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  • Wisconsin Business Group Gets $500K Grant to Clean Up Property for Maritime Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wisconsin Business Group Gets $500K Grant to Clean Up Property for Maritime Facility

    The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has awarded a $500,000 grant to a business group to perform environmental remediation work on a property in Marinette, Wisconsin, to facilitate the construction of a 23,000-square-foot maritime facility, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday. Rick Barrett writes the Marinette County Association for Business and Industry will use the grant to clean […] 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

  • Raytheon to Manufacture Naval Strike Missile Launchers at Kentucky Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Manufacture Naval Strike Missile Launchers at Kentucky Facility

    Raytheon has been selected to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile at a company facility in Louisville, Kentucky under an initial contract with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems. Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon said Wednesday it will also conduct final assembly, integration and tests of the NSM at a site in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor Lawrence, Raytheon missile systems president, said the contract will help create additional job opportunities while providing launchers […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Team Dispatches 7th LCS to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Team Dispatches 7th LCS to Navy

    Lockheed Martin and its team of industry partners have delivered the seventh littoral combat ship and future USS Detroit to the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the ship features a modular design, plug-and-play architecture and 40-percent reconfigurable shipboard space designed to support requirement updates. USS Detroit is the fourth Freedom-class LCS that Lockheed has delivered to the Navy, which will commission […] More

  • Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production

    Raytheon plans to collaborate with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile system and launchers in the U.S. Raytheon wants to carry out integration and testing work on NSM at its factory in Tucson, Arizona, and produce the NSM launchers at its Louisville, Kentucky-based facility under the partnership with Kongsberg, Raytheon said Wednesday. NSM is […] More

  • Austal USA to Support Jackson LCS Shock Trials Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA to Support Jackson LCS Shock Trials Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. subsidiary of Austal has received an $11.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to plan and conduct repairs to any damage the company-built USS Jackson littoral combat ship will sustain during full ship shock trials. Austal USA will also help remove FSST test equipment and instrumentation after the tests under the modification, the company said Monday. The Navy performed the […] More

  • Austal USA Delivers 'Montgomery' Littoral Combat Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Delivers ‘Montgomery’ Littoral Combat Ship to Navy

    Austal USA formally turned over the USS Montgomery littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The Navy said Friday Montgomery, which is scheduled to be commissioned in September,  will be the military branch’s seventh LCS and fourth ship of its Independence class. Capt. Tom Anderson, the Navy’s LCS program manager, said the service […] More

  • Breaking Defense: Navy Plans Earlier Littoral Combat Ship Upgrade Award to 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: Navy Plans Earlier Littoral Combat Ship Upgrade Award to 2018

    U.S. Navy Capt. Dan Brintzinghoffer, Littoral Combat Ship program manager, has said the branch may choose an updated LCS design in 2018 instead of 2019 as part of efforts to fall in line with Defense Department budget plans, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Sydney Freedberg writes Brintzinghoffer said at the Sea-Air-Space conference the service branch plans to publish a formal request for proposals […] More

  • Raytheon Helps Install UAV Mission-Control Tech Aboard Navy Littoral Combat Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Helps Install UAV Mission-Control Tech Aboard Navy Littoral Combat Ship

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have installed a mission control system for Northrop Grumman-built unmanned helicopter MQ-8 Fire Scout on a naval ship designed for littoral missions. The Navy combined its control hardware with control software developed by Raytheon to produce the command-and-control system of Fire Scout aboard the USS Coronado, Raytheon said Wednesday. USS Coronado is designed to operate near […] More

  • Navy Taps Rolls-Royce for LCS Ancillary Parts Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rolls-Royce for LCS Ancillary Parts Supply Contract

    Rolls-Royce has received a potential three-year, $7.2 million contract to produce ancillary parts kits for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships. The company will perform contract work in Walpole, Massachusetts, through April 2019 under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Supply Systems Command‘s weapon systems support unit will obligate the full […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Demand for Mixed Reality Training to Drive Military Training & Simulation Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Demand for Mixed Reality Training to Drive Military Training & Simulation Investments

    A new Frost & Sullivan analysis predicts the Defense Department’s budget for training and simulation systems to experience a compound annual growth rate of 1.7 percent through 2020. The demand for mixed reality training or live, virtual and constructive training is expected to drive investments and technology updates in the military training and simulation market, Frost & Sullivan said Tuesday. “While […] More