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  • 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

  • ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems

    ManTech International has been awarded an $8 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services for all U.S. Navy aircraft platforms and associated systems. The company will conduct reliability, maintainability, testability, quality assurance, diagnostic and system safety analyses throughout the life cycle of naval aircraft systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur through May […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order

    Cubic Corp. has received an estimated five-year, $80 million task order from the Naval Air Warfare Center to support aviation training functions across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps a.e The company said Monday it will deliver F/A-18 and EA-18G aviation training device and simulator operations and maintenance support at Naval Air Station Oceana, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, NAS […] 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

  • Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a potential $448.7 million contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo parts and equipment to the U.S. Navy and the government of Thailand under the foreign military sales program. The contract, which contains a base value of $37.7 million, covers MK 54 common parts kits and MK 54 Mod 0 kits as well as exercise […] More

  • Navy Taps Progeny Systems for C5I Systems Engineering, Technical Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Progeny Systems for C5I Systems Engineering, Technical Support Contract

    Progeny Systems has landed a potential five-year, $31.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work on the U.S. Navy‘s command, control, communications, computers, combat and intelligence systems. The Defense Department said Thursday Progeny will modify and develop engineering tools and software as well as integrate hardware for non-propulsion electronic subsystems and submarine C5I data collection systems. DoD noted the contract […] More

  • Alliance BioEnergy Eyes Military Applications for Cellulose-to-Sugar Biofuel Production Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alliance BioEnergy Eyes Military Applications for Cellulose-to-Sugar Biofuel Production Process

    Alliance BioEnergy Plus plans to demonstrate the potential military applications of its cellulose-to-sugar conversion process for the production of aviation biofuels and biodiesels. The company said Monday its patented CTS process works to convert biomass into sugar or phospholipids to produce biodiesel, bio-jet and other types of biofuels that could be used by the military, commercial and transportation industries. […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System

    Raytheon has received an 18-month, $45.4 million delivery order to supply repaired and new units of the Phalanx close-in-weapon system to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Navy issued the order as a bridge action under a previously awarded contract for performance-based logistics support of Phalanx to procure line-item units in compliance with the service branch’s fleet […] More

  • QinetiQ Unit to Provide MK2 Robotic System Post-Production Support to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ Unit to Provide MK2 Robotic System Post-Production Support to Navy

    A business unit of QinetiQ has been awarded a potential $31.7 million contract perform post-production support work on the Man Transportable Robotic System MK2 for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract carries a one-year base value of $10.3 million and work could extend through August 2019 if all options are exercised. QinetiQ unit Foster Miller will perform […] More

  • L-3 Subsidiary Secures Navy Jet Training Services Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Subsidiary Secures Navy Jet Training Services Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded an L-3 Communications subsidiary a $21.9 million modification to exercise the first option on a previously awarded contract for contractor-owned and operated business jet training services. L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace will provide the training services to support the Navy’s maritime air patrol, low/slow terrorist aircraft, air interdiction and air intercept/anti-submarine missions, the Defense […] More

  • Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms

    Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. has received a two-year, $12.4 million order from the U.S. Navy to develop and test intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for current maritime platforms of the military service branch. The Navy plans to integrate the sensors into naval platforms to support various operations of the Special Operations Command, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Aptima to Expand Data Fusion System Functions for Intell Analysts Under 2 Air Force Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptima to Expand Data Fusion System Functions for Intell Analysts Under 2 Air Force Contracts

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima two contracts worth $667,000 combined to expand the functionality of an information fusion platform designed to integrate data from various sources. Aptima and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to equip the TID-BIT system with additional functions that will work to help intelligence analysts determine the source […] More