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Subject: DoD News 11/05/92
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1.  RELEASE:  Navy to Commission Nuclear Attack Submarine
2.  DoD CONTRACTS:  Nov 5, 1992

                                                                    No. 487-92
                                                              697-5131   (Info)

                                                            697-3189   (Copies)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   November 5, 1992        697-5737   (Public)


        NAVY TO COMMISSION NUCLEAR-POWERED ATTACK SUBMARINE USS BOISE (SSN 764)


         The Department of the Navy will commission the nuclear powered attack
submarine USS Boise (SSN 764) at 11:00 am. Saturday, November 7, 1992, at Naval
     Base, Norfolk, Virginia.  

         Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) will be the ceremony's principal speaker.
Mrs. Louise McClure, wife of Senator James A. McClure (R-ID), will be the
     ship's sponsor.  

        Boise (SSN 764) honors the capital city of Idaho and is the second U.S.
Navy ship to bear this name.  The first, a light cruiser (CL 47), earned 11
     battle stars for service in World War II.  

         Boise is the 53rd of 62 Los Angeles class nuclear powered submarines
authorized to be built and is one of an improved version of the Los Angeles
class.  The improved submarines have a hardened sail for surfacing during
Arctic missions as well as retractable bow planes.  Boise's mission will be to
track and destroy enemy ships, primarily submarines, in order to prohibit the
employment of such forces against U.S. or allied ships.  In addition, she is
equipped with the Tomahawk cruise missile system, giving her a significant land
     attack/strike capability.  Boise is 360 feet in length, has a beam of 33
     feet and displaces approximately 6,900 ton submerged.  



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT AWARDS
(NOT FOR USE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. EST NOVEMBER 5, 1992)

                           DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

	B.P. Oil Company, Cleveland, Ohio, was awarded a $6,488,232 fixed price
with economic price adustment contract for a jet fuel.  Twenty-two proposals
were solicited and seven received. Work will be performed in Lima, Ohio, and is
expected to bec ompleted by November 30, 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 (DLA600-93-D-0468).

	Exxon Company International, Florham Park, New Jersey, was awarded a
$15,336,090 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for 23,100,000
gallons of turbine fuel.  One hundred twenty-seven proposals were solicited and
five received.  Work will be performed in Augusta, Sicily, Italy, and is
expected to be completed by June 30, 1993.  Funds will not expire at the endof
the fiscal year.  The Defense Fuel Supply Center, Alexandria, Virginia, is the
contracting activity (DLA600-93-D-0470).

	Amoco Oil Company, Oak Brook, Illinois, was awarded a $19,566,000 fixed
price with econoimic price adjustment contract for jet fuel.  Twenty-two
proposals were solicited and seven received.  Work will be performed in
Whiting, Indiana, and is expected to be completed by November 30, 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 (DLA600-93-D-0467).

                                     ARMY
                          CIVIL WORKS - NON MILITARY

	R & D Maintenance Services, Incorporated, Hennessey, Oklahoma, is being
awarded a $3,000,000 increment as part of a $8,253,162 cost plus award fee
contract for the maintenance, repair, minor construction and operation of
Resource Manager Office, camp grounds, day-use areas; and repair the bulkheads
of the lake at J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake.  Work will be performed in
Georgia (70%) and South Carolina (30%), and is expected to be completed by
September 30, 1997.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year.  There were 49 bids solicited on November 29, 1991, and 8 bids
received.  The contracting activity is the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Savannah, Georgia (DACW21-93-C-0002).

                                     NAVY

	Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Marine Systems Group East, Hopkins, Minnesota,
is being awarded a $122,579,458 firm-fixed-price contract for 246 MK 50
torpedoes, 200 turnaround kits, disposal of 400 boilers, and associated
engineering services.  Work will be performed in Hopkins, Minnesota (50%),
Tempe, Arizona (30%), and Everett, Washington (20%), and is expected to be
completed by December 1995.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured with 2 proposals
solicited and 2 offers received.  The Naval Sea Systems Command is the con-
tracting activity (N00024-93-C-6118).

	Shearwater, Inc., North Stonington, Connecticut, is being awarded a
$5,520,292 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity cost-plus-fixed-fee provi-
sions contract to provide engineering services for continuing development and
validation of SIM II Architecture Model.  The SIM II is a dynamic engagement
model used to support the submarine self-defense, atack submarine engineering
and analysis, air defcense initiative, Trident improvement, weapons systems and
architecture, SQQ-89 improvement, CVBF assessment, and the Sea Lance Program.
Work will be performed in New London, Connecticut, and is expected to be
completed by November 1997.  Contract funds in the amount of $367,724 will
expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively
procured with 47 firms solicited and 1 offer received.  The Naval Undersea
Warfare Center, Newport Division, Newport, Rhode Island, is the contracting
activity (N66604-93-D-A232).

	Raytheon Company, Missile Systems Division, Lowell, Massachusetts, is
being awarded a $12,068,567 modification to exercise an option to a firm-fixed-
price contract for 471 AIM-9M/S Sidewinder guidance and control sections and
containers for the Governemnts of Taiwan (251), Korea (198), Israwl (15), and
New Zealand (7); and 4 containers for Turkey.  Also included AIM-9M/S
Sidewinder tank assemblies, training umbilicals, quality assurance require-
ments, test system certification and all associated technical data for the U.S.
Navy as well as the governments of Taiwan, Korea, Israel, and New Zealand.
Work will be performed in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is expected to be com-
pleted by January 1995.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured by a request for
proposals and two proposals were received.  This contract combines purchases
for the Governments of Taiwan (52%), Korea (43%), Israel (4%), New Zealand
(1%), and Turkey (1%), under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  The Naval Air
Systems Command is the contracting activity (N00019-92-C-0060).

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