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  • Rite-Solutions Lands $50M Naval Undersea Warfare Center IT Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rite-Solutions Lands $50M Naval Undersea Warfare Center IT Services Contract

    Rite-Solutions has secured a $49.6M contract to provide information technology services to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The company said Monday it will support NUWC’s activity chief information officer/information technology division, which handles compliance, maintenance, operations and strategic planning of the center’s IT architecture. The contract covers delivery of services such as application management, software […] More

  • Navy Concludes Two-Part Assessment of Anti-Submarine Warfare System in New York - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Concludes Two-Part Assessment of Anti-Submarine Warfare System in New York

    The U.S. Navy has completed a two-part assessment of an anti-submarine warfare mission package at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Seneca Lake Detachment’s test facility in New York. For the first part of the Dockside-1 evaluation period, the Dual-mode ARray Transmitter mission system towed body and its launch-and-recovery assembly parts went through a 10-day test […] More

  • Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program

    Sonalysts, Systems Engineering Associates and Transtecs have won spots on a potential $49.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to build classrooms, laboratory environments and training systems. The Defense Department said Friday all three small businesses will vie for Waterfront Surface Trainers Program support orders from the Navy and the Philippine government through a foreign military […] More

  • Navy, Adelos Partner for Fiber Optic Sensor R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Adelos Partner for Fiber Optic Sensor R&D

    Adelos and the U.S. Navy have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to develop fiber optic sensor technology for perimeter and border security applications. Both parties seeks to explore new advanced materials designs, acoustic signal processing applications and target classification algorithms for the Phosonic 3.0+ sensor system, the company said Tuesday. Scott Colton, Adelos CEO, said the CRADA extends […] More

  • Navy Tests Northrop-Made Submarine Flank Array Sonar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Northrop-Made Submarine Flank Array Sonar

    The U.S. Navy has tested an underwater acoustic technology Northrop Grumman  designed to help address the service branch’s flank array requirements for submarines as part of a Work for Private Parties agreement. Northrop said Nov. 14 the Advanced Flank Array sonar works to integrate with the service branch’s Virginia-class fast attack and Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. The company invested more than $3 million to […] More

  • Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise

    Leidos has showcased an unmanned test vessel designed to autonomously navigate and gather data at sea during the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The company said Wednesday its R/V Pathfinder autonomous ship operated in the waters near Panama City, Florida, where it surveyed the sea floor and sent ocean and meteorological data to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center […] More

  • Navy Discusses Large Displacement UUV Program at Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Discusses Large Displacement UUV Program at Industry Day

    The U.S. Navy‘s unmanned maritime systems program office and Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division held an industry information day to discuss the service branch’s plan to procure a new class of large-displacement unmanned undersea vehicles. The forum drew 265 representatives from 138 companies and sought to inform interested vendors on the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program, the Navy said Thursday. […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments

    Raytheon has partnered with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport to update a sonar system that the company developed to help U.S. Navy personnel recognize mines. The AN/AQS-20A mine-hunting sonar has been updated through a Raytheon-NUWC collaboration that began in August last year as part of a “work for private party” contract funded by the company, Raytheon said Tuesday. The technology captured […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

  • Engineering Services Network to Support NUWC Newport's Module Test & Repair Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engineering Services Network to Support NUWC Newport’s Module Test & Repair Program

    Engineering Services Network will provide logistics and technical support for the module test and repair program of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center – Newport Division under a potential five-year, $13.5 million contract. The company said Wednesday the contract covers life-cycle support and repairs for circuit card assemblies and electronic modules at the NUWC Newport detachment field engineering office […] More

  • Raytheon, Naval Undersea Warfare Center to Study Minehunting Sonar’s Imaging Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Naval Undersea Warfare Center to Study Minehunting Sonar’s Imaging Functions

    Raytheon and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center have agreed to extend their partnership to determine methods for the the AN/AQS-20A minehunting sonar system to detect undersea threats. Raytheon said Thursday it will conduct sea-based and laboratory tests with NUWC Division Newport in Rhode Island to leverage the AN/AQS-20A’s synthetic aperture sonar to capture images of underwater […] More