BAE Systems will repair, maintain and modernize the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) under a potential $93 million award from the service branch. The ship's fiscal 2024 docking selected restricted availability work will include labor, equipment, production, testing, quality assurance and other services.

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The U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the multiple target detection feature of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Weapon System installed on the destroyer USS Carl Levin during an integrated air and missile defense test. The joint test, called Vigilant Wyvern, saw the Aegis Weapon System-48 engage anti-ship cruise missiles and ballistic missile defense targets in a realistic IAMD scenario in the Pacific Missile Test Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, Lockheed said Thursday.

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Draper has secured a $90.7 million contract to manufacture an upgraded guidance technology for the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 submarine-launched missile system. The company will design, test, manufacture and maintain the Trident missile guidance systems in support of the Navy Strategic Systems Programs.

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X-Bow Systems has secured a $64 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply large solid rocket motors to the U.S. Navy and Army. The SRMs will boost the propulsion of the Navy's hypersonic All Up Round system, which is a component of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army's Long Range Hypersonic weapon systems.

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A Fluor business has secured a contract extension from the U.S. Navy to continue supporting the Nuclear Propulsion Program of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory for an additional five years to 2028. The contract extension allows Fluor Marine Propulsion to manage and operate the primary facilities of NNL in New York, Pennsylvania and Idaho, Fluor said Monday.

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An HII shipbuilding division launched USS Bougainville, the third America-class amphibious assault ship, for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps on Sept. 30. Early last month, Bougainville was transferred to a dry dock via railcars to the company’s floating dry dock, where the team prepared the ship for its launch into the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, HII said Friday.

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Craig Faller, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been elected to the board of directors of military shipbuilding company HII. Faller has nearly four decades of military experience and most recently served as commander of U.S. Southern Command, where he helped build U.S. military partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean security forces.

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Sev1Tech will provide a U.S. Navy program executive office with logistics information technology integration and support services under a five-year, $45 million contract. The award calls for integration of Naval Logistics IT capabilities into a system of systems platform in support of the PEO for Manpower, Logistics and Business Solutions.

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Innovative Defense Technologies, a software-based warfare capabilities provider, has secured a potential three-year, $89.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support a Department of the Navy project focused on advancing naval technology. Under the Phase III Small Business Innovative Research award, the company will enhance the practices and tools of the Navy's testing software systems in support of Project Overmatch, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

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Viasat will continue manufacturing VM300-M cards and delivering the shipboard application components to the U.S. Navy under a new modification that increased the value of the existing contract to $57.5 million. The first delivery order is for 79 VM300-M cards and associated operations and maintenance services.

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The U.S. Navy has commissioned the USS Marinette, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship constructed by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine shipyard. The vessel, which was named after a city in Wisconsin, was delivered to the Navy in February and inaugurated on Saturday in Menominee, Michigan, DVIDS reported. The Marinette is the Navy’s 25th littoral […] More

The U.S. Navy has commissioned the USS Marinette, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship constructed by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri's Marinette Marine shipyard. The vessel, which was named after a city in Wisconsin, was delivered to the Navy in February and inaugurated on Saturday in Menominee, Michigan. More