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    Erickson Gets $70M in Navy Vertical Replenishment, Logistics Support Contracts

    Erickson has received two five-year contracts worth approximately $70 million combined to provide rotary-wing logistics support and vertical replenishment services to the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command. Each contract has a base term of one year and four option years and covers ship-to-shore, ship-to-ship logistics services as well as aircraft, personnel and spares for the service branch’s […] More

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    Ridgewood Technology Partners to Support Navy Enterprise Networks Program Office

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $8 million contract to Ridgewood Technology Partners to provide program management office support to the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Navy Enterprise Networks program office. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide engineering, testing, implementation, integration, training and help desk services to support the NEN program office. The Space […] More

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    Harris Receives Army Dental Directorate Follow-On Contract for IT Support Services

    Harris Corp. has secured a potential four year, $30 million contract from the U.S. Army‘s dental directorate to provide a range of information technology services for dental clinics that have Army, Navy and Air Force staff and dependents as patients. The company said Thursday the contract requires analysis, software programming and development, system interface support, testing, deployment, […] More

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    Swedish Defense Material Administration Picks Saab for Anti-Submarine Warfare Training

    Sweden’s defense material administration has placed an order to Saab for anti-submarine warfare training and the AUV62-AT autonomous underwater vehicle to support the Swedish armed forces’ underwater operations. Saab will provide the AUV62-AT with ASW training configuration and additional support and maintenance to the client from 2016 to 2019, the company said Wednesday. Anne-Marie Vosu, Saab’s underwater systems […] More

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    Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More

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    Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement

    The U.S. Navy is considering changing its procurement strategy for the Next Generation Enterprise Network program from a sole-source method to a multiple-award contracting model, SIGNAL Magazine reported Wednesday. Robert Ackerman writes Capt. Michael Abreu, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said the Navy seeks to engage with vendors in order to determine if segmentation of NGEN offerings would help the military branch address future information technology requirements. A […] More

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    CACI Receives Navy Contract Extension for Warfare Systems Program Office Support; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a five-year, $50 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide program and financial management support services to the center’s warfare systems program office. The company said Tuesday it will continue to support the business functions of WSPO as well as help the office implement new war room information technology systems and document management tools. […] More

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    Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have validated the third stage rocket motor update for the updated Standard Missile-3 Block IB following completion of a flight test. MDA and Raytheon tested the in-flight performance of the SM-3 rocket motor following previous ground tests, the company said Thursday. The updated missile will join the existing missile production line. The […] More

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    BAE Secures $69M in Navy Ship Maintenance, Repair Contracts

    BAE Systems has received two contracts worth up to $68.6 million to help the U.S. Navy repair and maintain the USS Farragut destroyer and the USS Fort McHenry dock landing ship The company said Thursday it will drydock USS Farragut this summer and perform tank, propulsion system, ventilation and auxiliary systems repairs as well as crew habitability systems and spaces maintenance under a potential $33.7 […] More

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    General Dynamics Delivers 30 Digital Manpack Networking Radios Under Army Contract

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems segment has shipped 30 two-channel manpack networking radios to the U.S. Army under the Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit program. The company said Wednesday the digital radios are based on the AN/PRC-155 two-channel networking radios and work to communicate through the Mobile User Objective System network. General Dynamics was awarded a spot on a potential $12.7 billion contract to manufacture […] More

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    Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology Unit to Install Telecom Infrastructure at U.S. Naval Base in Africa

    A subsidiary of PAR Technology has received a 27-month contract worth $1.8 million to help the U.S. Navy build telecommunications infrastructure at a naval expeditionary base located in Djibouti, Africa. Rome Research Corp. will support telecommunications system engineering and installation at Camp Lemonnier, PAR said Wednesday. Matt Cicchinelli, president of PAR’s government business segment, said the contract supports the company’s efforts […] More

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    N2 Imaging Systems to Develop Machine Gun Weapon Sight Tech for Navy

    N2 Imaging Systems has secured a potential five-year, $49 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop weapon sight technology for the service branch’s crew-served M2HB/M2A1 machine guns. The Defense Department said Tuesday contract work will occur through May 2021 and include test teardown, evaluation, non-warranty repairs, provision item order spares and data support services. DoD noted weapon […] More