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  • Alion Science-Led Team Bids on Canadian Frigate Construction Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Science-Led Team Bids on Canadian Frigate Construction Program

    A team led by Alion Science and Technology has submitted a proposal to build a naval platform to replace Canada’s Iroquois-class destroyers and Halifax-class frigates. Alion said Friday its proposed ship for the Canadian Surface Combatant program is based on Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding‘s De Zeven Provincien-class frigate and features Atlas Elektronik‘s combat management system and Hensoldt‘s radar technology. […] More

  • Northrop, Atlas Elektronik Showcase Unmanned Mine Hunting Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Atlas Elektronik Showcase Unmanned Mine Hunting Tech

    Northrop Grumman and Atlas Elektronik‘s U.K. subsidiary have jointly demonstrated an unmanned mine hunting system during the Belgian Defense Technology and Industry Day trials in Zeebrugge, Belgium. Northrop said Monday its AQS-24B mine hunting sensor was integrated with Atlas Elektronik UK‘s ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel during the tests. Alan Lytle, vice president of undersea systems at Northrop’s mission systems business […] More

  • Thales to Update Sonar Systems on Australian Collins-Class Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Update Sonar Systems on Australian Collins-Class Submarines

    Thales has received a design and pre-production contract to update sonar systems in six of Australia’s Collins-class submarines in an effort to boost underwater threat detection efforts for the country’s navy. The company said Tuesday it will install its new Modular Cylindrical Array, flank array and on-board processing technology in the submarines as part of the country’s sonar and […] More

  • Northrop Demos Mine Hunting Platform With Unmanned Surface Vehicle at UK Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Mine Hunting Platform With Unmanned Surface Vehicle at UK Navy Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a mine hunting platform with an Atlas Elektronik-built unmanned surface vehicle at the Unmanned Warrior Exercise hosted by the U.K. navy in Scotland. The ARCIMS autonomous surface vehicle deployed the Northrop-developed AQS-24B mine hunting tool to perform mine detection, classification and localization functions in a simulated mine field during several mission scenarios […] More

  • Atlas North America to Produce Navy Explosive, Inert Neutralizer Rounds for LCS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlas North America to Produce Navy Explosive, Inert Neutralizer Rounds for LCS

    Atlas North America has received a potential $48.3 million contract to manufacture explosive and inert neutralizer rounds for the U.S. Navy in an effort to help meet the Littoral Combat Ship program requirements. Atlas will work to produce the Seafox shipboard mine neutralizer system and perform engineering services in Germany, Florida and Virginia through April 2017, the […] More

  • Visiongain: Military Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Market to See Increased Demand Through 2026 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Military Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Market to See Increased Demand Through 2026

    Visiongain’s new report predicts that the military unmanned maritime vehicles market will be worth $810.9 million by the end of 2016. The company said the growth is due to the increased technological development and crossover between commercial and military needs. “Globally, militaries are turning to UMVs to augment their manned capabilities,” said Sophie Hammond, Visiongain’s […] More

  • Research and Markets: Unmanned Naval Systems Market to See 6% CAGR by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Unmanned Naval Systems Market to See 6% CAGR by 2020

    A new report from Research and Markets predicts the global market for unmanned sea platforms to experience a compound annual growth rate of at least 6 percent over the next four years. Military expansion efforts of governments across the world and the increasing adoption of commercial off-the-shelf components are expected to the drive the market from 2016 through 2020, […] More