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  • Navy Selects L3 to Provide New Data Link for 3 Future Littoral Combat Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects L3 to Provide New Data Link for 3 Future Littoral Combat Ships

    L3 Technologies has been selected to produce a new communications data-link system for three future U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships to receive imagery from multiple aircraft platforms simultaneously, Defense News reported Friday. The report said L3 will provide Maritime Surface Terminals for installation aboard the Independence-class Mobile and Savannah vessels and the Freedom-class Marinette ship. John Van Brabant, […] More

  • U.S. Navy to hold christening ceremony for Lockheed Martin-built future USS Indianapolis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    U.S. Navy to hold christening ceremony for Lockheed Martin-built future USS Indianapolis

    The U.S. Navy will christen at a ceremony on Saturday a Freedom-variant littoral combat ship Lockheed Martin has built. The service branch said Thursday it will christen the future USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) at a ceremony that will feature former Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., as principal speaker and ship sponsor Jill Donnelly, the wife of Senator […] More

  • General Dynamics orders additional BAE Systems shipboard guns for US Navy LCS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics orders additional BAE Systems shipboard guns for US Navy LCS

    General Dynamics has tapped BAE Systems for the supply of additional shipboard gun systems for the U.S. Navy‘s Independence-class littoral combat ship. BAE Systems said Monday it will commence delivery of two Mk110 naval gun systems for the U.S. Navy by 2019 under a follow-on contract that will run through 2020. The 57-millimeter deck gun is […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Maritime, Air Combat Training Tools at Navy League Expo; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Demo Maritime, Air Combat Training Tools at Navy League Expo; Dave Buss Comments

    A Cubic business division will exhibit air combat and maritime training systems at the Navy League’s three-day Sea-Air-Space Exposition that will kick off Monday, April 9, in National Harbor, Maryland. Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense, said in a statement published Wednesday the company is committed to delivering game-based and live, virtual and constructive training platforms […] More

  • Northrop to Engineer, Sustain Navy LCS Mission Modules - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Engineer, Sustain Navy LCS Mission Modules

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a one-year, $46.8 million contract modification to support mission modules of the service branch’s Littoral Combat Ships. Northrop will engineer, sustain and provide technical services for LCS mission modules through March 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the modification exercises options under a previously awarded contract. The Naval […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Fincantieri Lay Keel on USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Fincantieri Lay Keel on USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul

    Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri have performed the keel-laying for the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul littoral combat ship at latter company’s Marinette Marine site in Wisconsin. The companies are currently conducting the Freedom-class LCS’ full-rate production, having delivered five of them to the U.S. Navy, Lockheed said Thursday. During the keel-laying ceremony, Jodi Greene, the ship’s sponsor, had her initials welded […] More

  • Austal USA-built Littoral Combat Ship Omaha to Enter Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA-built Littoral Combat Ship Omaha to Enter Service

    The U.S. Navy has announced details on the upcoming commission ceremony of LCS-12, an Independence-class littoral combat ship to be named USS Omaha. The ceremony for the Austal USA-built ship will take place 1:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, at Broadway pier, San Diego, California, the Navy said Thursday. LCS-12 is the eleventh Independence variant of its ship type to join the Navy’s […] More

  • Navy Commissions Lockheed-Built USS Little Rock Littoral Combat Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Commissions Lockheed-Built USS Little Rock Littoral Combat Ship

    A littoral combat ship that Lockheed Martin developed with partner Fincantieri Marinette Marine has entered into active service with the U.S. Navy. The Navy conducted the commissioning ceremony for the USS Little Rock vessel designated LCS 9 on the Buffalo River in New York, Lockheed said Saturday. The ship, which was the second to be named after the […] More

  • Navy to Begin Operational Tests of Northrop-Built MQ-8C Unmanned Helicopter in Spring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Begin Operational Tests of Northrop-Built MQ-8C Unmanned Helicopter in Spring

    Capt. Jeff Dodge, a U.S. Navy program manager, has said that the service branch plans to start initial operational test and evaluation of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter in spring, FlightGlobal reported Tuesday. Dodge added that sea-based tests of MQ-8C on a littoral combat ship would follow in summer. MQ-8C is based on the Bell 407 utility […] More

  • Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech

    Lockheed Martin has chosen OSI Maritime Systems to produce a navigation management system for use on the U.S. Navy‘s future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, for which Lockheed is the prime contractor. OSI said Wednesday it will provide the Integrated Bridge and Navigation System that is designed to integrate with warships and comply with the American Bureau of Shipping Class Rules for Navigational Integrated Bridge System. Chris […] More

  • Saab to Supply Additional Radars for Navy LCS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Supply Additional Radars for Navy LCS Program

    General Dynamics has placed an order for Saab medium-range surveillance radar systems for installation on two future U.S. Navy littoral combat ships. Saab said Thursday it will provide Sea Giraffe AMB naval radars designated as AN/SPS-77 for the military branch’s LCS 28 and LCS 30 ships. Erik Smith, president and CEO of Saab Defense and Security USA, said the company is contracted to deliver Sea […] More

  • Cubic Gets Additional Navy Game-Based Courseware Orders; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Gets Additional Navy Game-Based Courseware Orders; Dave Buss Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Cubic‘s global defense segment four delivery orders worth $22 million combined to provide game-based training courseware for the military service’s Littoral Combat Ship program. Cubic said Wednesday the Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment for LCS works to help trainees perform multiple tasks in a simulated three-dimensional environment. The company plans to add virtual content and features to the […] More