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    NAVSEA Eyes Northrop for Airborne Laser Designators Contract

    The Naval Sea Systems Command plans to award Northrop Grumman a potential five-year, $44.9 million contract to provide diode-pumped laser designation technology for the U.S. Navy‘s airborne multispectral targeting systems. The Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the contract covers single-color laser designators and dual- and tri-beam emitters and receivers. Northrop will also provide spares, documentation, repairs, […] More

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    Navy Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for $52M MIDS JTRS Supply Contract

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins will produce and provide U.S. and allied forces with lot 4 Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System terminals under a potential $51.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy. Data Link Solutions will perform work in Iowa and New Jersey through August 2017 under the award from […] More

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    AECOM-ManTech JV to Help Navy, Marine Corps Prepare Environmental Planning Docs

    A joint venture of AECOM and ManTech International has been awarded a potential five-year, $30 million contract from the U.S Navy and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to prepare environmental planning documents for the Navy and U.S Marine Corps. ManTech said Friday the venture will perform work at Navy, Marine Corps and other government facilities within the NAVFAC Southwest area of responsibility […] More

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    Lockheed to Work on Navy Submarine Combat System Interface Redesign

    Lockheed Martin will work to refresh the interfaces of the U.S. Navy’s various submarine warfare subsystems under a $60 million contract awarded in December. The company will update the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical Systems on multiple submarine classes such as the Virginia-class submarines, Lockheed said Tuesday. Lockheed’s SWFTS systems engineering and integration team will perform work […] More

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    Cardno TEC-AECOM Joint Venture Lands $50M Navy Contract

    The U.S Navy has awarded the Cardno TEC–AECOM joint venture a $50 million environmental planning and engineering services contract. The Defense Department said Monday the joint venture will provide construction, renovation, demolition, dredging, base realignment and closure and operational services for ship homeporting and waterfront activities. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Atlantic area […] More

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    Lockheed Authorizes AAMSI to Support P-3 Operators

    Lockheed Martin has approved Associated Aircraft Manufacturing and Sales Inc. as a support provider for P-3 Orion aircraft operators. AAMSI announced Wednesday its addition to Appendix A-2 of Lockheed’s P-3 Orion distributor agreement enables it to provide P-3 manufacturing and avionics repair to support military operators of the aircraft. The company added that it has previously received tasks from […] More

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    Northrop Concludes Operational Tests for Triton Ahead of Navy Milestone C Decision; Doug Shaffer Comments

    Northrop Grumman has wrapped up the operational assessment phase for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system the company designed for the U.S. Navy. Navy personnel and Northrop employees collaborated to check the performance of Triton during a 60-hour flight test and examined sensor imagery taken at different altitudes, Northrop said Tuesday. “Operational assessment for Triton included […] More

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    Raytheon Lands Army Contract for Excalibur Missiles

    Raytheon secured a $31.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide 464 Excalibur Ib missiles. The GPS-guided Excalibur Ib works to engage long-range targets with enhanced precision and has been in full-rate production since 2014, the company said Tuesday. Duane Gooden, Raytheon vice president for land warfare systems, said the company has pursued internal development efforts to deliver […] More

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    Reuters: Boeing Looks to Self-Fund F/A-18 Production Materials

    Boeing is considering investing money to extend production of its F/A-18 multirole fighter aircraft at a company facility in St. Louis, Missouri, as it awaits government decision on potential sales to Kuwait and the U.S. Navy, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes Dan Gillian, head of Boeing’s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft programs, said he expects the company […] More

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    Navy Puts Raytheon’s Gliding Weapon Through Initial Operational Test

    The U.S. Navy has completed an initial operational test of a Raytheon-built gliding weapon during a live-fire test at China Lake in California. Raytheon’s Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 platform detected and neutralized its ground target after it was launched from an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft at an altitude of approximately 29,000 feet, the company said Monday. JSOW C-1 […] More

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    IBM Secures DISA Impact-Level 5 Cloud Security Certification; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received a Defense Information Systems Agency authorization to host impact-level 5 data workloads for the Defense Department through the firm’s cloud service. The conditional authority-to-operate certification allows IBM to provide its Cloud suite for the management of controlled unclassified information at DoD, the company said Thursday. The service is offered from the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in […] More

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    Lockheed-Built F-35 Fleet Hits 50K Flight Hours

    A fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II aircraft that the U.S. service branches and other countries operate worldwide has reached the mark of 50,000 flight hours. Lockheed said Wednesday 155 operational fighter jets deployed to six countries reached approximately 37,950 flight hours, while 18 F-35 planes intended for system development and demonstration operations reached 12,050 flight […] More