MAIDENHEAD, England–(BUSINESS WIRE) –SDL (LSE: SDL), the smart language and content company, announces a long-term contract with the U.S. Navy to standardize the creation, management and provision of all technical publications in the SDL Contenta Publishing Suite. The Marine Enterprise Subscription License (NESL) agreement confirms SDL`s role in the U.S. Navy`s ongoing rationalization, reduction and centralization strategy to reduce the overall operating costs of all technical publications. In a recent Roll Royce announcement, the company signed a production contract with the U.S. Navy for up to $115.6 million. The service agreement – worth up to $70.3 million – includes maintenance and repair services for Navy Tax Distributors (CPP) and Oil Distribution Boxes (OD Boxes) for class of ships such as DDG 51 destroyers. Sharp Minds LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, has been awarded a hybrid contract of $473,021.064 (company fixed price and time and equipment) to provide Letterkenny Army Depot with work support. Offers were offered on the Internet with five receipts. The work will be carried out in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, with a completion date scheduled for January 31, 2026. Fiscal 2020 Army Labour Capital Fund amounting to $26,577,042 was required at the time of award.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contract activity (W911N2-20-F-0494). SDL Contenta Publishing Suite and the NESL agreement support the U.S. Navy`s future digital and technical information strategy and provide access to a standard solution for technical publications for all Navy programs and suppliers, including those that require remote access. SDL`s proven technical publication solution is also used by the US Air Force (USAF) to meet its strategies for developing, managing and making company requirements available, which includes technical assistance for forward-looking maintenance and analysis on all usaf assets. When the Navy began planning a war with the United Kingdom in May 1938, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Commander Hellmuth Heye, assembled the best strategy for the Navy as a cross-war fleet of submarines, light cruisers and armoured ships. [50] He criticized the existing construction priorities dictated by the agreement, as there was no realistic possibility of a German ”balanced fleet” defeating the Royal Navy. [50] In response, senior German naval officers began to commit to a transition to a cross-war fleet that adopted a trajectory guerrilla strategy to attack the British merchant navy, but they were rejected by Hitler, who insisted on Germany`s prestige to build a ”balanced fleet”.
Such a fleet would attempt a Mahanian strategy of gaining maritime dominance through a decisive battle with the Royal Navy in the North Sea. [51] Historians such as Joseph Maiolo, Geoffrey Till and the authors of the Navy Official History agree with Chatfield`s assertion that a cross-war fleet offers Germany the best chance of harming the power of the United Kingdom and that the United Kingdom benefited strategically from the fact that such a fleet was not built in the 1930s. [52] Over the next two weeks, discussions continued in London on various technical issues. , mainly with regard to the calculation of tonnage quotas in the different categories of warships. [42] Ribbentrop was desperately in favour of success, thus accepting almost all of the UK`s demands. [42] On 18 June 1935, the agreement was signed in London by Ribbentrop and the new British Foreign Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare.
