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WASHINGTON – Lt. Cmdr. Ian Underwood, military construction director, is representing Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Washington for Engineers Week. He serves at Naval Support Activity Bethesda which supports Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as well as other tenet commands.
Lt. Cmdr. Underwood leads a team dedicated to bringing to reality the Defense Health Agency’s military construction projects at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. All focus is on the project to demolish and rebuild 500,000 square feet of hospital space, estimated to cost $570 million dollars. NAVFAC Washington has put in place another $100 million dollars of projects to get this renovation off the ground over the last few years and has grown its Project Execution Team at Public Works Department Bethesda to match the challenge.
WASHINGTON - Bill Schoen, public works business line leader, is representing Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Washington for Engineers Week. He serves at NAVFAC Washington’s Core in Washington D.C.
Schoen is originally from St. Louis, Mo., but spent his high school and college years in Oklahoma. Growing up, he wanted to work at a newspaper due to his proficiency as a writer and because his grandfather was a news host for KMOX radio in St. Louis. Things changed when he started spending time with his father, appraising homes for the local the Housing and Urban Development office. Later, his family moved to Oklahoma and he started working for his father’s land surveying business.
WASHINGTON – Lt. John Parada, production officer, is representing Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Washington for Engineers Week. He serves at Public Works Department Annapolis, which supports the United States Naval Academy, Naval Support Activity Annapolis, and Naval Research Laboratory Chesapeake Bay Detachment.
Lt. Parada hails from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and grew up in a Navy family. His grandfather, Joseph Parada, was a plank owner on the USS Paricutin AE-18, commissioned in 1945. His father, John Charles Parada, enlisted in 1976 and served on active duty for four years. He later joined Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 21 in the reserves in 1990. While attached to NMCB 21 as a Seabee, he was promoted to Chief (SWC) in 1998.
Local Navy Contract Awards; January 22-February 5, 2021
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The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a
$10,953,284 firm-fixed-price order (N00019-21-F-0207) against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-16-G-0001. This order procures 16 refurbished harpoon capsules and four All-Up Round encapsulated harpoon missiles for the Navy. Work will be performed in Burnley, United Kingdom (70.84%); St. Charles, Missouri (27.9%); Seattle, Washington (1.16%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (0.1%), and is expected to be completed in December 2022. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,953,284 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The