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  • General Dynamics Receives $59M Navy Funds for DDG 51 Destroyer Lead Yard Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives $59M Navy Funds for DDG 51 Destroyer Lead Yard Work

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary a one-year, $59.4 million contract modification to provide lead yard services for the DDG 51 guided missile destroyer shipbuilding program. Bath Iron Works will perform general class, class logistic, class design agent and class change design services as well as support DDG 51 Flight III update design efforts […] More

  • General Dynamics Secures Navy Ship & Submarine Yard Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Secures Navy Ship & Submarine Yard Services Contract

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has received a $24.7 million contract to provide planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered submarines and moored training ships. General Dynamics Electric Boat will furnish, manufacture and procure materials, supplies and services necessary for the operation of the planning yard for nuclear-powered submarine reactor and propulsion facilities, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in […] More

  • General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics a potential 20-month, $7.2 million contract modification to produce technology insertion-16 Total Ship Monitoring Systems and multipurpose processors. General Dynamics’ mission systems business will perform work in Virginia and Massachusetts through July 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to exercise […] More

  • Navy Starts Search for Next Generation Countermeasure Device - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Starts Search for Next Generation Countermeasure Device

    The Naval Sea Systems Command is working on a competitive solicitation in search of industry members that can develop, design, fabricate, integrate and test acoustic device countermeasure special test units, engineering development models, associated products and engineering services. A presolicitation notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the procurement will support the Next Generation Countermeasure program as NAVSEA looks to release […] More

  • Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $1.6 million in computer rugged servers from Themis Computer via the company’s reseller Strictly Technology LLC, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the order covers four Themis RES-XR5 1U standard-density rack mounted servers along with shock-mounting kits, cabling, optical transceivers, Gigabit Ethernet switches, disk-on-module data storage and auxiliary […] More

  • GTS to Produce Common Processing Tech for Navy Combat Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GTS to Produce Common Processing Tech for Navy Combat Systems

    Global Technical Systems has secured an $18.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce and test 36 common processing system units that will work to help address the computer requirements of various Navy combat systems. The open architecture-based Technical Insertion Twelve Hybrid CPS will comprise an enclosure assembly as well as processing, storage/extraction and input/output subsystems, the […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet

    A Textron subsidiary has deployed three types of weapon systems through its Scorpion jet as part of a weapons testing program that occurred Oct. 10-Oct. 14 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Wednesday its Textron AirLand arm worked with Naval Sea Systems Command and the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base to test Scorpion’s close air support function through […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy's Submarine Maintenance Org - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy’s Submarine Maintenance Org

    Trowbridge & Trowbridge has secured a task order under a potential three-year, $11.1 million prime contract to provide information management technology services to the Naval Sea Systems Command’s submarine maintenance, engineering, planning and procurement organization. The company said Wednesday the contract has a one-year base period and two option years and was awarded through the General Services […] More

  • VSE Lands $53M Maritime Support Orders Under Navy FMS Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Lands $53M Maritime Support Orders Under Navy FMS Deal

    VSE has secured $53.4 million in delivery orders to provide maritime program support for multiple U.S. allies as part of the company’s foreign military sales contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command. The orders include logistics, planning, repair and maintenance management, supply, technical assistance, training and engineering services, VSE said Tuesday. JR Brown, president of VSE’s federal services group, said […] More

  • Navy Discusses Large Displacement UUV Program at Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Discusses Large Displacement UUV Program at Industry Day

    The U.S. Navy‘s unmanned maritime systems program office and Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division held an industry information day to discuss the service branch’s plan to procure a new class of large-displacement unmanned undersea vehicles. The forum drew 265 representatives from 138 companies and sought to inform interested vendors on the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program, the Navy said Thursday. […] More

  • Navy-Sponsored ‘Innovation Crossover’ Conference Seeks to Advance Cyber, Defense Tech Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy-Sponsored ‘Innovation Crossover’ Conference Seeks to Advance Cyber, Defense Tech Collaboration

    The U.S. Navy will sponsor a two-day conference that will kick off Oct. 12 in Bloomington, Indiana, in an effort to promote technology research collaboration among defense, industry and academic institutions. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, will host the “Innovation Crossover: The Shape of Things to Come” conference and organizers expect the event […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy LXR Amphibious Ship Design Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy LXR Amphibious Ship Design Contract Modification

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured a $19.1 million contract modification to accelerate design work on the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious ship replacement program. The Naval Sea Systems Command obligated $3 million at the time of the award of the modification from the Navy’s fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will […] More