DRS Technologies will provide the U.S. Navy with common display systems, spare parts and engineering support, the Defense Department announced Thursday. The Navy awarded the company a potential $23,496,225 contract and received three offers on the branch’s e-commerce website and on FedBizOpps. DRS will initially receive a $637,558 delivery order for three CDS consoles, configuration [...]
Northrop Grumman’s integrated systems sector will provide three unmanned aerial vehicles to the U.S. Navy, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. Under a $25,709,758 modification, the company’s integrated systems sector will provide the fifth lot of lot low rate initial production of Fire Scout take-off and landing tactical UAVs and one ground control station. The Army and [...]
ITT Exelis has opened a repair depot facility near the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., the company announced Monday. Adjacent to the base, the new facility will house repair and maintenance work in support of naval missions. The company has already begun repair work at the facility on radio frequency countermeasures for [...]
Raytheon’s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a $1.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a new military force protection kit. The Waltham, Mass.-based firm said Monday it will build a platform for sensor networks that alert military personnel on potential dangers in threatening environments. Troops and command and control centers [...]
The Office of Naval Research and Naval Sea Systems Command is asking contracting firms to develop prototypes for lethal laser weapons. Both entities said in a FedBizOpps notice that they will hold an industry day May 16 at the Navy Yard Auditorium in Washington to present its solid state laser technology maturation program. The Navy [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s latest version of a ship-based missile defense system has been certified by the Navy for deployment, according to a company announcement. The updated Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system provides two layers of active missile defense and surveillance for shipss to defend against short-to-intermediate range ballistic missiles. The new system includes a signal [...]
Alion Science and Technology Corp. has won a $5 million Navy contract to develop systems for converting sea water into fresh water, the company announced Tuesday. The company will develop the desalination plants for the Office of Naval Research using micro filter technology. The units will will be used in both open and littoral waters [...]
