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    Leanne Caret: Boeing’s Competitive Bids Attributed to Decision-Making, Cost Reduction Efforts

    Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, has said cost-cutting measures and an accelerated decision-making process helped drive the company’s government contract proposals to be more competitive, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “This is the year where the first results from all the steps we have taken will be apparent […] More

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    Northrop, Navy Demo Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter in Sea Mine Detection Mission

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with other autonomous assets to hunt sea mines, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Fire Scout demonstrated its situational awareness capability and capacity to communicate with a submersible drone and a small unmanned surface ship to perform underwater mine sweeping operations at the service’s […] More

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    L3 to Update Navy Towed Array Sonar Systems

    The U.S. Navy has awarded L3 Technologies a $49.4M contract to provide technical, logistics and inventory management support for the service branch’s sonar devices. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company’s ocean systems division will evaluate, repair and update TB-23/BQ towed array system modules and related test equipment under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur through December 2021 […] More

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    WBSI to Support Marine C2 Training Center Under $71M IDIQ

    Web Business Solutions Inc. has won a potential seven-year $70.6M contract to help manage a U.S. Marine Corps center established to train the military branch’s personnel on how to operate command-and-control systems. WBSI will provide support services to the Command and Control Training and Education Center of Excellence and its facilities located at various U.S. and international […] More

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    Valiant-ALCA JV Secures $61M Navy Facility Support Extension; James Jaska Quoted

    A Valiant Integrated Services–ALCA joint venture has been awarded a potential eight-year, $61M contract to continue to support three of the U.S. Navy’s facilities located in Italy. The JV will deploy equipment and provide services necessary to address housing, facility support, transportation and environmental concerns at the Naval facilities in Sigonella, Niscemi and Augusta Bay, Valiant […] More

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    Raytheon Prepares to Incorporate Multi-Role Capability in Gulfstream G550 for Navy Operations

    Raytheon is set to initiate the second phase of the Gulfstream G550 aircraft’s modification program for the U.S. Navy. The Naval Air Systems Command said Thursday the defense company will develop systems that will allow the jet to perform various roles such as collecting telemetry data, ensuring range safety and transmitting surveillance and communications data. The G550 […] More

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    Northrop to Supply Navigation, Radar Systems to Military Sealift Command

    Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine business unit has won a $19.6M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver electronic navigation systems and associated radar components. Sperry Marine, operating under Northrop’s electronic systems segment, is tasked to provide electronic chart display information systems as well as X-band and S-band radar units as part of efforts […] More

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    Rolls-Royce to Build Engine Tech for Navy Tanker Drone

    Boeing has selected Rolls-Royce to manufacture an engine technology to power four unmanned aerial refueling vehicles the Chicago-based company will build for the U.S. Navy. Rolls-Royce said Thurday it will provide AE 3007N engines designed to generate more than 10K pounds of thrust and provide additional electrical power to the service branch’s future MQ-25 Stingray tanker drones. Jarrett Jones, executive vice […] More

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    Northrop to Produce Software for Navy Electronic Navigation System

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $17.2M contract to produce and engineer a software platform for integration into the U.S. Navy’s primary computer-based navigation plotting system. The company will provide the software as part of a project to modernize the hardware and cyber operating system of the Electronic Chart and Display Information System, the Defense […] More

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    Northrop Completes Critical Design Review of Naval Inertial Navigation System; Todd Leavitt Quoted

    Northrop Grumman will begin manufacturing 10 pre-production units of an inertial navigation system for the U.S. Navy after completing the critical design review phase of the technology. Todd Leavitt, vice president of maritime systems at Northrop, said in a statement published Wednesday that completing the CDR allows the program for the WSN-12 inertial sensor module […] More

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    Kratos Lands $67M Contract to Support Navy Radar Programs

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a potential $67.5M contract to provide engineering and technical services to U.S. Navy radar programs. The company said Tuesday its advanced naval weapon system business will support the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Dahlgren Division’s radar division in efforts to develop requirements, analyze and engineer systems, develop software, design antennas. Work under the single-award contract also […] More

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    Navy Receives Austal USA-Built Charleston LCS

    Austal‘s U.S. subsidiary has delivered the USS Charleston littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala. The delivery marks the third LCS shipment from Austal USA this year, the company said Friday. Charleston is the eighth ship of the Independence variant and 16th LCS slated to enter the Navy’s fleet. The […] More