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    Raytheon’s SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test

    A Raytheon defensive missile has completed the first U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency flight test that sought to evaluate its capacity to intercept ballistic missile threats. Raytheon said Saturday the USS John Paul Jones guided missile destroyer launched the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA during the test to intercept a land-launched target. The demonstration sought to evaluate the performance of the SM-3 […] More

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    Raytheon Awarded Navy Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor Support Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $50 million contract to provide hardware and support services to the military branch’s Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor  program. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity hybrid contract covers production, engineering, procurement and in-service engineering agent to support the program executive office for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence ESRP, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

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    Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems

    The U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center has awarded Eaton a contract to support the modernization of supervisory control and data acquisition systems installed at U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps facilities in San Diego, California. Eaton said Tuesday it will supply equipment and provide project management, labor, engineering, supervision and transportation services to help the Naval […] More

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    Viavi Solutions to Supply Navy With Telecom Test Set

    Viavi Solutions has received a potential five-year, $26.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide a telecommunication test set to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday that Viavi will perform work in California and Mexico under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract has a three-year base period will run through Feb. 1, 2020, and two one-year options. DLA’s land and […] More

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    Navy Partners With Microsoft, Johns Hopkins APL to Identify Naval Uses for Augmented Reality Tools

    Representatives from Microsoft and Johns Hopkins University met with members of the disruptive technology laboratory at Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock division in Maryland to tackle augmented reality technology platforms and its potential naval applications, the Navy reported Tuesday. DTL Director Garry Shields said the lab seeks to partner with the Defense Advanced Research Projects […] More

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    Air Force Taps PTC for Supply Chain Mgmt Support

    PTC will provide a service parts management platform to the U.S. Air Force in an effort to help the military branch manage supply chain planning and weapon systems support activities at Air Force Sustainment Centers worldwide. The company said Tuesday its PTC Service Parts Management Software-as-a-Service  platform will work to optimize demand forecast accuracy, logistics cost estimation and aircraft availability as well as […] More

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    Navy Taps Smartronix to Help NAWCAD Implement Communication Electronic Systems

    Smartronix has landed a one-year, $26.7 million contract with the U.S. Navy to support the special communications mission solutions division of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The Defense Department said Monday that Smartronix will provide services intended to help NAWCAD implement telecommunication and related communications-electronic systems  for data, video and voice information exchange. Services covered by the […] More

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    Lockheed Gets Navy MH-60R Radar Kit Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has received a $45.8 million delivery order to provide 29 automatic radar periscope detection and discrimination standard retrofit p-kits for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of MH-60R helicopters. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed’s mission systems and training business will perform work in New York and Florida through September 2020. The Navy used fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement funds to cover the […] More

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    Navy, Nammo’s US Subsidiary Form Rocket Motor, Warhead Manufacturing Partnership

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Indian Head explosive ordnance disposal technology division has partnered with Nammo Group‘s U.S.-based subsidiary Nammo Energetics Indian Head to produce rocket motors and warheads. The public-private collaboration is authorized under NSWC IHEODTD’s Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence designation, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Jan. 20. “Under this 30-year partnership, Nammo Energetics Indian Head will address […] More

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    Draper Lab Receives $54M Navy Contract for Trident Missile Guidance System Production

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory a five-year, $53.5 million contract to produce the MK 6 guidance system for Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles. Draper Lab will also support failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies and electronic modules under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls Starts ‘Lenah Higbee’ Destroyer Ship Fabrication

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has started to fabricate an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy at the company’s shipyard in Mississippi. The Lenah H. Sutclifee Higbee destroyer represents the fourth of five vessels Huntington Ingalls will build for the military branch’s DDG 51 program as part a contract awarded in 2013, the company said Thursday. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said that […] More