Industry days set for missile defense MilCon contract

Contractors and others interested in a multi-million-dollar contract at one of Guam’s bases will have an opportunity to hear more at upcoming events, as well as to meet individually to discuss aspects of the contract.

The Guam Post of the American Society of Military Engineers will host its monthly meeting on Aug. 22 at the Holiday Resort Guam to discuss the “Guam Defense System Command Center project,” which will be located at Andersen Air Force Base.

This is referred to as Industry Day 1 and offers contractors an opportunity to sign up for individual meetings on Day 2, which will also be held at the Holiday Resort Guam.

NAVFAC Pacific will hold “16 in-person individual Contractor Breakout Sessions. Sessions will be limited to 20 minutes,” NAVFAC Pacific said. Contractors do not have to attend the SAME lunch to sign up for the NAVFAC Pacific sessions, NAVFAC Pacific said.

According to information on www.sam.gov, the contract for the command center is anticipated to be awarded in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the description posted by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific, which is hosting Day 2 at the Holiday Resort, and which will award the contract. According to NAVFAC Pacific the contract for the command center is estimated at between $250 million and $500 million.

The project consists of a command center, associated utilities and equipment, fuel storage and above ground storage facilities, an area to accommodate personnel and “communications needed for planning, controlling and directing mission activities.”

Work includes demolition of existing housing units, site work, security measures and entry control and design of facilities to include cyber-security. NAVFAC Pacific described the schedule as “complex,” recognizing long lead times for major equipment.

Speakers at the SAME luncheon will be Douglas E. Grant, director of facility engineering and construction for the Missile Defense Agency, Capt. Troy M. Brown, commander of NAVFAC Marianas, and Patrick Carolan, vice president with Black & Veach Special Projects Corp.

Black & Veach was awarded on June 27 a potential $249 million IDIQ contract to provide architectural and engineering services for the construction of a missile defense system and related infrastructure projects. According to the U.S. Department of Defense award, the “contract provides for execution and delivery of site development and planning.” Work will be performed in Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands,70%; Hawaii, 20%; and Japan and Australia, 5% each, DoD said.

Information on the Guam Defense system and proposed tests has been recently tightly controlled, though SAME says its meeting is “open to the public.” Walk-in registration is $100.

A release on July 25 from Joint Region Marianas announced that “John Bier, program director for the Guam Defense System for the Missile Defense Agency; Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, commander, Joint Task Force Micronesia; Rear Adm. Brent DeVore, commander, Joint Region Marianas; and Brig. Gen. Thomas Palenske, commander, 36th Wing, Andersen Air Force Base, met with Government of Guam and community leaders in a series of briefings, July 23-24.”

According to the release, “The briefings provided an overview of the Proposed Final Guam Flight Test Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment that is currently available for public comment.”

The proposed action includes up to two flight tests or tracking exercises per year over a 10-year period from fiscal 2025.

Attending briefings were representatives of the Government of Guam, representatives from the Guam Legislature, businesspeople that sit on the board of the Guam Chamber of Commerce and its Armed Forces Committee, Guam’s delegate to Congress James C. Moylan, and the island’s mayors.