The U.S. Navy is seeking proposals from members of the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems consortium that can provide foundry technologies to support onshore manufacturing of microelectronics components.
Read More »SAIC Wins $78M Task Order to Support NSWC Mobility Platform Integration; Jim Scanlon Quoted
The U.S. Navy has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a potential five-year, $78 million cost-plus fixed fee task order to provide support services for mobility platform integration for the Expeditionary Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), the company announced Tuesday. The task order has one base year plus four option years.
Read More »Textron Releases Initial Navy Ship-to-Shore Connector Vehicles
Textron Systems has deployed two new air-cushion vehicles to the sea after a series of acceptance trials with the U.S. Navy. Ship-to-Shore Connector Craft 100 and Landing Craft Air Cushion 101 took the final leg of the vessels' trip to the Panama City, Florida-based Naval Surface Warfare Center after departure from a company-run shipyard in New Orleans, Textron said Wednesday.
Read More »Rolls-Royce Gets $70M Navy Contract to Maintain, Repair Ship Components
Rolls-Royce has secured a six-year, $70.3M contract to help the U.S. Navy repair and maintain controllable pitch propeller hubs for guided-missile destroyers, cruisers, landing docks and mine countermeasures ships.
Read More »ManTech Gets $920M Navy Aircraft ISR Tech Modernization Task Order; Kevin Phillips Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 3, 2020 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) secured a five-year, $920M task order to modernize U.S. Navy aircraft systems used to process electronic intelligence and collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, GovCon Wire reported Thursday.
Read More »Booz Allen Eyes Expansion of Virginia Facility to Support Directed-Energy Portfolio
Booz Allen Hamilton plans to expand its Dahlgren, Va. location in an effort to grow its directed energy research and development activities as well as its cybersecurity, software development, management consulting and data science portfolio.
Read More »L3Harris Wins Navy Contract to Build Laser for Visual Augmentation System
L3Harris Technologies has won a potential five-year, $37.5M contract from the U.S. Navy to produce precision aiming lasers equipped with a rangefinder and an environmental sensor.
Read More »Raytheon Gets $75M Contract to Help Navy Sustain Landing Dock Networks
Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business has received a $74.7M contract to provide the U.S. Navy with design agent engineering services for amphibious transport dock ships.
Read More »Perspecta to Support Navy Ship Signature Program; Mac Curtis Quoted
Perspecta has received a potential $36M contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical services to the ship signatures department of Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. The company said Tuesday it will work with the department that conducts research, development, engineering and test of U.S. Navy surface ship, submarine …
Read More »Lockheed Gets $64M Navy Contract for Aegis System Engineering Support
Lockheed Martin has landed a potential $64M contract to provide design agent field engineering services for U.S. Navy guided missile cruisers and destroyers, U.S. Coast Guard ships and allied vessels equipped with the Aegis combat system. The company will perform test and evaluation, implement engineering changes, modify ordnance, modernize systems, conduct logistics, develop ordnance alterations kits …
Read More »Aerial Alchemy, Navy Partner to Study UAS Applications for Ship Maintenance
Aerial Alchemy is working with the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division to study how to bolster the U.S. Navy‘s maintenance and fleet readiness through the use of unmanned aerial systems. NSWC said Thursday that UAS-gathered imagery of naval ships’ exterior surfaces may serve as basis to generate 3D …
Read More »CACI Receives Navy Ordnance Support Order Under SeaPort II Vehicle; DeEtte Gray Comments
CACI International has received a five-year, $48 million task order from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical support services to a Naval Surface Warfare Center division that manages the service branch’s ordnance materials. The company said Tuesday it will help NSWC’s Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division to analyze, …
Read More »Cubic to Support Australian Navy’s Simulated Training Activities
Cubic‘s global defense business has received a potential four-year, $7.11 million contract to develop and deliver simulation-enabled training events for the Australian navy. The company said Monday it will provide simulation planning and technical support services as well as professional interactors to support multisite synthetic training at the Australian navy’s synthetic …
Read More »Navy, Nammo’s US Subsidiary Form Rocket Motor, Warhead Manufacturing Partnership
The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Indian Head explosive ordnance disposal technology division has partnered with Nammo Group‘s U.S.-based subsidiary Nammo Energetics Indian Head to produce rocket motors and warheads. The public-private collaboration is authorized under NSWC IHEODTD’s Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence designation, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Jan. 20. “Under this 30-year partnership, Nammo …
Read More »NAVSEA Starts New Night Vision Goggle Tech Integration for Expeditionary Combat Command
The Naval Sea Systems Command has started to transition a new suite of “Wide Field of View” night vision goggles to personnel within the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. The U.S. Navy said Friday the WFOV NVG units are designed to double view fields of traditional night vision models and support, depth perception, situational awareness and movement …
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