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    Raytheon to Build Display & Targeting System for Marine Corps Abrams Tanks

    Raytheon has been awarded a $12.6 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide an integrated display and targeting system for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ fleet of Abrams main battle tanks. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers Abrams IDATS production year one units as well as subcontract line items, low-rate initial production units and first article testing […] More

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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary to Produce 5th Batch of Blackjack UAVs for US Navy, Canada

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $21.6 million contract modification to build and  two RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy and Canada under a foreign military sales program. The modification covers low-rate initial production lot 5 Blackjack drones, ground control stations and launch and recovery equipment, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Insitu will perform work […] More

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    CAE Lands $91M Defense Contracts for Training Services, Simulator Updates; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has secured contracts worth approximately $91.2 million combined from international military customers to provide aircrew training services and simulation system updates. The Montreal-headquartered company said Tuesday the contracts include awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Austria’s armed forces. “Our large installed base of existing training devices and simulation systems provide ongoing upgrade and update opportunities along with long-term service […] More

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    First Line Technology to Manufacture Navy-Patented Decontamination Tech Under License Agreement

    The U.S. Navy and Virginia-based small business First Line Technology have signed an exclusive license agreement that authorizes the company to manufacture a Navy-patented decontamination technology for warfighters and first responders. The Navy said Friday researchers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division developed and patented the Dahlgren Decon decontamination technology in efforts to protect warfighters against chemical, biological and radiological threats. […] More

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    General Dynamics, Epsilon to Support DoD Hyperbaric Systems Under IDIQ Contract

    A General Dynamics subsidiary and Epsilon Systems Solutions have won positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide hyperbaric systems support services at Defense Department-run facilities worldwide. DoD said Monday that Epsilon and General Dynamics’ information technology business can vie for task orders to design, build, inspect, maintain, repair, overhaul and install recompression chamber, diver training, escape trainer, surface […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Modernize USS Ramage Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a potential $21.4 contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modernization, repair and maintenance work on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has an initial value of $14.1 million and covers the ship’s fiscal 2017 extended selected restricted availability. Work will occur at Huntington Ingalls’ facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi […] More

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    Navy Taps ICF to Assess Potential Infrastructure Risks at US Military Facilities

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential five-year, $34 million contract to ICF International to help the Defense Department identify strategies to increase the resiliency of DoD assets as well as examine potential risks to infrastructure at various U.S. military installations worldwide. ICF said Tuesday it will perform risk assessments on physical and cyber systems at DoD facilities globally, conduct studies on the resilience […] More

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    5 Firms Secure Navy Contract Option for Ocean Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies a potential one-year, $28 million contract modification for worldwide ocean engineering support services. The firm-fixed-price modification exercises the second option on a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and brings the total contract value to $84 million, the Defense Department said Monday. The awardees include: GPA Technologies MAR Range Services PCCI […] More

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    Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

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    General Dynamics Demos Bluefin-21, Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drones at Navy Tech Exercise

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit demonstrated its autonomous underwater vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Naval Technology Exercises held in August at the service branch’s Narragansett Bay test facility in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Friday a Bluefin-21 AUV deployed two Bluefin SandShark micro-AUVs to perform target imagery transmission and data collection simulations in one […] More

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    DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services

    Data Monitor Systems has won a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract from the  Defense Logistics Agency to provide fuel management services to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the contract contains four base years, one five-year option and six months of extension beyond the ordering period. The company is scheduled to finish work by Dec. 31, 2020. DLA received eight bids for the […] More

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    L-3 Subsidiary Lands Naval Air Training Logistics, Maintenance Contract Modification

    An L-3 Communications subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $13.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide logistics, repair and maintenance support services for the Chief of Naval Air Training. The indefinite-delivery, firm-fixed-price modification awarded to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers direct and indirect material, equipment, […] More