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  • Navy Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Manned-Unmanned Teaming Mission Planning Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Manned-Unmanned Teaming Mission Planning Tools

    Charles River Analytics has received $750,000 contract from the U.S. Navy to create mission planning tools for unmanned-manned teaming operations. The company said Wednesday it will produce Advanced Mission Display and Planning Tools designed to help operators monitor missions, identify response requirements and manage planning tools. The follow-on contract will run for 18 months. Charles River developed its AMPT application to help reduce workload […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls-Built Ford Aircraft Carrier Completes Builder's Sea Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls-Built Ford Aircraft Carrier Completes Builder’s Sea Trials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has concluded a series of USS Gerald R. Ford trials that assessed the aircraft carrier’s systems, components and compartments at sea. HII said Friday builder’s sea trials of the U.S. Navy‘s first Ford-class carrier, dubbed CVN 78, also covered high-speed runs and demonstrated ship capacities. Newport News Shipbuilding workers performed the tests with Ford sailors […] More

  • CH2M to Repair Navy, Marine Corps Facilities Under Contingency Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M to Repair Navy, Marine Corps Facilities Under Contingency Contract

    CH2M has secured task order funds from the U.S. Navy to support repair efforts at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany and at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under a previously awarded global contingency contract. The Defense Department said Wednesday CH2M will repair and demolish buildings at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in the aftermath of a natural disaster as well […] More

  • HII Subsidiary Gets NAVSEA Contract for Engineering, Technical, Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Subsidiary Gets NAVSEA Contract for Engineering, Technical, Logistics Support

    A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured a potential five-year, $39 million contract to provide engineering, technical, logistics, maintenance, installation and alteration support to the Naval Sea System Command‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division. HII said Tuesday the contract covers ship alterations, ship change documents, authorized work items, system repairs, operability testing, certification, inspections, fabrication and drawing and […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary to Help Maintain, Repair Submarines at Naval Base in Connecticut - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary to Help Maintain, Repair Submarines at Naval Base in Connecticut

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary has received a $46.2 million contract modification to conduct nuclear-related maintenance and repair efforts for operational submarines at a U.S. Navy base in New London, Connecticut. The Defense Department said Tuesday Electric Boat will also help the Navy manage the service branch’s Nuclear Regional Maintenance Department at the New England Submarine Base. The contract covers project management, technical analysis, […] More

  • Navy OKs Revolution Lighting's LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy OKs Revolution Lighting’s LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels

    Revolution Lighting Technologies‘ light-emitting diode tube offering has been certified by the U.S. Navy as compliant with the military standard and for use in the service branch’s fleet. The company said Thursday it received certification for its two-foot T8 LED tube after naval engineers tested and evaluated the product against Navy guidelines. T8’s light output works to increase visibility and safety […] More

  • Navy Tests Updated Software of Northrop-Built Triton UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Updated Software of Northrop-Built Triton UAS

    The U.S. Navy has conducted formal laboratory and initial flight tests on updated software for a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Tuesday the new MQ-4C Triton software package modernized the platform’s traffic alert and collision avoidance system, multi-aircraft control technology and multifunction active sensor radar modes. The Navy aims to achieve early operational capability status for the […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Manufacture Projectile Fuze for Navy Ship Gun Ammunition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Manufacture Projectile Fuze for Navy Ship Gun Ammunition

    Orbital ATK has secured a $20.8 million contract to produce and support the first article test of a multifunction projectile fuze designed to increase the overall mission capacity of five-inch gun ammunition for U.S. Navy ships. The MK419 Mod 1 Multi-Function Fuze combines five modes of operation into a single fuze intended to be used on MK187 projectiles that support Navy 54 and […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Jettison Release of Anti-Ship Missile From Super Hornet Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Jettison Release of Anti-Ship Missile From Super Hornet Aircraft

    A Lockheed Martin-built missile has been released from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft of the U.S. Navy during a flight test at the service branch’s air station in Patuxent River, Maryland. The jettison flight test aimed to validate the aerodynamic separation models of Lockheed’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile in a push to obtain flight clearance for captive carry integration […] More

  • Textron to Build 2 More Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Navy's Mine Countermeasure Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron to Build 2 More Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Navy’s Mine Countermeasure Mission

    Textron‘s unmanned systems division has been awarded a $14.8 million contract to build an additional two fourth-generation Common Unmanned Surface Vehicles for the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Influence Sweep System program. The company said Monday the service branch plans to use the CUSVs for a Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vehicle mission that will involve mine-hunting, neutralization and sweeping operations. CUSV is designed […] More

  • Navy Taps Astro Machine Works, Merrill Aviation for Battle Mgmt System Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Astro Machine Works, Merrill Aviation for Battle Mgmt System Components

    Astro Machine Works and Merrill Aviation have won five-year contracts worth up to $41.7 million combined to manufacture, assemble, inspect and deliver gun weapon system components for the U.S. Navy‘s battle management systems. Both contractors will also provide future redesigned and updated assemblies that result from the prototyping, research and developmental phases of BMS programs, the Defense Department said Monday. The […] More

  • Raytheon Demos AN/SPY-6 Radar Capacity at Ballistic Missile Defense Exercise in Hawaii - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos AN/SPY-6 Radar Capacity at Ballistic Missile Defense Exercise in Hawaii

    Raytheon has showcased a company-built air and missile defense radar system during a ballistic missile defense exercise held at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The exercise tested if Raytheon’s AN/SPY-6 radar could acquire, search and track a ballistic missile target and the test followed a series of activities in which the platform helped track integrated air and missile […] More