Tanker SLNC Goodwill.

AERIAL REFUELING

CAE USA Inc. received $32,554,415 to extend the KC-135 Aircraft Training System. Overseas work at Kadena Air Base, Japan; Ramstein Air Base, Germany; RAF Mildenhall, England.  LGC Global received $13,810,000 to renovate KC-135 aircraft hangar, Columbus, OH.

Omega Aerial Refueling Services received $41,586,391 for aerial refueling services to DOD and FMS during missions ranging from basic training to multi-national exercises.

Olgoonik Logistics LLC received $15,689,017 for alongside aircraft refueling services at Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu and received $16,831,518 for alongside aircraft refueling services at Naval Air Facility El Centro. JV Global Logistics LLC received$19,362,000 (max.) for alongside aircraft refueling services at NAS Patuxent River, MD.

UTILITIES

American States Utility Services received $81,380,241 for additional services for the water and wastewater utility systems at Fort Riley, KS. American Water Military Services received $590,702,920 for ownership, operation, and maintenance of water & wastewater systems at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

City of Aberdeen, Maryland received $10,469,784 for water and wastewater utility capital improvements, Aberdeen Proving Ground.

City Light & Power received $485,443,670 for ownership, operation, and maintenance of electric distribution systems at JB Lewis-McChord, WA. Dominion Privatization SC LLC received $142,280,462 for ownership, operation and maintenance of the electric distribution system at Fort Jackson.

ONE Gas Inc. received $102,561,964 for ownership, operation & maintenance of the natural gas distribution system at Fort Riley, KS. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. received $33,658,296 for ownership, operation, and maintenance of natural gas distribution at Fort Jackson, SC.

Constellation NewEnergy received $8,219,513 to supply and deliver retail electricity and ancillary / incidental services. Using customers are Customs & Border Protection, Department of Labor, and Department of Energy.

North Star Construction received $9,749,650 for 60KV power lines, Beale AFB.

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

American Purchasing Services received $49,500,000 for hospital equipment and accessories. I Miller Precision Optical Instruments received $10,000,000 for hospital equipment and accessories. Kforce Government Solutions received $48,500,000 for hospital equipment and accessories. Spacelabs Healthcare Inc. received $13,460,681 for patient monitoring systems, subsystems, accessories, consumables and training.

MEDICAL SERVICES

General Dynamics received $12,190,571 to support all aspects of the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, Fort Detrick, MD.

STS Solutions & Training received $12,705,123 for programming constructs for facilities, equipment, staffing, and programs that “serve to enhance the individual adaptation of healthy lifestyle behavior.” Work in Aberdeen, MD, for Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick.

Vysnova Partners Inc. received $38,000,000 for research support for Naval Medical Research Unit-2 (NAMRU-2) located in Singapore. Research throughout Southeast Asia for Naval Medical Logistics Command, Fort Detrick.

Leidos received $7,088,170 to support the Defense Health Agency Prevention Program as the lead office of HIV/AIDS support to partner militaries. “Provides assistance to selected foreign militaries in adapting, and providing, HIV/AIDS prevention programs… Assists selected foreign countries in developing military and culturally appropriate interventions to affect high-risk HIV/AIDS attitudes and behaviors.”

Donald L. Mooney Enterprises received $13,500,000 for licensed vocational nurse and certified nurse assistant services. Matrix Providers received $7,385,915 for nursing services in Honolulu, HI. MedTrust LLC received $13,500,000 for registered nursing services.

Noveome Biotherapeutics Inc. received $9,655,000 for research into the treatment of ocular trauma, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD. Laboratory Corp. of America received $46,371,667 for clinical reference laboratory testing services.

World Wide Technology received $10,395,411 for hardware, software, and installation for Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Sam Houston.

Genentech USA received $16,826,250 for Oseltamivir Phosphate (Tamiflu).

Med-Turn Inc. and Return R Us received $45,000,000 for pharmaceutical reverse distribution services.

3M received $9,039,841 for a dictation and transcription software product.

DENTAL

Complete Mobile Dentistry Inc. received $15,074,309 and $10,579,768 for dental services. Patterson Dental received $48,000,000 for consumable dental items. BEAT LLC and QED Systems received $11,587,255 for Dental Digital Imaging (DDI) systems for various Naval Dental Treatment Facilities. 

POST-DEPLOYMENT

Leidos Inc. received $57,752,791 for research support services to examine the effects of deployments and career experiences on the overall physical and mental health of service members and their families.

TRANSPORTATION 

Barney A Cagle, Nav Systems Inc., and two separate Northrop Grumman divisions shared $12,800,975 for systems & service of Military Sealift Command (MSC) vessels’ bridge electronic communication equipment, steering gear, navigation equipment, and various safety systems.

Gannett Fleming received $18,899,300 for traffic engineering analysis services & analysis, traffic engineering publications, training materials, tools & traffic studies to Army’s Surface Deployment & Distribution Command, Camp Hill, PA.

JAR Assets LLC received $9,115,290 for transportation of bulk jet fuel and marine diesel fuel by barge for USTRANSCOM. 1st Coast Cargo received $21,985,403 for continued services for advanced traceability and control of consolidated transportation shipments to move DOD freight, USTRANSCOM.

Sealift Inc. received $12,421,315 for the U.S. flagged vessel MV LTC John U. D. Page for prepositioning & transportation of cargo. Sealift Inc. received $9,581,250 for the U.S. flagged vessel MV SSG Edward A. Carter Jr. for prepositioning and transportation of cargo. These vessels are employed in worldwide trade for the transportation and prepositioning of cargo (including, but not limited to, hazardous cargo, explosives, ammunition, vehicular, containerized, and general cargo).

Crowley Government Services received $14,126,636 for the operation and maintenance of five roll-on/roll-off and container ships. U.S. Marine Management received $34,774,265 for operation and maintenance of seven USNS Bob Hope Class Surge Large, Medium-Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off vessels for MSC.

Marine Corps Systems Command and Crowley Government Services received$48,746,282 for operation & maintenance of six government-owned Marine Prepositioning Force (MPF) ships in support of worldwide prepositioning.

ENVIRONMENTAL – SAN FRANCISCO

APTIM Federal Services received $15,764,049 for Radiological Confirmation Sampling and Survey at Parcels D-2, Utility Corridor (UC)-1, UC-2, and UC-3 at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco.  APTIM Federal Services received $12,022,779 for Parcel G Radiological Characterization at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Gilbane Federal received$11,192,881 for Phase IV Non-Time Critical Removal Action (NTCRA) for Solid Waste Disposal Area Westside, Installation Restoration (IR) Site 12 at Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco. Gilbane Federal received $9,299,640 for Parcel B Radiological Characterization at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco. Gilbane Federal received$12,358,033 for Parcel C radiological characterization at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Cape Environmental Management received $7,716,908 for perform remediation of sites at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto, KS. McLaughlin Research Corp. received $16,273,571 for environmental services in Newport, RI, for Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Pacific Commercial Services received $10,000,000 for all services necessary for final treatment/disposal of hazardous waste “in accordance with all local, state, and Federal regulations, to include DOD component directives” within NAVFAC Pacific. R8I Cabrera Remediation & Construction received $25,000,000 for continued support of environmental remediation program. The Solution Foundry received$43,000,000 for environmental management system consulting services, training, planning requirements, budgeting, effective implementation, operation, and management review.

Vernadero Group received $30,000,000 (max.) for desert tortoise translocation, monitoring, and management support at Twentynine Palms.

FOOD SERVICES

Coast Citrus Distributors received $456,000,000 for fresh fruits and vegetables. Oakes Farms Food & Distribution Services received $45,000,000 for fresh fruits and vegetables.

Global Connections to Employment received $13,028,622 for full food and mess attendant services in support of NAS Pensacola; Navy EOD School Elgin AFB; mess attendant services in support of Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport. Labatt Food Service received $9,954,437 for full-line food distribution. Nova Global Supply & Services received $92,000,000 for full-line food distribution.

Goodwill Industries Southeastern WI received $80,004,557 to provide food and logistics support services for tenant activities within Naval Station Great Lakes.

Sodexco Management Inc. received $7,185,547 for nutrition care management, supervisory, technical, administrative and clerical services necessary to perform nutrition care food services at multiple locations.

Southeastern Paper Group received $13,038,663 for miscellaneous operating supplies and paper bags for multiple commissary stores in the continental U.S., Puerto Rico and the Pacific Theater.

Sodexo received $8,071,688 for Marine Corps Regional Garrison Food Services.

State Licensing Agency, South Carolina Commission received $19,047,036 for food service management, production, and headcounter services, Fort Jackson.

DOMESTIC BASE SUPPORT – Base operations (a.k.a. base support services) usually involve a combination of: facility management, fire & emergency services, grounds maintenance, janitorial services, pavement clearance, pest control, port operations, utilities, vehicles & equipment service, and waste management.

Chugach Federal Solutions received $19,495,814 for operations & maintenance of installation infrastructure, utilities, services, and airfields capable of receiving emergency aircraft diverts within 30 minutes notice for Eareckson Air Station, King Salmon Airport, and Wake Island Airfield.

Jacobs received $30,637,699 for base operations support at Naval Station Mayport, Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island, and outlying areas.

JT4 LLC received $222,100,000 for updated technical performance requirements and for range engineering services at Edwards AFB, Nellis AFB, Hill AFB, and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division ranges at China Lake & Point Mugu.

Mancon LLC received $92,000,000 for supplies, including office supplies/equipment, janitorial and sanitation items, industrial hardware, galley supplies/equipment, safety supplies/equipment, and tactical supplies/equipment, along with store operation services at the Norfolk Super Servmart.

Opportunities & Resources Inc. received $9,631,719 for custodial services at various locations on Oahu.

PAE Applied Technologies received $17,770,204 for operations and maintenance services in support of the Southern California Offshore Range.

Professional Contract Services received $26,094,950 for labor and supplies necessary to manage and operate Fort Sill Directorate of Public Works buildings and structure maintenance, utility systems operation, HVAC and dining facility.

QuantiTech Inc. received $47,352,975 for Technical & Management Advisory Services range support: additional research, development, test and evaluation, and acquisition support at Eglin AFB, FL; Arnold AFB, TN; Holloman AFB, NM; Hill AFB, UT; Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI; Eielson AFB.

Shearwater Mission Support received $7,264,819 for installation support services at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ.

Skookum Educational Programs received $29,214,362 for base operations support at various installations in NAVFAC Northwest.

Tidewater Inc. received $9,000,000 for facility maintenance in northern California (including service calls, preventative maintenance, inspection, testing and certification, and repairs). Tidewater received $9,000,000 for the same services in southern California.

OVERSEAS BASE SUPPORT

Range Generation Next LLC received $502,224,668 for engineering and technical services in Huntsville, AL, and Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.

SupplyCore Inc. received $80,000,000 for facilities maintenance, repair and operations items. Work in Illinois and South Korea.

CONSULTING, ADMIN, LOGISTICS & BUSINESS/OFFICE SUPPORT

Accent Controls Inc. received $7,694,857 for warehousing and distribution support services. Peckham Vocational Industries received $42,000,000 for warehousing, storage, logistics and distribution functions. Interstate Storage & Pipeline received $42,888,271 for contractor-owned, contractor-operated storage and handling facilities.

Alion Science & Technology received $49,803,941 for professional support services for Naval Sea Systems Command 21, surface warfare directorate. Services help manage modernization, maintenance, training, and inactivation programs. Includes program management, engineering, logistics, planning and readiness, and financial management support services.

Bevilacqua Research Corp. received $36,081,359 for Technical and Management Advisory Services Platforms support: additional research, development, test & evaluation, and acquisition support services in Eglin AFB, Duke Field, Hurlburt Field, Nellis AFB, Tinker AFB, Edwards AFB.

Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting received $22,000,000 for civil engineering support services at Eglin AFB, FL.

DCS Corp. received $16,252,479 for Technical and Management Advisory Services Electronic Warfare support: additional research, development, test & evaluation, and acquisition support services at Eglin AFB and Edwards AFB. Involves FMS to Belgium, Greece, Iraq, South Korea, Morocco, NATO, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan.

DirectViz Solutions received $7,429,544 for Joint Service Provider with technical, analytical, management, and professional support services for Identity Protection Management Services.

Torch Technologies received $44,456,840 for Technical & Management Advisory Services Armament support: additional research, development, technical, test and evaluation, and acquisition support in Eglin AFB, Kirkland AFB, Wright-Patterson AFB.

Total Logistics received $20,590,045 for additional planning, analysis, development, training, support equipment management, facilities and execution in support of NAVAIR’s Industrial and Logistics Management Planning / Sustainment Department (AIR 6.7), Patuxent River, MD.

FINANCES

CACI received $9,202,730 for support of project management, integrated personnel and pay system-Army increment II. CACI received $8,263,803 for continued sustainment and development support for the Defense Personal Property System, Scott AFB.

Deloitte & Touche LLP received $7,735,557 for Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS) audit reconciliation support services to Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and other agencies.

Ernst & Young LLP received $24,026,244 for audit support services.

OVERSEAS CONSTRUCTION

Black Construction Corp. received $82,028,150 to design/build an aircraft maintenance facility and corrosion control hangar, Joint Region Marianas (JRM).

Conti Federal Services received $20,575,002 for roof repairs and replacement of Virgin Islands Army National Guard, Kingshill, Virgin Islands.

GHD Setiadi Kaula AE JV received $40,000,000 for base infrastructure projects and other projects primarily in Guam & Northern Marianas (70%); Australia (20%); Hawai’i (10%).

Siemens received $171,543,614 for energy improvements at NAS Sigonella, Naval Station Rota, and Naval Support Activity Naples.

TFS-APTIM JV received $21,445,996 to build a fuel truck offload facility at Andersen AFB, Guam. 

DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Abhe & Svoboda Inc. received $10,529,858 for dam service and bridge repairs, Rock Island, IL.

AECOM received $40,648,775 for lock chamber replacement, foundation preparation for the land and river wall, and to build the upstream river wall, Chattanooga, TN.

Alltech Engineering, Abide International, BCI Construction USA received a shared $30,000,000 to repair and replace dam components.

BCI Construction USA received $13,731,375 for headworks intake lifting equipment, Lancaster, TN; Celina, TN; Jamestown, KY.

Carbro Constructors Corp. received $12,278,324 for construction for segment C2 of the Green Brook Flood Risk Management Project located in Middlesex, NJ.

Citi Approved Enterprise received $13,195,792 for Atchafalaya Basin floodway, Boeuf Lock, Morgan City, LA.

C.J. Mahan Construction Co. received $35,495,500 for demolition and removal of Lock and Dam 52 in Brookport, IL.

Del Valle Group S.P. (Toa Baja, Puerto Rico) received $14,294,000 for dam, spillway and channel reinforcement in Isabella, Puerto Rico.

Flatiron/Dragados/Sukut JV received $36,695,695 for the auxiliary spillway for the Isabella Lake Dam safety project and the demolition of several downstream monoliths in the Borel Outlet Works through the auxiliary dam, filling the Borel Outlet, Lake Isabella, CA. RAL Investment (Silverstand Construction) received $21,434,551 for construction of a dike on the Santa Ana River, Corona, CA. Raito/Great Lakes E&I JV received $7,884,517 for constructing a cutoff wall and reconstructing the degraded embankment of Marysville Ring Levee, CA.

General Constructors Inc. of the Quad Cities received $10,405,500 to repair Mississippi River basin, Lock and Dam 14, and dock wall, Pleasant Valley, IA.

Heeter Geotechnical Construction received $28,260,132 for construction for Kentucky lock downstream excavation, Grand Rivers, KY.

Husman Environmental & RC Construction JV received $16,780,000 for Semmes Lake dam rebuild, Fort Jackson, SC.

IMCO General Construction received $10,512,500 for replacement of the Stoney Gate Valve System at Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Seattle, WA.

J.F. Brennan Co. received $9,759,800 for bulkhead recesses on the Illinois River Basin.

Johnson Machine Works received $12,627,614 for supply of miter gates for Lock and Dam 5A, and Locks 8 and 10, Chariton, IA.

Trumbull Corp. and Brayman Construction received $30,493,914 to build Charleroi locks and dam & river chamber completion, Monongahela River, Monessen, PA.

URS Group Inc. received $18,760,919 for phase two of Hurricane Harvey repairs at NAS, Corpus Christi.

Young’s General Contracting received $9,863,432 for the construction of 17,400 linear feet of clay-lined earthen canal with levee embankments, 12 gravity-operated farmer offtakes, two concrete siphon structures, one pump type turnout structure, and associated grading and local drainage work.

DOMESTIC AIRFIELD REHABILITATION

Coffman Specialties received $15,845,000 for airfield pavement repairs at March Air Reserve Base. Digitized Schematic Solutions received $12,000,000 for additional Airfield Damage Repair (ADR) kits. MEB Generalors Inc. received $50,257,000 for aircraft apron airfield site improvements, JB Langley, Fort Eustis. Quality Enterprises USA received$20,000,000 for asphalt paving and concrete work at Parris Island and MCAS Beaufort. Webb Electric Co. of Florida received $16,460,695 to work on Airfield Lighting projects, Scott AFB, IL.

ARCHITECT-ENGINEERING SERVICES

Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. received $20,000,000 for architect engineer general design services. Burgess & Niple-Heapy LLC, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., Garver LLC received $10,000,000 for architectural and engineering services. GWWO Inc. received$10,000,000 for architect-engineering services. Innova Architects and WJA Design Collaborative received $9,500,000 for architectural and engineering services, Fairchild AFB, WA. Jacobs received maximum $30,000,000 for multi-discipline architect-engineering services in NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic. KZF Design Inc. received $10,000,000 for architect-engineering services. Schenkel & Shultz Inc. received $10,000,000 for architect-engineering services. Tetra Tech received $10,000,000 for architect-engineer services for civil works projects. Zyscovich Inc. received $10,000,000 for architect-engineering services. Seven corporations will compete for $49,000,000 for architect and engineering services for survey and mapping. Woolpert Inc. received $10,000,000 for architect-engineering services. Five construction corporations received a shared $50,000,000 for architectural and engineering service efforts to Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).

DOMESTIC CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

AECOM received $48,000,000 for quality-assurance services responding to the district’s large number of complex civil works projects. AECOM, Burns & McDonnell, Jacobs, and Michael Baker International will compete for $44,000,000 for military design and interagency and international services. A. Epstein & Sons International Inc. received$148,500,000 for general construction services.

Alan Shintani received $10,689,000 for renovations at Schofield Barracks, HI. Architects Pacific Inc. received $15,000,000 for design, engineering, specification writing, cost estimating, and related services at various locations in NAVFAC Hawaiii. Ex: replace the roof on Pacific Air Forces Wing Headquarters Building 1102H at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Insight Pacific LLC received $10,833,274 for repair of warehouse Buildings 404B and 406B at Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam. Pagoda-Broadway JV received $20,157,000 to repair north drainage, secondary electrical lines and telecommunications, Pohakuloa Training Area, HI.

Ashford Leebcor Enterprises II received $25,000,000 for a wide variety of renovation, repair and minor construction projects. CCI Construction Services LLC received$60,000,000 for construction, labor, equipment, materials, supplies and parts to repair real property facilities and structures.

Benaka Inc. received $42,654,933 for renovations to Vermont National Guard Buildings 130, 131, 132, 160 and 360. Eleven corporations will share $10,000,000 for construction projects to support the Tennessee National Guard.

Bristol Primeors, C3/SMR JV LLC, Gonzalez De La Garza, RCO-Ross Group JV, Waldrop Construction, Weil Construction received a shared $150,000,000 for construction at Sheppard AFB, TX; Altus AFB, OK; Frederick Airfield, OK; Lake Texoma Annex, TX. Hensel Phelps Construction received $143,158,000 for Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency facility expansion project, Fort Worth, TX. McGoldrick Construction Services Corp. received $14,847,000 for facility repair to Building 9085, San Antonio, TX. United Excel Corp. received $40,137,541 for construction project in San Antonio, TX, that includes: abatement of hazardous materials, demolition of the old Wilford Hall and support buildings, relocation of the communications infrastructure and the construction of new surface parking and green areas, complete with storm drain and detention features.

CH2M Hill Constructors received $14,186,330 for recovery and repair following a natural disaster at Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, GA.

Cox Construction received $32,416,000 for design, bid, build and construction of a new 800-member Army Reserve Center, Fallbrook, CA. Eco & Associates received $9,800,000 for construction management services primarily for large scale Veterans Administration projects throughout California. Harper Construction Co. received $34,355,931 to build Ammunition Supply Point Upgrade Phase 2 at Camp Pendleton. Lead Builders Inc. received $7,890,000 for hangar repairs and upgrades, Edwards AFB. Marco-Z-Technology Co. received $14,975,000 to build a 31,800 sq. ft., two-story academic facility, March Air Reserve Base, CA.

EMR Inc. received $7,137,000 for repairs and modifications to Building 484, Naval Support Activity, Panama City. EMR Inc. received $15,990,000 for an addition on a commissary at NAS Pensacola. RORE Inc. received $11,710,102 for consolidating the Sheet Metal Shop into Building 155 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Speegle Construction received $8,007,902 for design and construction of a new 10,134 sq. ft. two-story addition at Eglin AFB, FL. URS Group received $31,786,932 for construction of Phase 2 of Hurricane Irma repairs at Naval Station Mayport and NAS Jacksonville. 

Four Tribes Construction Services received $9,570,862 to expand the Base Expeditionary Airfield Resource Complex, Holloman AFB, by constructing concrete storage pads and repairing existing infrastructure.

E. Johnson Construction received $7,741,573 for design and construction of a 3,000 sq. ft., single-story structure, and demolition of an existing approximate 2,300 sq. ft., single-story structure.

G-W Management Services received $8,906,365 to repair the chapel exterior at the U.S. Naval Academy. J. Kokolakis Contracting received $52,494,000 for renovation of Grant Barracks building, West Point, NY. FOS Development Corp. received $10,219,500 to build Eisenhower Hall phase III renovation, West Point, NY. Tutor Perini Corp. received$28,464,035 for repairs to the basketball arena and Cadet Field House and to install components of the geothermal system at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Hourigan Construction Corp. received $21,262,656 for design & construction of a Small Arms Testing & Evaluation Center (SATEC) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. RQ Construction received $64,705,500 for the design and construction of an academic and applied instruction facility for ship repair training at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Miami Technology Solutions received $10,999,310 for road repairs at Arlington National Cemetery. Lobar Inc. received $11,968,000 for restoration and modernization of Building 328, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Grunley Construction received $25,977,000 to design & build an Operational Archives and Research Facility at Washington Navy Yard for Naval History & Heritage Command.

HHI Corp. received $18,943,387 to construct an ammunition inspection repair and repacking facility, ammunition storehouse, earth-covered magazines, igloo-style storage, and open storage area, Fort Carson, CO. Jjbrun JV LLC received $11,396,361 to design and construct an ambulatory care center, dental addition and alteration to existing clinic at Schriever AFB, CO.

Messer Construction received $8,650,000 for design and replacement of a process cooling tower (Building 18 Complex), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

The Nutmeg Companies Inc. received $15,220,035 to repair and renovate Building 449, Medical Homeport Clinic at Naval Submarine Base New London.

Ranco Construction Inc. received $11,509,275 for fuel cell and corrosion facility project, Egg Harbor Township, NJ.

Ritz Construction received $7,193,360 for building renovations.

Sauer Inc. received $31,409,000 for barracks renovation (Buildings 2044 and 2045), Fort Polk, LA. Sauer Inc. received $34,452,000 for barracks renovation (Buildings 2272 and 2277) in Fort Polk, LA. Sauer Inc. received $32,973,953 to build a Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. This will require the demolition of Buildings M309, M316, M318 and M321.

Turner Construction received $27,223,895 for renovation of Army primary standards lab, Huntsville, AL.

Five corporations received a shared $49,900,000 for industrial paint and structural repair, USACE Omaha, NE.

Six construction companies received $33,000,000 for design and construction services within the NAVFAC Washington Integrated Product Team (IPT) Gold.

Six construction corporations received a shared $67,796,801 for various construction related efforts. Six construction corporations received a shared $40,000,000 for various construction related efforts. Six construction corporations received funding $99,000,000 max. for construction projects located primarily within NAVFAC Southeast. Seven corporations will compete for $475,000,000 for operations and maintenance, incidental repair and minor construction to support the Army Medical Command facilities.

DREDGING

Amherest Madison Inc. received $18,217,615 for dredging of the Monongahela River, Monesson, PA. Burnham Associates Inc. received $9,375,800 for maintenance dredging of Plymouth Harbor, MA. Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Service Co. received $7,475,000 for removal of dredge material from Corps Island, Red Wing, MN. Goodloe Marine received$9,362,765 for Atlantic Intercostal Waterway maintenance dredging, Charleston, SC.

Great Lake Dredge & Dock received $113,167,400 for two new turning basins, widening, dredging and construction for the deepening and strategic widening of the Jacksonville Harbor Federal Channel and turbidity monitoring, endangered species monitoring, vibration monitoring, beach fill quality control, and sea turtle non-capture trawling, Jacksonville, FL. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock received $47,901,600 for channel dredging in Hillsborough County, FL. Norfolk Dredging Co. received $18,076,560 for dredging beach-compatible sand from the sand bypass dredging area north of the Canaveral Harbor Inlet and transporting the dredged material to a designated beach placement site south of the inlet, Cape Canaveral, FL.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock received $18,868,500 for dredging of Morehead City, Wilmington, Savannah and Brunswick harbors. Great Lakes Dock & Materials received$15,766,428 for debris removal and environmental dredging in the lower Rouge River old channel.

H&L Contracting received $34,705,673 for lateral expansion of Poplar Island in Talbot, MD. HME Construction received $7,097,500 for Grays Harbor inner harbor operations and maintenance dredging, Aberdeen, WA.

Norfolk Dredging Co. received $11,311,500 for maintenance dredging of the Delaware River, Philadelphia.

Manson Construction received $10,133,500 for dredging Galveston Harbor and channel, TX. Orion Marine Construction received $9,221,250 for maintenance dredging of the Sabine-Neches Waterway, TX, and Sabine-Neches in Orange & Jefferson Counties, TX. RLBing Inc. received $15,175,147 to dredge the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, (Corpus Christi Ship Channel to Port Isabel and to Harlingen in Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron Counties, TX). TW LaQuay Marine LLC received $7,459,176 for pipeline dredging of the Matagorda ship channel, Corpus Christi, TX.

Manson Construction received $10,162,000 for Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf and Black, Atchafalaya Bay and Bar Channel, maintenance dredging, St. Mary Parish, LA. Mike Hooks LLC received $21,052,718 for maintenance dredging in Glemora, LA. Weeks Marine Inc. received $35,545,001 for removal and disposal of material, Plaquemines Parish, LA.

Christian Sorensen is a writer and an independent journalist. His work focuses on the U.S. war industry.

NOTE: The above tally (roughly $68.6 billion) of September 2018 contracts is a conservative estimate. I rounded down all contracts. Furthermore, I did not include certain contracts in the tally that were potentially worth billions, because the Pentagon had not made clear the specific amount of funding obligated. These contracts that I omitted from the total tally are: the 4 September deal with General Atomics for drones worth up to $15 billion; the 6 September deal involving 10 corporations worth up to $28 billion for each corporation; the 7 September DISA deal for IT services worth up to $17.5 billion. Finally, certain contracts like Austal and Lockheed Martin building littoral combat ships did not specify funding amounts, so, naturally they were not included in the total tally.

* Editing consolidated similar contracts. Italics indicate notes from the editor.

** To avoid competitive bidding, DOD invokes 10 U.S.C. 2304, FAR 6.302, and FAR 8.405-6. DOD uses 15 U.S.C. 638 to avoid competitive bidding when dealing with small businesses. DOD uses CFR 206.302-4 to avoid competitive bidding when dealing with treaties and foreign transactions.

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The US is engaged in a hypersonic race with Russia, China, and Israel. Last month the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $480 million to begin designing a hypersonic weapon prototype designated the AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW. In June, that company was awarded a $928 million contract for the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW).

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, “We are going to go fast and leverage the best technology available to get hypersonic capability to the warfighter as soon as possible.” Everything is being done to achieve this goal and, as events have shown, the ways to do it are not limited to merely creating defenses or hypersonic attack systems.

The US does not shy away from using spies to find out more about Russia’s programs. In July, Viktor Kudryavtsev, who was based at the Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash), which is affiliated with the Federal Space Agency, was detained and then imprisoned after being charged with espionage. A commission was formed to comb through activities at the institute, which focuses on the development of spacecraft. Russian media reported that Western security services had obtained information on new classified hypersonic technology being developed by Russian industry.

How successful are America’s efforts to take the lead in hypersonic technology going to be? The US is actually just beginning to get its feet wet in this area, while Russia already has hypersonic weapons in its inventory. At least ten Kinzhal-equipped MiG-31 fighters are operational. Each plane carries one missile, but the Tu-22M3 bomber’s armament suite includes four of them. The bomber-based Kinzhal will be tested soon. It’ll take the US at least 10-12 years to develop an interceptor. And naturally Russia won’t be sitting around idle. It’ll have much more sophisticated hypersonic weapons in its arsenal by that time.

The emergence of hypersonic weapons is a revolution that changes the entire concept of contemporary warfare. Their sheer speed renders any anti-aircraft systems obsolete. The Russian S-500 is the only air-defense system that can intercept targets flying at Mach 5.0- 6.0.

Last year, the new US $15 billion Ford-class aircraft carrier was commissioned with great fanfare, only to become a target for Russia’s Kinzhal hypersonic missiles that were fully operational and ready for combat just a few months after that ceremony took place. This is the arms race the US is already losing despite a defense budget exceeding $760 billion compared to Russia’s $50 billion. Russia spends less than a tenth of what the US does, yet produces weapons the US has no defense against. The Pentagon has been pursuing hypersonic technology for more than a decade, but has failed to achieve its goals.

The US is obviously losing the “cost-efficiency” competition overall. For instance, much has been written and said about the US Prompt Global Strike (PGS) concept, but it is Russia, not America, who was the first to acquire global, rapid, first-strike capability, as its hypersonic weapons can be armed with conventional warheads. Perhaps that’s what is prompting the US to take the arms race into space, as it appears to have lost its technological advantage in other domains and is lagging behind in hypersonic development. It has to play catch-up but there’s no way to know how it’s going to pan out. And added to that is its huge national debt — the heavy burden the US has to shoulder, unlike Russia or China.

The number of American diplomats reportedly suffering from suspected “sonic injuries” is increasing, with 11 officials evacuated earlier this month from China. Initially, the mysterious incident was reported at just one US consular location in the city of Guangzhou. Now the suspicion of brain injuries has spread to American diplomats stationed in Beijing and Shanghai.

Some 250 US diplomats in China are reportedly undergoing neurological medical tests to ascertain if they have succumbed to the same kind of brain trauma diagnosed in other colleagues. A study of 21 diplomats evacuated from Cuba found last year that they had incurred brain injuries, but, it was diagnosed, not from physical impact to their heads.

Typically, the symptoms reported include cognitive impairment, visual impairment, hearing of strange sounds, dizziness and sleeplessness.

US doctors have so far been confounded by what may have caused the apparent injuries. Last week, the State Department said that ongoing investigations had not established a causal link to the cited medical problems among diplomats.

However, previously President Donald Trump had explicitly blamed Cuba for being responsible for the reported injuries to diplomatic staff. Trump’s accusation has no evidential foundation. The Cuban government denied having any involvement in presumed sonic attacks on American envoys. It has offered to assist any US investigation. Nevertheless, the evacuation of US staff from Cuba and Trump’s accusations have set back the recent detente in relations between the two Cold War foes which former President Obama had embarked on.

With regard to China, the US has been more circumspect in dealing with the reported cases of apparent sonic injuries, refraining from accusing Beijing of malicious activity. China has previously dismissed any suspicion of sonic attacks as “inconceivable”. Beijing has also hit out the US State Department issuing “health warnings” to its staff in China because such notifications convey an implication of wrongdoing by the host country.

In the context of Trump’s escalating trade war with China, there is the danger that reported cases of injury among diplomats could be politicized by Washington, thus adding to the already acrimonious relations.

Some factors so far missing from the subject need to be addressed. First, it seems strange that the mysterious brain injuries are only reported by US diplomats. No other country has reported similar incidents among their diplomatic staff.

Secondly, the American brain-injury cases have happened in two countries which could be deemed as politically sensitive. Why have similar cases not been reported among staff based in territories belonging to allied nations?

Thirdly, when US staff are described as “diplomats”, as they invariably are in Western media reporting, we should perhaps be more precise than this innocuous-sounding terminology. If we think of the personnel as “spies” then a more skeptical inference comes into play. Especially, given the sensitive nature of the two countries involved. If the concerned US staff were indeed serving as spies that raises the question about what sort of training and preparation programs they were subjected to ahead of their assignments.

The speculation that Cuban and Chinese state agents could have used some kind of sonic weapon to attack US diplomats is more in the realm of science-fiction fantasy. Both countries deny any such activity. There is no such weapon known to exist. Also, the US doctors who examined the diplomats evacuated from Cuba could not find any casual explanation. The absence of an external source for the injuries appears to be the official US position too, according to the State Department last week.

Significantly, the US doctors studying the Cuban cases said that all the individuals may have undergone a common experience related to their brain injuries.

Rather than speculating about a foreign agency being responsible for the injuries among American diplomats, or rather spies, perhaps the focus should be put on their own side. Were these individuals subjected to some form of hi-tech training run by the Pentagon or the CIA?

It is known that the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is investigating brain stimulation devices to greatly enhance learning ability in subjects.

DARPA, as recently as last year, reported the successful use of trans-cranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) devices to boost the cognitive skills among experimental monkeys. It was claimed that subjects given treatment from such devices strapped to the head would later display a significant increase in learning and intelligence compared with control individuals receiving no treatment. DARPA reported a 40 per cent increase in learning ability among macaque monkeys subjected to the brain stimulation device.

One of the lead doctors in the program is quoted as saying: “In this experiment, we targeted the prefrontal cortex [of the brain] with individualized non-invasive stimulation montages.”

The researcher goes on to explain: “That is the region [of the brain] that controls many executive functions, including decision-making, cognitive control, and contextual memory retrieval. It is connected to almost all the other cortical areas of the brain, and stimulating it has widespread effects.”

Please note the parting caveat from the Pentagon-contracted scientist, viz., “stimulating has widespread effects”.

On the positive side, the Pentagon is evidently searching for a way to boost intelligence and learning in humans. This is by no means a new pursuit. For decades, American military intelligence agencies, as well as Hollywood science fiction, have been in thrall to the idea of harnessing the human brain and exploiting ever-higher levels of intelligence. The CIA is known to have run various drug programs and hypnosis – the notorious MK-ULTRA – as early as the 1950s and 60s. The holy grail was to find “super spies” and “super assassins”.

So, the history of the Pentagon and the CIA conducting systematic experiments in order to produce high-performance in humans is well documented.

We also know from recent Pentagon research that it is indeed using electronic brain stimulation devices to greatly enhance the cognitive performance among monkeys. It is therefore conceivable that the Pentagon has conducted unpublished research experiments on human subjects as well.

On the negative side, the sought-after higher intelligence may very well come with unforeseen injurious side-effects. Note again the Pentagon researcher above saying that stimulating the prefrontal cortex of the brain could have “wide-ranging effects”. These effects, in addition to increased intelligence and learning skills, could include deleterious consequences. Especially because the target area of the brain is crucial for the control of “executive functions”.

It is not disclosed by the Pentagon if its brain devices had any injurious impact on the experimental monkeys.

We also do not know the precise work assignments of the affected “diplomats” in Cuba and China. Were there any routine secretarial staff among the reported casualties, or were they all “field staff”, that is, most likely involved in sensitive spying tasks?

It seems unlikely that the Pentagon or affected staff would ever go public in declaring that they were subjected to some form of brain-stimulation device. In any case, the staff could be easily silenced through warnings over career prospects and future earnings or health insurance cover. It may be more convenient for the Pentagon to foment the suspicion of “sonic attack” by foreign agents. That scapegoating could have serious impact on international tensions, especially between the US and China over its trade war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Nevertheless, despite the unknowns, from what we do know already, it seems a plausible posit that the recent upsurge in brain injuries among US diplomatic staff may have been caused not by “sonic attacks” in their host countries, but by their own superiors at the Pentagon or CIA conducting some form of clandestine program to create “super spies”.

On May 7, the X-37B landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 718 days mission in space. All in all, there have been four missions since 2010, each lasting longer than the previous one. Launched atop Atlas 5 rockets, the vehicles land like airplanes. The twin reusable vehicles, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle program, have amassed 2,086 cumulative days in space. The payloads and activities are largely classified. It is widely believed that the space planes are used for military purposes or are a weapon of some sort.

This X-37B carried at least two payloads on its latest voyage. The military revealed before the ship took off that it was carrying an experimental electric propulsion thruster to be tested in orbit and a pallet to expose sample materials to the space environment.

The unmanned X-37B resembles a miniature space shuttle. The vehicle is 29 feet (9 meters) long and has a wingspan of 15 feet, making it about one quarter of the size of NASA’s now-retired space shuttle. The unmanned robotic reusable vertical takeoff, horizontal landing spacecraft can re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and land autonomously. The robot can even adjust its course in space instead of following the same predictable orbit once it's aloft. The spacecraft's orbital endurance is enabled by its solar array, which generates power after deploying from its payload bay.

The altitudes used for military and exploration purposes today range from 0 to 20 km and from 140 km up. There is a void to be filled in between that is considered a potential theater of warfare. The X-37 is clearly a means to fill the void from «above» going down, while the Boeing X-51 (also known as X-51 Wave Rider) does it from «down» or from lower level going up. X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h) at altitude) flight testing.

The X-37B project's total cost is unknown because the budget has been classified since it was transferred to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It's almost certainly a spy plane, or, at least, a testbed for space surveillance gear and a launch platform for miniature spy satellites. The vehicle’s payload is enough to accommodate some spy equipment like cameras and sensors.

The vehicle has no docking hatch, so it cannot be used for small-size deliveries to the ISS or any other orbital station. It was also called a testing model for a future «space bomber» that will be able to destroy targets from the orbit. Some question whether the X-37B itself might be a delivery system for a nuclear bomb – whether the spaceship is intended to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on autopilot and dive-bomb an enemy target.

Dave Webb, chairman of the Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space, said the X-37B «is part of the Pentagon's effort to develop the capability to strike anywhere in the world with a conventional warhead in less than an hour», known as Prompt Global Strike. Some surmise the X-37B is a satellite-tracker or a satellite-killer. Or both. 

It is generally believed that until now arms systems have not been stationed in space. Weapons of mass destruction are banned from space under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. But the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit. No international agreement on non-nuclear arms in space has been reached due to the objection of some states, including the United States. The US argues that an arms race in outer space does not yet exist, and it is therefore unnecessary to take any actions.

The US ballistic missile defense systems, its X-37B space planes, airborne lasers and GSSAP (Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program) spacecraft could be easily repurposed into weapons of space war. For years, Russia and China have pushed for the ratification of a legally binding United Nations treaty banning space weapons – a treaty that US officials and outside experts have repeatedly rejected as a disingenuous nonstarter. The United States does not come up with any initiatives of its own.

SALT I (1972), the first Soviet-American treaty on limiting strategic arms, included a mutual obligation not to attack spacecraft. In 1983 US President Ronald Reagan turned the tide by promoting the Strategic Defense Initiative that envisaged placing in space strike weapons to hit Soviet strategic missiles in flight. In 2002 President Bush Jr. abandoned the ABM treaty of 1972, which limited missile defense systems. Missile defense allows countries to develop offensive technologies under the pretense of defense. For example, Kinetic Energy Interceptors deployed in California and Alaska are launched into space to smash incoming missiles which presupposes the capability to destroy satellites as well. Obviously, the United States is ready to return to developing potential space strike systems, like, for instance, lasers, kinetic and particle beam systems.

The first ever draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), was developed by Russia and backed by China to be introduced in 2008. The US opposed the draft treaty due to security concerns over its space assets despite the treaty explicitly affirming a State's inherent right of self-defense.

In December 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a Russian resolution, 'No first Placement of Weapons in Outer Space'. The United States, Georgia and Ukraine were the only countries that refused to back the Russian initiative. Russia said it was prepared to work in the context of other initiatives, and had been an active and constructive participant in European Union-initiated activities on a draft International Code of Conduct for Outer Space. However, progress can only be achieved through fully-fledged negotiations with the participation of all interested States on the basis of a clear mandate under the auspices of the United Nations.

The current administration is bent on achieving space supremacy. Mark Wittington writes in a Blasting News article, «One of the significant changes that the incoming Trump administration is contemplating in defense is the development of space-based weapons». It adds, «One idea that has kicked around for decades is a system that would consist of a tungsten projectile and a navigation system. Upon command, these ‘rods from God’ as they are poetically called would re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and would strike a target».

President Trump’s policy advisers Robert Walker and Peter Navarro call for bringing the «Star Wars» concept back. They want the president to make the US lead the way on emerging technologies that have the potential to revolutionize warfare. According to them, an increased reliance on the private sector will be the cornerstone of Trump’s space policy. Launching and operating military space assets is a multibillion-dollar enterprise employing thousands, spurring innovation, spinning off civilian applications like GPS, and fueling economic growth. Defense Secretary James Mattis calls for bigger investments into space exploration for defense purposes. A provision to encourage the Defense Department to start a research program for space-based anti-missile systems was inserted into the 2017 defense authorization bill.

The weaponization of space will undermine international security, disrupt existing arms control instruments and entail a string of negative effects (things like space debris). It may spark a devastating arms race distracting resources from the real problems faced by humanity today. Strategic stability would be destroyed because space weapons are global in scope and capable of covert and surprise attacks on any point on the planet at any point in time. The deployment of space-based technologies will result in the rejection of new treaties to regulate nuclear weapons and their delivery systems.

This year the world marks the 50^th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, which entered into force in October 1967 – an arms control deal reached in the heat of the Cold War. It was possible then, it is possible today. The issue of preventing weaponization of space through an international treaty should become part of the Russia-US-China agenda. If these states come to agreement on the issue, the world would become a much better place.

Knowledge is Power

Given all this it is hardly surprising that in 2012, a few months after Highlands Forum co-chair Regina Dugan left DARPA to join Google as a senior executive, then NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander was emailing Google’s founding executive Sergey Brin to discuss information sharing for national security. In those emails, obtained under Freedom of Information by investigative journalist Jason Leopold, Gen. Alexander described Google as a «key member of [the US military’s] Defense Industrial Base», a position Michele Quaid was apparently consolidating. Brin’s jovial relationship with the former NSA chief now makes perfect sense given that Brin had been in contact with representatives of the CIA and NSA, who partly funded and oversaw his creation of the Google search engine, since the mid-1990s.

In July 2014, Quaid spoke at a US Army panel on the creation of a «rapid acquisition cell» to advance the US Army’s «cyber capabilities» as part of the Force 2025 transformation initiative. She told Pentagon officials that «many of the Army’s 2025 technology goals can be realized with commercial technology available or in development today», re-affirming that «industry is ready to partner with the Army in supporting the new paradigm». Around the same time, most of the media was trumpeting the idea that Google was trying to distance itself from Pentagon funding, but in reality, Google has switched tactics to independently develop commercial technologies which would have military applications the Pentagon’s transformation goals.

Yet Quaid is hardly the only point-person in Google’s relationship with the US military intelligence community.

One year after Google bought the satellite mapping software Keyhole from CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel in 2004, In-Q-Tel’s director of technical assessment Rob Painter — who played a key role in In-Q-Tel’s Keyhole investment in the first place — moved to Google. At In-Q-Tel, Painter’s work focused on identifying, researching and evaluating «new start-up technology firms that were believed to offer tremendous value to the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency». Indeed, the NGA had confirmed that its intelligence obtained via Keyhole was used by the NSA to support US operations in Iraq from 2003 onwards.

A former US Army special operations intelligence officer, Painter’s new job at Google as of July 2005 was federal manager of what Keyhole was to become: Google Earth Enterprise. By 2007, Painter had become Google’s federal chief technologist.

That year, Painter told the Washington Post that Google was «in the beginning stages» of selling advanced secret versions of its products to the US government. «Google has ramped up its sales force in the Washington area in the past year to adapt its technology products to the needs of the military, civilian agencies and the intelligence community», the Post reported. The Pentagon was already using a version of Google Earth developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin to «display information for the military on the ground in Iraq», including «mapping out displays of key regions of the country» and outlining «Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, as well as US and Iraqi military bases in the city. Neither Lockheed nor Google would say how the geospatial agency uses the data». Google aimed to sell the government new «enhanced versions of Google Earth» and «search engines that can be used internally by agencies».

White House records leaked in 2010 showed that Google executives had held several meetings with senior US National Security Council officials. Alan Davidson, Google’s government affairs director, had at least three meetings with officials of the National Security Council in 2009, including White House senior director for Russian affairs Mike McFaul and Middle East advisor Daniel Shapiro. It also emerged from a Google patent application that the company had deliberately been collecting «payload» data from private wifi networks that would enable the identification of «geolocations». In the same year, we now know, Google had signed an agreement with the NSA giving the agency open-ended access to the personal information of its users, and its hardware and software, in the name of cyber security — agreements that Gen. Alexander was busy replicating with hundreds of telecoms CEOs around the country.

Thus, it is not just Google that is a key contributor and foundation of the US military-industrial complex: it is the entire Internet, and the wide range of private sector companies — many nurtured and funded under the mantle of the US intelligence community (or powerful financiers embedded in that community) — which sustain the Internet and the telecoms infrastructure; it is also the myriad of start-ups selling cutting edge technologies to the CIA’s venture firm In-Q-Tel, where they can then be adapted and advanced for applications across the military intelligence community. Ultimately, the global surveillance apparatus and the classified tools used by agencies like the NSA to administer it, have been almost entirely made by external researchers and private contractors like Google, which operate outside the Pentagon. …

As the nature of mass surveillance suggests, its target is not merely terrorists, but by extension, ‘terrorism suspects’ and ‘potential terrorists,’ the upshot being that entire populations — especially political activists — must be targeted by US intelligence surveillance to identify active and future threats, and to be vigilant against hypothetical populist insurgencies both at home and abroad. Predictive analytics and behavioural profiles play a pivotal role here.

Mass surveillance and data-mining also now has a distinctive operational purpose in assisting with the lethal execution of special operations, selecting targets for the CIA’s drone strike kill lists via dubious algorithms, for instance, along with providing geospatial and other information for combatant commanders on land, air and sea, among many other functions. A single social media post on Twitter or Facebook is enough to trigger being placed on secret terrorism watch-lists solely due to a vaguely defined hunch or suspicion; and can potentially even land a suspect on a kill list.

The push for indiscriminate, comprehensive mass surveillance by the military-industrial complex — encompassing the Pentagon, intelligence agencies, defense contractors, and supposedly friendly tech giants like Google and Facebook — is therefore not an end in itself, but an instrument of power, whose goal is self-perpetuation. But there is also a self-rationalizing justification for this goal: while being great for the military-industrial complex, it is also, supposedly, great for everyone else.

The ‘long war’

No better illustration of the truly chauvinistic, narcissistic, and self-congratulatory ideology of power at the heart of the military-industrial complex is a book by long-time Highlands Forum delegate, Dr. Thomas Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map. Barnett was assistant for strategic futures in the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation from 2001 to 2003, and had been recommended to Richard O’Neill by his boss Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. Apart from becoming a New York Times bestseller, Barnett’s book had been read far and wide in the US military, by senior defense officials in Washington and combatant commanders operating on the ground in the Middle East.

Barnett first attended the Pentagon Highlands Forum in 1998, then was invited to deliver a briefing about his work at the Forum on December 7th 2004, which was attended by senior Pentagon officials, energy experts, internet entrepreneurs, and journalists. Barnett received a glowing review in the Washington Post from his Highlands Forum buddy David Ignatius a week later, and an endorsement from another Forum friend, Thomas Friedman, both of which helped massively boost his credibility and readership.

Barnett’s vision is neoconservative to the root. He sees the world as divided into essentially two realms: The Core, which consists of advanced countries playing by the rules of economic globalization (the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Japan) along with developing countries committed to getting there (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and some others); and the rest of the world, which is The Gap, a disparate wilderness of dangerous and lawless countries defined fundamentally by being «disconnected» from the wonders of globalization. This includes most of the Middle East and Africa, large swathes of South America, as well as much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It is the task of the United States to «shrink The Gap», by spreading the cultural and economic «rule-set» of globalization that characterizes The Core, and by enforcing security worldwide to enable that «rule-set» to spread.

These two functions of US power are captured by Barnett’s concepts of «Leviathan» and «System Administrator». The former is about rule-setting to facilitate the spread of capitalist markets, regulated via military and civilian law. The latter is about projecting military force into The Gap in an open-ended global mission to enforce security and engage in nation-building. Not «rebuilding», he is keen to emphasize, but building «new nations».

For Barnett, the Bush administration’s 2002 introduction of the Patriot Act at home, with its crushing of habeas corpus, and the National Security Strategy abroad, with its opening up of unilateral, pre-emptive war, represented the beginning of the necessary re-writing of rule-sets in The Core to embark on this noble mission. This is the only way for the US to achieve security, writes Barnett, because as long as The Gap exists, it will always be a source of lawless violence and disorder. One paragraph in particular sums up his vision:

«America as global cop creates security. Security creates common rules. Rules attract foreign investment. Investment creates infrastructure. Infrastructure creates access to natural resources. Resources create economic growth. Growth creates stability. Stability creates markets. And once you’re a growing, stable part of the global market, you’re part of the Core. Mission accomplished».

Much of what Barnett predicted would need to happen to fulfill this vision, despite its neoconservative bent, is still being pursued under Obama. In the near future, Barnett had predicted, US military forces will be dispatched beyond Iraq and Afghanistan to places like Uzbekistan, Djibouti, Azerbaijan, Northwest Africa, Southern Africa and South America. …

Barnett’s Pentagon briefing was greeted with near universal enthusiasm. The Forum had even purchased copies of his book and had them distributed to all Forum delegates, and in May 2005, Barnett was invited back to participate in an entire Forum themed around his «SysAdmin» concept.

[That ends this abbreviated version of Nafeez Ahmad’s article.]

THE BROADER CONTEXT

Here is the famous article by James Bamford in the 17 November 2005 Rolling Stone about John Rendon: «The Man Who Sold the War: Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war». In 1990 right before George Herbert Walker Bush nearly destroyed Iraq in the First Gulf War, Rendon worked with Britain’s Hill & Knowlton PR firm to get an attractive young Kuwaiti woman — «Nayirah» is the only way she publicly identified herself, and she refused to give her last name in order «to respect her need to protect her family» — to testify to Congress (see the video of it here) about Saddam Hussein’s ‘cruelty to Kuwaitis’. The American public weren’t told that she was Nayirah al-Sabah, the daughter of Saud Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. Even more importantly, that family own Kuwait and its oil. The Sabah family are the royal family of Kuwait. Nayirah was the daughter of the nephew (who was serving then as Kuwait's U.S. Ambassador) of the Emir or king, of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Her father subsequently became Kuwait's Prime Minister, 2006-2011. THAT'S HOW HIGH UP AND CONNECTED 'Nariyah' WAS. And that testimony she gave to the U.S. Congress was lies, engineered by GHW Bush and his team, which included all of the Arabic royals, including especially the Sabahs. Saddam Hussein was at war against Shiite Iran but was, like post-1979 Iran was, on friendly terms with Russia, which GHWB wanted his successors ultimately to conquer, either by coup or by invasion, even after the USSR ended. So, the U.S. regime and its ‘news’ media spread its propaganda about «Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait», and the Sabah family got to keep its ancestral loot. 

And Rendon continued to be paid after the First Gulf War in order to set up ultimately an overthrow of Saddam Hussein. He worked continuously on that campaign, starting under GHW Bush and then straight through Bill Clinton’s and into G.W. Bush’s Presidency, when Rendon’s decade-plus U.S.-government-funded propaganda-operation to deceive the American public in order for the U.S. government to invade Iraq and kill Saddam culminated in 2003.

So, with a government that for decades deceives its own public in order to carry out what are essentially atrocities against foreign countries, and which cost U.S. taxpayers over $5 trillion, how can one reasonably call that a ‘democracy’? It’s obviously an aristocracy, otherwise known as an «oligarchy».

Eric Schmidt, the top person at Google (now called «Alphabet Corporation»), worked along with Jared Cohen of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, in 2011, helping them to set up the coup d’etat that culminated in February 2014 by overthrowing the democratically elected President of Ukraine, who had been elected Ukraine’s President barely a year before Schmidt started working with the State Department to organize the coup. And then, Schmidt provided the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign with crucial advice that helped defeat Bernie Sanders, but that subsequently failed to defeat Donald Trump.

Whether Trump’s victory turns out to restore democracy to America will become known only by what Trump now does, and by what he avoids doing. It’s too early to tell.

In order to understand all of this in its broadest realistic context, see my «Understanding the Power-Contest Between Aristocracies». Basically (starting on 24 February 1990, and up till at least the election of Donald Trump) what we’ve had is an alliance of the U.S. and Saudi aristocracies and their respective vassal-aristocracies, against Russia and Iran and their vassal-aristocracies. The two nuclear superpowers remain the superpowers even after the end of the Cold War, and the U.S.-led group have, with increasing ferocity been building toward nuclear war, and proceeded very near to the precipice in their aggression against the Russia-led group.

Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama phrased the matter, to graduating West Point cadets, on 28 May 2014: 

«the United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. But the world is changing with accelerating speed. This presents opportunity, but also new dangers. We know all too well, after 9/11, just how technology and globalization has put power once reserved for states in the hands of individuals, raising the capacity of terrorists to do harm. Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums».

He was saying that Russia and any nation that allies with it is «dispensable», only the United States is not; and that the military is central to, and serves, the economic sphere — guns exist to protect dollars not people. It was a quintessential aristocratic statement.

And Hillary Clinton was supposed to culminate it.

END

Google: seeded by the Pentagon

In 1994  —  the same year the Highlands Forum was founded under the stewardship of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the ONA, and DARPA  —  two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA.

But that’s just one side of the story.

Throughout the development of the search engine, Sergey Brin reported regularly and directly to two people who were not Stanford faculty at all: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham and Dr. Rick Steinheiser. Both were representatives of a sensitive US intelligence community research programme on information security and data-mining…

«We funded Stanford University through the computer scientist Jeffrey Ullman, who had several promising graduate students working on many exciting areas», Prof. Thuraisingham told me. «One of them was Sergey Brin, the founder of Google. The intelligence community’s MDDS program essentially provided Brin seed-funding, which was supplemented by many other sources, including the private sector». …

In an extraordinary document hosted by the website of the University of Texas, Thuraisingham recounts that from 1993 to 1999, «the Intelligence Community [IC] started a program called Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) that I was managing for the Intelligence Community when I was at the MITRE Corporation». The program funded 15 research efforts at various universities, including Stanford. Its goal was developing «data management technologies to manage several terabytes to petabytes of data», including for «query processing, transaction management, metadata management, storage management, and data integration».

At the time, Thuraisingham was chief scientist for data and information management at MITRE, where she led team research and development efforts for the NSA, CIA, US Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and Communications and Electronic Command (CECOM). She went on to teach courses for US government officials and defense contractors on data-mining in counter-terrorism.

In her University of Texas article, she attaches the copy of an abstract of the US intelligence community’s MDDS program that had been presented to the «Annual Intelligence Community Symposium» in 1995. The abstract reveals that the primary sponsors of the MDDS programme were three agencies: the NSA, the CIA’s Office of Research & Development, and the intelligence community’s Community Management Staff (CMS) which operates under the Director of Central Intelligence. Administrators of the program, which provided funding of around 3–4 million dollars per year for 3–4 years, were identified as Hal Curran (NSA), Robert Kluttz (CMS), Dr. Claudia Pierce (NSA), Dr. Rick Steinheiser (ORD  —  standing for the CIA’s Office of Research and Devepment), and Dr. Thuraisingham herself.

Thuraisingham goes on in her article to reiterate that this joint CIA-NSA program partly funded Sergey Brin to develop the core of Google, through a grant to Stanford managed by Brin’s supervisor Prof. Jeffrey D. Ullman:

«In fact, the Google founder Mr. Sergey Brin was partly funded by this program while he was a PhD student at Stanford. He together with his advisor Prof. Jeffrey Ullman and my colleague at MITRE, Dr. Chris Clifton [Mitre’s chief scientist in IT], developed the Query Flocks System which produced solutions for mining large amounts of data stored in databases. I remember visiting Stanford with Dr. Rick Steinheiser from the Intelligence Community and Mr. Brin would rush in on roller blades, give his presentation and rush out. In fact the last time we met in September 1998, Mr. Brin demonstrated to us his search engine which became Google soon after».

Brin and Page officially incorporated Google as a company in September 1998, the very month they last reported to Thuraisingham and Steinheiser. …

Dr. Anita Jones, head of DARPA from 1993–1997, and co-chair of the Pentagon Highlands Forum from 1995–1997, during which officials in charge of the CIA-NSA-MDSS program were funding Google, and in communication with DARPA about data-mining for counterterrorism …

John Doerr, who led the Kleiner Perkins investment in Google obtaining a board position, was a major early investor in Becholshtein’s Sun Microsystems at its launch. He and his wife Anne are the main funders behind Rice University’s Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), which in 2009 received $16 million from DARPA for its platform-aware-compilation-environment (PACE) ubiquitous computing R&D program. Doerr also has a close relationship with the Obama administration, which he advised shortly after it took power to ramp up Pentagon funding to the tech industry. In 2013, at the Fortune Brainstorm TECH conference, Doerr applauded «how the DoD’s DARPA funded GPS, CAD, most of the major computer science departments, and of course, the Internet».

From inception, in other words, Google was incubated, nurtured and financed by interests that were directly affiliated or closely aligned with the US military intelligence community: many of whom were embedded in the Pentagon Highlands Forum.

Google captures the Pentagon

In 2003, Google began customizing its search engine under special contract with the CIA for its Intelink Management Office, «overseeing top-secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified intranets for CIA and other IC agencies», according to Homeland Security Today. That year, CIA funding was also being «quietly» funneled through the National Science Foundation to projects that might help create «new capabilities to combat terrorism through advanced technology».

The following year, Google bought the firm Keyhole, which had originally been funded by In-Q-Tel. Using Keyhole, Google began developing the advanced satellite mapping software behind Google Earth. Former DARPA director and Highlands Forum co-chair Anita Jones had been on the board of In-Q-Tel at this time, and remains so today.

Then in November 2005, In-Q-Tel issued notices to sell $2.2 million of Google stocks. Google’s relationship with US intelligence was further brought to light when an IT contractor told a closed Washington DC conference of intelligence professionals on a not-for-attribution basis that at least one US intelligence agency was working to «leverage Google’s [user] data monitoring» capability as part of an effort to acquire data of »national security intelligence interest». …

Those connections include Michele Weslander Quaid, an ex-CIA contractor and former senior Pentagon intelligence official who is now Google’s chief technology officer where she is developing programs to »best fit government agencies’ needs»; Elizabeth Churchill, Google director of user experience; James Kuffner, a humanoid robotics expert who now heads up Google’s robotics division and who introduced the term ‘cloud robotics’; Mark Drapeau, director of innovation engagement for Microsoft’s public sector business; Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs; Jon Udell, Microsoft ‘evangelist’; Cory Ondrejka, vice president of engineering at Facebook; to name just a few.

In 2010, Google signed a multi-billion dollar no-bid contract with the NSA’s sister agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The contract was to use Google Earth for visualization services for the NGA. Google had developed the software behind Google Earth by purchasing Keyhole from the CIA venture firm In-Q-Tel.

Then a year after, in 2011, another of O’Neill’s Google Plus connections, Michele Quaid — who had served in executive positions at the NGA, National Reconnaissance Office and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — left her government role to become Google ‘innovation evangelist’ and the point-person for seeking government contracts. Quaid’s last role before her move to Google was as a senior representative of the Director of National Intelligence to the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Task Force, and a senior advisor to the undersecretary of defense for intelligence’s director of Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support (J&CWS). Both roles involved information operations at their core. Before her Google move, in other words, Quaid worked closely with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, to which the Pentagon’s Highlands Forum is subordinate. Quaid has herself attended the Forum, though precisely when and how often I could not confirm.

In March 2012, then DARPA director Regina Dugan  —  who in that capacity was also co-chair of the Pentagon Highlands Forum  —  followed her colleague Quaid into Google to lead the company’s new Advanced Technology and Projects Group. During her Pentagon tenure, Dugan led on strategic cyber security and social media, among other initiatives…

In sum, many of Google’s most senior executives are affiliated with the Pentagon Highlands Forum, which throughout the period of Google’s growth over the last decade, has surfaced repeatedly as a connecting and convening force. The US intelligence community’s incubation of Google from inception occurred through a combination of direct sponsorship and informal networks of financial influence, themselves closely aligned with Pentagon interests.

The Highlands Forum itself has used the informal relationship building of such private networks to bring together defense and industry sectors, enabling the fusion of corporate and military interests in expanding the covert surveillance apparatus in the name of national security. The power wielded by the shadow network represented in the [Highlands] Forum can, however, be gauged most clearly from its impact during the Bush administration, when it played a direct role in literally writing the strategies and doctrines behind US efforts to achieve ‘information superiority.’ [Ahmed here fatally ignores to investigate: ‘superiority over what?’ It’s over Russia, first, and China second. But I’ll get to that later.] …

O’Neill also affirmed that to develop information warfare doctrine, the Forum had held extensive discussions on electronic surveillance and «what constitutes an act of war in an information environment». Papers feeding into US defense policy written through the late 1990s by RAND consultants John Arquilla and David Rondfeldt, both longstanding Highlands Forum members, were produced «as a result of those meetings», exploring policy dilemmas on how far to take the goal of ‘Information Superiority.’ »One of the things that was shocking to the American public was that we weren’t pilfering Milosevic’s accounts electronically when we in fact could», commented O’Neill. …

This [2003] was also the year that the Bush administration drew up its notorious Information Operations Roadmap. Describing the internet as a «vulnerable weapons system», Rumsfeld’s IO roadmap had advocated that Pentagon strategy «should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will ‘fight the net’ as it would an enemy weapons system». The US should seek »maximum control» of the «full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems», advocated the document.

The following year, John Poindexter, who had proposed and run the TIA surveillance program via his post at DARPA, was in Singapore participating in the Highlands 2004 Island Forum. Other delegates included then Highlands Forum co-chair and Pentagon CIO Linton Wells; president of notorious Pentagon information warfare contractor, John Rendon [about whom I’ll explain after the end of these excerpts]. …

This was also the year of yet another Singapore Island Forum led by Richard O’Neill on behalf of the Pentagon, which included senior defense and industry officials from the US, UK, Australia, France, India and Israel. Participants also included senior technologists from Microsoft, IBM, as well as Gilman Louie, partner at technology investment firm Alsop Louie Partners.

Gilman Louie is a former CEO of In-Q-Tel  —  the CIA firm investing especially in start-ups developing data mining technology. In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999 by the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, under which the Office of Research and Development (ORD)  —  which was part of the Google-funding MDSS program  —  had operated. The idea was to essentially replace the functions once performed by the ORD, by mobilizing the private sector to develop information technology solutions for the entire intelligence community.

Louie had led In-Q-Tel from 1999 until January 2006  —  including when Google bought Keyhole, the In-Q-Tel-funded satellite mapping software. Among his colleagues on In-Q-Tel’s board in this period were former DARPA director and Highlands Forum co-chair Anita Jones (who is still there), as well as founding board member William Perry [who had been Biull Clinton’s Secretary of Defense]: the man who had appointed O’Neill to set-up the Highlands Forum in the first place. Joining Perry as a founding In-Q-Tel board member was John Seely Brown, then chief scientist at Xerox Corp and director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 1990 to 2002, who is also a long-time senior Highlands Forum member since inception.

In addition to the CIA, In-Q-Tel has also been backed by the FBI, NGA, and Defense Intelligence Agency, among other agencies. …

Facebook’s 2008 round of funding was led by Greylock Venture Capital, which invested $27.5 million. The firm’s senior partners include Howard Cox, another former NVCA chair who also sits on the board of In-Q-Tel. Apart from Breyer and Zuckerberg, Facebook’s only other board member is Peter Thiel, co-founder of defense contractor Palantir which provides all sorts of data-mining and visualization technologies to US government, military and intelligence agencies, including the NSA and FBI, and which itself was nurtured to financial viability by Highlands Forum members.

Palantir co-founders Thiel and Alex Karp met with John Poindexter in 2004, according to Wired, the same year Poindexter had attended the Highlands Island Forum in Singapore. They met at the home of [the famous «regime-change in Iraq proponent] Richard Perle, another Andrew Marshall acolyte. Poindexter helped Palantir open doors, and to assemble «a legion of advocates from the most influential strata of government». Thiel had also met with Gilman Louie of In-Q-Tel, securing the backing of the CIA in this early phase. …

The Pentagon Highlands Forum was therefore intimately involved in all this as a convening network — but also quite directly. Confirming his pivotal role in the expansion of the US-led global surveillance apparatus, then Forum co-chair, Pentagon CIO Linton Wells, told FedTech magazine in 2009 that he had overseen the NSA’s roll out of «an impressive long-term architecture last summer that will provide increasingly sophisticated security until 2015 or so»…

Who is the financial benefactor of the new Pentagon Highlands-partnered MIIS CySec initiative? According to the MIIS CySec site, the initiative was launched «through a generous donation of seed funding from George Lee». George C. Lee is a senior partner at Goldman Sachs, where he is chief information officer of the investment banking division, and chairman of the Global Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Group.

But here’s the kicker. In 2011, it was Lee who engineered Facebook’s $50 billion valuation, and previously handled deals for other Highlands-connected tech giants like Google, Microsoft and eBay. Lee’s then boss, Stephen Friedman, a former CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, and later senior partner on the firm’s executive board, was a also founding board member of In-Q-Tel alongside Highlands Forum overlord William Perry and Forum member John Seely Brown.

In 2001, Bush appointed Stephen Friedman to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and then to chair that board from 2005 to 2009. Friedman previously served alongside Paul Wolfowitz and others on the 1995–6 presidential commission of inquiry into US intelligence capabilities, and in 1996 on the Jeremiah Panel that produced a report to the Director of the National Reconnaisance Office (NRO) — one of the surveillance agencies plugged into the Highlands Forum. Friedman was on the Jeremiah Panel with Martin Faga, then senior vice president and general manager of MITRE Corp’s Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems  —  where Thuraisingham, who managed the CIA-NSA-MDDS program that inspired DARPA counter-terrorist data-mining, was also a lead engineer. …

(continued in Part Three)

The first orbital test vehicle (OTV-1) was first launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth that December. It was the United States' first unmanned vehicle to return from space and land on its own. The space shuttle had been the only spacecraft capable of landing on a runway.

A second, OTV-2, set a record for a reusable spacecraft in June of this year when it completed a 469-day mission. In comparison, the longest space shuttle mission lasted 17 days.

The Orbital Test Vehicle (X-37B) was birthed by NASA in 1999, the project shifted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004, and then to the U.S. Air Force in 2006. It’s an unmanned robotic reusable vertical take-off, horizontal landing spaceplane. The X-37B can re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land autonomously with no pilot. The robot can even adjust its course in space instead of following the same predictable orbit once it's aloft. The craft has no crew cabin, no life support systems, and neither the Air Force nor NASA has indicated a desire to upgrade it for human spaceflight. The spacecraft's orbital endurance is enabled by its solar array, which generates power after deploying from its payload bay making it remain in orbit up to 270 days. The X-37B is about 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 15 feet (4.5 m) wide, with a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed. Two X-37B vehicles could fit inside the payload bay of a space shuttle.

The project's total cost is unknown because the budget has been classified since the X-37B project was transferred to DARPA. The specific identity of the payload has not been revealed… The Air Force stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back." 

Mission to guess

The official U.S. Air Force fact sheet says the vehicle is being used as an "experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force."

There are different versions of what the spacecraft is supposed to do while circling the planet at declared orbits varying from 200 to 750 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. The initial idea has been that the spacecraft is a new type of a surveillance satellite that can change orbits to fly above the desired territory on Earth. This version is substantiated by the fact that the craft flew over Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Pakistan and changed orbits not once. 

It's almost certainly a spy plane, or, at least, a testbed for space surveillance gear and a launch platform for miniature spy satellites. The vehicle’s payload is enough to accommodate some spy equipment like cameras and sensors. The vehicle has no docking hatch, so it cannot be another means of small-size deliveries to the ISS or any other orbital station. 

It was also called a testing model for a future “space bomber” that will be able to destroy targets from the orbit. Some question whether the X-37B itself might be a delivery system for a nuclear bomb — whether the spaceship is intended to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on autopilot and dive-bomb an enemy target. But other analysts disagree, saying the payload is too small and the specifications don’t meet the purpose. 

Some surmise the X-37B is a satellite-tracker or a satellite-killer. Or both. 

James Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says the length of the mission indicates that the OTV has a more covert mission as well. There wouldn’t be a need to stay in orbit for months otherwise, Lewis says. “It’s not like it’s just a bus designed to take things into space and bring them back.” This experiment shows that the US can use space “as a platform for sensors that can collect on things in a way other countries really can’t stop,” he adds. In the case of the X-37B this likely includes collecting “electronic signals of all kinds,” whether it’s microwave communications or the ability to measure data from a distance. “In the case of, say, the recent North Korean missile launch this could include messages going back and forth between the ground control and the missiles, as well as measuring the heat signature and the flight path of the launch” (1). 

Global Network chair Dave Webb (who also serves as the chair of UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) believes the spacecraft is part of the Pentagon's effort to develop the capability to strike anywhere in the world with a conventional warhead in less than an hour. He says, “We believe that the X-37B space plane is part of the Pentagon's effort to develop the capability to strike anywhere in the world with a conventional warhead in less than an hour – known as Prompt Global Strike. Thus as the U.S. moves forward with these kinds of global strike systems from and through space it will be likely that Russia and China will be forced to respond by refusing to reduce their nuclear weapons and by developing space technologies of their own to counter the U.S. program.” The Global Network maintains that the development of these new space planes is one reason that the Obama administration and the Pentagon are eager to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles in Russia and China in the years to come. As key elements in the growing U.S. first-strike program (along with so-called ‘missile defense’ systems), they become even more effective if the U.S. can get its potential rivals to reduce their nuclear retaliatory capability giving the Pentagon an even greater chance of pulling off a successful decapitating first-strike attack (2). 

Its spacecraft role may be expanded in the future. In its current state, the vehicle could fly cargo missions to docking to the orbiting outpost's common berthing port, Boeing officials have said (3).

Let me add something that is a strictly personal opinion based on some modest military experience. The altitudes used for military and exploration purposes today range from 0 to 20 km and from 140 km up. There is a void to be filled in between that is considered as a potential theater of warfare. The X-37 is clearly a means to fill the void from “above” going down, while the Boeing X-51 (also known as X-51 Wave Rider) does it from “down” or from lower level going up. X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h) at altitude) flight testing. In flight demonstrations, the X-51 is carried by a B-52 to an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15.2 kilometers) and then released over the ocean. The program is managed by US Air Force. The craft successfully completed its first powered flight in May 2010 and also achieved the longest duration flight at speeds over Mach 5. 

Legal aspect

Since the middle of the XX century outer space has been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space. Nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction are banned from space under the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, which is usually called the Outer Space Treaty. But the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit. The present Washington's actions and plans have stirred concerns about non-nuclear arms in space. 

Through resolutions and discussions within the United Nations, a general agreement has developed that an arms race in outer space should be prevented. However, due to the structure of the international legal regime and to the objection of a small number of states, like the USA, for instance, a treaty has not yet been negotiated to comprehensively prevent the deployment of space-based weapons. The United States argues that an arms race in outer space does not yet exist, and it is therefore unnecessary to take action on the issue.

On 12 February 2008, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, addressed the Conference and presented the Russia’s draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT) backed by China. It was the first draft treaty on this issue formally introduced to the Conference on Disarmament (CD), though it was based on elements proposed in a working paper to the CD in June 2002 by Russia, China, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and Syria. Minister Lavrov explained the draft treaty is designed “to eliminate existing lacunas in international space law, create conditions for further exploration and use of space, preserve costly space property, and strengthen general security and arms control.” Before that China and Russia had presented several "working papers" on preventing an arms race in outer space and the draft treaty refined elements from previous joint documents.

Back then U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a speech to the disarmament group, expressed dismay over the long-standing impasse at the talks meant to stop the spread of dangerous weapons. Still the Russia-China initiative never came to fruition opposed by the United Sates. Donald Mahley, then acting U.S. deputy assistant secretary for threat reduction, export controls and negotiations, said, “"Additional binding arms control agreements are simply not a viable tool for enhancing the long-term space security interests of the United States or its allies." 

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The United States continues to invest in programs that could provide anti-satellite and space-based weapons capabilities. In July 2010, the Obama administration released the new US National Space Policy. It states, “The United States remains committed to the use of space systems in support of its national and homeland security. The United States will invest in space situational awareness capabilities and launch vehicle technologies; develop the means to assure mission essential functions enabled by space; enhance our ability to identify and characterize threats; and deter, defend, and if necessary, defeat efforts to interfere with or attack U.S. or allied space systems” (4).

The new policy also notes that the US will consider proposals and concepts for arms control measures if they are “equitable, effectively verifiable, and enhance the national security of the US and its allies.” According to US, the Russian-Chinese joint draft treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space (PPWT) would not meet these criteria according to the US, as it is “fundamentally flawed” and would not provide any grounds for commencing negotiations. Somehow the United States has failed to come with any initiative of its own so far, giving priority to continuing space militarization. 

Putting military potential in space will destroy strategic balance and stability, undermine international and national security, jeopardize the arms control regime and lead to an arms race. The way to prevent it is a multilateral treaty not launching military spacecraft with the missions shrouded in secrecy. 

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