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    Gulfstream Receives G550 Aircraft Purchase Order from Poland

    Gulfstream Aerospace has received a purchase order for the company’s G550 aircraft from Poland’s national defense ministry for use in the transport of government officials. The General Dynamics subsidiary will configure two G550 for VIP transport and deliver the aircraft in 2017, Gulfstream said Wednesday. G550 is designed to fly at altitudes higher than commercial traffic and […] More

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    AquaHarmonics Wins DOE Wave Energy Converter Devt Competition

    AquaHarmonics has won a $1.5 million grand prize in the Energy Department‘s design-build-test competition that aims to support the development of wave energy converters. DoE said Wednesday CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America will receive $500,000 and $250,000 in respective cash prizes as second and third place winners of the Wave Energy Prize. “This competition set a difficult threshold […] More

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    Navy Selects L-3 Switchgear for Ohio Replacement Submarine; Christine Montalvo Comments

    L-3 Communications has won a contract to provide switchgear equipment for the power distribution and protection system of a future U.S. Navy submarine. Work covers design, qualification and delivery of switchgear to the first submarine built to replace the military branch’s legacy Ohio-class platform, L-3 Communications said Friday. L-3’s surge protection device electrical systems business has been assigned to perform the […] More

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    DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop’s Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research aim to commence ground-based and at-sea flight tests of a Northrop Grumman-built prototype unmanned air system in 2018 as part of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. DARPA said Thursday its joint Tern project with ONR seeks to utilize forward-deployed small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates as mobile launch […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls Deploys 31st Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Saturday deployed the 31st Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer the company built for the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday it transported the USS Paul Ignatius to a floating dry dock using Ingall Shipbuilding’s rail car system, then moved the dock away from the pier and ballasted the structure to float the ship. […] More

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    Navy Solicits Proposals for Cybersecurity Support Services

    The U.S. Navy‘s Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division has begun to solicit proposals from interested vendors for a range of cybersecurity support services. NAWCWD plans to award a five-year, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to aid the analysis, design, development, test, integration, deployment and operations of information technology systems and services, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. […] More

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    The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded The Office Group a potential five-year, $40 million contract to provide commercially available off-the-shelf items for the Defense Department Electronic Mall. DoD said Monday the company will perform work under the multiple award schedule contract in Virginia in support of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. […] More

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    Navy Awards L-3 Night Vision Binocular Follow-On IDIQ

    L-3 Communications has won a $49.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide binocular night vision devices to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday that L-3 will supply the military branch with BNVD goggles that are equipped with white phosphor tubes and designed to increase visual acuity of special operations forces who operate in low light conditions. The follow-on IDIQ has a five-year ordering period that […] More

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    Data Systems Analysts Re-Awarded Navy GIS Sustainment Task Order; Fran Pierce Comments

    Data Systems Analysts will continue to maintain information management systems at various U.S. Navy facilities in Florida and Cuba under a new task order from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast. DSA said it will continue to collaborate with Critigen to assist NAVFAC SE in the deployment and sustainment of the military branch’s geographic information systems and GeoReadiness Explorer platform. […] More

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    Navy, Huntington Ingalls Finish Sea Trials of ‘Finn’ Guided Missile Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy have completed a final round of USS John Finn trials that sought to test the performance of the guided missile destroyer’s systems. The company said Friday the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey assessed the new Arleigh Burke-class ship’s overall operation during the two-day trial held in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Friday. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division […] More

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    BAE to Repair, Maintain Navy’s USS New Orleans Transport Dock Ship

    The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $51.5 million contract to perform repair and maintenance work on the USS New Orleans amphibious transport dock ship. BAE said Thursday it will repair the USS New Orleans’ structural, tank, ventilation and auxiliary systems as well as preserve crew habitability systems and spaces of the vessel at the company’s dry dock facility in San Diego, […] More

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    Report: US Defense Sector Expects Donald Trump’s Presidential Win to Drive Weapons Spending

    The U.S. defense industry expects Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election combined with Republicans retaining their majorities in both House and Senate to result in an increase in weapons spending, Forbes reported Wednesday. Loren Thompson writes that Trump has announced plans to update the country’s aging nuclear weaponry that includes long-range bombers, ground-based missiles and […] More