{"id":2875,"date":"2020-09-15T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:46:59","slug":"dla-aviation-competition-jstrs-cushion-323092-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-aviation-competition-jstrs-cushion-323092-26\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA Aviation wants more competition on this JSTRS cushion; $323,092.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2876\" style=\"width: 967px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/E-8_JSTARS_18061F484519-913.jpg\" alt=\"E-8 JSTARS\" width=\"967\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/E-8_JSTARS_18061F484519-913.jpg 967w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/E-8_JSTARS_18061F484519-913-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/E-8_JSTARS_18061F484519-913-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-8 JSTARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to compete on a cushion used in the Joint Stars Target Radar System (JSTRS).\u00a0 They have determined that they might be able to see better pricing if more than one company made the part.<\/p>\n<p>The cushion, NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1680-01-390-1838\">1680-01-390-1838<\/a>\u00a0is supplied by the sole source ECI Defense Group in Lyles, TN.\u00a0 The price has risen from $5,579 in 2011 to $8,963 this year in small quantities.\u00a0 DLA estimates annual volume at 27 units, with an estimated cost of\u00a0$323,092.26.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2877\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JSTRS-Cushion-1680-01-390-1838.jpg\" alt=\"JSTRS Cushion 1680-01-390-1838\" width=\"421\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JSTRS-Cushion-1680-01-390-1838.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JSTRS-Cushion-1680-01-390-1838-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JSTRS Cushion 1680-01-390-1838<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is no technical data on the item, but DLA is making samples available to purchase or borrow to be reverse engineered.\u00a0 If you think you can make this item, contact DLA Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this NSN, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put\u00a01680-01-390-1838 in &#8220;Search for Anything&#8221;.\u00a0 We can guide you through the process of acquiring a sample from DLA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2563\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner.jpg\" alt=\"See solicitation details on BidLink\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See solicitation details on BidLink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to compete on a cushion used in the Joint Stars Target Radar System (JSTRS).\u00a0 They have determined that they might be able to see better pricing if more than one company made the part. The cushion, NSN\u00a01680-01-390-1838\u00a0is supplied by the sole source ECI Defense Group in Lyles, TN.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-aviation-competition-jstrs-cushion-323092-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA Aviation wants more competition on this JSTRS cushion; $323,092.26&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}