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Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More
Saab Group has unveiled its Sea Wasp remotely operated vehicle the company built to relocate, identify and neutralize underwater improvised explosive devices and support anti-terrorism operations below the surface. The defense and security company said Tuesday Sea Wasp is based on the Saab Seaeye commercial ROV line and the U.S. Underwater Hazardous Device Response Community’s explosive ordnance disposal purposes and procedures. Sea Wasp […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed the preliminary design review of the inertial sensor module in the U.S. Navy‘s WSN-12 Inertial Navigation System Replacement that will succeed the current WSN-7 system. “This is a critical system for both surface and subsurface platforms,” Todd Leavitt, vice president of Northrop’s maritime systems business unit, said Monday. He adds that the […] More
BAE Systems has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an undersea navigation technology for the U.S. Navy under the Positioning System for Deep Ocean Navigation program. The goal of the program is to enable undersea vehicles to navigate underwater without having to periodically go above surface to access the space-based global positioning system, BAE said Monday. […] More
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said HII has secured approximately 20 percent of shipbuilding work on the U.S. Navy’s entire Ohio-class replacement program with General Dynamics as prime contractor. He told Defense News reporter Christoper Cavas in an interview published Sunday that ORP prompts HII to align its design plans as well as […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered the USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock to the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday Richard Schenk, vice president for program management, signed the official DD 250 document to transfer the custody of the amphibious transport dock to the service branch. Schenk said the company aims to deliver two more ships to complete the class, which […] More
The U.S. Navy has delivered three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark as part of the second foreign military procurement of the multi-mission helicopters built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The MH-60Rs were transported from Sikorsky’s William P. Gwinn Airfield aboard two C-17 aircraft bound for Karup air base in Denmark, the Navy said Wednesday. Denmark’s navy will […] More
Andy Von Stauffenberg, a former U.S. Navy aviation electrician and Northrop Grumman engineer, has launched VStar Systems — a systems integration company that specializes in robotics and unmanned aerial systems for government and commercial clients. In a VStar press release posted Thursday, Stauffenberg said he established the company in 2015 to offer integration services for UAV customers. “There are hundreds of […] More
The Naval Research Laboratory has partnered with a General Atomics subsidiary to embed NRL-built inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging software into the company’s Lynx multimode radar system. NRL and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will work to build integrated radar technology for joint warfighter missions under a cooperative research and development agreement, according to an article published Tuesday on the U.S. Navy website. Thomas Pizzillo, […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed a critical design review of the electronic subsystem of the U.S. Navy’s AN/SLQ-32(V)7 electronic warfare platform. The company said Monday the CDR is part of the service branch’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 development. The AN/SLQ-32(V)7 system works to detect and counter anti-ship missiles and other threats through signal analysis. Northrop […] More
A BAE Systems business unit has received a $9.5 million U.S. Navy contract to provide services and supplies for the service branch’s Software Communications Architecture Common Data Link family of products. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract requires assessment, repair, rework, maintenance, replacement, spares and replenishment of units and components as needed. DoD added BAE’s information and electronic systems […] More
Boeing has received a $9.6 million undefinitized delivery order from the U.S. Navy to repair 64 horizontal stabilizers of F-18 aircraft under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur in Cecil Field, Florida, through April 2018. The Naval Supply Systems Command weapon systems support unit obligated $4.7 million at the time of […] More
