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* MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS:			August 14, 1992
* DoD News Briefing
* Contract Awards

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MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS:			August 14, 1992

	The Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force today announced the
following general/flag officer reassignments:

ARMY:
Brigadier General Robert E. Wynn, to be CG, U.S. Army Information Systems
Engineer Command/Program Manager, Army Information Systems, Fort Huachuca,
Arizona.  He is currently CG, 7th Signal Command and Fort Richie, Maryland.  

	Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr., to be Deputy CG, U.S. Army
Information Systems Command, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.  He is currently CG, U.S.
Army Information Systems Engineering/Program Manager, Army Information Systems,
Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

	Brigadier General Frederick H. Essig, to be CG, 7th Signal Command and
Fort Richie, Maryland.  He is currently Deputy Controller, Central Operating
Authority, U.S. Army Element, SHAPE, Mons, Belgium.

	Brigadier General Ronald V. Hite, to be Deputy for Systems Management,
Office ASA/Research, Development and Acquisition, Washington, D.C.  He is
currently CG, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground,
Maryland.

NAVY:
	Rear Admiral Brian G. Estes, to be Commander, Pacific Division, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command.  He is currently Vice Commander, Naval Facili-
ties Command.

Rear Admiral (Sel) Robert M. Gallen, to be Vice Command, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command. He is currently Deputy Commander for Acquisition, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command.

	Rear Admiral (Sel) Thomas A. Dames, to be Commander, Atlantic Division,
Naval Facilities Engineering Command.  He is currently Commanding Officer,
Northern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

AIR FORCE:
	Major General George B. Harrison, to be Commander, U.S. Air Force Air
Warfare Center, ACC, Eglin AFB, FL.  He is currently Assistant to Deputy Chief
of Staff/Operations; European Air Combat Operations Staff, USAFE, Ramstein AB,
Germany.

	Major General John G. Lorber, to be Director, Plans, DCS/Plans & Opera-
tions, Washington, D.C.  He is currently Assistant to Deputy C/S, Plans and
Operations, Washington, D.C.

	Brigadier General James L. Vick, to be Vice Commander 8th AF, ACC,
Barksdale AFB, LA.  He is currently Commander, Air Force District Washington,
Bolling AFB.

	Brigadier General Rudolph F. Peksens, to be Commander, 410th Wing, ACC,
KISawyer AFB, MI.  He is currently Assistant Deputy C/S Operations, USAFE,
Ramstein AB, Germany.

							END


DoD News Briefing
Thursday, August 13, 1992 - Noon
Mr. Bob Hall, DASD (Public Affairs)

     Mr. Hall:  Good afternoon.

     I'd like to welcome to the briefing room six public affairs officers from
the Guatemalan army.  They're here as part of an Army Chief of Staff Exchange
Program led by Captain Julio Yon Rivero, who is the Chief of Guatemalan Army
Public Affairs.  Welcome to the briefing room.

     We also have Captain Ernie Blanchard, who is the new Chief of Public
Affairs Office for the U.S. Coast Guard, and Commander Tim Sullivan, who is the
Chief of Media Relations.  You all, I'm sure, will be dealing with them at some
point or other.  These things tend to overlap into various areas.

     We have a memorandum for correspondents for you today, that the U.S.
Senate confirmed on Tuesday, August 11th, David S. Addington as the Department
of Defense General Counsel; I. Louis Libby as the Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; and Robert Silberman as the Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Carol Johns, M.D., as a member of the
Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
We're happy to have these people confirmed in their new positions.

     For those of you that are interested, Patty Howe, who is the Principal
Deputy for Legislative Affairs, will take David Addington's place as the
Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

     In addition, we have a Blue Top for you today on ending operations at U.S.
overseas bases.  Today, we're announcing that we will end or reduce operations
at an additional 69 sites in Europe and one in Korea.  That's under the current
plan to scale down the U.S. presence overseas.  This latest round of returns
and partial returns to the host government brings the total to 628 overseas
installations where operations will be ended, reduced, or placed on standby.
That's a 38 percent reduction of U.S. overseas installations since January
1990, when they started this process.  Of those, 592 are in Europe.

     The eighth round of site reductions in Europe includes one each in Belgium
and the Netherlands, three in Turkey, six in Italy, nine in the United Kingdom,
and 28 in Germany.  It includes 21 petroleum tank farms and fuel pumping
stations located in France that will also be returned.

     The realignment of these installations will affect more than 5,000
military and 450 U.S. civilian employees, and 2,300 local national positions.
Since the drawdown began, more than 90,000 personnel authorizations have been
eliminated.

     Let me just alert you to the biggest sites in Europe.  They include Dolan
Barracks, Camp Pieri, and Dragoner Kaserne in Germany.  The other significant
sites are facilities that are being returned in and around Ankara, Turkey;
leased facilities in the Ismir, Turkey, area; and Finthen Airfield in Germany.
The realignment of these sites alone affect more than 3,400 military, 400 U.S.
civilians, and 1,900 local national employees.

     In Korea, we will also end operations at Camp Isbell which is a small
installation in Seoul.  That brings the number of U.S. facilities in Korea that
have been ended or reduced in terms of their operations or that are scheduled
for return to the Republic of Korea to a total of 21.

     There is an explanation in the Blue Top of what we do when we return an
installation to the control of the host nation.

     Q:  What can we expect in the future, more of this?
     A:  This process will continue.  It's part of the total drawdown,
particularly out of Europe, where we're coming down by almost half the total
number of people, or maybe even a little over half from what we were.

     Q:  How many rounds of cuts have we gone through?
     A:  This is the eighth round of reductions in Europe.

     Q:  Since 1990?
     A:  Yes.  Every time we've done a set of reductions, they've included ones
in Europe.  That's why I said the eighth round in Europe.  We haven't done
eight rounds in Korea.  There have been fewer out of Korea.

     Q:  How quickly will this be done?
     A:  In many cases, these people. . .we're basically announcing now that
we're making these moves.  It takes a certain amount of time before we close
down our operations and return it to the host country and actually move the
people out.  That will vary from installation to installation.  Some
information on that will be available at DDI afterwards.  We'll have a handout
on that that may go into more of it.

     Q:  Are the various categories of military and civilian personnel being
reassigned to various places, to the United States, terminated in the case of
local nationals?
     A:  That's why we stated that positions are terminated or the
authorizations are terminated.  In the case of military people, they go on to
other duties elsewhere in Europe or back here in the United States.  In some
cases that will be true for the U.S. civilian employees as well.

     Q:  But the local nationals are terminated?
     A:  I'd say in most cases, unless there's a vacancy at some other facility
that's staying open or receiving, in which case they might be able to transfer.
That would depend on the local country regulations.

     Q:  Do you plan on another round of base closings within the United States
next year?
     A:  I'm not sure any decision has been made on that.  We'll take that
question.  It's every two years we go through the cycle, so have we made a
decision on the next cycle of U.S. base closures and realignment.

     We're also continuing today something we started several weeks ago in
terms of release of POW/MIA documents.  Pete talked to you at great length
about this process.  Today is the second release of documents declassified in
response to the President's executive order of July 22nd.  These documents
contain 57 additional live sighting source files, the POW/MIA files of
Secretaries of Defense Carlucci, Weinberger, and Richardson.  Some 12,000 pages
of documents.  That brings to a total of 42,000 pages of documentation.  We're
making two copies of these documents available in the DDI Reading Room.  We'll
have an index. . .I think last time we didn't have an index because we just
weren't prepared.  This time we actually have an index of the documents.  It
gives you at least something you can use to identify them.

     After the briefing, at about 1:30 this afternoon, we will have Colonel
Charlie Brown from the Central Documentation Office, and Colonel Bill Jordan
from the POW/MIA Office, available on background in the reading room to answer
questions about the general process involved in declassifying and releasing
these documents.  They'll give a general overview of the documents.  They can
tell you in a general sense why a type of document has redacted portions, what
kind of information goes into a live sighting report, for example.  But they're
not going to be able to answer questions about specific documents.  How and why
this piece of information appears to conflict with another piece of
information, or why somebody wrote a particular memo 15 or 20 years ago.
That's the kind of thing the Senate committee is looking into and examining,
and we're not going to be able to duplicate for you that action or that
activity here.

     Let me just briefly mention that the Richardson files, the files of
Secretary Richardson, contain information on the POW/MIA issues from 1972,
1973.  It includes correspondence with Congress, families, returnees, and the
National League of Families.  It includes letters and documents discussing
release of POWs during Operation Homecoming; DIA studies on known POW camps;
summaries of live sighting reports from 1973 to 1975; documents concerning the
establishment of the Joint Casualty Resolution Center; documents outlining
information on mistreatment, escape attempts, and medical care of POWs.  In
those particular files you're going to see that the names of the POWs have been
removed for privacy considerations.

     The Carlucci and Weinberger files cover the years 1981-1989.  They include
correspondence with Congress; briefing papers of the Secretaries; external and
internal memoranda; press releases; the POW fact book that was prepared to
support U.S. Government efforts to ensure public awareness on POW/MIA issues; a
draft presidential report on POW/MIAs; as well as memoranda on missions to
Vietnam and Laos regarding POW/MIA matters.

     There are many more documents, as you know, in this process.  There's
something like 1.5 million pages of documents altogether, that are still to
come, that haven't been declassified yet.  They include the remainder of the
live sighting reports, policy papers, source case files, intelligence reports,
service files, and casualty files.  We expect this effort, except for the
declassification of the live sighting reports, to be completed by 1994.  They
anticipate the live sighting reports will be completed by 1993.

     I should also mention, but I forgot to bring with me, the fact that we are
arranging now with the Library of Congress for all this material to be
available and we'll have some information for you in DDI about that process.
But it will be available on microfiche or for reproduction, and that, of
course, is the way we make it available to the general public.  But these first
two sets of information won't be ready at the Library of Congress until the end
of this month, I think.  But you'll have access to them between now and then
here, and then, at some point, we'll start moving. . .  And we'll keep
releasing here each set of new documents.  But then as it becomes available at
the Library of Congress, that's probably going to be a better place to get it.
They'll be able to retrieve it for you and reproduce it for you.

     Q:  This draft presidential report, is this a draft of a presidential
report which was subsequently completed and issued, and or one that was never
issued?
     A:  That's something I don't have the answer to.  My information is it's a
draft, so I don't believe it...  But we can try to check and see if it did
produce a final report.  As a general government rule, you don't save drafts if
you do a final.

     In answer to the question about base closures in the U.S., we're looking
at the issue.  The deadline to announce whether we're going to do it, I guess,
is March 15th, 1993.  So we've got a ways to go here.

     The POW/MIA documents are in Room 2E776.

     Q:  With the Security Council expected to pass a resolution today
authorizing all necessary means to assure humanitarian shipments into Bosnia,
what does that mean for the U.S. military?  What does that mean for the
Pentagon?
     A:  Rather than speculating about what it's going to mean in the future,
what we're doing now, what we have going now, is a very active effort with our
allies on the part of the U.S. military to work with the United Nations, work
with our allies, work with the relief agencies, to get humanitarian relief into
various places in Bosnia, Hertzogovenia.  I'm told that there were a total of
24 UN flights into Sarajevo yesterday.  I don't know how many the U.S. ones
were yesterday.  Since the last briefing we've had six deliveries by U.S.
planes into Sarajevo.  So it's a very extensive effort going on.  What we would
expect to see after the resolution is a process of looking at ways to make that
more effective.

     Q:  Can you tell us some of the things you're considering to make it more
effective?
     A:  I don't think I'd want to speculate.  There's a lot of planning going
on.  That's what I just said.

     Well, what David (Burpee) handed me is a note saying we flew in six times
since our last briefing on Tuesday.  Does that include the two times today?
Six times yesterday.  And we had three flights in today.

     What was your question again?

     Q:  You said you were looking at ways to expand or make more efficient the
operation.  I'm just asking for some details.  Rather than just...
     A:  I'm not really in a position at this point to speculate on what we
might do.  There's a lot of consulting going on, and planning.  That's what we
do in this building.  There are a lot of people looking at various options and
talking with our NATO allies about ways to improve the effort.  Obviously, the
best thing that we hope to do is to do this in a permissive environment,
cooperating with the UN agencies, cooperating with the parties to the conflict.
That is, obviously, going to be the most effective way to get humanitarian
relief in, is to do it in a permissive environment.  That's what people are
working on now.

     Q:  Is any thought being given to putting troops on the ground to protect
overland convoys?
     A:  At this point, I've got nothing on that.  I wouldn't speculate on
that.  I think everybody has pointed out at various times the problems with
putting troops on the ground.

     Q:  What if there isn't a permissive environment?
     A:  Our effort right now is to create the best possible system of getting
relief efforts, relief supplies into the various places that need them.  I
think everybody believes that the best way to do that is to create a permissive
environment where you're working with the parties to the conflict.  There have
been considerable successes in the past, and we want to make it a more
effective program in the future.

     Q:  Have you tightened up the naval inspection regime that's going on in
the Adriatic, or rather the naval monitoring regime?
     A:  The monitoring regime is going on.  The same ships that were out there
Tuesday, the Gates and the Trenton, are still there in the Adriatic.  Excuse
me.  They are not part of the monitoring regime.  They are there supporting the
Provide Promise flights to be available for communications support as well as
possible search and rescue if needed.  The NATO Standing Force Mediterranean is
still in the Adriatic participating in the monitoring regime.  The U.S. ship
that is part of that, I believe, is not there.  It is out making a port call in
Augusta Bay, Sicily.  That's the USS Jack Williams.  But that monitoring regime
is still going on.

     Q:  Do you favor strengthening that monitoring regime to stop ships that
are violating the embargo, to board ships instead of just monitoring ships?
     A:  That is something that I don't think I want to articulate here from
the podium.  That would be a decision to be made at the White House.

     Q:  Can you provide us any insights as to whether Secretary Cheney was
consulted or had conversations with the White House or Secretary Baker during
or just prior to this transition?
     A:  I don't have anything for you.  I haven't had a chance to discuss it
with the Secretary.  I don't know what kind of consultations he had or his
involvement in it.  I know he's a close friend of Secretary Baker and has a
close working relationship with him, which I'm sure will continue, at the White
House.  As you know, they both have spent a lot of time in Wyoming, they both
have similar interests, and are both very effective members of the Cabinet, and
I'm sure that will continue.

     Q:  Is anybody from this building going over there?
     A:  Not that I know of.

     Q:  Are you?
     A:  Let the record show I shook my head no.

     Q:  Could you give us an update on these mysterious illnesses, and where
the Pentagon, the various medical agencies are with them from Desert Storm?
The latest we heard is that there is a suspicion that some of them are
illnesses which happened because of oil ingestion, oil fumes ingestion.  Can
you give us an update, what you have on that?
     A:  I didn't bring out with me today the material that I've had in the
past on all the different studies that are going on.  There are two tracks.
One is to look at each of these cases, try to figure out what's wrong with a
particular person.  Also, to see whether it correlates to other cases that are
around, whether there are shared symptoms, whether you can extrapolate any
information from that.  The other approach that we're following is to do a
series of studies.  (Multiple discussion -- We'll get that for you.)  They did
intensive, sort of before and after studies of a body of people so they can
detect if there were any effects from the oil fires, breathing in the fumes and
stuff.

     I think there's one other study that I can't think of right now, as well
as an effort to collect a database so that we'll have records on where
everybody was who was over there.  So ten years from now, if somebody develops
a series of symptoms, we'll be able to know he was in Kuwait, right there by
the oil fires.  Or we'll know that he never got near the place.  So if people
develop medical symptoms later on, we'll be able to use that information to
develop whatever information we need in terms of developing cures or
identifying problems and helping people.

     Q:  Could you update us on the Iraqi situation?  What, if any, problems
the inspectors may be having?  What about Iraqi troop deployment as far as the
Shiites in the south are concerned?
     A:  I think I'll leave the question of the inspectors to the UN.  They
have the closest contact with the inspectors.  As far as I know, those have
been proceeding, but the UN and the State Department should be the ones that
talk about that.

     In terms of the military situation, I heard there was a rumor that there
was a large Iraqi buildup on the border near Safwan.  That is not true.  There
has been no significant change over the last few days.  There are still minor
counterinsurgency operations underway in the south -- the same ones that have
been going on for several months at the various levels of intensity.  I'd say
this is now at a reduced level of intensity, but it's still going on.  There is
no significant military activity in the north.

     In terms of other questions you usually have, fixed wing flights have been
continuing, but I have no information on new fixed wing flights used for attack
purposes.

     Q:  What's the status of the Saudi request for 72 F-15s, given the recent
reports of President Bush (inaudible)?
     A:  We have received a formal request from the Saudi government to
purchase 72 additional F-15 aircraft.  That request is currently under an
interagency review.  No decision has been made on it.  As you know, the process
is that we notify Congress for a 20-day informal notification which is
classified.  If we were in that process, I don't think I could discuss it with
you, but you would know about it, I'm sure.  Then there is a 30-day formal
notification process.

     Q:  Can that be sent up while Congress is not in session?
     A:  I don't think we can start the 20-day process if they're not in
session.

     Q:  When did the Saudis make their formal request?
     A:  It could be sent up, but the time lines wouldn't be kicked off, they
wouldn't be started.

     Q:  When did the Saudis make their formal request?
     A:  We'll try to get that information for you.

     Q:  Was it in the last few days, or months ago, or. . .?
     A:  I believe it was fairly recently.

     Press:   Thank you.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1992                             (703) 697-5131 - Info.

                             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
                                CONTRACT AWARDS


                                     ARMY
     TRW, Redondo, Beach, California, is being awarded a $54O,OOO increment as
part of a $28,746,391 cost plus incentive fee contract far Software Upgrade
Version 4 for Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control Intelligence
(FAADS).  Work will be performed in Redondo Beach, California, and is expected
to be completed by December 31, 1994.  Contract funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year.  This is a sole aource contract initiated on
 December 20, 1991.  The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command,
 Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (DAAHOl-92-C-0373>.  

                                            NAVY

              CRE-Link Corporation, Link Flight Simulation Division, Bingham-
ton, New York, is receiving a $7,784,649 modification for the instructor
operator station upgrade and radar warning receiver APR-39A(V)1 engineering
changes.  These changes will be applied to the 18 UH60 Black Hawk flight
simulators at various sites in CONUS and OCONUS.  Work will be performed in
Binghamton, New York, and is expected to be completed by July 1994.  Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was
not competitively procured.  The Naval Training Systems Center, Orlando,
Florida, is the contracting activity (N61339-85-C-0002].  

       Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York, New York, is being
awarded a $10,112,752 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with options.  If exercised,
this contract has a potential maximum value of $154,483,464.  This contract
will provide general advertising services for the recruitment and retention of
Navy personnel under the cognizance of the Navy Recruiting Command.  Work will
be performed in New York, New York and is expected to be completed by 1997.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This
contract was synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily with 60 firms solicited
and 7 bids received.  The Naval Regional Contracting Center, Washington, DC is
the contracting activity (N00600-92-C-1320).  

       Keystone Ship Berthing, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, is being awarded a
fixed-price contract totaling $4,793,418 plus an estimated $3,206,582 in
reimbursables to provide layberth services in Baltimore, Maryland, for the
hospital ship USNS Comfort for five years.  Keystone is providing these
services under the present contract.  Thirty-six firms were solicited and four
bids received.  The contract performance period is from December 1, 1992
through November 30, 1997.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  The U.S.  Navy's Military Sealift Command Central
Technical Activity is the contracting activity (N00033-92-C-4004).  

       Motorola, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, is being awarded a $52,731,760
firm-fixed-price/performance incentive contract for the manufacture of MK 45
Mod 9 target detecting devices in support of the STANDARD Missile -2 (SM-2)
program.  The contract also contains $6,932,949 in options for additional TDDs.
Work will be performed in Scottsdale, Arizona (100%) and is expected to be
completed by November 1994.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured with 2 proposals
solicited and 2 bids received.  The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contract-
ing activity (N00024-92-C-5331). 

               Motorola, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, is being awarded a
$5,436,495 fixed-price incentive/performance incentive contract for production
test equipment to be utilized in the manufacture of MK 45 Mod 9/10 target
detecting devices in support of the STANDARD Missile -2 (SM-2) program. Work
will be performed in Scottsdale, Arizona (100%) and is expected to be completed
by April 1994.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year.  This contract was competitively procured with 2 proposals solicited and
2 bids received.  The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity
(N00024-92-C-5332).  
                                        AIR FORCE 

     Litton Systems Incorporated, Data Systems Division, Van Nuys, California,
is being awarded a $6,271,889 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price
contract for initial provisioning spares for the AN-TYQ-23-V2 Tactical Air
Operations Module command and communication system.  Contract is expected to be
completed February 1993.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  The Sacramento Air Logistics Center, McClellan Air Force
Base, California, is the contracting activity (N0O039-87-C-0330-PPO026).  

     McDonnell Douglas Corporation, McDonnell Aircraft Company, Saint Louis,
Missouri, is being awarded a $19,738,997 face value increase to a firm-fixed-
price contract for 78 Group A Retrofit Kits and 323 Group B Retrofit Kits in
support of the FY92 Multi-Stage Improvement Program (MSIP) to the F-15 air-
craft.  Contract is expected to be completed September 1994.  Contract funds
will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center, Robbins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity
(F09603-89-G-OO93-O0l2-05).  

     Raytheon Support Services Company, Burlington, Massachusetts, is being
awarded a $6,564,507 face value increase to a fixed-price-incentive-firm
contract for operation, maintenance and support of the precision Acquisition
Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System sites and Ballistic Missile Early
Warning System site.  The work will be performed at Burlington, Massachusetts
(22%), Robins AFB, Georgia (39%), and Eldorado AF Station, Texas (39%).
Contract is expected to be completed September 1993.  Contract funds will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The 1000 Contracting Squadron,
Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity fF05603-89-
C0010, Modification POO078.) 

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5:00 P.M. (EDT)           AUGUST 13, 1992      (703) 697-5131 - Info.

     DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
     CONTRACT AWARDS

ARMY

    American Systems Corporation, Chantilly, Virginia, is being awarded a
$6,773,793 firm fixed price contract for TACJAM, Quickfix, Trailblazer mainte-
nance trainers, which are actual systems designed to train soldiers how to
repair and use systems in the field.  There are two instructor stations and
eight student stations.  Work will be performed in Chantilly, Virginia, and is
expected to be completed by May 31, 1994.  Contract funds viIi not expire at
the end of the current fiscal year.  There were 83 bids solicited on April 29,
1991, and 4 bids received.  The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Communi-
cations and Electronics Command, Warrenton, Virginia (DAAB10-92-C-0O33).  

    Buckner and Moore, Incorporated, Moore, Oklahoma, is being awarded a
$13,150,996 firm fixed price contract for Logistical Systems Operations Center,
Tinker Air force Base, Oklahoma.  Work will be performed in Tinker Air Force
Base, Oklahoma, and is expected to be completed by April 12, 1994.  Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  There were 93
bids solicited on May 26, 1992, and 9 bids received.  The contracting activity
is the U.S.  Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa, Oklahoma (DACA56-92-C-0092).

    Hughes Aircraft Company, Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded a $7,554,246
modification to a firm fixed price contract for retrofit of 6,000 T0W-2
missiles to T0W-2A configuration and line items for repair of defective
missiles.  Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be
completed by October 31, 1993.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of
the current fiscal year.  This is a sole source contract initiated on February
l9, 1992.  The contracting activity is U.S.  Army Missile Command, Redstone
Arsenal, Alabama (DAAH01-90-C-0734).  

    Brunswick Corporation, Deland, Florida, is being awarded a $11,9O0,O00 firm
fixed price contract for Volcano Multiple Delivery Mine System and mating
hardware: 130 M139 Mine Dispensers (P/N-12553084); 130 Mounting Kits (P/N
12927423); 13 Maintenance Self Testers (PIN 12553101) for M548A1 Vehicle.  Work
will be performed in various subcontractor locations (61%) and Deland, Florida
(39%), and is expected to be completed by December 31, 1994.  Contract funds
will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  There were 40 bids
solicited on December 6, 1991, and 6 bids received.  The contracting activity
is the U.S. Army Armament, Munitions Chemical Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New
Jersey (DAAA21-92-C-0096).  


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      Kaman Sciences Corporation, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is being awarded
a $13,809,333 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for services for operation of the
Rome Laboratory Data and Analysis Center for Software at Griffis Air Force
Base, New York.  The work will be performed at Utica, New York (70%) and
various other locations (30%).  Contract is expected to be completed August
1997.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
 Sixty-one bids were solicited and three proposals were received.       The
 Rome Laboratory, Griffis Air Force Base, New York is the contracting activity
 (F30602-92-C-0158).  

      Lear Siegler Incorporated Management Services Corporation, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, is being awarded a $7,081,027 face value increase to a firm-fixed-
price contract for spare parts repair and maintenance in support of C-130,
C-140, CASA CN-235 and CESSNA 310 Aircraft.  The work will be performed at San
Antonio, Texas.  Contract is expected to be completed in April 1993.  Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract is
in support of Foreign Military Sales to Saudi Arabia. The San Antonio Air
 Logistics Center, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, is the contracting activity
 (F41608-01-D-0053-P00024).
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