• Lockheed Martin Corp. – Awarded a $34, 872, 566 firm-fixed price contract for Javelin hardware with an estimated completion date of Oct. 30, 2012.
• Engineering Systems Solutions, Inc. (Frederick, MD) – Awarded a $20,591,569 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-     quantity firm-fixed price contract for supplemental staffing support services for Army Medical Material Activity with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2011.
• Eagle Systems & Services, Inc. (Lawton, OK) – Awarded an $18,695,834 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity firm-fixed price contract for supplemental staffing support services for Army Medical Material Activity with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2011.
• Grove Resources Solutions (Frederick, MD) – Awarded a $17,425,666 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity firm-fixed price contract for supplemental staffing support services for Army Medical Material Activity with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2011.
• Caddell Construction Co., Inc. (Montgomery, AL) – Awarded a $15,485,000 firm-fixed price contract for repair of buildings 2762 and 75 with an estimated completion date of May 27, 2012.
• Brayman Construction Corp. (Saxonburg, PA) – Awarded an $11,978,415 firm-fixed price contract for anchor installation Dover Dam Safety Assurance Phase 1 Project Dover Dam with an estimated completion date of Sept. 19, 2012.
• Source for Native American Products, LLC (Princeton, ME) – Awarded an $11,069,970 firm-fixed price contract for 58,263 flame resistant Army Combat Uniforms with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2011.
• Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (Oak Brook, IL) – Awarded a $10,866,256 firm-fixed price contract for beach fill with an estimated completion date of June 14, 2011.
• Archer Western Contractors, Ltd. (Atlanta, GA) – Awarded a $10,588,231 contract for construction/renovation of AIT barracks with an estimated completion date of May 14, 2012.
• RS Morris Construction, Inc. (Fresno, CA) – Awarded an $8,479,105 firm-fixed price contract for construction of squadron operations building, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 15, 2011.
• CTS/Meridian, JV (Albuquerque, NM) – Awarded a $5,619,538 firm-fixed price contract for construction of a flood flow channel with an estimated completion date of May 2,2012.
• Northrop Gruman Corp., Aerospace Systems Sector (San Diego, CA) – Awarded a $20,000,000 contract modification which will provide replenishment spares relative to the Global Hawk Block 20 battlefield airborne communications node joint urgent operational need effort.
• Lockheed Martin Corp. (Fort Worth, TX) – Awarded an $11,718,116 contract modification which will procure software fixes under the reliability and maintainability maturation program.
• SERE Solutions, Inc. (Spokane, WA) – Awarded an $11,318,607 contract modification for survival, evasion, resistance and escape support services.
• Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. (Marietta, GA) – Awarded an estimated $9,772,670 contract modification for the removal and replacement of 26 total prototype aft crown skins on one C-5A aircraft which includes repairing any underlying damage that may be discovered when the skins are removed.
• Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (Herndon, VA) – Awarded a $7,499,408 contract which will provide survivability/vulnerability analytic support to the Future Force Integration Directorate of the Army Capabilities Integration Center.
• Data Link Solutions (Cedar Rapids, IA) – Awarded a $7,867,142 contract which will provide engineering services for the multi-functional information distribution system.
• The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Research Administration (New York, NY) – Awarded a $6,424,180 cost-reimbursement contract which will provide symbiotic computing infrastructure to monitor security properties, provide defensive polymorphism, integrated hardware and software recovery and healing techniques and integrate proposed techniques to work with security tagged architectures.

• Shell Energy North America (Houston, TX) – Awarded a $74, 712,323 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for direct supply of natural gas.
• Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. (Oklahoma City, OK) – Awarded a $70,899,905 tarrif-rate contract to assume ownership, operation and maintenance of the electric distribution system at Tinker Air Force Base, OK, for 50 years.
• The Boeing Co. (Mesa, AZ) – Awarded a $48,573,000 firm-fixed price contract to rotary wing head
• Hologic, LP (Marlborough, MA) – Awarded a $32,300,000 firm-fixed sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for ThinPrep pap test kits and related supplies.
• Bell Boeing Joint Prject Office, Bell-Boeing Joint Program (Amarillo, TX) – Awarded a $20,419,604 firm-fixed price, sole-source contract for aircraft parts.
• Excel Manufacturing, Inc. (El Paso, TX) – Awarded an $8,390,592 firm-fixed price, partial set-aside contract for airmen battle uniform, men’s women’s coats and trousers.
• Delta Industries, LLC (East Granby, CT) – Awarded an $8,287,019 firm-fixed, total set-aside, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for case and nozzle assembly supplies.
• ITT Electronic Systems (Clifton, NJ) – Awarded a $7,143,300 firm-fixed price, sole-source contract for aircraft parts.
• Compass Energy Gas Services, LLC (Richmond, VA) – Awarded a $5,731,680 fixed-price with economic price adjustment for direct supply of natural gas.
• Raytheon Technical Services, LLC, dba Raytheon (Reston, VA) – Awarded an estimated $49,800,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for services to perform the function as a single-cource integrator for the remanufacture, overhaul or repair of selected secondary repairable items.
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK) – Awarded a $47,000,000 cost-plus firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for test of payloads on small unmanned aerial systems.
• New Mexico State University/Physical Science Laboratory (Las Cruces, NM) – Awarded a $47,000,000 cost-plus, firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for test of payloads on small unmanned aerial systems.
• Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM) – Awarded a $47,000,000 cost-plus, firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for test of payloads on small unmanned aerial systems.
• Northrop Grumman Corp., Integrated Systems (El Segundo, CA) – Awarded a $35,580,508 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price contract to exercise an option for the procurement of 33 center barrels and loose and miscellaneous parts for the F/A-18 A-D aircraft.
• Tetra Tech, EC, Inc. (San Diego, CA) – Awarded a $9,984,979 firm-fixed price award for task order #0007 under a previously awarded environmental multiple award contract for performing radiological support for Parcel Eat Hunters Point Shipyard.
• DRS ICAS, LLC (Buffalo, NY) – Awarded a $6,853,882 firm-fixed price contract for production of AN/USQ-81(V) gigabit Ethernet multiplex system (9GEDMS) shipsets for new construction and in-service Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class destroyers, an Australian land based test site, associated installation and checkout repairs, and related GEDMS hardware for Wasp (LHD 1) class and Whidbey Island (LSD 41) class ships and the AN/SPA-25 radar program.
• Goodrich Pump & Engine Control Systems, Inc. (West Hartford, CT) – Awarded a $6,853,008 firm-fixed price contract for the procurement of 348 electronic digital engine control units for the H-60 helicopter.
• Pave-Tech, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA) – Awarded $5,640,000 for firm-fixed price task order #0006 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract for milling and paving portions of the airfield and Navy Outlying Field, Imperial Beach.

By Allison Bruce
Posted September 1, 2010 at 6:16 p.m.

Veteran and military business owners have a new organization to help support their businesses, land contracts and interaction with other owners.

Started in July, the Veteran and Military Business Owners Association, or VAMBOA, is the creation of two local women business owners who saw a need.

“People from the military have wonderful qualities that lend themselves to entrepreneurship,” said Debbie Gregory, one of the co-chairs and founders of the association. She said veterans and active military personnel who own businesses needed an organization that could help them get information, collaborate with each other, and grow through connections with government agencies and private businesses that want to use their goods and services.

There were 2.4 million veterans who owned businesses in the United States in 2007, the Census Bureau reports. Those businesses had receipts totaling $1.2 trillion. California had 9.8 percent of the nation’s veteran-owned businesses.

The association already has several thousand members across the nation. Gregory said it has started a survey to determine member needs and desires for the organization.

The nonprofit association doesn’t charge any dues and relies on corporate sponsors. Its first sponsor is Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc.

“We have a tough economy going on, and those who have served our nation, more than anyone, have made a lot of sacrifices and they deserve to have help,” Gregory said. She hopes the sponsor-supported model will continue as the association grows.

Martha Daniel is a disabled veteran who owns Aliso Viejo-based IMRI, which provides technology and engineering services to the private industry and government.

Daniel was excited to join a trade association for veterans. Many veteran organizations are centered around policies and issues, but there hasn’t been a business association that could provide resources, from training and certifications to networking with other veteran business owners, she said.

“I’m hoping VAMBOA will be an umbrella by which we can keep veterans knowledgeable about everything going on,” she said.

Veteran-owned businesses have been around for years — Daniel’s is about 18 years old — but she said there is a new emphasis on supporting those businesses that is encouraging more veterans to become entrepreneurs. President Barack Obama signed an executive order in April creating a task force on veteran-owned small businesses that will look at lending, contracts, training and other support.

VAMBOA connects both new and existing veteran business owners. “We ourselves need to connect and help each other,” Daniel said.

Gregory is chief executive of Military Connection, headquartered in Simi Valley, a website she started that provides an online directory of resources and information for members of the military, veterans and their families.

Gregory said one reason she recently turned down a buyer for Military Connection was that she wanted to use the site, which has 10,000 visitors daily, to help launch VAMBOA.

She joined with Patty DeDominic, a consultant in Santa Barbara and former national president of the National Association of Women Business Owners. DeDominic had a staffing company she built and sold to a large company, and she has experience helping an organization provide resources and advocate for business owners.

Both DeDominic and Gregory are daughters of veterans. “We’re very dedicated to this,” Gregory said.

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Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/01/association-aids-businesses-owned-by-military/#ixzz0yUJ0ExrS
– vcstar.com

Forwarded on behalf of the USDVA; contact information below.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Contract Opportunity for Behavioral Health Services in Virginia VISN 6 of the USDVA has been funded by the VA Office of Rural Health to contract with local providers and/or local mental health systems to provide mental health services for veterans living in rural counties in Virginia, this North Carolina and West Virginia. Potential contractors can bid on a single county, all the counties in a single state or on a combination of the states. Contracts will cover the following counties:

• North Carolina:
  • Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey Counties
• Virginia:
  • Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nelson, Prince Edward Counties
• West Virginia:
  • Mercer, McDowell and Monroe Counties

There is a very short turn around for this proposal. The response due date is 9/15/2010 @ 3:00 PM.

To read more about the proposal log on to: https://www.fbo.gov/, enter VA-246-10-RP-0494 in the block Keyword/Solicitation #, click search and after several seconds Q—VISN Rural Health Care Initiative should appear. When it appears click on it and the next page will display Q—VISN Rural Health Care Initiative. In the left corner is Complete View, click on the first and last changed. This will bring up the solicitation and Amendment 3 which changed the proposal due date to 9/15/2010 @ 3:00PM. ?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Media Contact: Debbie Gregory – 877-850-9800

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Debbie Gregory, CEO of Military Connection, The Go To Site, is proud to announce the launch of VAMBOA – VETERAN AND MILITARY BUSINESS OWNERS ASSOCIATION.  VAMBOA, a non-profit trade association, will strive to ensure the development, growth and prosperity of Veteran Owned Businesses, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Military Businesses of all sizes.  VAMBOA will serve the needs of the veteran and military business communities by uniting veteran and military business owners for collaboration, connections and contracts with both private corporations and government agencies.

VAMBOA was founded by Debbie Gregory and Patty DeDominic. Gregory and Military Connection successfully work with and support the military and veteran communities. As the daughter of a service-disabled veteran who served our nation along with his seven brothers, Gregory is committed to doing her share to assist all those who serve, past and present.

In 2009, Gregory was named Woman Business Owner of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) for her area. Gregory has received numerous awards, including the Soldier’s Angels Crystal Award of Excellence, the Patriot Award, the Golden Anchor Award and the Veterans Information Gold Web Award.  In 2008, Military Connection became a corporate member of the Department of Defense’s America Supports You program and was later named a Top 100 Employment Web Site.

MilitaryConnection.com is one of the most comprehensive and respected online directories of resources and information for military, veterans and their families.  The site offers thousands of pages of resources and information with something for everyone.  MilitaryConnection.com takes pride in its many affiliations with non-profits that serve and support our Armed Forces.     As a result of her work with MilitaryConnection.com, Gregory saw the need for a dedicated trade organization to serve the needs of Veteran and Military Business Owners and joined forces with DeDominic.

Patty DeDominic is the CEO of DeDominic & Associates, which offers professional services to enterprise builders and other high achievers.  She is the former national President of NAWBO, one of the most influential trade associations in the nation.  DeDominic brings a wealth of experience leading associations of both small and large businesses  DeDominic was awarded the President’s Award from Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and was inducted into the Women’s Business Owners Hall of Fame.

DeDominic stated “VAMBOA’s Vet Owned seal symbolizes the talent, dedication, leadership, courage and ingenuity of these special Americans who currently serve or have served in America’s military  and have a business, large or small”. VAMBOA offers a multitude of resources and services to its members but does not charge any dues. One major area of focus for VAMBOA is connecting veteran and military business owners with the private sector and corporations that want to use their goods and services.  .

Gregory added, “Those who serve our country possess an extraordinary work ethic and excellent leadership skills, making operating their own business a natural.  Small business owners are the fuel that runs our nation’s economy. VAMBOA also provides networking, collaboration, mentoring, education, certification and advocacy. We are proud to have Amgen as one of our first corporate sponsors. Amgen is a company that embraces and supports diversity suppliers.  VAMBOA’s corporate sponsors will gain visibility and provide valuable mentorship.”

For more information on VAMBOA, building success for Veteran and Military Owned Businesses, one connection at a time, please go to www.vamboa.org.  You have honorably served our nation. VAMBOA is here to serve you and be your voice.

www.vamboa.org & www.militaryconnection.com