University of Dayton: $3.2 million in nuclear missile systems contracts since our last episode

November 4, 2011 at 5:45 pm | Posted in UDRI | 1 Comment
Tags: marianists, ud minuteman iii, ud nuclear weapons, UDRI, university dayton minuteman iii, university of dayton nuclear weapons

Last September (Sept. 2010) I wrote about a contract or contracts that UD had obtained to maintain the Minuteman III nuclear missile system. An official of the UD Research Institute, quoted in the Dayton Daily News on 8/20/2010, mentioned one contract worth $30 million over five years.

These contracts are listed on a web site, www.governmentcontractswon.com, which compiles public information. I say “contracts” because it lists several dozen of them for UD under the Minuteman III Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP). However, some of the amounts of these contracts are small, or even $0, so perhaps they are smaller pieces of that $30 million total.

According to GlobalSecurity.org, the PRP –

“will extend the life of the Minuteman III operational force by replacing the solid propellant propulsion subsystems.”

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2001/dot-e/airforce/01minuteman.html

In Sept. 2010, the most recent contract for UD’s nuclear missile work listed on the Government Contracts Won site was from 10/15/2008. Government Contracts Won now lists 25 PRP contracts at UD from 2009 and 2010, which total just over $3.2 million. (There are hundreds of government contracts listed, for UD, and the vast majority do not mention a specific weapons system; rather, they just say “not discernable” or “not discernable or classified” in the “weapons system” column. Many of these could also be related to the PRP, of course.)

(This time I paid the twenty bucks for the data download . . . that download lists more amounts than the basic information on their site does.)

Again, folks, the Minuteman III force is The Big One; 450 missiles in silos ready to launch at a moment’s notice and kill a billion people . . . riding atop propellant systems brought to you by the University of Dayton—in the Marianist tradition.

Contract Dollar Amount	*
Defense Dept Contract IDs/Numbers	*
Product/Service	Rdte/Aircraft-Applied Research
Government Contracting Office	FA8650 DET 1 AFRL PK	Principal Place of Performance	Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County)
Claimant Program	OTHER AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT
Weapon System	MINUTEMAN III PRP
From Date	11/17/2009	To Date	8/2/2010

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“I just put them up, I don’t care where they come down. That’s not my department. I’m Wehrner von Braun” sang Tom Lehrer years ago. UD seems to be singing the same tune when they say they are only working on the propellant not the warhead. Maybe we can get them to manufacture condoms now? John Judge (’69)

Comment by John Judge— December 22, 2011 #

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