GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Obama to remake national security team

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Washington Post

08April2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Among those who have announced the intention to leave or are due to rotate out of existing jobs include Robert M. Gates, the defense secretary; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of international forces in Afghanistan; and Karl W. Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul. In some cases, the officials will retire. In others, they will transfer to new roles. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Military and essential civilians would be paid after shutdown

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: NextGov

08April2011 3:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: If the government shuts down Friday night, military personnel and civilian personnel deemed essential will continue to work, but the Defense Department will not have the funds to pay them until after the shutdown ends, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III said in a message sent to the Pentagon's workforce on Thursday afternoon.

Military personnel are not subject to furlough and will report for duty as normal during any shutdown, along with essential civilian personnel.

"If there is a government shutdown beginning on Saturday, April 9, all DoD personnel should still report to work on their next scheduled duty day, beginning at their normal duty hours to receive additional instructions," he said.  (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: China’s Military Self-Assurance

 

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SOURCE: The Diplomat

05April2011 3:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Assessing China’s domestic achievements and reviewing the international lay of the land last October, President Hu Jintao declared to the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee that the country was still in a period of ‘strategic opportunity.' Almost six months later, and it’s clear from the latest defence white paper that military planners agree.

The paper, released Thursday, places significant emphasis on the importance of China’s growing economic prowess. There is inevitably the familiar lament over US arms sales to Taiwan, the United States’ involvement in the Asia-Pacific and the reinforcement of US military alliances in the region. But the watchword in what is an extremely upbeat assessment of the country’s national strength is ‘economy.’ This isn’t to say that China isn’t fully aware of the perceived threat that its unprecedented economic growth has created – it’s clear from the paper and elsewhere that it is. But it’s also hardly surprising that China is feeling ever more confident after successfully weathering the turbulent economic waters that the global economy has faced in recent years. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Heritage Foundation Report: Assessing the Strategic Readiness of the U.S. Armed Forces

Testimony before The Readiness Subcommittee of The House Committee on Armed Services

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Heritage Foundation

04April2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: America’s military remains the most capable and professional in the world. The Armed Forces are combat hardened and of high quality. Yet, such standing cannot be maintained without the continued support of Congress. Today’s world is home to a growing number of threats from both state and non-state actors, each with a myriad of ever-expanding capabilities ready to challenge our own. If the supposed peace dividend of the post–Cold War years was insufficient to allow for an easy military drawdown, today’s intense pace of operations unquestionably requires a strong defense capability. Between force reductions, a dramatic slowing of new starts, and closures of production lines, America’s domestic industrial capacity is slowly being whittled away. Once domestic military production capabilities are lost, it will be almost impossible, if not prohibitively expensive, to rebuild the industry. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DEBKA Report: America's exit from Libya ends coalition no-fly zone, military campaign

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: DEBKAfile

04April2011 2:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The United States has quietly withdrawn its air and sea assets from Libya and virtually ended its military intervention against Muammar Qaddafi's armed forces. This action over the weekend exposed NATO and its leading powers Britain and France as badly short of the air and sea capabilities necessary for halting Muammar Qaddafi's military advances, enforcing a no fly zone over the territory he controls or maintaining a sea blockade on Libyan ports.

Debkafile's military sources report that US Air Force AC-10 Thunderbolt and AC-130, which are designed for attacking tanks and other ground targets, disappeared from Libyan skies Saturday, April 2. They were followed Sunday by the departure of all 100 American fighter-bombers from the Libyan war arena. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: EU approves possible military operation for Libya

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: RiaNovosti

01April2011 3:48pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The European Council on Friday approved the decision to mount an EU military operation to support humanitarian efforts in Libya, if asked to do so by the United Nations.

"The EU will, if requested by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), conduct a military operation in...order to support humanitarian assistance in the region," the council statement read.

"The aim of the operation would be to contribute to the safe movement and evacuation of displaced persons and to support the humanitarian agencies in their activities with specific capabilities," it said. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israel unveils Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Homeland Security News Wire

29March2011 4:02amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israel on Sunday stationed the first batteries of its Iron Dome short-range missile defense system in the south of the country;

The military stressed the initial deployment was experimental; after being deployed in the south, the system will then be deployed along the Lebanese border, from where Hezbollah militants fired some 4,000 rockets into northern Israel during a 2006 war;

The most obvious and immediate benefit of the defensive system would be the de-fanging of the two more radical groups in the region, Hezbollah and Hamas;

The system, though, is more significant in what it will allow Israel to do vis-à-vis the Palestinians: if the same rockets Hamas is firing at Israel from the Gaza Strip were to be fired from the West Bank, all of Israel's population and economic centers will be under threat;

If Iron Dome proved effective, it would make it easier for Israel to consider deep withdrawals from the West Bank, thus allowing the establishment of a viable Palestinian state without compromising Israeli security. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DoD Contracts for March 23, 2011

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Department Of Defense

23March2011 11:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

NAVY

            Arcadis US, Inc., Highlands Ranch, Colo. (N62473-11-D-2226); Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc., Walnut Creek, Calif. (N62473-11-D-2227); Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio (N62473-11-D-2228); CE2 Kleinfelder, JV*, Pleasanton, Calif. (N62473-11-D-2229); Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, Inc., Pasadena, Calif. (N62473-11-D-2230); and AECOM-Envirocon, JV, San Diego, Calif. (N62473-11-D-2231), are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity performance-based environmental multiple award contract for environmental remediation services at various locations in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest and NAVFAC Atlantic areas of responsibility.  The maximum dollar value, including the base period and four option years, for all six contracts combined is $500,000,000.  The services include, but are not limited to:  preparing decision documents and other supporting documentation; preparing design documents; preparing community relation documents; performing engineering studies; performing remedial actions; performing removal actions; performing expedited and emergency response actions at sites; performing pilot and treatability studies; providing facility operation, maintenance and instruction; and performing other related activities associated with returning sites to safe and acceptable levels of contamination.  Arcadis US, Inc., is being awarded task order #0001 at $409,969 for the preparation of a soil hotspot characterization work plan for Parcel E, at Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif.  Work for this task order is expected to be completed by March 2012.  All work on this contract will be performed in California (80 percent), Arizona (3 percent), Colorado (3 percent), Alaska (2 percent), Nevada (2 percent), New Mexico (2 percent), Oregon (2 percent), Utah (2 percent), Washington (2 percent), and other Department of Defense locations (2 percent).  The term of the contracts is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of March 2016.  Contract funds for task order #0001 will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 11 proposals received.  These six contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contracts.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity. 

            Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $12,296,316 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for AIM-9X integrated logistics support for the Navy, Air Force, and the governments of Singapore, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Turkey, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Poland.  Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in March 2013.  Contract funds in the amount of $3,306,455 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.301-1.  This contract combines purchases for the Navy ($4,661,108; 38 percent); Air Force ($4,945,270; 40 percent); and the governments of Singapore ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Australia ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Denmark ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Finland ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Turkey ($298,882; 2.43 percent), South Korea ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Saudi Arabia ($298,882; 2.43 percent), Switzerland ($298,882; 2.43 percent), and Poland ($298,882; 2.43 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-D-0004)

            BAE Systems Tactical Vehicle, LP, Sealy, Texas, is being awarded $11,322,321 for delivery order #0010 under previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (M67854-07-D-5030) for the procurement of the following engineering change proposals:  rear door handle kits; overhead gunner protection kit (OGPK) spotlight kits; OGPK aluminum spacers; and improved rear door combat locks and dual hole roxtec.  Work will be performed in Sealy, Texas, and is expected to be completed by the end of March 2012.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

            Computer Sciences Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $11,199,981 firm-fixed-price cost reimbursable, other direct costs contract for support services for the operation, maintenance, support, and management of Outside-the-continental-U.S. Navy Enterprise Network (ONE-NET), Far East Region.  This contract contains a six-month base period and six, one-month option periods which, if exercised, bring the total estimated value of the contract to $22,379,705.  Work will be performed in Yokosuka, Japan (61 percent); Guam (16 percent); Atsugi, Japan (6 percent); Misawa, Japan (4 percent); Sasebo, Japan (4 percent); Korea (4 percent); Okinawa, Japan (3 percent); and Singapore (2 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by March 2012.  Contract funds will not expire before the end of the fiscal year.  This contract was solicited through General Services Administration e-Buy website, with one offer received.  The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N00189-11-F-0087).

            BAE Systems Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a $7,924,347 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-4408) for repairs to USS Chosin (CG 65) during the ship’s drydock selected restricted availability.  Efforts to include drydock, hull, machinery, electrical, electronics, ship alterations, boiler, and piping repair work.  Extensive coordination is required for the drydock evolution, in addition to the numerous systems onboard to be repaired.  Work will be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by July 2011.  Contract funds in the amount of $7,924,347 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

            Metro Fuel Oil Corp.*, Brooklyn, N.Y., is being awarded a maximum $46,798,065 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel.  Other locations of performance are throughout New York.  Using services are Army, Navy, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.  There were originally 696 proposals solicited with 680 responses.  The date of performance completion is April 30, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-D-8511).

            Spraque Energy Corp.*, Portsmouth, N.H., is being awarded a maximum $20,977,456 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel.  Other locations of performance are in Maine, New York, and Vermont.  Using services are Army, Navy and federal civilian agencies.  There were originally 696 proposals solicited with 680 responses.  The date of performance completion is April 30, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-D-8519).

            ISObunkers, LLC*, Aston, Pa., is being awarded a maximum $9,023,100 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for fuel.  Other locations of performance are throughout New York and Pennsylvania.  Using services are Army and federal civilian agencies.  There were originally 696 proposals solicited with 680 responses.  The date of performance completion is April 30, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-D-8510).

            The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, Ga., is being awarded a maximum $8,540,919 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for bag-in-box beverages.  There are no other locations of performance.  Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.  The original proposal was Web-solicited with one response.  This contract is exercising the first option year period.  The date of performance completion is March 31, 2012.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM300-10-D-9100).

            PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y., is being awarded a maximum $7,701,038 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for bag-in-box beverages.  There are no other locations of performance.  Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.  The original proposal was Web-solicited with one response.  This contract is exercising the first option year period.  The date of performance completion is March 31, 2012.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM300-10-D-9200).

ARMY

            Fluor Intercontinental, Inc., Greenville, S.C., was awarded on March 21 a $16,223,618 cost-plus-award-fee contract.  The award will provide for labor, supervision, tools, materials, equipment, incidental engineering, transportation, and management necessary for the maintenance, repair, and minor construction of buildings and structures and related systems and equipment.  Work will be performed in Victory Base Complex, Iraq, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 21, 2011.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The U.S. Central Command, Regional Contracting Center, Baghdad, Iraq, is the contracting activity (W912ER-04-D-0004).

            Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Annapolis Junction, Md., was awarded on March 21 a $6,862,692 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the support of casualty support and survivor outreach services to include long-term family management; mobile training terms and training development support; transitional base realignment and closure support; and strategic long range planning and operation services.  Work will be performed in McLean, Va., with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2015.  The bid was solicited through the Internet with two bids received.  The U.S. Army Contracting Command, National Capital Region, Alexandria, Va., is the contracting activity (W91WAW-09-D-0009).

AIR FORCE

            Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, is being awarded a $7,808,962 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, requirements contract modification for research toward the development of a coordinated response to potential chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threats.  The results of this effort will provide Washington Headquarters Services, Facilities Support Directorate, with an analysis of requisite information that will be utilized in the development of CBRNE emergency preparedness standard operating procedures and continuity of operations to execute its mission and meet the requirement to protect and safeguard the occupants, visitors, and infrastructure of the Pentagon facilities.  Work will be performed at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.  55 Contracting Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the contracting activity (SP0700-00-D-3180, delivery order 0697)

            L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $7,261,201 firm-fixed-price contract for contractor logistics support for the C-12 aircraft for Pacific Air Force, Air Force Material Command, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Defense Security Corporation Agency, consisting of maintenance, repair, and support functions for seven months (including phase-in) from April 1, 2011 through Oct. 31, 2011.  Work will be performed at L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, Madison, Miss.  OC-ALC/GKSKH, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8106-11-D-0002-0001).

*Small business  (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Security concerns suppress Pentagon's appetite for wireless devices

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: NextGov

22March2011 6:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The U.S. military wants to go wireless. It wants handheld devices to replace desktop computers, it wants information available for troops "anywhere, on any device anytime," it wants employees to telework, and it wants to do this all with commercial products.

But it also wants security. And for now, the lack of military-grade security for smart phones, iPads, tablets and other mobile devices is the biggest impediment to a wholehearted embrace of mobile computing, military officials told a gathering of technology vendors Thursday.

"Security -- I can't stress that enough," said Robert Carey, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer. And today, the security provided in commercially available mobile devices simply doesn't meet military requirements, he said. That's why the military limits the use of many mobile devices, such as Apple iPads, and services such as social networking.

"Operational security comes first," Carey said.

When Marine Corps pilots wanted to load digital maps into iPads and Kindle devices so they could get rid of bulky briefcases full of paper maps, the Corps said no, Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally, the Corps' CIO, recalled.

The pilots pushed back, demonstrating how they could Velcro the devices to their thighs for quicker, easier access to maps in flight. The Corps finally relented, but forbade connecting the devices to aircraft communications networks -- for security reasons, Nally explained. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israeli aircraft strike Gaza

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal News Radio

22March2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military says its aircraft struck two militant tunnels, two weapons manufacturing and storage facilities and two other militant sites across the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian health official Adham Abu Salmia reported that 18 civilians and Hamas security forces were slightly wounded. Facilities near the targets were also reported damaged.

The military said Tuesday that the sites were targeted overnight in response to 56 mortar shells and rockets fired from Gaza into Israel over the past week.

The military also said the tunnels were dug so militants could infiltrate Israeli territory to attack civilians and soldiers. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DOD Contracts for March 21, 2011

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Department Of Defense

22March2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

ARMY

            Critical Solutions International, Inc., Carrollton, Texas, was awarded on March 16 a $214,284,932 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the procurement of 118 vehicle mounted mine-detection MKK II Type II systems.  Work will be performed in Gauteng, South Africa, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 16, 2012.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-08-D-0001).

            General Dynamics and Tactical Systems, Inc., Saint Petersburg, Fla., was awarded on March 17 a $36,985,119 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the demilitarization of the eight various types of conventional ammunition families.  Work will be performed in Saint Petersburg, Fla., with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2016.  The bid was solicited through the Internet with two bids received.  The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-11-C-0027).

            Alliant Techsystems, Inc., and Textron Defence Systems, Plymouth, Minn., was awarded on March 16 a $34,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the procurement of 44 low rate initial production Spider XM-7 Networked Munitions Systems.  Work will be performed in Wilmington, Mass.; Plymouth, Minn.; Rocket Center, W.Va.; Mankato, Minn.; and Middletown, Iowa, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 5, 2011.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15QKN-11-C-0126).

            Manufacturing Techniques, Inc., Kilmarnock, Va., was awarded on March 17 a $20,027,993 undefinitized firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the procurement of 111 Cerberus lite portable surveillance and reconnaissance sensor systems.  Work will be performed in Kilmarnock, Va., with an estimated completion date of Oct. 14, 2011.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-11-C-S204).

            Conti Environmental, Inc., Edison, N.J., was awarded on March 16 a $10,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the work and services required for the remediation of contaminated soil, waste and floating product within Operable Unit 3 of the Imperial Oil/Champion Chemical Superfund Site.  Work will be performed in Marlboro, N.J., with an estimated completion date of March 7, 2016.  Four bids were solicited with three bids received.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, Kansas City, Mo., is the contracting activity (W912DQ-10-D-3004).

            L-3 Communications Aerospace, LLC, was awarded on March 16 a $7,575,912 labor-hour contract.  The award will provide for the services of 800 maintenance workers in support of aircraft production at Corpus Christi Army Depot.  Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas, with an estimated completion date of April 28, 2011.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The Corpus Christi Army Depot, Corpus Christi, Texas, is the contracting activity (GS-10F-0328N).

            L-3 Communications, Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded on March 17 a $7,117,600 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.  The award will provide for services to include line replaceable unit repair; contractor field service representative support; on-call/on-site technical support; and reset for Phoenix satellite terminals.  Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2012.  One bid was solicited with one bid received.  The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Contracting Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-11-C-G401).

            Kalmar RT Center, LLC, Cibolo, Texas, was awarded on March 17 a $7,013,927 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the procurement for the Light Capability Rough Terrain Forklift and all ancillary parts, services and date requirements.  Work will be performed in Cibolo, Texas, with an estimated completion date of March 17, 2016.  The bid was solicited through the Internet with four bids received.  The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-11-D-VK03).

NAVY

            A&D-Dorado, JV, LLP*, Santee, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0017); I.E.-Pacific, Inc.*, San Diego, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0018); Sybrant Candelaria, LLC*, Glendale, Ariz. (N62473-11-D-0019); Patricia I. Romero, Inc., dba Pacific West Builders*, National City, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0020); and MTM Builders & Erickson-Hall, JV*, San Diego, Calif. (N62473-11-D-0021), are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract for commercial and institutional building construction at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR).  The maximum dollar value, including the base period and four option years, for all five contracts combined is $100,000,000.  No task orders are being issued at this time.  The work to be performed provides for new construction, renovation, revitalization, alteration, and repair.  Types of projects may include, but are not limited to:  administration, armory, athletic court and swimming pool, dining, dormitory/barrack, theater, educational, fire station, hangar, retail/store, recreational, religious facility, warehouse, laboratory, medical facility, animal shelter, and other similar commercial and institutional facilities.  Work will be performed at various federal sites within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR including, but not limited to, southern California (94 percent), Arizona (5 percent), and New Mexico (1 percent).  The terms of the contracts are not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of March 2016.  Contract funds in the amount of $25,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured as a set-aside for 8(a) Small Businesses via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 45 proposals received.  These five contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contracts.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

            Swiftships Shipbuilders, LLC, Morgan City, La., is being awarded a $42,181,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2256) for the detail design and construction of three 35-meter patrol boats, with an option for three additional 35-meter patrol boats and associated technical services for the Iraqi navy.  This contract modification includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract modification to $83,479,000.  Work will be performed in Morgan City, La. (60 percent); Detroit, Mich. (30 percent); Ocean Springs, Miss. (8 percent); and Charlottesville, Va. (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2012.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

            Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Integrated Systems Division, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $32,486,900 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-10-D-0006) to exercise an option for up to 1,700 AN/AAR-47 missile warning system weapons replaceable assemblies.  These assemblies include 600 A(V)2 and B(V)2 integrated optical sensor convertors; 200 A(V)2 and B(V)2 computer processors; and 100 A(V)2/B(V)2 control indicators.  These systems are for installation on Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, other services, and various foreign military helicopters, rotorcraft, and low/slow fixed wing aircraft.  Work will be performed in Clearwater, Fla. (72 percent); Austin, Texas (18 percent); Iwata-Gun Shizuoka, Japan (2 percent); Natanya, Israel (2 percent); Loveland, Colo. (2 percent); Sarasota, Fla. (1 percent); Northvale, N.J. (1 percent); Woodstock, Conn. (1 percent); and Sanford, Fla. (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed in January 2014.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

            Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Tewksbury, Mass., is being awarded a $10,885,800 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-5346) to exercise an option for class services engineering efforts for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program.  Efforts include non-recurring engineering in support of mission systems equipment (MSE) system/design verification testing; first article factory test site preparation and plans; maintenance of MSE packaging, transportation, assembly, activation, and preservation documentation; maintenance of shipboard MSE installation and check-out plans; as well as the measurement, tracking, and reporting of MSE weight and power usage documentation to support the shipbuilders in meeting lead ship integration and construction schedules.  Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I. (50 percent); Andover, Mass. (15 percent); Moorestown, N.J. (10 percent); Sudbury, Mass. (10 percent); Tewksbury, Mass. (10 percent); and San Diego, Calif. (5 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by December 2014.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

            Tierra Data, Inc.*, Escondido, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $10,000,000 firm-fixed-price performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for natural and cultural resource studies and mapping services at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest area of responsibility.  These services include identification, surveying, mapping and analyzing natural and cultural resources, habitats and the vegetation, marine, and wildlife components thereof and/or cultural resources sites and their related components by providing Global Positioning System and sonar resources surveys, data management, and aerial photography services.  Work will be performed at Navy and Marine Corps locations in California (60 percent); Washington (10 percent); Guam (10 percent); Hawaii (10 percent); Oregon (5 percent); Alaska (2 percent); Arizona (1 percent); New Mexico (1 percent); and Nevada (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by March 2016.  Contract funds in the amount of $5,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with two proposals received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-11-D-2225).

AIR FORCE

            General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, Calif., is being awarded a $50,260,246 firm-fixed-price contract modification for six MQ-9 Reaper production aircraft and two MQ-9 Reaper aircraft that will be utilized as ground maintenance devices.  Work will be performed in Poway, Calif.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  ASC/WIIK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA-8620-10-G-3038 002801).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

            Insulation Sources, Inc.*, dba ICO Rally, Palo Alto, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $9,911,600 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for test set subassembly parts.  Other location of performance is Ontario, Calif.  Using service is Army.  There was originally one proposal solicited with one response.  The date of performance completion is Sept. 30, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (SPRRA1-11-D-0059).

DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY

            Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., Columbia, Md., is being awarded a $8,205,351 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for instrumentation support.  Work will be performed at Albuquerque, N.M., and is expected to be completed Feb. 13 2016.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  One bid was solicited and one received.  The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, BE-BCOQ, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity (HDTRA2-06-D-0001-0015). (read full report)

*Small business

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DOD Contracts for March 18, 2011

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Department Of Defense

22March2011 3:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

            PowerTek Corp., Rockville, Md. (HQ0034-11-D-0001); NetCentrics Corp.,Vienna, Va. (HQ0034-11-D-0002); and Digital Management, Inc., Bethesda Md. (HQ0034-11-D-0003), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-reimbursement and fixed-price type multiple-award contract for a wide range of net-centric integrated information technology (IT) support, services, and supplies.  The scope of services includes customer support; systems operation, administration, and maintenance; applications support, development and maintenance, e-business systems administration, software system development; engineering; business continuity and continuit of operations; hardware and software acquisition; enterprise architecture and engineering services; performance management; project management and IT training services.  Each contractor will be awarded a minimum guarantee of $2,500.  These contracts include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of these contracts to an estimated $495,000,000.  These three contractors will compete for the task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract.  Work will primarily be performed in the National Capital Region area.  The multiple award contracts were competitively procured by full and open competition after exclusion as total small business set-asides via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with 14 offers received.  Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

            The Missile Defense Agency is awarding Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., a fixed-price incentive and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification with a total value of $694,964,438 under Missile Defense Agency contract HQ0147-07-C-0196.  The modification will include the definitization of an undefinitized contract action with a not-to-exceed value of $298,000,000.  Under this modification Lockheed Martin will manufacture and deliver 48 interceptors and ground support equipment required to support batteries three and four for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Program.  The work will be managed in Sunnyvale, Calif., with final assembly performed in Troy, Ala.  The performance period is through December 2013.  Fiscal 2010 procurement funds in the amount of $144,847,937 and fiscal 2011 procurement funds of $430,916,501 will be used to fund this modification.  Fiscal 2010 procurement funds in the amount of $119,200,000 were previously funded on the UCA.  The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

            Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., Gaithersburg, Md., is being awarded a maximum $171,332,741 firm-fixed-price, sole-source, time-and-materials type contract providing the Civilian Personnel Management Services operational, sustainment, development and maintenance support for the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System Program.  Other location of performance is San Antonio, Texas.  Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and federal civilian agencies.  This contract is exercising the seventh option year.  The date of performance completion is Sept. 28, 2011.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SP4700-05-C-0020).

            Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Hurst, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $10,251,032 firm-fixed-price, sole-source, basic ordering agreement contract for gearbox assembly items.  There are no other locations of performance.  Using service is Navy.  There was originally one proposal solicited with one response.  The date of performance completion is Jan. 31, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-06-G-0003 THK).

NAVY

            General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a contract modification, not-to-exceed $27,985,375 to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) for long lead time material and engineering and support services for DDG 1001.  Work will be performed in Bath, Maine (77.49 percent); Middletown, N.Y. (7.8 percent); Stamford, Conn. (2.28 percent); Willimantic, Conn. (2.01 percent); South Portland, Maine (1.69 percent); Windsor, Conn. (1.65 percent); York, Pa. (1.64 percent); and various other locations of less than 1.64 percent each (totaling 5.44 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 2011.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

            Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $13,312,717 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide innovative research in the area of web-based approaches for medical and psychological health social networking, care delivery/tele-health, and capabilities that enable revolutionary advances in science, technology or systems.  This 26-month contract includes 12 options which, if exercised, would happen concurrently and would bring the potential value of this contract to $20,864,255.  Work will be performed in McLean, Va.  Work is expected to be completed February 17, 2013.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Broad Agency Announcement No. 10-62 published via the Federal Business Opportunities website on May 27, 2010, with 28 offers received; three were selected for award.  Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-11-C-4005).

            Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, LLC, Burlington, Mass., is being awarded a maximum $10,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for civil/structural/architectural/mechanical/electrical and fire protection services in support of projects at military installations throughout the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic area of responsibility (AOR).  The work to be performed provides for architect-engineering services including building construction and addition of special projects and military construction facilities, general building renovation work, life safety code studies, marine facilities, facility planning, plans, specifications, design-bid-build packages, design-build request for proposal packages, government collateral equipment lists, project preliminary hazard analysis, obtaining permits and regulatory approvals, review of contract submittals, field consultation and inspection during construction, United States Green Building Council leadership in energy and environmental design, checklists and sustainable design reports, operation and maintenance support information, sustainable engineering design practices, and record documentation preparation.  The preponderance of the work will be performed in the Mid-Atlantic Northeast AOR including, but not limited to:  Rhode Island (20 percent); Maine (20 percent); Connecticut (15 percent); New Jersey (15 percent); Pennsylvania (10 percent); New York (5 percent); New Hampshire (5 percent); Massachusetts (5 percent); Vermont (3 percent); and Delaware (2 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by March 2016.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 65 proposals received.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic Northeast Integrated Product Team, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (contract number N40085-11-D-7206).

AIR FORCE

            The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo. (FA8651-11-D-0035), and Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz. (FA8651-11-D-0036), are being awarded a $20,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for integrated precision ordinance delivery system (IPODS) Phases II-IV; research and development.  Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and Tucson, Ariz.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Two proposals were received in a full and open competition under a broad agency announcement.  AFRL/RWK, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 3 men accused of military-grade-weapons plot

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: AZ Central

21March2011 7:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: At least three people who allegedly worked for a Mexican drug cartel face charges of plotting to buy a Stinger Missile, anti-tank rockets and other military firepower, according to federal court papers unsealed Friday in Phoenix.

"The object of the conspiracy was to obtain and possess military-grade weaponry, and then to export that weaponry to the Republic of Mexico and supply that weaponry to a Mexican drug trafficking organization," says an indictment in U.S. District Court.

The defendants - David Diaz-Sosa, Jorge De Jesus-Casteneda and Emilia Palomina-Robles - were indicted by a grand jury on multiple conspiracy counts involving drugs and weapons.

The indictment says Diaz-Sosa began communicating with a government informant and undercover agents in November 2009, claiming he represented a cartel middleman identified only as "Enrique."

According to other prosecution filings, Diaz-Sosa told an informer that he oversaw monthly narcotics shipments from Nogales, Sonora, to Virginia, and worked on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Navy To Build System For Identifying Security Threats

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Information Week

21March2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Navy is developing a new software-based intelligence system that fuses information from a variety of sources to more quickly and efficiently identify possible security threats, according to the company building the system.

The military arm has awarded a Phase 1 small business innovative research contract to Florida-based Modus Operandi to build an intelligence-analysis and counterintelligence system called the Semantic Targeting and All-source Fusion Framework, or STAFF.

The company is not disclosing the amount of the award, according to a Modus Operandi spokesperson.

The system combines a range of ways to gather intelligence information -- including human intelligence, signals intelligence, full-motion video, and moving-target indicator data, the last of which involves using radar to find a moving target among fixed objects, according to the company. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: ABC News

10March2011 9:37amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: North Korea appears to be protesting the joint U.S. and South Korean military maneuvers by jamming Global Positioning Devices in the south, which is a nuisance for cell phone and computers users -- but is a hint of the looming menace for the military.

Since March 4, Pyongyang has been trying to disrupt GPS receivers critical to South Korean military communications apparently in protest of the ongoing joint military training exercises between South Korean and U.S. forces. Strong jamming signals were sent intermittently every five to 10 minutes.

The scope of the damage has been minimal, putting some mobile phones and certain military equipment that use GPS signals on the fritz.

Large metropolitan areas including parts of Seoul, Incheon and Paju have been affected by the jamming, but "the situation is getting wrapped up, no severe damage has been reported for the last two days," Kyoungwoo Lee, deputy director of Korea Communications Commission, said.

The jamming, however, has raised questions about whether the Korean peninsula is bracing for new electronic warfare. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DEBKA Report: The US, UK, Libyan opposition lack military strength to take on Qaddafi

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: DEBKAfile

03March2011 9:15amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Barring changes in the military situation, Muammar Qaddafi looked Wednesday, March 2, as though he had averted his regime's immediate danger of collapse by dint of a successful counter-offensive against rebel forces. His prospects had strikingly improved since Saturday, Feb. 26, when President Barack Obama told him to leave and the UN Security Council clamped down sanctions on his regime.

During the day, the regime's armored forces and commandos supported by the Libyan Air Force recaptured parts of Brega, Libya's refinery city and supplier of the country's benzene, and sections of the Bay of Sirte town of Ajdabiya. DEBKAfile's military sources say the loss of Brega will cause severe fuel and refined oil shortages in rebel-held Cyrenaica in the east.

Saif al-Islam, who has been running his father Muammar Qaddafi's propaganda campaign since the uprising began more than two weeks ago (Feb. 17), told the French Le Figaro confidently on Wednesday:  "It's true that it's a bit messy in the east, a few hundred people died there, but within two days everything will be back in order."

As his counter-offensive went forward, Qaddafi himself addressed a public event in Tripoli covered by state television, looking relaxed and self-confident.

The reverses suffered by the rebels were implicit in their appeal to the West Tuesday night, March 1 for military intervention, when a few hours earlier they rejected foreign troops coming to their aid. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Budget stalemate hurting services, Pentagon official says

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal Times

03March2011 8:27amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Despite Defense Department warnings that troops, their families and overall military readiness are being hurt by the lack of a formal 2011 Pentagon budget, key Senate leaders said Tuesday that no quick end is in sight for the budgetary standoff.

"Unless cooler heads prevail, and both houses of Congress begin to make progress on passing this year's budget, there remains the possibility that the whole government could be funded through a full-year" continuing resolution, said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

A continuing resolution is a temporary funding measure that keeps the government operating at a reduced level when a permanent appropriations bill has not been approved by the start of the fiscal year, Oct. 1. In most cases, the Defense Department is limited to spending at 2010 levels — which would be about $23 billion less than the department expected to get for the current year.

Defense funding is not a key element of the disagreement on government funding, but it is tied up in the battle over a strong push by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to cut $100 billion from the overall 2011 federal budget, something the Democrat-controlled Senate opposes.

Unable to reach agreement on a permanent funding bill, House and Senate leaders are preparing to pass another temporary funding bill this week that would keep the government operating until mid-March. It is expected to include a modest $4 billion in cuts based on deficit reduction proposals from the White House.

"We have a hill to climb," said Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, ranking Republican on the appropriations committee.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said operating under such temporary funding "is not a workable approach" because it restricts spending.

"Serious problems are already occurring," he said. "If the current CR continues throughout the year, it will cause significantly more harm." (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Swiss EPFL develops tech to safely detonate IEDs

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: HSNW

01March2011 8:17pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Swiss technology institute EPFL has designed an electromagnetic weapon capable of safely exploding improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from twenty-five meters away.

Working alongside Colombia and Los Andes universities, the institute has been investigating for the past two years how to disarm the explosive devices left behind by guerilla groups in Colombia and insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Debka Report: Iran to build permanent naval base in Syria

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: DEBKAfile

01March2011 3:33pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Just two days after two Iranian warships reached the Syrian port of Latakia via the Suez Canal, Friday, Feb. 25, an Iranian-Syrian naval cooperation accord was signed providing for Iran to build its first Mediterranean naval base at the Syrian port, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources reveal.

The base will include a large Iranian Revolutionary Guards weapons depot stocked with hardware chosen by the IRGC subject to prior notification to Damascus. Latakia harbor will be deepened, widened and provided with new "coastal installations" to accommodate the large warships and submarines destined to use these facilities.

Iran has much to celebrate, DEBKAfile's military sources report. It has acquired its first military foothold on a Mediterranean shore and its first permanent military presence on Syrian soil. Tehran will be setting in place the logistical infrastructure for accommodating incoming Iranian troops to fight in a potential Middle East war.

According to our sources, the "cadets" the Kharg cruiser, one of the two Iranian warships allowed to transit the Suez Canal, was said to be carrying were in fact the first construction crews for building the new port facilities. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US Military Moves Forces for Possible Libya Mission

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Global Security

01March2011 7:30amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The U.S. military is moving air and naval forces in the region around Libya to be ready to carry out any orders it is given related to the crisis there. But officials say no decision has been made on whether or how to use U.S. military power.

The U.S. military normally maintains a strong presence in the Mediterranean, and has bases in Spain, Italy and Turkey. It has more forces south of the Suez Canal, mainly focused on East African piracy and support for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

But naval and air forces in particular are flexible, and can be in one place one day, and another place fairly far away the next day.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan says although the U.S. military has not been ordered to do anything regarding Libya, it is making plans and has started to move forces, just in case it is ordered.

"We have planners working various contingency plans, and I think it's safe to say as part of this we are repositioning forces to provide for that flexibility, once decisions are made," he said.

Lapan says the military is working to ensure that when President Barack Obama says he has asked officials to prepare "a full range of options," as he did last week, that there are in fact options researched and ready to be presented to the president, and implemented if necessary.

Military officials are reluctant to say exactly what options they are preparing. But experts outside government say the possibilities include imposing a no-fly zone, delivering humanitarian supplies or weapons to revolt leaders, evacuating foreigners, and potentially sending in troops to establish or maintain order. No one is seriously talking about that at this stage. (read full report)

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