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MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTS Our policies need to, and indeed do, take into account a reasonable distribution of work between these two facets of the private sec- tor.

This expression of concern is like- ly the forerunner of policy initia- tives to reduce the number of jobs set aside for small businesses.

Homeport Policy

Congress had considerable inter- est in the Navy's homeport during last year's appropriations process.

Several versions of homeport policy directives were voted through the

House and Senate. In its final ver- sion Congress told the Navy to bid on a coastwide basis 25 percent of short term maintenance and repair work.

The Navy continues to oppose change in homeport policy—but there are indications that political pressures will be too great to ig- nore.

Strategic Homeporting

The General Accounting Office has questioned the Navy's plan to develop additional homeports. In a

March appearance before a congres- sional subcommittee, a GAO official stated:

Our review leads us to an overall conclusion that the Navy needs to better demonstrate the strategic benefits of new homeports and to prepare more definitive and com- plete cost estimates as a basis for proceeding further.

Based on analysis of Navy cost data GAO found it would be "con- siderably less costly to accommo- date the two carrier groups and three battleship groups in existing homeports than to establish new homeports for them." •

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General Dynamics Corporation, Convair

Division, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $9,998,450 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design efforts to support the Tomahawk cruise missile. Work will be performed in

San Diego, and is expected to be completed in November 1986. The Joint Cruise Mis- siles Project Office, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00032-86-C-6130).

General Electric Company, Fitchburg,

Mass., is being awarded a $4,459,747 modi- fication to a previously awarded firm-fixed- price contract for one integrated base ship service turbine generator set. Work will be performed in Fitchburg, and is expected to be completed in October 1986. The Naval

Sea Systems Command. Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-C- 4313).

Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical

Division, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $10,573,914 firm-fixed-price contract for type 18 B/D periscope sets and ancillaries for Sturgeon (SSN-637) and

Los Angeles (SSN-688) class submarines.

Work will be performed in Northampton, and is expected to be completed in Febru- (continued)

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