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  • BAE Unit to Modernize Navy's Anzio Guided Missile Cruiser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Modernize Navy’s Anzio Guided Missile Cruiser

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received a potential $53.1 million contract to modernize a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the U.S. Navy at a shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia. The company said Wednesday USS Anzio (CG 68) modernization efforts will run for six months and cover ship alterations, miscellaneous repairs and critical aluminum structures replacement. BAE’s Norfolk Ship […] More

  • Antech Lands Navy C4I Operations, Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Antech Lands Navy C4I Operations, Training Support Contract

    Antech Systems has secured a potential $48.6 million U.S. Navy contract to provide technical, engineering and training support to command, control, communications, computers and intelligence operations of the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help NAWCAD design and develop in-service products, estimate and schedule projects, implement policies and analyze data processes […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Kratos Rocket Motors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Kratos Rocket Motors

    A business unit of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received an $11.1 million contract modification to supply additional rocket motor systems to the U.S. Navy. The company said Tuesday its space and missile defense systems unit will provide  Oriole rocket motors and hardware for sub-orbital vehicles used to test the Aegis weapons system. The Navy […] More

  • Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program

    Boeing has unveiled its proposed unmanned aircraft offering for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based aerial refueling tanker drone program. The company said Tuesday it has begun engine tests on its proposed unmanned aerial system in preparation for deck handling demonstrations in 2018. “We will be ready for flight testing when the engineering and manufacturing development […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $12.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide acquisition logistics support for the H-1 modernization effort. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers logistics management, maintenance planning material, supply, design interface, technical data and equipment support, inventory and distribution management, storage, transportation, supportability analysis and technical manual updates services. Bell Helicopter will have up […] More

  • Navy Preps Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Construction RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Preps Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Construction RFP

    The U.S. Navy could issue a request for proposals within the next month for a multiyear contract to build at least 10 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-51), USNI News reported Tuesday. Capt. Casey Moton, DDG-51 program manager, told USNI News that the contract will run from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2022 and will include options to accelerate […] 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

  • Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd 'Sea Hunter' Autonomous Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd ‘Sea Hunter’ Autonomous Vessel

    Leidos has received a potential three-year, $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hull structure for the construction of a second autonomous vessel. The company will develop the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2 under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work is expected to be completed […] More

  • AT&T to Provide Mobility Services to Navy, USMC Under $993M IDIQ; Mike Leff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Provide Mobility Services to Navy, USMC Under $993M IDIQ; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T will compete to provide mobility platforms and services for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps under a potential five-year, $993.5 million contract awarded in October. The company said Thursday it will work to support the service branches’ modernization efforts through the delivery of AT&T’s Smart Base systems and Fleet Management and Asset […] More

  • Booz Allen to Support Navy GPS Directorate Under Potential $67M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Support Navy GPS Directorate Under Potential $67M Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential five-year, $67.5 million contract for systems engineering support to the global positioning system directorate of the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The contract will extend Booz Allen’s 15-year partnership with the service branch on  positioning, navigation and timing programs, the company said Thursday. Tom Pfeifer, an […] More

  • Raytheon Develops Sensor Data Sharing Tech for Australian Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Develops Sensor Data Sharing Tech for Australian Navy

    Raytheon has designed and built a “sensor-netting” system for installation on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class guided missile destroyers. The company said Wednesday it also tested the Cooperative Engagement Capability  ahead of planned U.S. Navy certification of the system for its first international deployment. CEC will work to help the Australian navy to exchange sensor data within a network […] More

  • CSRA to Develop Ship Mgmt Training Devices for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Develop Ship Mgmt Training Devices for Navy

    CSRA has secured a potential five-year, $49.3 million contract to develop, support and update ship management training devices for the U.S. Navy. The company will provide equipment for the service branch’s Navigations Seamanship Shiphandling Trainers program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the Navy will obligate $3.4 million in fiscal 2017 “other” procurement funds at the […] More