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Lockheed Martin has awarded a potential five-year, $27 million subcontract to an Ultra Electronics subsidiary to engineer and produce MK48 topedo array nose assemblies and spares. Ultra Electronics said Monday its Ocean Systems business will supply integrated array nose assemblies in an effort to increase the inventory of U.S. Navy‘s MK48 torpedoes. The subcontract has an initial base period worth $6.6 million and four […] More

The Energy Department will provide $335,000 in funds over the next year to Argonne National Laboratory to perform hydrogen and synthetic fuel tests on Capstone Turbine‘s microturbine energy systems. Argonne will test Capstone’s C65 and C200 microturbines in an effort to support research and development initiatives and also promote Capstone’s hydrogen and syngas fuel products to the market, the company said […] More

Boeing has opened a new P-8A Poseidon training center at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington ahead of the arrival of the maritime aircraft there in 2017. The facility is equipped with simulators and instructional materials designed to help pilots and mission crews to operate the P-8A and its sensors, communications and weapons systems, Boeing said Friday. Boeing will also modify and update […] More

United Technologies Corp. subsidiary Hamilton Sundstrand has been awarded a $9.2 million delivery order to repair the constant frequency generator of V-22 planes operated by both the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps. The Defense Department said Friday the generator is currently used on the Marine Corps’ MV-22 and Air Force’s CV-22. Hamilton Sundstrand will perform work in Rockford, […] More

The U.S. Navy has commissioned and assigned to active service its seventh littoral combat ship overall and fourth LCS vessel constructed by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. Lockheed said Saturday the USS Detroit Freedom-class LCS will join the fleet with similar variants USS Fort Worth, USS Milwaukee and USS Freedom. USS Detroit completed its acceptance trials in July and is the […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded International Marine and Industrial Applicators a one-year, $21.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to support the preservation and non-submarine safety structural repairs and sustainment efforts for the USS Maine ballistic missile submarine. IMIA will provide preservation, hull and structural repair, anode removal, repair and replacement, lead bin repair and fabrication, de-ballasting and re-ballasting and safety track […] More

Rocky Brands will manufacture hot-weather combat boots for U.S. military personnel under an order worth between $80 million to $100 million over a five-year period. The company said Thursday it will begin to fulfill the order in the first half of 2017. The contract has one base year and four option years and sets a maximum value of $20 million for product shipments […] More

Cubic Corp.‘s Ventra mobile application has achieved more than one million downloads and was utilized for roughly $110 million in fare payments by Chicago-area transit users a year after its launch. Cubic Transportation Systems, the Chicago Transit Authority and transit partners Pace and Metra collaborated to launch the transit app designed to help users plan, organize and pay their […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has assessed the key functions of a Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter during a week-long initial operational test. Sikorsky’s parent company Lockheed Martin said Friday the military branch’s pilots, aircrew and maintainers performed the assessment as part of Milestone C requirements before the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter program transitions to the low-rate initial production phase. The flight test involved external lift […] More

Northrop Grumman has received a nine-year contract extension to continue to provide maintenance and modification support services for the U.K.’s fleet of airborne early warning and control system aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Andrew Chuter writes news on the deal comes after Cohort announced that its MASS subsidiary secured a potential $14.6 million contract to […] More

ICF has tested Charles River Analytics‘ new semantic-based search tool designed to help U.S. Army intelligent tutoring system authors to search for existing training reference materials. Charles River said Tuesday ICF conducted a double-blind evaluation of the Content Retrieval and Extraction for Advanced Tutoring Environments in comparison with traditional keyword searching techniques. Instruction system designers who used […] More