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Carahsoft Technology has landed an agency catalog agreement to provide Red Hat’s open-source Java development kit and related support services to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard and intelligence agencies.

The U.S. Coast Guard has formally authorized a Northrop Grumman-built inertial navigation suite for usage as a shipboard gyrocompass system.

Bollinger Shipyards has handed over to the U.S. Coast Guard a Sentinel-class fast response cutter built to conduct national defense, patrol, security, search and rescue missions.

The U.S. Coast Guard has posted a request for information to seek potential sources of contractor services in support of the development, sustainment and implementation of an intelligence enterprise system.

Lockheed Martin has recently testing an updated variant of an extended-range aircraft designed for maritime patrol missions intended for delivery to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Carahsoft Technology has been chosen to provide software and related services from eight vendors to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard and intelligence communities as part of a potential $820.4M blanket purchase agreement.

VT Halter Marine has contracted Bronswerk Marine to design and install heating, ventilation air conditioning and refrigeration systems for the U.S. Coast Guard’s polar security cutter program, Marine Executive reported Thursday.

Ron Baczkowski, CEO of VT Halter Marine, said the company’s proposed heavy polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard is based on a hull of German research vessel Polar Stern II, USNI News reported Wednesday.

L3 Technologies’ KEO division has received a potential $79.4M contract modification to supply check sight and targeting sensor components for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard’s MK 34 gun weapon systems.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has officially transferred custody of the U.S. Coast Guard's latest National Security Cutter that is scheduled for commissioning later this year.

Saab has secured a new order to supply additional radar systems for the U.S. Navy’s two Independence-class littoral combat ships. The company said Monday General Dynamics placed the order for the AN/SPS-77 variant of Sea Giraffe AMB naval radar for installation aboard the Navy’s LCS 36 and LCS 38 ships.

Northrop Grumman has received contracts from Eastern Shipbuilding Group to manufacture command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and control systems for installation on the U.S. Coast Guard's first Offshore Patrol Cutter.

DynCorp has received a potential five-year, $51.4M contract to provide depot level maintenance and progressive structural inspection for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s C-130H and C-130J aircraft. Inspection efforts under the contract would aim to verify the aircraft’s airworthiness in accordance with the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program, the company said Monday. …

Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, has said the military service should equip all of its national security cutters with the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system to aid in maritime operations, Military.com reported Monday. USCG awarded Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary a $117M contract in June to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to …

The shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has authenticated the keel of a future Legend-class U.S. Coast Guard cutter, marking the start of the ship’s construction. Structural welder Demetrica Hawkins affixed a commemorative steel plate the WMSL 758 or National Security Cutter Stone during the keel-laying ceremony of  at HII’s Ingalls …