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Army contracts for CROWS and rockets in end-of-FY buying spree

The Army released a whole pile of contracts last week in an end-of-FY buying spree. I’ll be parsing through these–and the latest Air Force and Navy contracts–over the next day. Here are two of note:

                General Dynamics Land Systems won two change-order fixed price contracts for $6.1 million and $18.2 million, for Common Remote Operated Weapons Stations version 2 (CROWS II) kits– 98 for unspecified vehicles, and 370 for the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank System Enhancement Package v2 upgrades. CROWS II is a remotely-operated weapons station that can be aimed and operated without exposing the gunner.

In the “things that go boom” department, one of the biggest winners in this spasm of procurement was Lockheed Martin, whose Missiles and Fire Control group was awarded on Sept. 11, 2009, a $111,514,752 firm-fixed-price contract 1,152 additional rockets for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (Full Rate Production IV). GMLRS is a precision-guided rocket that uses GPS and inertial guidance to deliver its payload of 404 bomblets to within meters of the target.

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Army’s CERDEC sets up office for getting C4ISR gear home from Iraq

The Army’s CECOM Lifecycle Management Command has formed a special project office to help handle the logistics of returning all the C4ISR gear that got sent to Iraq as part of the drawdown of forces.   The Ft. Monmouth command, which is in the midst of preparing for a move of its own–to Aberdeen Proving Grounds,  as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) move of the Army’s C4ISR organization. From an Army.mil story:

In line with the current agreement to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2011, CECOM LCMC has stood up the Drawdown Special Project Office (SPO) to coordinate the successful drawdown of the vast amount of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) equipment fielded in Iraq over the past six years.

via Forecasting a massive equipment tsunami, special project oversees orderly drawdown from Iraq .

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