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The U.S. Navy has tapped Concurrent Technologies Inc. to supply Intel-based computing boards for the service’s various aircraft research projects, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has ordered eight VME single-board computers embedded with a two-core 1.7 Gigahertz Core i7 microprocessor and 8 gigabytes of random access […] More
Boeing is offering its Harpoon Next-Generation missile in response to the U.S. Navy‘s interest in requiring more lethality and range for missiles launched from Littoral Combat Ships and frigates, DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Kris Osborn writes that the Harpoon Next-Gen uses GPS and inertial navigation guidance systems and can launch from submarines, surface ships, aircraft or a moving land-based platform. “Fundamentally it is […] More
Raytheon has completed the critical design review of the technical aspects of the U.S. Navy‘s AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar, including risk mitigation, producibility analysis and cost assessments. The company said Tuesday the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the AMDR program is now 40 percent complete. Kevin Peppe, vice president of seapower capability systems at Raytheon’s integrated defense […] More
AECOM will prepare documentation on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps facilities planning and environmental activities in Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia under a $45 million architect-engineering contract. The Defense Department said Friday AECOM’s technical services arm will support the Naval Facilities Engineering Command‘s design projects in the EURAFSWA area of responsibility through May 2020. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More
The U.S. government could soon sell as many as 40 of Boeing‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets to Kuwait as production of the aircraft for the U.S. Navy and Australia nears its end in 2017, Defense News reported Wednesday. Christopher Cavas writes the deal could be worth at least $3 billion. Defense News reports the House Armed Services Committee allotted $1.2 billion […] More
Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More
General Dynamics continues to work with Massachusetts-based utility provider Eversource Energy in efforts aimed at reducing the energy footprint of its mission systems group’s Pittsfield facility by more than two million kilowatt hours a year. Conservation efforts at the building began last fall and include the replacement of outdoor light fixtures with LED products and the adoption of a centralized control system […] More
The U.S. Navy has asked industry to submit ideas for the development of new electro-optic and infrared systems that can help defend naval ships from optically guided missile threats. The Office of Naval Research issued a presolicitation on April 23 to provide information on the military branch’s plan to build the Combined EO/IR Surveillance and […] More
BAE Systems is looking to secure a potential contract with the U.S. Army to equip the service’s fleet of Boeing‘s AH-64 Apache helicopters with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, USNI News reported Monday. David Harrold, director of precision guidance solutions at BAE Systems, told the publication that a business opportunity could arise following live-fire flight tests on APKWS using […] More
BAE Systems‘ electronic systems business will provide 22 “identification friend or foe” interrogators to the U.S. Navy under an $8.5 million contract modification, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes that the company will supply its AN/UPX-41(C) digital interrogators to help surface ships and ground installations distinguish between friendly and enemy aircraft. The Navy will use 14 […] More
