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  • Revolution Lighting to Supply 2,300 LED Tubes for Naval Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Revolution Lighting to Supply 2,300 LED Tubes for Naval Fleet

    Revolution Lighting Technologies has been selected by the Defense Logistics Agency  to produce 2,300 military standard light-emitting diode tubes for the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday it will supply the service branch with T8 LED tubes designed with Buy American Act- and Trade Agreements Act-compliant components. The Navy certified the T8 LED tube’s compliance with the military standard as well as […] More

  • HII Demos Dual-Mode Undersea Vehicle at Navy-Hosted Tech Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Demos Dual-Mode Undersea Vehicle at Navy-Hosted Tech Exercise

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has demonstrated the performance of a dual-mode undersea vehicle through autonomous contested battlespace missions that took place at the U.S. Navy-hosted Advanced Naval Technology Exercise. The Proteus vehicle delivered and launched three smaller unmanned undersea platforms during the underwater mission segment of the event, HII said Wednesday. HII’s technical solutions division and Battelle jointly […] More

  • Globecomm Builds IP Video, Satcom Systems for USS Gerald Ford Carrier; Dwight Hunsicker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm Builds IP Video, Satcom Systems for USS Gerald Ford Carrier; Dwight Hunsicker Comments

    Globecomm has supplied multiple communications and entertainment technologies for use on board the U.S. Navy‘s USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier as a subcontractor to shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries. Hauppauge, New York-based Globecomm said Wednesday its internet protocol video system and satellite and fiber optic-based communications distribution infrastructure will provide media live streaming, at-sea multimedia programming and pier-side […] More

  • Leonardo DRS to Help Navy Install Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Power System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS to Help Navy Install Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Power System

    Leonardo DRS has received a $32.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver provisioned item orders, engineering services and associated support for the low-voltage power system of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. The Defense Department said Monday Leonardo DRS’ systems business will perform work under the modification through September 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DDG 1000‘s low-voltage power system includes power […] More

  • BAE Unit to Manufacture 2 Gun Mounts, Associated Hardware for Coast Guard Cutters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Manufacture 2 Gun Mounts, Associated Hardware for Coast Guard Cutters

    BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received a potential $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce two MK 110 Mod 0 gun mounts along with associated hardware. The Defense Department said Monday each gun mount will include a 57mm medium caliber gun; a barrel-mounted television camera; an ammunition hoist; a muzzle velocity […] More

  • Navy Solicits Bids for USS Fitzgerald Retrieval Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Solicits Bids for USS Fitzgerald Retrieval Contract

    The U.S. Navy has begun to solicit proposals for a contract to transport the damaged USS Fitzgerald guided-missile destroyer back to U.S., United Press International reported Wednesday. The service branch is currently investigating the collision of USS Fitzgerald with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Honshu, Japan, in June. The Navy posted a solicitation notice on […] More

  • TAPE Joins Booz Allen's Navy C4ISR Support Contract Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TAPE Joins Booz Allen’s Navy C4ISR Support Contract Team

    Technical and Project Engineering has joined a team led by Booz Allen Hamilton that won a position on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the US Navy’s C4ISR program. The team will provide management and technical support services under the SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific contract, TAPE said Tuesday. Booz Allen is one of three awardees on the multiple-award IDIQ […] More

  • Raytheon Secures Navy Funds for Standard Missile-6 Material Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Secures Navy Funds for Standard Missile-6 Material Procurement

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $32.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials needed to build Standard Missile-6 units. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification will support requirements and  spares for fiscal 2017 SM-6 full-rate production. SM-6 is designed to perform anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic […] More

  • Navy Taps Spectro Scientific for Fluid Analysis Equipment, Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Spectro Scientific for Fluid Analysis Equipment, Support Services

    Spectro Scientific has received a $9.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver fluid analysis equipment and provide support services for the military. The company said Wednesday that it will manufacture, test and deliver approximately 69 M-N/W SpectrOil RDE spectrometers to update current U.S. Marine Corps and Navy oil analysis systems. Spectro’s M-N/W SpectrOil […] More

  • Rolls-Royce to Provide Turbine Generator Equipment, Support for Navy Zumwalt-Class Destroyers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce to Provide Turbine Generator Equipment, Support for Navy Zumwalt-Class Destroyers

    Rolls-Royce has received a $27.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver provisioned item orders, engineering services and associated support for the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers’ turbine-generator sets. The Defense Department said Wednesday the main and auxiliary turbine-generator sets will serve as the primary power source of Zumwalt-class ships. Turbine-generator sets are comprised […] More

  • Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy

    A Chemring Countermeasures USA subsidiary has won a potential five-year, 30.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture up to 1,260,638 simulator flares designed for use by pilots and ordnance technicians. Chemring’s Kilgore Flares business will produce the SM-875/ALE training flares at a company facility in Toone, Tennessee, and is scheduled to finish work […] More