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  • Raytheon to Build Replacement Shelters for Navy Surveillance Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Replacement Shelters for Navy Surveillance Radar System

    Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $45.4 million contract action to replace current shelters for the transmit array, transmit site monitors and receive site monitors of the U.S. Navy‘s Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar system. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon will perform contract work in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia and Texas through September 2022. The Naval Supply […] More

  • Raytheon Tests Air & Missile Defense Radar Against Multiple Targets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests Air & Missile Defense Radar Against Multiple Targets

    Raytheon has demonstrated a company-made air and missile defense radar against multiple missile targets at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. AN/SPY-6(V) worked to simultaneously detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple anti-ship cruise missile targets during the demonstration, which marks the radar’s third flight test, Raytheon said Friday. Navy Capt. Seiko […] More

  • BAE to Supply 'Friend or Foe' ID Systems for Navy F/A-18 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Supply ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Systems for Navy F/A-18 Aircraft

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integration unit has received $23.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to supply AN/APX-111 identification friend-or-foe systems for installation on  the F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers up to 142 AN/APX-111 Mode 5 interrogator/transponder devices, 195 Mode 5 upgrade kits, 52 integrations of Mode 5 upgrade […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Aircraft Carrier Support Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Aircraft Carrier Support Contract Options

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $27.5 million in contract options from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of support services for the military branch’s Gerald R. Ford-class and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The Defense Department said Wednesday the exercised options cover technical, engineering, design, development, conversion, test, studies, operational and modernization support as well as material, spares, […] More

  • 4 Companies Get Contract Modifications to Extend DARPA Tactical Tech Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Companies Get Contract Modifications to Extend DARPA Tactical Tech Program Support

    Four companies have received a combined $13.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to extend support services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s tactical technology office. Booz Allen Hamilton, ManTech International‘s SRS Technologies subsidiary, Centra Technology and Schafer will continue to provide technical, programmatic, financial and administrative support to TTO programs, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Austal USA-Led Team Delivers Omaha LCS to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA-Led Team Delivers Omaha LCS to Navy

    An Austal USA-led team has delivered the sixth of Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy for mine countermeasures, anti-submarine and surface warfare missions. The Navy said Monday its acceptance of USS Omaha represents the final milestone before the military branch commissions the new warship in early 2018. USS Omaha will be homeported in San Diego, California, […] More

  • 4 Firms Win Navy Data Analytics Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Firms Win Navy Data Analytics Support Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies up to $22.6 million in contracts to perform data analytics services for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Altarum Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and Kennell and Associates will vie for task orders to help BUMED examine operational process efficiencies; populations health management strategies; and quality of medical care and […] More

  • Navy Looks to Buy 2nd Leidos-Built Ship Drone as DARPA Hands Over ACTUV Program Control - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Looks to Buy 2nd Leidos-Built Ship Drone as DARPA Hands Over ACTUV Program Control

    The U.S. Navy is expected to buy a second autonomous vessel built by a Leidos-led team as the service prepares to take over control of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USNI News reported Friday. Timothy Barton, maritime chief engineer at Leidos, said DARPA has begun […] More

  • Boeing Gets Additional Funds for Navy Super Hornet Service Life Assessment, Extension Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets Additional Funds for Navy Super Hornet Service Life Assessment, Extension Programs

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $42 million contract modification for efforts to extend the service life of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification provides additional funds for the Super Hornet Service Life Assessment Program and Service Life Extension Program, which aim to lengthen the fighter aircraft’s operations beyond its […] More

  • Northrop Unit to Provide Navy RF Signal Generation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unit to Provide Navy RF Signal Generation Platform

    Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems business has received a contract to supply radio frequency signal generation technology in support of the U.S. Navy‘s Next-Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator program. The NEWEG program aims to incorporate threat laboratory and free space simulation features into the Navy’s generator, Northrop said Monday. Northrop’s RF generation platform is equipped with an advanced pulse generation […] More

  • Raytheon Taps Ducommun to Produce Fire Control Components for Long-Range Missile Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Taps Ducommun to Produce Fire Control Components for Long-Range Missile Tech

    Raytheon has teamed up with Ducommun to develop fire control platforms for the Naval Strike Missile designed for integration with U.S. Navy frigates and littoral combat ships. Production work on the fire control systems is slated to commence later this year at Ducommun’s facilities in Huntsville and Berryville in Arkansas, Raytheon said Monday. NSM is a long-range, […] More

  • Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Air & Missile Defense Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Air & Missile Defense Radar

    The U.S. Navy has performed a simultaneous air and ballistic missile defense flight test with a Raytheon-made air and missile defense radar off the coast of Hawaii on Thursday. The AN/SPY-6(V) radar worked to detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple air-to-surface cruise missile targets during the test, the Navy said Friday. The demonstration […] More