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    Northrop to Provide Mission Package Integration Services for US Navy LCS

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $38.5 million contract to integrate mine warfare mission packages with the service branch’s littoral combat ships. The mission packages will work to support the LCS’ anti-submarine, surface warfare and mine countermeasure operations, the Defense Department said Friday. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract could reach $78 million in total […] More

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    Lockheed Encloses MUOS-4 Military Comm Satellite in Rocket Fairing; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    Lockheed Martin has finished the encapsulation of a fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite for military communications into a protective launch vehicle fairing platform. MOUS-4 is scheduled to lift off Aug. 31 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket and would be the newest addition to the U.S. Navy‘s […] More

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    BAE-Rockwell Collins JV to Provide MIDS Terminals for US, Allied Forces

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins will provide its Multifunctional Information Distribution System Low Volume Terminals to support voice and data communications for U.S. and allied forces under an $18.3 million contract. Rockwell Collins said Wednesday the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command selected Data Link Solutions to deliver MIDS-LVT to the U.S. Navy, Air Force […] More

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    Raytheon Extends Navy Landing Systems Analysis Work; Brian Hickey Comments

    Raytheon has been awarded a $52 million contract to extend the company’s testing and analysis work for the U.S. Navy’s joint precision approach landing systems program. The goal is to approve the integration of JPALS with the F-35 joint strike fighter, Raytheon said Wednesday. JPALS is designed to guide fixed and rotary-wing aircraft in coordination with […] More

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    Navy Orders General Dynamics Digital Radios for Ships, Subs

    General Dynamics has received a potential $29 million contract to supply digital modular radios and related tools to the U.S. Navy for new surface ships and submarines. The contract production of 56 units of AN/USC-61(C) DMRs with the Mobile User Objective System waveform that is designed to help place voice calls with the Defense Department’s MUOS narrowband satellite communications platform, the company said […] More

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    DRS Technologies Awarded Naval Communication, Missile Launch Tech Contracts

    DRS Technologies has announced three contracts the company was awarded provide digital combat, network communication and missile launching systems to the U.S. Navy. One contract has $96 million ceiling value over five years and covers work to produce, integrate and deploy the Common Display System Technology Insertion-12 for surface vessels, DRS said Monday. The Navy also awarded the company […] More

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    Progeny to Continue Support for Naval Ship System Maintenance Tool

    Progeny Systems has been awarded a $10.9 million contract modification to continue helping the U.S. Navy build an integrated shipboard and shore-based maintenance decision platform. The Defense Department said Monday the company will create and integrate hardware components and software applications for the military branch to attain system-level functionality onboard naval ships and submarines. Work […] More

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    AECOM Lands US Navy Domestic, Int’l Engineering Contract

    AECOM has won a $30 million contract with the U.S. Navy to perform architect-engineer services for Navy and Marine Corps projects in domestic and international locations. AECOM will perform work in the U.S., Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia and other locations worldwide, the Defense Department said Friday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers a five-year performance period through August 2020. The […] More

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    Serco Adds Navy C4ISR System Installation Task Order; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a nine-month, $13 million task order to install new command, communication, control, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for the U.S. Navy. The contract also covers certification and testing services related to C4ISR systems, Serco Inc. said Thursday. Dan Allen, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., said the company’s work under the […] More

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    SPA to Help US Navy Assess Nuclear Weapons Policy, Strategy; Kirk Donald Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis Inc. has been selected to assist the U.S. Navy in its work to evaluate nuclear weapons policy and strategy. The company will perform analysis on arms regulation and nuclear policy, deterrence and escalation control issues in coordination with the Navy director of strategy and policy, SPA said in August. The task order contains […] More

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    Lockheed Lands $32M Engineering Services Contract for Navy, US & Int’l Customers

    Lockheed Martin will provide engineering services for the P-3 Fatigue Life Management Program under a five-year, $32.3 million contract with the U.S. Navy in support of several U.S. agencies and international governments. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract combines domestic and foreign military sale orders from the Navy, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and […] More

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    NAVSEA to Oversee OPM ID Protection Services Contract

    The U.S. Navy will lead efforts to secure a contractor that will provide identity protection services to address the hack on the Office of Personnel Management‘s security clearance database, GovExec reported Monday. Eric Katz writes the General Services Administration, OPM and Defense Department appointed Naval Sea Systems Command to oversee the solicitation and contracting process. NAVSEA could award […] More