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  • Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $41.8 million modification to provide lifetime support for the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The modification exercises a foreign military sales option under a potential $421 million contract awarded to the company last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • HII Lands Navy Contract Modification for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Flight III Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Lands Navy Contract Modification for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Flight III Updates

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a contract modification from the U.S. Navy to install Flight III baseline updates aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). The modification covers the installation of the SPY-6 air and missile defense radar system as well as electrical power and cooling upgrades to the ship under the DDG […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy Aegis Facility O&M Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy Aegis Facility O&M Support

    Lockheed Martin has received a one-year, $61.3 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain development and test facilities for the Aegis combat system. The Defense Department said Monday the modification covers technical engineering, configuration management, associated equipment, quality assurance and information assurance services for the Combat Systems Engineering Development Site, SPY-1A Test Facility and the […] More

  • Australia Receives 1st Hobart-Class Destroyer With Lockheed’s Aegis System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Receives 1st Hobart-Class Destroyer With Lockheed’s Aegis System

    Australia’s defense department accepted its first Hobart-class air warfare destroyer equipped with the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis combat system during a ceremony held Friday in Adelaide. Australia has become the sixth allied country to receive a destroyer ship with the Aegis system, Lockheed said Friday. Vince Di Pietro, CEO of Lockheed’s Australian arm, said the company […] More

  • Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets

    Raytheon has landed a $37.3 million modification from the U.S. Navy to exercise an option on a previously awarded contract for the supply of missile fire control system equipment ship sets. The Defense Department said Monday that Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will produce two MFCS MK 99 equipment ship sets to help address the military branch’s Aegis Weapon […] More

  • Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia's Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia’s Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer

    Lockheed Martin has collaborated with an alliance composed of Australia’s defense department, Raytheon‘s Australian subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding and Navantia to conduct a five-week sea acceptance trial for a Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. The Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance and Lockheed jointly tested Australia’s future HMAS destroyer to verify the ship platform and determine if the vessel could support the Aegis combat system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • General Micro Systems Lands Contract to Supply Rugged Display Systems to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Micro Systems Lands Contract to Supply Rugged Display Systems to Navy

    General Micro Systems has received a multi-year contract to provide rugged display devices to the U.S. Navy. GMS has started to deploy its SD19 SmartView display systems to replace legacy display tools aboard several Navy ships as part of the service branch’s fleet modernization efforts, the company said Thursday. SD19 has an Intel-based computer that […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System

    A team that includes the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have conducted the first shipboard demonstration of the latest version of a Lockheed-produced  ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Monday the Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) combat system underwent the developmental test onboard the USS John Paul Jones and worked to detect, track and intercept a medium-range ballistic […] More

  • Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options

    The U.S. Navy has begun to consider whether to switch to Huntington Ingalls Industries to build the Flight III version of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer due to a disagreement between the service branch and a General Dynamics subsidiary over a fixed-price contract, Defense News reported Sunday. Christopher P. Cavas writes General Dynamics’ Bath […] More

  • Mikros Gets 1st Task Order Under Navy LCS Sensors Monitoring Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mikros Gets 1st Task Order Under Navy LCS Sensors Monitoring Tech Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Mikros Systems an initial $3 million task and delivery order to support the development, logistics and production of a condition-based maintenance technology for combat system sensors on Littoral Combat Ships. It marks the first order under a potential five-year, $48 million contract Mikros received earlier this month for work on the Navy’s Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support […] More

  • Navy Selects Lockheed-Developed Open Architecture Combat Mgmt System for Frigate Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects Lockheed-Developed Open Architecture Combat Mgmt System for Frigate Ships

    The U.S. Navy has selected a Lockheed Martin-developed open architecture combat management system for the service branch’s frigate ship program under a six-year, $79.5 million contract. Lockheed said Tuesday the Component-Based Total-Ship System-21st Century combat management platform is based on the Aegis Common Source Library and is currently operational on Freedom-variant littoral combat ships. “We look forward to providing […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test

    Lockheed Martin has conducted a new flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile‘s surface-launch variant with the MK 41 vertical launch system aboard the U.S. Navy‘s Self Defense Test Ship. The company said Thursday the surface-launched LRASM worked to load mission data through the modified Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, align mission data with the moving ship and launch from […] More