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  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy

    Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $2 million contract to develop an automated platform for the U.S. Navy to understand skills and manage training of the military branch’s personnel. The Crowdsourced Acquisition of Models of Learning Transfer Strategies project is part of Charles River’s efforts to address instructional needs and individual differences through intelligent tutoring, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Updates Navy Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Updates Navy Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Software

    Orbital ATK has rolled out a software upgrade for the U.S. Navy‘s air-launched, anti-radiation guided missiles. The company said Monday it worked with the Navy earlier this year to test and demonstrate the Block 1 software upgrade for the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile. Cary Ralston, an Orbital ATK vice president and general manager, said the updated […] More

  • Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Patriot Shipping a $3.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to transport the damaged guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald to Pascagoula, Mississippi, for repairs. The company will heavy-lift the ship from Yokosuka, Japan, to Pascagoula to undergo repairs by Huntington Ingalls Industries, the Navy said Friday. USS Fitzgerald suffered damages as a result of its collision with […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has kicked off the construction of the U.S. Navy‘s third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia. The company said Thursday that it cut a 35-ton steel plate as part of the construction of USS Enterprise (CVN 80), the ninth Navy ship to bear its name. […] More

  • Raytheon Opens Defense Customer Engagement Hub in Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens Defense Customer Engagement Hub in Australia

    Raytheon has opened a customer engagement center in Canberra, Australia, that features a virtual reality immersive environment designed for the company’s defense customers, engineers and industry partners. The company said Monday the center’s opening event was attended by Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy; Michael Ward, managing director of Raytheon’s Australian subsidiary; and Christopher Pyne, Australian minister for defense industry. […] More

  • Aptim Lands Navy IDIQ Contract for NAVFAC Environmental Lab Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptim Lands Navy IDIQ Contract for NAVFAC Environmental Lab Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Aptim a potential five-year, $49 million contract to provide environmental laboratory services within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Southwest area of responsibility. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers personnel, supervision, equipment and transportation services to support environmental laboratory operations at multiple Navy and Marine Corps facilities as well as other government facilities, the Department […] More

  • Navy to Conduct Christening Ceremony of Austal-Built USS Charleston - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Conduct Christening Ceremony of Austal-Built USS Charleston

    The U.S. Navy is set to hold the christening of the Austal USA-built littoral combat ship LCS-18 to be designated USS Charleston on Aug. 26 in Mobile, Alabama, the service branch said Thursday. Richard Spencer, secretary of the Navy, will deliver the principal address at the ceremony while Charlotte Riley, ship sponsor and wife of former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, will […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Demos Free-Space Optical Comms Tech at Sea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Demos Free-Space Optical Comms Tech at Sea

    A team of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory engineers has tested a free-space optical communications system between two moving vessels at sea to assess how the platform operated in a maritime environment. APL said Thursday it demonstrated the compact form factor system at the annual Trident Warrior Exercise and showcased the FSO technology’s capacity to provide adjunct […] More

  • Lockheed to Develop Digital Receiver Exciter for Marine Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Develop Digital Receiver Exciter for Marine Radar

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary mission and systems unit has received a potential $46.7 million contract to develop and produce a digital receiver exciter for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ AN/TPS-59A(V)3 radar system. USMC allocated $25.2 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award and $130,000 of the obligated amount will expire at […] More

  • HII Shipbuilding Division to Perform Repairs on USS Fitzgerald - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Shipbuilding Division to Perform Repairs on USS Fitzgerald

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries business unit has been selected by the U.S. Navy to be in charge of repairing guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald. Ingalls Shipbuilding will perform repairs to the ship at its facilities in Pascagoula, Mississippi, HII said Wednesday. “Ingalls and all of its employees regret the tragic circumstances that will bring the ship to Pascagoula, but […] More

  • CSRA to Test Navy HR Mgmt System on AWS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Test Navy HR Mgmt System on AWS Cloud

    CSRA has obtained authorization from the U.S. Navy to test a new integrated pay and personnel system for the service branch on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform. The Interim Authorization to Test permits CSRA to assess the viability and flexibility of running a commercial off-the-shelf human resource management platform on AWS cloud, CSRA said Wednesday. The COTS HRM system will […] More