Rockwell Collins awarded three-year support contract for teleport at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Jan. 19, 2010) – Rockwell Collins, through its recent acquisition of DataPath, Inc.*, has been awarded a three-year, $9.1 million contract to provide maintenance and field service support for the Ramstein Air Base satellite communications teleport operated by the U.S. Air Force. The competitively awarded contract continues the company’s support of the Ramstein teleport and the Defense Transportation Reporting and Control System (DTRACS). The contract calls for Rockwell Collins to provide maintenance services for the teleport along with providing remote monitoring of U.S. convoys in Iraq.
The teleport will be supported by nine field service engineers. Program Manager WIN-T's Commercial SATCOM Terminal Program at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J., awarded the delivery order through the Worldwide Satellite Systems contract. The teleport is a vital Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) hub for military communications. Contracts for Friday, March 05, 2010. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded an $117,401,603 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive fee V-22 multi-year production contract (N00019-07-C-0001) to provide two additional MV-22 tiltrotor aircraft. Pursuant to the variation in quantity clause, this procurement will bring the number of MV-22 aircraft on this contract from 141 to 143.
Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (50 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (35 percent); and Amarillo, Texas (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $117,401,603 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. RiverHawk Fast Sea Frames, LLC, Tampa, Fla., is being awarded a $70,140,000 firm-fixed-price letter contract for the detail, design, and construction of two offshore support vessels and associated equipment and services for the Iraqi Navy. *Small business. Boeing Lands $30B+ Pentagon Contract - Stocks To Watch Today. By Teresa Rivas Shares of Boeing (BA) are flying high in premarket trading after the aerospace giant announced late yesterday that the Pentagon awarded it a contract to build as many as 179 aerial refueling tankers, a contract that could ultimately be worth as much as $35 billion.
However, not everyone is happy with the decision. The losing bidder, the North American arm of the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. had proposed building plants to complete the job in U.S. states, prompting protest from the governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, who have already sent letters to President Obama on the subject. The move may also reinforce the idea that the U.S. defense market, by far the world’s largest, remains effectively closed to foreign companies. Still, Boeing’s victory will also support as many as 50,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and could also re-awake interest in the market for the company’s 767, on which its proposal was based.
Rockwell Collins awarded $209 million USAF contract. Rockwell Collins Wins $450 Million Handheld GPS Receiver Contract. Cedar Rapids, IA (Vocus) March 18, 2009 Rockwell Collins has received a $450 million follow-on contract to provide Defense Advanced Global Positioning System Receivers (DAGR) to the U.S. Air Force GPS Wing. The contract calls for Rockwell Collins to provide these handheld GPS position and navigation receivers through 2016. "This contract ensures that we can continue to deliver best-value GPS receivers to the warfighter without a break in production," said Bruce King, vice president and general manager of Surface Solutions for Rockwell Collins.
Rockwell Collins has delivered more than 290,000 DAGR units and more than 1.5 million accessories since the company was selected by the Air Force for full-rate production in 2003. Primarily used by the U.S. To view a photo of the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver, please visit: Cedar Rapids Activist | Iowa and politics. Time Check will be "a Pheonix Rising" Blog Archive » Thanks for Listening Governors. Friends, family and I have had time to speak with both Governor Culver and Governor Branstad.
Our purpose in meeting with the two of them has been to let them know we need leadership that will speak out on our behalf. The “powers that be” want to continue to raze our homes and devalue our land. If you listen much to Cedar Rapids news you hear very often that Mayor Ron Corbett wants to make sure that both sides of the river receive protection from the flood. What he never explains with his “sympathetic” protection plan is that it involves eradicating the homes in Time Check and Czech Village. One side note here: How can you have a village with no homes? The advocates of many flood affected families have worked hard to make sure that before election day that both Governors know the truth behind the Preferred Plan.
We do want flood protection on the west side of the river, we also want the right to keep our property and homes. The City of Cedar Rapids has so many great things about it. Flood. The topic of flood protection in Cedar Rapids has been ongoing ever since the waters retreated two years ago. In residential areas north of Quaker, the proposal was to raze homes adjacent to the river and build a series of berms and greenways that could serve as recreational space while also offering flood protection. For the more urban downtown area where buildings jut up to the riverfront, the city had proposed a system of removable flood walls. However, the latest recommendation from the Army Corps of Engineers is to build a series of permanent 13-15 foot high flood walls along the east side of the river, while the west side receives no flood protection at all.
The total cost for the system would be $116 million, offering a benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.08 that would meet the Corps minimum requirement of 1. To give the reader an idea of what this could look like... Escape from New York meets Waterworld. The city seems to be on the same page. Installing the planks. Corps of Engineers' warnings were accurate. TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Epic Surge. Strike teams make entry into flood ravaged Cedar Rapids. Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa. The rising Mississippi River has broken high-water records up and down the Iowa and Illinois shore, cresting as high as 12 feet above flood stage in some places.
Estimates place the cost of the damage at over $1 billion dollars, and concerns are rising over crop damage, toxic remnants that were washed into neighborhoods, future mosquito invasions, and maintaining supplies of clean drinking water. Communities further downstream are bracing for possible flooding as well. (16 photos total) A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door.
Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Water from the swollen Cedar River rushes past downtown buildings Thursday, June 12, 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. June 19, 2008 Initial Drive through in my neighhborhood with FEMA Rep. June 11, 2008 intense moment the Big Flood. A View from the River. Flood family from Time Check part 2. Greenway Residents. Citizen talks about his flood situation. Home owners denied Developers empowered. Time Check Flood Story. Preparing for the Flood of 2008. In Eastern Iowa, the City That ‘Would Never Flood’ Goes 12 Feet Under. Shackled under water. Neighborhood Planning Process: Preferred Reinvestment Plan Presentation - Cedar Rapids Downtown District, Iowa. This picture Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, vestibulum id vitae magna et sapien, feugiat arcu purus pellentesque maecenas nec lectus, vivamus nibh. Elit ultrices proin libero, dolor nullam fermentum adipiscing viverra rutrum, consectetuer sapien a in.
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Flood Mgmt Strat - Approximate Cost Summary.pdf (application/pdf Object) Urban Corridor. Cedar Rapids Library To Return To TrueNorth Site. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa —City officials barked, and FEMA listened. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state of Iowa came to City Hall on Wednesday to tell the city that FEMA would provide $19.5 million in disaster funding for the city to build its new public library on the site of the City Council’s choosing – a site that now houses the TrueNorth Companies across from Greene Square Park. The FEMA decision had been the one that city officials said FEMA representatives in Iowa had led them to expect for months.
Then last week, those same FEMA officials said the TrueNorth site was too expensive and that the city should use another option that the city long ago discarded and thought FEMA had, too. That is, that the city demolish its flood-ruined library on First Street SE and build a new one there on higher ground. On Wednesday, Elliott said he was happy FEMA returned to the ruling the city had long expected. FEMA put the cost of the TrueNorth site at $24 million. TrueNorth still willing to talk about library site.
Published: January 8 2010 | 5:45 pm - Updated: 30 March 2014 | 5:03 pm in The TrueNorth site may have been eliminated by the library board, but owners of the building are still willing to negotiate with the city to make way for a new library there. “Until City Council votes and they sign a contract and buy a piece of real estate, who knows what’s going to happen,” said Randy Rings, general counsel for TrueNorth. The TrueNorth block south of Greene Square Park was one of two potential library sites the library board decided not to recommend to the City Council at a meeting Thursday. The board decided to begin negotiations with owners of the Emerald Knights block at the corner of Second Avenue and Eighth Street SE and the Gazette Communications block on the north corner of Greene Square Park.
The TrueNorth site — despite its appeal in looking across the park at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art — didn’t make the cut because parking and a construction schedule are too uncertain. Council Chooses TrueNorth for New Library Site. CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids city council voted 7-2 in favor of building a new library on the TrueNorth Property which sits across the street from Greene Square Park. The TrueNorth site is more expensive than the other two options, but the council felt this spot was the best choice for the community. "We want to support something together and move forward and make it happen,” council member Chuck Swore said. The council chose TrueNorth because it's close to Greene Square Park, near the heart of the downtown and fits into the council's overall vision for the city.
Council members Don Karr and Chuck Wieneke were the only two dissenting votes. They voted for Emerald Knights location because of reservations about the TrueNorth site. "The two top items I had were the fear of future flooding affecting the library and cost for those two reasons. Just a few weeks ago, the Library Board unanimously selected the Gazette Communications block as its top choice. Cedar Rapids budget committee approves idea of using LOST funds to help buy land for new library, fire station, rec center and animal control facility. Budget meeting 2. Budget Meeting 7. Budget meeting 4. Budget Meeting 8. Budget Meeting 9. Budget Meeting 5/26/2010. LOST, True North and Sinclair. Central Cedar Rapids Weed and Seed.
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