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    DoD’s Finance Org Taps immixGroup Subsidiary for Business Activity Monitoring Services

    ImmixTechnology, a subsidiary of immixGroup, has received a potential $39 million contract to provide business activity monitoring support to the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour, firm-fixed-price contract covers the identification of improper payments in legacy payment platforms and reconciliation services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s audit assertion efforts with regard to its funds balance with the Treasury, the […] More

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    Navy Orders $88M in Harris Airborne EW Jammers; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris Corp. will produce and deliver electronic warfare jamming systems for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 fighter jets under an $88 million modification to a contract the military service awarded in July last year. The Navy asked the company to provide 48 EW jammers as part of the service branch’s Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures initiative, Harris said […] More

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    HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

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    Raytheon Helps Install UAV Mission-Control Tech Aboard Navy Littoral Combat Ship

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have installed a mission control system for Northrop Grumman-built unmanned helicopter MQ-8 Fire Scout on a naval ship designed for littoral missions. The Navy combined its control hardware with control software developed by Raytheon to produce the command-and-control system of Fire Scout aboard the USS Coronado, Raytheon said Wednesday. USS Coronado is designed to operate near […] More

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    Raytheon Gets Navy Follow-On Contract for Fire Scout UAS Software Update

    Raytheon has received a potential $21.6 million contract to continue to provide software updates in support of the 2016 tactical control system Linux cyber baseline of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system. The company will perform work in Dulles, Virginia, through October 2018 under the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

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    Peyton Baker: BWXT Captures $3B in Naval Nuclear Reactor Manufacturing Contracts

    BWX Technologies has secured multiple contracts potentially worth a combined $3.1 billion to manufacture nuclear reactor components and fuel in support of  the U.S. Navy‘s various nuclear propulsion programs. BWXT said Wednesday its nuclear operations group will produce the reactor components for the service branch’s fleets of Ford-class and Nimitz-class carriers as well as Virginia-class and Ohio-class submarines. Production will occur […] More

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    HII Completes 30-Day Endurance Test of Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Developed With Battelle

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed a 30-day endurance test of the Proteus unmanned undersea vehicle built by the company’s Undersea Solutions Group subsidiary and Battelle. HII said Tuesday Proteus was put in a tank at USG’s Florida facility where nearby computers fed navigational and depth data to the UUV’s autonomy and vehicle control systems to mimic an open water mission. Proteus was submerged […] More

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    BAE to Help US Navy Build, Test Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems

    The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $51.9 million to design, develop, test and evaluate air traffic control and landing systems for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. BAE will also provide ATC&LS engineering products and perform up to 706,560 hours of technical support under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Ninety-eight percent of the work […] More

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    Navy Taps CrossResolve for Biometric ID Research Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded CrossResolve a potential three-year, $17.2 million contract to provide biometric identity research services for the military branch’s Special Surveillance Program. CrossResolve will help the Navy explore contactless and standoff biometric facial, iris- and fingerprint-recognition technologies as well as data analytic tools and communication channels, the Defense Department said Monday. The company will perform work […] More

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    General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification

    General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. The award exercises a contract […] More

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    SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms

    SRI International has been awarded a one-year, $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to research methods for the development of surveillance, tracking, security and access control systems. The company aims to help develop a modular and open architecture approach for the military service to build sensors and aviation platform systems, the Defense Department said Monday. SRI will […] More

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    Navy to Put USS Zumwalt Destroyer Through Navigation, Propulsion Test Series

    A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer left a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works subsidiary shipyard in Maine to begin a series of tests to evaluate the vessel’s navigation, propulsion and other systems, Scout Warrior reported Wednesday. Matthew Leonard, a spokesman for the Navy, told Scout Warrior that the acceptance trials of USS Zumwalt seek to demonstrate the […] More