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  • Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training, Counter-IED Tech at Unmanned Warrior Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training, Counter-IED Tech at Unmanned Warrior Event

    Saab will feature its anti-submarine warfare training system and waterborne anti-improvised explosive device vehicle at the Unmanned Warrior event in Scotland and Wales from Oct. 10 to 21. The company said Wednesday it will demonstrate its Sea Wasp anti-IED underwater robot and AUV62-AT acoustic target system that works to replicate active and passive submarine signatures for ASW force training. […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls-Built National Security Cutter Munro Completes Acceptance Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls-Built National Security Cutter Munro Completes Acceptance Trials

    The sixth Huntington Ingalls Industries-built U.S. Coast Guard national security cutter Munro has completed acceptance trials at the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to validate the performance of the ship’s systems. Munro accomplished a full-power propulsion run during the two-day trial that tested its propulsion, electrical, damage control, anchor-handling, small boat operations and combat systems, HII said Friday. The U.S. Navy‘s […] More

  • Capstone Gets SeaPort-e Task Order for Navy Regional Command Operations Center Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone Gets SeaPort-e Task Order for Navy Regional Command Operations Center Support

    Capstone has secured a task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center for staffing services to nine U.S. Navy regional command operations centers. Capstone said Monday it teamed up with Tenica and Associates to provide watch stander support for the military branch’s operations centers in the mid-Atlantic, Japan, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia regions. The order was […] More

  • NovAtel's GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NovAtel’s GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network

    NovAtel has received an order from the U.S. Naval Observatory for its anti-jamming antenna system in efforts to address the core controlled reception pattern antenna requirements of the Defense Department‘s main global enterprise network. The company said Monday its GPS Anti-Jam Technology will serve to support the DoD Information Network, which facilitates voice, data, video and bandwidth services. “GAJT has now been shipped and is […] More

  • Raytheon SM-6 Conducts Navy's Longest Range Surface-to-Air Intercept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SM-6 Conducts Navy’s Longest Range Surface-to-Air Intercept

    Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has set a record for the U.S. Navy‘s longest range surface-to-air intercept after the missile engaged an over-the-horizon target. The company said Friday the SM-6 was deployed from the Navy’s USS Princeton cruiser that features an Aegis baseline 9 combat system. The missile also broke its own record in January after SM-6 surpassed its June 2014 milestone when […] More

  • Whitesell-Green to Help Navy Build Triton UAS Mission Control Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Whitesell-Green to Help Navy Build Triton UAS Mission Control Facility

    Whitesell-Green has been awarded an $8.5 million contract by the U.S. Navy to build a mission control facility at a military airport in Florida for the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The U.S. Navy said Wednesday the company will construct and connect a 12,200-square-foot building to an existing Triton mission control facility located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. “The new building will […] More

  • AAR, Textron, Beechcraft Collaborate on Air Force T-6 Support Contract Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR, Textron, Beechcraft Collaborate on Air Force T-6 Support Contract Proposal

    AAR and Textron‘s systems business have partnered with Beechcraft Defense to bid on the U.S. Air Force‘s contract to provide support for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System’s T-6 military training aircraft fleet. The companies seek to supply parts and warehouse services to the Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army under the Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Supply contract, AAR […] More

  • Navy Exercises $50M BAE Contract Option for Destroyer Ship Gun Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises $50M BAE Contract Option for Destroyer Ship Gun Updates

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems has secured a $50 million contract option to incorporate the Mod 4 configuration into an additional four Mk 45 naval gun systems onboard U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers. The company said Tuesday the exercised option brings the full value of BAE Systems Inc.‘s Mk 45 modernization contract with the service branch to $130 million. The Mod 4 configuration will […] More

  • Mikros Gets 1st Task Order Under Navy LCS Sensors Monitoring Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mikros Gets 1st Task Order Under Navy LCS Sensors Monitoring Tech Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Mikros Systems an initial $3 million task and delivery order to support the development, logistics and production of a condition-based maintenance technology for combat system sensors on Littoral Combat Ships. It marks the first order under a potential five-year, $48 million contract Mikros received earlier this month for work on the Navy’s Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Lockheed Subcontract for Li-ion Batteries on USSOCOM Submersibles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Lockheed Subcontract for Li-ion Batteries on USSOCOM Submersibles

    Lockheed Martin has awarded General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems subsidiary a contract to supply Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command’s new Dry Combat Submersible delivery vehicles. The LiFT battery system features a high energy density and will work to power DCS propulsion and internal support systems as the vehicle ferries divers in dry environments, General Atomics said […] More

  • Navy Receives Initial Batch of Northrop Mine-Hunting Sonar Upgrade Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Initial Batch of Northrop Mine-Hunting Sonar Upgrade Kits

    Northrop Grumman has produced the first of three batches of tools for the U.S. Navy to modernize the service branch’s current mine-hunting countermeasure technology. The tools have been delivered to the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City division  in Florida and are designed to update 27 AQS-24A mine-hunting devices into the AQS-24B configuration, Northrop said Wednesday. The Navy’s HM-12, -14 and -15 Mine Countermeasures […] More

  • OGSystems to Help Update Navy's Center for Security Forces Training Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems to Help Update Navy’s Center for Security Forces Training Programs

    OGSystems has received a $3.8 million contract to provide new technology and approaches in support of efforts to modernize training programs at the U.S. Navy‘s Center for Security Forces. The company said Monday it will employ immersive engineering, lean startup and agile methods, as well as utilize virtual and augmented reality platforms to help transform the Navy’s training […] More