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    Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics On Track to Complete Design Work on Columbia-Class Submarine

    General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic has said the company is on schedule to complete design and development work on the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Novakovic said Wednesday at the Jefferies 2017 Industrials Conference in New York City the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense contractor expects to record $75 billion in revenue […] More

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    Defense Firms Link Unfilled DoD Posts to Contracting Activity Slowdown; Leidos’ Roger Krone Comments

    Some defense industry executives have said the Trump administration’s current process of finding leaders to fill senior-level roles at the Defense Department has resulted in uncertainty and slow pace of contract awards, Reuters reported Saturday. “The still-high number of unfilled leadership appointments and the approaching government physical year-end continue to serve as headwinds,” Leidos CEO […] More

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    Navy Solicits Bids for USS Fitzgerald Retrieval Contract

    The U.S. Navy has begun to solicit proposals for a contract to transport the damaged USS Fitzgerald guided-missile destroyer back to U.S., United Press International reported Wednesday. The service branch is currently investigating the collision of USS Fitzgerald with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Honshu, Japan, in June. The Navy posted a solicitation notice on […] More

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    Rolls-Royce to Provide Turbine Generator Equipment, Support for Navy Zumwalt-Class Destroyers

    Rolls-Royce has received a $27.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver provisioned item orders, engineering services and associated support for the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers’ turbine-generator sets. The Defense Department said Wednesday the main and auxiliary turbine-generator sets will serve as the primary power source of Zumwalt-class ships. Turbine-generator sets are comprised […] More

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    Navy Taps Kratos Subsidiary for Saudi Arabia Technical Services FMS Contract

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has secured a three-year, $46.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide program planning, technical and instructional services to the government of Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said Monday the foreign military sales contract covers support for Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 initiative that seeks to optimize social and economic conditions […] More

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    Navy Seeks White Papers for Expeditionary Warfare Tech Dev.

    The U.S. Navy seeks industry white papers on technologies that can help address the service branch’s irregular, expeditionary and special warfare needs. The Navy said Wednesday in a broad agency announcement posted on FedBizOpps that it may request proposals from selected offerors and award contracts if funds are available. Interested participants must provide information on technologies […] More

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    CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems

    A CACI International subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $29.8 million contract to provide life cycle support for Red Falcon signals intelligence systems currently installed on U.S. Navy ships and shore facilities. BIT Systems will engineer, update and maintain software, repair and provide technical services for the military branch’s foreign instrumentation SIGINT sensors as part of the […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls Division to Help Maintain, Modernize USS Dwight Eisenhower Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has secured a $36.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support maintenance and modernization work on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. NNS will aid nuclear ship alterations and propulsion plant maintenance during the fiscal 2017 planned incremental availability of USS Dwight Eisenhower at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the Defense […] More

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    Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight

    Lockheed Martin has completed the initial flight of a VH-92A test aircraft as part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program. The test aircraft’s first flight on July 28 at Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut involved an airfield pass, low speed flight and hover control checks and marked the start of the test flight program […] More

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    MIL Corp. Unveils New Tysons Corner, VA Office

    MIL Corp. has opened a new office in McLean, Virginia, to house the government services contractor’s accounting, contracts, business development, human resources and proposals and marketing teams. MIL said Tuesday the 10,000-square-foot office located at 8401 Greensboro Drive in Tysons Corner will accommodate employees who manage corporate operations for cyber, engineering, financial and information technology contracts. […] More

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    Sabre Helps Navy Conduct Arrested Aircraft Landing, Electromagnetic Launch Aboard USS Gerald Ford

    Sabre Systems has helped the U.S. Navy perform the first arrested aircraft landing and electromagnetic launch aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. The company said an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft landed on USS Gerald Ford using the Advanced Arresting Gear system and subsequently launched from the flight deck through the ship’s Electromagnetic Launch System. […] More

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    PAE Secures Navy F-5 Maintenance, Logistics Contract Option

    PAE has received a one-year, $43.7 contract modification to carry out organizational, intermediate and depot-level maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy‘s F-5F Tiger II and F-5N Freedom Fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday PAE’s aviation and technical services business will support F-5 aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada; Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, […] More