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Subject: DoD News 09/03/92 
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:25:13 GMT


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MEMORANDUM FOR                                                   September
CORRESPONDENTS:                                                  3,1992 

     Reforger 92, the twenty-third return of forces to Germany, will be
conducted September 17 through November 15, as some 6,500 soldiers from the
United States deploy by air and sea into Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to
demonstrate U.S. resolve to meet NATO commitments and exercise the reception of
equipment and personnel.  

     Reforger 92 is a strategic mobility exercise emphasizing U.S. capability
and resolve to reinforce Europe rapidly should the need arise.  Additionally,
Reforger and its follow-on exercise, Certain Caravan, provide an opportunity
for participating NATO nations to exercise the procedures and systems necessary
to conduct multinational military actions successfully.  

     Units deploying from the United States include:  elements of the 1st
Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Kiley, Kansas; the 30th Separate Armor
Brigade, Tennessee National Guard; and the 3rd Brigade of the 7th Infantry
Division (Light), Fort Ord, California.  At their home station of Fort Carson,
Colorado, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division will also participate in
Certain Caravan using long-distance computer simulation.  

     Reforger 92 will be conducted in three distinct phases:  the deployment of
CONUS-based forces to Europe; the follow-on exercise (Certain Caravan); and the
redeployment of forces to the United States.  

     The deployment phase of Reforger 92 will see about 6,500 U.S. based
soldiers deploy to Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany aboard Air Mobility Command
(AMC) aircraft, and just over 400 vehicles arrive at the port of Antwerp,
Belgium, on board a Military Sealift Command (MSC) vessel. During this phase,
the soldiers will draw equipment from POMCUS (Prepositioned Organizational
Material Configured in Unit Sets) and move to predesignated staging areas where
units will receive equipment shipped from their home station.  

     The exercise continues to expand on the benefits of computer assisted
training and simulation. These benefits include more efficient use of
resources, reduced costs, and less noise, traffic, and maneuver damage.
Simulation also permits the U.S. military to exercise and refine the transpor-
tation and various other logistic systems that are crucial to conducting any
large scale deployment.

     Computer simulation is a prominent feature of the follow-on exercise,
Certain Caravan, which will run from September 26 through October 9.  Simula-
tion will be used to drive a free play, mobile command post exercise in which
the U.S. V Corps, III German Corps, British, and French units will comprise
friendly forces that face a computer-simulated opposing force, located at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.  

     About 20,000 allied soldiers, comprised largely of brigade-level and above
staffs, and some 135 light tracked vehicles will participate in a maneuver area
incorporating parts of Hessen, Bavaria, Rhine1and Pfalz and Nordrhine-Westpha-
lia.  Tanks and simliar heavy vehicles will note used in the exercise.  

     NATO's 4th Allied Tactical Air Force will provide simulated air support
for Certain Caravan, while its Central Army Group will serve as the operational
command and control headquarters for the allied friendly forces.  No live
tactical air missions will be flown for the exercise.  

     With allied forces located in Germany, opposing forces at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, and the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado, exercise
Certain Caravan will, for the first time, use computer simulation to effec-
tively bridge the ocean between the United States and Europe.  By doing so,
more units can participate, training becomes more realistic, and scarce
resources are better utilized.  

     Most units will begin deployment immediately following completion of the
     follow-on 
exercise.  Redeployment of all personnel and equipment will be completed by
mid-November.  

                               END






DoD News Briefing
Thursday, September 3, 1992 - Noon
Mr. Bob Hall, DASD (Public Affairs)


     Mr. Hall:  Good afternoon.

     We have a guest here today.  I'd like to welcome, Ms. Alexandra Karakati,
who is a journalist and a student from Bucharest, Romania.  She's here in the
U.S. under the auspices of the Freedom Forum.  She's accompanying today Larry
Jolidon (of USA Today).  Welcome.

     We have an MFC for you today on Reforger '92 which, as you know, is the
23rd rendition of this exercise that's held every year.  It's being conducted
from September 17th through November 15th.  This year it will involve some
6,500 soldiers from the United States deploying by air and sea to Belgium,
Luxembourg, and Germany. This is a strategic mobility exercise.  It emphasizes
U.S. capability and resolve to reinforce Europe rapidly should the need arise.

     The units deploying from the United States this year will include elements
of the 1st Infantry Division Mechanized from Fort Riley, Kansas; the 30th
Separate Armor Brigade of the Tennessee National Guard; the 3rd Brigade of the
7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord, California.  There are a lot of details
about exactly what will be done and the fact that, as you mentioned, this year
we continue to expand the use of computers for training and simulation to
reduce the number of troops involved.  That will be available after the
briefing.

     To bring you up-to-date on the assistance to the victims of Hurricane
Andrew, by the end of today we anticipate we will have 16,010 federal troops
deployed to the south Florida area.  This is in addition to the 6,354 National
Guard personnel under state control.  The handouts that we'll have for you
after the briefing on the statistics show that another 11,614 federal troops
are programmed for deployment, bringing the total to over 27,000. Again, these
numbers are very fluid.  There are people moving in all the time, but this is
our effort to try to keep track of them for you.
     More than one million meals ready to eat have been delivered to Florida.
There are 20 mobile kitchen trailers operating at 14 different locations.  An
additional 10 have arrived and they'll be put on line.  The USS Sylvania has
flown more than 9,000 meals and other relief supplies ashore.  The last ship of
the six-ship task force, the USS Ashland is due to arrive in the area today.

     As General Sullivan indicated the other day, the 10th Mountain Division
continues deployment to Florida.  One brigade will arrive today, with a second
brigade scheduled to arrive tomorrow.  Most of the 33 scheduled flights today
will involve those personnel.

     Yesterday, the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force from Camp Lejeune completed
their deployment to the area.  Including the scheduled flights for today, a
total of 364 missions have been or will have been flown by the end of today by
the Air Force, moving more than 10,000 tons of relief supplies and equipment as
well as personnel.

     The Air Force is going to begin this weekend to start spraying insect
breeding ground in an effort to assist local in disease control.				
				

     There are six preventive medicine teams on the ground; eight out-patient
clinics and three field hospitals operational at this time.  We have 4800
portable toilets in place, another 600 are due to arrive today.  There's also
increasing emphasis on engineer units moving in from Fort Riley, Fort Benning,
Fort Campbell, Fort Bragg, and Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.  It's actually
engineer and transportation and quartermaster units.

     We've completed distribution of the 15,500 radios with batteries.  Radio
Recovery is broadcasting in English, Spanish, and Creole from a tent at
Homestead Air Force Base.  People can get information on the effort by tuning
in to 1610 on the AM dial.
     That's sort of the end of the statistical update on the hurricane.  Do you
have any other questions on the hurricane before I get to some other announce-
ments?

     Q:   Any preliminary estimate on the cost of rebuilding Homestead?
     A:   No.

     Q:   Where does that stand in the process, procedurally?  To go ahead with
a supplemental budget request?  How are you going to do that?
     A:   As I indicated the other day, we will have to request supplemental
funds.  But we will start moving ahead with existing funds on it.

     Q:   Do you yet know when the former residents, military residents of
Homestead will go back on duty?
     A:   No, not at Homestead.  They now have been relocated at other facili-
ties, or are in the process of being relocated.  I think the Air Force
announced the other day where they've moved the squadrons.

     Q:   They've been moved, but the personnel are still off duty, is that
right?
     A:   Some are, and some aren't.  Maybe we can get some kind of rough
figures for you in terms of how many have been redeployed and how many are
still in the process.

     Moving on to Somalia, the grand total of tonnage of food delivered to date
is 1,804.81 metric tons.  They were carried on 114 flights.  That breaks down
to 88 flights to Wajir with 1,576.8 metric tons.  As I mentioned the other day,
we suspended those flights until there's a need for additional flights.  They
have sufficient supplies of food in Wajir at this time.

     In terms of flights actually into Somalia, we've had 26 flights with a
total of 237.1 metric tons of food.

	Moving on to the news from today, this morning, I think you've all heard
about the Italian relief plane that went down as part of Provide Promise, the
flights into Sarajevo.  At the request of the Government of Italy, which was
conveyed to UNHCR representatives in Geneva to the U.S. European Command, EUCOM
has directed the launch of two U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 search and rescue
helicopters, as well as tgwo AH-1 Cobra helicopters, from the amphibious
assault ship USS Iwo Jima to the reported crash site of the Italian G-222
supply aircraft in Bosnia-Hercegovenia.  The Italian aircraft was flying
humanitarian relief supplies from Splitt to Sarajevo.  The Iwo Jima is operat-
ing in international waters of the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Croatia.
Additional details will be released when we have them.

     I should also mention that there is a Royal Air Force C-130 that is in the
region.  It is currently coordinating the SAR airborne operation until such
time as our helicopters arrive, or until UNPROFOR representatives arrive.
Apparently there is an UNPROFOR convoy en-route from Sarajevo to the scene at
this time.

     Q:   What convoy?
     A:   UNPROFOR.  It's the UN Protection Force.  It's en-route from Sarajevo
to the crash site.

     Q:   The crash site is 18 miles east of Sarajevo?
     A:   Eighteen miles west of Sarajevo.  I should emphasize that all this is
preliminary information that we've received from the operators over there, all
subject to further details.

     Q:   How many were on board?
     A:   The initial report we have is four, but we can't confirm that.  The
Italian government is going to be the best source on that.

     Q:   Is there any indication at all at this time as to the cause of the
crash?
     A:   We don't have, at this point, any indication of what caused the
crash.  That's something that will be investigated.

     Q:   Approximately how far is the Iwo Jima from the crash site?
     A:   The Iwo Jima is about 130 miles west of Sarajevo.  The estimate I got
this morning just before I came out here is that it would take somewhere
between 40 minutes to an hour to reach the site.  The helicopters just launched
a few minutes before I came out here.

     Q:   You said how long would it take?  I'm sorry.
     A:   The helicopters launched, well I was talking on the phone and they
said they were launching right now.  That was about 10 minutes of 12:00.  The
estimate I had was that it would take about 40 minutes or an hour to reach the
crash site from the Iwo Jima, which is currently operating about 130 miles west
of Sarajevo.

     Q:   You said there were two CH-57's or two...
     A:   Two CH-53E search and rescue helicopters, as well as two AH-1 Cobra
helicopters have been launched from the Iwo Jima.

     Q:   How many Marines are totally involved in this search and rescue
operation?
     A:   You mean how many are on the helicopters?

     Q:   Yes.
     A:   At this time, I don't know.  Hang on one second, I'll give you the
number of the people on the Iwo Jima.  (Pause)  I don't have them.  We'll get
the numbers of Marines on board the Iwo Jima.  I can't say how many are in the
helicopters.

     Q:   Are any other U.S. aircraft involved in providing support, protective
support for these helicopters that are going in?
     A:   No, the SAR mission consists of the helicopters that I mentioned.

     Q:   Did you say this was a request of the Italian government?
     A:   Correct.

     Q:   And there's no other choppers or anything else from any
other country involved in it?
     A:   There is a British Royal Air Force plane that is coordinating the SAR
effort.  I believe it was diverted from another flight.  I should also mention
that we have completed our relief flights for today.  Basically, we've sus-
pended further flights until we have a chance to assess the situation.

     Q:   Those two Cobras are obviously going along to protect the search and
rescue helicopters.  Is this an area controlled by whom, and what is the risk
of hostile fire?
     A:   I think, in terms of what they're flying over, obviously they'll try
to fly the safest route possible.  As you know, the situation in Bosnia-Herce-
govenia, it's hard to know who controls what area.  It's all broken up.  Do we
assess any particular risk t this time?  The answer is no.  Do we have at
feeling of risk?  Nothing to indicate there's any risk at this time.

     Q:   You don't know who controls the ground where the plane went down?
     A:   My understanding, it's in Croatian controlled territory.  But again,
these are early reports.

     Q:   Your statement that you've suspended until you can assess the
situation, can that be interpreted to mean that you believe there's at least a
possibility this was done by hostile force, and until you can eliminate that
possibility you're not to fly?
     A:   My understanding is we had completed our flights for today.  But when
they say that we've suspended flights, it's a situation where that's just a
prudent operational reaction to this kind of incident.

     Q:   Because of the possibility that it might have been shot down?
     A:   We don't know what happened, what caused the crash. Clearly, that is
a possibility, but we do not have any confirmation that it was brought down by
hostile fire.  There's nothing to indicate that now, but we can't rule that
out.

     Q:   How long is the suspension scheduled for?
     A:   Until we assess the situation.

     Q:   So it could be days?
     A:   I think we'll probably have a better fix on what caused the crash
before very long.

     Q:   Is this the first time that U.S. troops are involved in a search and
rescue operation in that part of the world?
     A:   It's the first time as far as I know.  We'll double check to confirm
that, but my understanding is this is the first time.

     Q:   Will you be able to update us later in the day that the thing's
finished?
     A:   Yes.

     Q:   Were the U.S. ships monitoring that particular flight?
     A:   Whether they were at the exact time that it went down, whether they
were tracking it, I really can't tell you at this point.

     Q:   Are they in communications with it?
     A:   Not that I'm aware of.  But again, I only have a certain amount of
information at this time.  We may find out more details later on.

     Q:   Was anyone in communication with the airplane when it went down?
     A:   I assume the tower at Sarajevo was.  We may well have been tracking
and monitoring it.  I can't confirm that for you at this time.				
			
     Q:   Is this the first UN relief plane that has gone down?
     A:   We'll have to double check.  I'm told this is the first UN relief
plane that has gone down.

     Q:   How many relief planes have there been so far?  Do we have a total?
     A:   The relief operation began on July 3rd.  Since that time the United
States has flown 117 missions involving 168 sorties, and has delivered 2,158
tons of aid.  Yesterday, the one- thousandth sortie was flown.  It happened to
be flown by a U.S. C-130 aircraft.  Obviously, there were a number of flights
today, and I'm not sure I have the total number, but it's somewhat above 1,000
flights by all the different countries that are making these flights.  That
brings to total aid delivered of 11,500 tons.

     Q:   U.S. sorties are all by U.S. Air Force planes?
     A:   Yes.

     Q:   When you talk about sorties and missions, is a mission two sorties --
a sortie and a sortie?
     A:   They're launching from Rhein Main.  Every launch from Rhein Main,
that's basically a mission.  But sometimes they go to Sarajevo and then turn
around and go back to Zagreb and then back to Sarajevo and back to Rhein Main,
so you've got two sorties involved with one mission. They're always overnight-
ing in Rhein Main.

     Q:   You said yesterday that the thousandth sortie...  You meant the
thousandth into Sarajevo.
     A:   A way to look at it, I think each sortie is an arrival in Sarajevo.

     Q:   So you've had 1,000 flights into Sarajevo.

     Q:   U.S. forces or was that total?
     A:   That's total, all countries.

     Q:   And U.S. sorties?
     A:   U.S. sorties, 168.

     Q:   Back on Wolf's question about whether any other aircraft are
involved, the Saratoga is just business as usual, not providing any kind of CAP
or anything for these search and rescue helicopters?
     A:   I don't have any information that it is.  The Saratoga is down in the
Mediterranean, not in the Adriatic.

     Q:   If I'm not mistaken, there was an incident where the British had one
of their missions locked onto by radar.  Is this in the same geographical area
as the lock on?
     A:   I don't know.

     Q:   Will you take that question?
     A:   We'll try to find out, but I'm not sure if we have the records on
where the British plane was.  That may take some time.

     Q:   Is there any indication that a radar that controlled weapons was in
that area at that time?
     A:   We have no indication that there was any hostile fire involved, but
again, this is very preliminary information; we got it just before we came out
here today.

     Q:   The Italian government asked the U.S. government for assistance in
the search and rescue operations. Is it standard operating procedure for the
U.S. Marine Corps, these helicopters, to get involved?  Or does that separate
decision have to be made and at what level?  Can you just explain how the
decision to go ahead and send these helicopters out into this area, which I
take it is also a Croatian-controlled part of Bosnia.  It's not in Croatia,
it's a Croatian-controlled part of Bosnia.
     A:   The last is correct.  It is a Croatian-controlled part of Bosnia-Her-
cegovenia.

     EUCOM has the mission of supplying...the Iwo Jima and the Biddle are in
the Adriatic for the purposes of monitoring and providing radar and communica-
tions support to U.S. flights.  They also have the capability of doing search
and rescue.  I'm not sure what standing agreement that EUCOM has with the other
countries involved.  Clearly, the decision was made to go ahead and support the
Italian government.  They're very close ally.  We can see if we can check and
see if there's some kind of standing agreement, but I think clearly this is the
kind of support we supply to our allies frequently around the world.  The
Italian plane was involved in the humanitarian relief effort.  So are we.  I
think our response is the kind of response you would expect out of this
humanitarian effort.

     Q:   Can we say who ordered the helicopters in?  Whether it was the EUCOM
commander or...
     A:   They were directed by EUCOM, yes.

     Q:   The EUCOM commander?
     A:   That's my understanding.  We'll double check and see what kind of
standing rules they have on it.

     Q:   I guess the bottom line is, were officials in Washington involved,
and at what level, to go ahead and authorize this search and rescue operation?
Did the President of the United States say do it, or did the Secretary of
Defense say do it, or did the State Department say do it?
     A:   We'll double check the answer.  My understanding is it was directed
by EUCOM, but we'll double check and see what the standing procedure is in
terms of going up to a higher level authority.

     Q:   Can you say what the airplane was carrying?
     A:   I'd refer you to the Italian government on that.

     Q:   On an unrelated matter, any word on this declaration by the UN
weapons inspector in Baghdad that all of Iraq's nuclear weapons capability has
now been destroyed?
     A:   I think you need to talk to the IAEA, Wolf.  They put out a press
release saying essentially that the reports, what you quoted him as saying
yesterday were wrong.  That was a bogus report.  They have put out a press
release correcting that story.  We can give you a copy of the IAEA press
release.

     Q:   He said it again today.  What he said was that they're not...
     A:   We have a press release from the IAEA that basically says that was an
incorrect story.

     Q:   The quote is with the guy.  He said the same thing before.
     A:   You need to talk to the IAEA, though.  He's their employee.
     Q:   He say he works for them and they put out a press release saying he's
a liar?  I don't quite understand what you're saying.
     A:   No, they're saying that's not what he said.  We'll give you the press
release and you can read it.  It's between the IAEA and you all.  The IAEA has
said that that story about what he said is incorrect.

     Q:   Bob, do you know when the official proposal of the Taiwan F-16 sale
is going to go to Congress?
     A:   I would assume some time in the near future, but I don't have
specific day.

     Q:   Do you know when they would be delivered, etcetera?
     A:   No, that would be in the notification to Congress, and I'm not really
free to discuss that until Congress gets formally notified.

     Q:   Are we to assume that yesterday was informal notification? (Laughter)
Then in about 20 days they'll get the formal...
     A:   You're correct in the sense that the next thing you see on this will
be the formal notification of Congress.

     Q:   One assumes in about 20 days.
     A:   It might be before that.  I don't have a specific time on it.

     Q:   Anything on the F-15 sale to Saudi Arabia?
     A:   You saw what the Secretary said yesterday, but I have nothing new on
it.

     Q:   Back to Taiwan, is this exclusively pertaining to the F-16 or is the
policy calling for release of advanced fighters to Taiwan leaving the way open
for a potential competition?
     A:   I think we're talking about the F-16's.  That's what the government
of Taiwan has...

     Q:   What specific model of the F-16, do you know?  And what type of radar
would be involved?
     A:   The President said A and B models.

     Q:   Do you know what radar is involved?
     A:   No, the Air Force might be able to get that for you.

     Q:   Can you explain why you feel the Chinese have military superiority
right now that requires the U.S. to sell F-16's to Taiwan?
     A:   The equivalent plane in the Taiwanese inventory right now is the
F-104.  The F-5, F-104 are in its inventory, which are rather old planes,
coming to the end of their useful life expectancy.  We can't even support the
requirements for spares for the F-104.  So that's on one side of the equation.
On the other side of the equation, the Chinese have, I understand, recently
purchased 24 SU-27's which is obviously a very advanced aircraft.  So there is
a discrepancy that's building here as part of the equation.

     Q:   (Inaudible) the recent number of proposals, the F-16, Homestead, all
of them purely political, arguing that the Pentagon is being used as a social
welfare agency.
     A:   I think you need to be very careful to look at each matter on its own
merits.  Secretary Cheney talked yesterday about the Homestead base, and the
fact that it's a very important military installation and has a strategic
location.  It is also the principal federal presence in the region, and as part
of the federal commitment to rebuilding the region,
we need to rebuild the base.

     The V-22, you're all familiar with the history of that and what's been
going on for years, being in a frozen position, essentially, with Congress, and
no being able to move forward on the medium lift requirements for the Marine
Corps.

     The M-1 tank is something that Congress has wanted us to move out on.  So
you have to look at each case on its own merits.

     Q:   Isn't it a coincidence that it's happening now?
     A:   Every year we make decisions on arms sales overseas, on building
bases, on construction programs, on development projects.  They go on every
year whether it's an election year or not, and we have to continue to make
decisions on these things.

     Q:   It's interesting to point out that yesterday's announcement covering
the F-16 was on a trip that was paid for by the campaign.
     A:   The President's in a campaign season, but that doesn't mean he's
still not President.  He has to make decisions the President makes.

     Q:   But not every trip is paid for by the GOP.
     A:   I'm not sure I see the relevance of it.  He's President, the things
he says are still the things the President is saying, whether he's on a
political trip or not.  He's still the President of the United States.

     Q:   Why are you rushing through these arms sales without your traditional
informal notification?  Why do they all have to go now?
     A:   The President made his decision.

     Q:   One more question on Iraq, a group of reporters was in southern Iraq
around the marshes last Tuesday and Wednesday and reported back that they saw
only one allied plane in the air. Does this suggest that the sortie rate has
been cut back?
     A:   I don't think you could draw any such conclusion.  If you stand out
by an air base at any one time and you see only one plane, can you conclude
that there's one plane in the air over that area?

     Q:   Has it been cut back?
     A:   We're not going to talk about for operational tempo in Operation
Southern Watch.

     Q:   Two small questions on Taiwan.  First, what is the latest Pentagon
data about the force structure in the People's Republic as far as advanced
Soviet aircraft, MIG-29's and C-27's? You mentioned the 24 C-27's, but this is
in addition to...
     A:   This is a recent purchase, the 24 SU-27's.

     Q:   Can you get us anything on the MIG-29's?
     A:   We can try to get you a list, but there's a publication sitting right
in front of you that actually probably has a pretty good breakout on what the
Chinese inventory is.

     Q:   I'd like the latest Pentagon estimate.
	
	 Press:  Thank you.

                              (END)


IMMEDIATE RELEASE         SEPTEMBER 3, 1992         (703) 697-5131 - Info.

                             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
                                CONTRACT AWARDS

                             AIR FORCE 

CORRECTION 

    The announcement that Lockheed Support Systems Incorporated, Arlington,
Texas, was awarded on September 2, 1992, a $27,705,980 face value increase to a
firm fixed price contract for aircraft maintenance services for T-1, T-37, and
T-38 was in error.  The correct amount for this contract is $21,705,980.  

    Northeast Construction Company, Jacksonville, North Carolina, was awarded,
on September 2, 1992, a $13,260,142 firm fixed price contract for various
construction projects for Military Family Housing (MFH) units at Holloman Air
Force Base, New Mexico.  Contract is expected to be completed in August 1995.
Contract funds of $13,260,142 will expire at the end of the current fiscal
year.  Forty-nine solicitations were issued and six proposals were received.
The solicitation was issued in July 1991 and negotiations were completed in
September 1991.  The 49th Contracting Squadron, kolloman Air Force Base, New
Mexico, is the contracting activity (F29651-92-C-0049).  

    International Business Machines Corporation, Federal Sector Division,
Owego, New York, is being awarded a $9,377,246 face value increase to a firm
fixed price contract for an engineering change proposal in support equipment
mock-ups for maintenance of the MC-130H Combat Talon II aircraft.  Contract is
expected to be completed in June 1993.  Contract funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year.  The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-83-
C-0264-P00205).  

    International Business Machines Corporation, Federal Sector Division,
Owego, New York, is being awarded a $20,840,000 face value increase to a firm
fixed price contract for an engineering change proposal in support equipment
mock-ups for maintenance of the MC-130H Combat Talon II aircraft.  Contract is
expected to be completed in June 1993.  Contract funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year.  The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-83-
C-0264-P00201).  

    Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, Marietta,
Georgia, is being awarded a $13,975,000 face value increase to a firm fixed
price contract for configuration changes and associated data for Air National
Guard C-130 aircraft (FY90).  Contract is expected to be completed in November
1992.  Contract funds of $13,975,000 will expire at the end of the current
fiscal year.  The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-90C-0071-P00007).  

    Paramax Systems Corporation, Great Neck, New York, is being awarded a
$9,660,691 firm fixed price contract for a communication system linking three
unattended radars, located on the northern coast of Alaska, to the Regional
Operations Control Center at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.  This effort is
in support of the North Warning System.  Contract is expected to be completed
in September 1994.  Contract funds of $9,660,691 will expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  Seventy-five bids were solicited and one proposal was
received.  The solicitation was issued in May 1992 and negotiations were
completed in August 1992.  The Electronic Systems Center, Air Force Materiel
Command, Kanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts is the contracting activity
(F19628-92-C-0176). 

                                    NAVY 

     Bendix Field Engineering Corporation, Columbia, Maryland, is being awarded
a $5,673,106 cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity
contract.  This contract includes four additional options, which if exercised,
could bring the contract value to $35,706,996.  This contract will provide
engineering and technical support services for installation, test, and evalua-
tion and repair of U.S. Naval shipboard electronic equipment and systems.  Work
will be performed in San Diego, California, and aboard various U.S. Naval
vessels, and is expected to be completed by October 1993.  Contract funds will
not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competi-
tively procured with 85 proposals solicited and 8 bids received.  The Naval
Electronic Systems Engineering Center, San Diego, California, is the contract-
ing activity (N00123-92-D-5253).  

     Rockwell International Corporation, Microelectronics Technology Center,
Newbury Park, California, is being awarded a $6,754,977 cost- plus-fixed-fee
contract to establish heterojunction bipolar transistors fabrication lines for
electronic components required at the interface between analog front-end and
digital signal processing subsystems.  The primary emphasis will be on the
design and fabrication of two analog-to-digital converters and a compatible
digital-to-analog converter.  Work will be performed in Newbury Park, Califor-
nia, and is expected to be completed by March 1996.  Contract funds in the
amount of $1,100,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This
contract was announced in the Commerce Business Daily and four bids were
received.  The Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation Division, San Diego, California, is the
contracting activity (N66001-92-C-6017).  

     F2M, Inc., Lancaster, California, is being awarded a $16,554,000 firm-
fixed-price contract for the construction of a missile engagement simulation
arena.  Work will be performed at the Naval Air Weapons Station, China iake,
California, 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 competi-
tively procured with 3 bids received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering
Command, Western Division, San Bruno, California, is the contracting activity
(N62474-87-C-7684).  

     United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Government Products Division,
West Palm Beach, Florida, is being awarded a $9,000,000 letter contract for
development-to-production transition supplies and services in support of
production of the J52-P-409 engine for the EA-6B aircraft.  Work will be
performed in West Palm Beach, Florida (80%), and West Hartford, Connecticut
(20%), and is expected to be completed by August 1994.  Contract funds in the
amount of $9,000,000 would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was not competitively procured.  The Naval Air Systems Command is
the contracting activity (N000l9-92-C-O125).  

     Pacific Ship Repair & Fabrication, Inc., San Diego, California, is being
awarded a $44,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for indefinite delivery type
services to include maintenance, upkeep, and repair of three San Diego based
aircraft carriers, USS Ranger (CV-6l), USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), and USS Constel-
lation (CV-64).  Work will be peformed in San Diego, California, and is
expected to be completed by September 1993.  Contract funds will not expire at
the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured
with 7 proposals solicited and 3 bids received.  The Supervisor of Shipbuild-
ing, Conversion & Repair, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity
(N00024-92-H-8649).  

     General Electric Company, Aircraft Engine Business Group, Lynn, Massachu-
setts, is being awarded a $11,762,309 modification to a firm- fixed-price
contract for the procurement of 96 F4 04 -GE-40 2 engines (installs) for the
U.S. Navy; 8 spare F404-GE-402 engines for the U.S.  Navy; and 2 spare engines
for the Government of Kuwait for the F/A- 18C/D aircraft.  Work will be
performed in Lynn, Massachusetts (65%), and Cincinnati, Ohio (35%), and is
expected to be completed by March 1994.  Contract funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured by a
request for proposal and two bids were received.  This contract combines
purchases for the U.S. Navy (97.16%), and the Government of Kuwait (2.84%)
under the foreign military sales program.  The Naval Air Systems Command is the
contracting activity (N000l9-86-C-0247).  

                                     ARMY

    Blake Construction Company, Incorporated, Washington, DC, is being awarded
a $20,100,000 increment as part of a $89,812,000 firm fixed price contract for
construction of a headquarters complex.  Work will be performed at Fort
Belvoir, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by April I, 1995.  Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  There were 264
bids solicited on January 3, 1992, and lO bids received.  The contracting
activity is the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Maryland (DA-
CA31-92-C-0103).

    R. N. Fenton and Company, Denver, Colorado, is being awarded a $5,875,000
firm fixed price contract for construction of a composite operations and
training facility (joint Army/Air Force facility) at Buckley Army National
Guard Base.  Work will be performed in Aurora, Colorado, and is expected to be
completed by February 25, 1994.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of
the current fiscal year.  There were 4l bids solicited on May 15, 1992, and 11
bids received.  The contracting activity is the National Guard Bureau, Golden,
Colorado (DAHA05-92-C-0007).  

                         DEFENSE  LOGISTICS  AGENCY 

   Western Petroleum Company,* Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was awarded a
$34,872,141 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for jet fuel.
One hundred forty-four proposals were solicited and 36 received.  work will be
performed in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Regina, Saskatchewan, and is expected to be
completed by 30 September 1993.  This contract is one of a multi-contract
procurement program.  When all contracts have been awarded, additional details
will be available. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year.  The
Defense Fuel Supply Center, Alexandria, Virginia, is the contracting activity
(DLA600-92-D-0546). 

    Hawaiian Independent Refinery Incorporated, Honolulu, Hawaii, was awarded a
$26, 657,650 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for jet fuel.
One hundred forty-four proposals were solicited and 36 received.  Work will be
performed in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by 30 September
1993.  This contract is one of a multi-contract procurement program.  When all
contracts have been awarded, additional details will be available. Funds will
not expire at the end of the fiscal year.  The Defense Fuel Supply Center,
Alexandria, Virginia, is the contracting activity (DLA600-92-D-0542). 

    Barrett Refining Corporation,* Shawnee, Oklahoma, was awarded a $25,400,897
fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for jet fuel.  One hundred
forty-four proposals were solicited and 36 received.  Work will be performed in
Oklahoma, and is expected to be completed by 30 September 1993.  This contract
is one of a multi-contract procurement program.  When all contracts have been
awarded, additional details will be available. Funds will not expire at the end
of the fiscal year.  The Defense Fuel Supply Center, Alexandria, Virginia, is
the contracting activity (DLA600-92-D-0553). 

   El Paso Refinery, L.P.,* El Paso, Texas, was awarded a $57,295,612 fixed
price with economic price adjustment contract for jet fuel.  One hundred
forty-four proposals were solicited and 36 received.  Work will be performed in
Texas, and is expected to be completed by 30 September 1993.  This contract is
one of a multi- contract procurement program.  When all contracts have been
awarded, additional details will be available. Funds will not expire at the end
of the fiscal year.  The Defense Fuel Supply Center, Alexandria, Virginia, is
the contracting activity (DLA600-92-D-0551).

*Denotes small business firm.
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