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Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy told Defense News in an interview published Monday the U.S.’ and other countries’ efforts to protect sovereignty and address concerns linked to what he called “peer nation-type threats†have spurred a change in the defense industry. “The Department of Defense is realizing we have to get to the next generation of […] More
Norway could purchase five to six units of a Boeing-built maritime surveillance aircraft as the country seeks to expand its military cooperation with the U.S., Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dean Peters, program executive officer for anti-submarine warfare, assault and special missions programs, has asked potential P-8 Poseidon customers to place orders by summer 2017. Peters has indicated […] More
The U.S. Navy has temporarily halted the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite’s transfer maneuver to its test location on geosynchronous Earth orbit following discovery of an anomaly in the process. The Navy said Friday its Program Executive Office for Space Systems has moved the satellite into an intermediate orbit from orbital transfer […] More
Raytheon has awarded an estimated $4 million contract to CPI Aerostructures to supply structural pod housings for tests and airworthiness certification activities on Raytheon’s new electronic warfare jammer pods. CPI Aero said Friday it will provide the jammer pod structures through 2018 to aid the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer program with the U.S. Navy. Raytheon secured […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded five service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract to perform construction work in Guam. Global Engineering Services, M-80 Systems, Pacific Industrial Coatings, Pearl Construction Environmental Service and Relyant Global will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Navy said Wednesday. The multiple-award contract […] More
BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a potential $12.9 million task order modification to provide operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Navy ‘s communication, electronic and computer systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract to BAE Systems Inc. and will increase cumulative task order value to $34 million. DoD noted the […] More
Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a four-year, $12 million contract to install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence infrastructure for a new U.S. Air Force command and control facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Systems Center Pacific awarded the contract to Serco Inc. in a move to help […] More
Engility has been awarded a potential four-year, $38 million contract to help the U.S. Navy determine aircraft safety requirements and prepare flight clearances. The company said Thursday it will provide aircraft worthiness recommendations to the Naval Air Systems Command Airworthiness and CYBERSAFE Office as well as convert the flight and technical manuals of the Navy into an electronic format. “This new work builds upon Engility’s long-standing system engineering […] More
Raytheon has transported an air and missile defense radar array to the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, where the system will undergo an initial light-off later in July. The first AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar array has been installed at the facility and will enter the engineering and manufacturing development phase, Raytheon said […] More
An AECOM subsidiary has received a nine-month, $24.7 million contract modification to support the U.S. Navy‘s submarine command, control, communications, computers, collaboration and intelligence enterprise infrastructure. The Defense Department said Wednesday URS Federal Services will continue to provide test, evaluation, engineering, technical, logistics and management services for submarine C5I system-of-systems and subsystems as well as operation authority, shore […] More
Cubic has been awarded a $1 million contract by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific to deliver split radio subsystems in support of the U.S. Navy‘s AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link system. The company said Wednesday its mission solutions division will provide switchable CDL split above and below decks radio systems for installation on Navy aircraft carriers in an effort to help the military branch secure […] More
