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  • CEA Technologies Awarded $115M Contract to Update Australian Frigate Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CEA Technologies Awarded $115M Contract to Update Australian Frigate Radar

    CEA Technologies has secured a potential $115 million contract to update the radar system of the Australian navy’s Anzac-class frigates. The company will produce and deliver CEAFAR2-L air search radars for installation on the frigates, Australia’s defense department said Wednesday. Christopher Pyne, Australian minister for defense industry, said the department aims to help its defense force adapt to air […] More

  • Raytheon-Kongsberg Team to Propose Missile Tech for Navy LCS, Frigate Warships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Team to Propose Missile Tech for Navy LCS, Frigate Warships

    A team composed of Raytheon and Kongsberg Grupen plans to offer the U.S. Navy a precision missile system in a bid to address the service branch’s over-the-horizon requirement for littoral combat ships and frigates. The alliance’s Naval Strike Missile offering for the Navy will feature seeker and target identification technologies designed to defend against land and sea targets as well as […] More

  • Boeing Stops Navy Sea-Launched Missile Contract Pursuit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Stops Navy Sea-Launched Missile Contract Pursuit

    Boeing has decided not to compete for a U.S. Navy program to provide an over-the-horizon cruise missile designed to be launched from frigates and littoral combat ships due to continuing changes in system requirements, Defense News reported Tuesday. Christopher P. Cavas writes Troy Rutherford, director of cruise missile systems at Boeing’s defense business, said the […] More

  • Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand's Combat System Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand’s Combat System Trainer

    A Kongsberg subsidiary produced the geospatial and display components of a combat management system that Lockheed Martin built and delivered to New Zealand’s navy. Lockheed’s Canadian arm deployed the CMS 330 Combat Management System to a maritime warfare training center in Devonport, New Zealand, as part of the country’s Anzac frigate system modernization effort, Kongsberg said Monday. Kongsberg noted the CMS 330 was originally developed to support Canada’s Halifax-class frigates and modified later […] More

  • DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop's Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production

    An estimated 150 small and medium-size Australian enterprises will offer their products and services in a meeting with BAE Systems and 20 of its suppliers as the SMEs seek to participate in the Australian navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship maritime defense project. BAE said Monday it currently works to mature the design for the ships under the Type 26 program and […] More

  • Lockheed's Mission Systems Division Opens New Ontario HQ; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Mission Systems Division Opens New Ontario HQ; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments

    Lockheed Martin Canada has moved its mission systems and training business to a new headquarters at Palladium Drive in Kanata, Ontario, from the division’s former location on Solandt Road, the Ottawa Business Journal reported Thursday. Tom Pechloff writes that Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Canada MST, said the division employs […] More