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Huntington Ingalls Industries has officially transferred custody of a Legend-class national security cutter to the U.S. Coast Guard. Dubbed NSC 9, USCGC Stone (WMSL 758) is the Coast Guard's ninth Legend-class ship and the first vessel named in honor of late Cmdr. Elmer Fowler Stone, HII said Tuesday.

Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs have deployed an electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. 

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. …