EMCOR Group Inc. has been selected to help the government maintain various facilities across several locations in the U.S. EMCOR’s government services division will perform customer service, maintenance and repair of U.S. Coast Guard training centers in Yorktown, Va., the company said Tuesday. Michael Rodgers, president of EMCOR Government Services, …
Read More »Exelis Partners to Upgrade Intl Coast Guard’s Video Displays; Steve Hill Comments
Exelis has selected Cambridge Pixel’s radar and video display software technologies to upgrade Norway’s Coast Guard ships in an effort to reduce specialized hardware content. Cambridge Pixel supplied its SPx system that worked to transmit and display real-time data in triple-screen consoles, Cambridge Pixel said Thursday. Steve Hill, senior program …
Read More »Huntington Ingalls to Open New Maritime Training Academy
Huntington Ingalls Industries will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday to open the company’s Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy in Pascagoula, Miss. The institution will house training facilities, shipbuilding laboratories and classrooms for 14 apprentice programs and more than 120 courses that last from two to four years, Huntington Ingalls said Monday. …
Read More »L-3 Wins $7M Navy CDL Radio Terminals Contract
L-3 Communication Systems-West has won a $6.7 million contract modification to provide a ship-to-helicopter digital data link for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. According to John Keller’s post, the contract from the Naval Air Systems Command involves five orders of Common Data Link …
Read More »EADS Maritime Aircraft Wins a DHS ‘Program of the Year’ Award
A maritime patrol aircraft EADS North America built for the U.S. Coast Guard has won the Acquisition Program of the Year award from the Department of Homeland Security. DHS recognized the HC-144A Ocean Sentry plane for working to help the Coast Guard mitigate risk and manage shared processes, EADS North …
Read More »Lou Pack: ICF Continuing DHS Support On $11B IDIQ
ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) is competing to provide program management, engineering and technology support services to the Department of Homeland Security and components under a potential $11 billion contract. The potential five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers acquisition framework lifecycle stages of programs within DHS and its components, ICF said Thursday. Eleven …
Read More »Serco Prime on $900M SPAWAR Contract Vehicle; Kent Brown Comments
Serco Inc. has won a prime position on a $900 million SPAWAR contract to provide production, installation and in-service support to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, Army and other agencies. “This new contract supports SSC Atlantic’s vision to make IT count for the warfighter and …
Read More »Rockwell Automation to Deliver Shipboard Controllers to Navy, Coast Guard; Joe Moffa Comments
Rockwell Automation has won a $21.7 million contract to provide the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard with programmable automation controllers, software, frequency drives and engineering support services. The company said these systems and services are for operating machinery control systems on surface ships for both branches. “Control systems designed for the …
Read More »Lockheed to Install Wireless Access for Coast Guard Medical Records
Lockheed Martin has won a potential five-year contract from the Coast Guard to install a wireless system for accessing the branch’s electronic medical records, the company announced Wednesday. The company will install MONAXOffice at the Coast Guard’s main operations system center and three clinics, and provide training as to how …
Read More »Report: General Dynamics Shipyards Competing Separately for $8.1B Coast Guard Program
Two General Dynamics subsidiaries are among the interested parties in an upcoming U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding program potentially worth $8.1 billion for up to 25 ships, Defense News reports. According to Christopher Cavas’ report, the San Diego-based NASSCO subsidiary and Maine-based Bath Iron Works are both interested in the Offshore …
Read More »QinetiQ to Help Coast Guard Manage Oil Spill Claims
QinetiQ North America announced today it was awarded two task orders to provide the Coast Guard with oil spill claim support services and data migration and documentation services. These are the first task orders awarded on the contract, which is a five-year blanket purchase agreement with a total ceiling value …
Read More »Northrop Making Coast Guard Ship ID System; Pat Camacho Comments
Northrop Grumman is developing an automatic identification system for the U.S. Coast Guard to check identities of incoming ships and identify potential threats, the company announced Monday. Nationwide AIS is a two-way maritime digital communication system that checks vessel position, speed, course, destination and manifest and cargo data. The Coast …
Read More »Wyle Wins Coast Guard C4ISR R&D Work
Wyle has won a contract perform research and development work for the U.S. Coast Guard’s command and control systems. Under a $1.5 million contract, the company said it will provide engineering and technical research, development and analysis for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance combat systems. Through a …
Read More »Coast Guard Takes Control of General Dynamics' San Juan Rescue 21 System
General Dynamics announced Tuesday it has turned control of its Rescue 21 Search and Rescue Communications System in Sector San Juan over to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Falls Church, Va.-based firm said Sector San Juan, located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the command center for all Coast …
Read More »General Dynamics Delivering Coast Guard New England Comm System
The Coast Guard has formally accepted a new digital search and rescue communications system from General Dynamics for the Guard’s Northern New England sector. The company said said its C4 systems unit delivered the Rescue 21 system for the sector to respond to emergencies and calls from mariners. The sector …
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