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  • Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process

    A U.S. Navy component has awarded SteelCloud a contract through the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 procurement vehicle to supply the military branch with a security compliance automation platform. The company said Thursday it will provide its ConfigOS platform to the Navy in an effort to help automate the Security Technical Implementation Guide remediation process and support Risk Management Framework accreditation for federal agencies. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud […] More

  • TWD and Associates to Extend Navy Mission Command System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TWD and Associates to Extend Navy Mission Command System Support

    The U.S. Navy has awarded TWD and Associates a potential $24.3 million contract to extend the company’s operations, maintenance and life cycle support to software and applications for mission command networks, systems and operations. TWD and Associates will perform the information technology services at the Naval Sea Systems Command’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Defense Department said Friday. The cost-plus-fixed-fee […] More

  • Austal, Navy to Christen 'Tulsa' Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal, Navy to Christen ‘Tulsa’ Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments

    Austal‘s U.S. subsidiary will host a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Independence-variant littoral combat ship at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The USS Tulsa, designated LCS 16, is the second Navy ship that honors the same-named city in Oklahoma and built to support the service branch’s near-shore environment and open-ocean operations. Tulsa is designed to eliminate asymmetric “anti-access” […] More

  • General Dynamics Delivers Future USS Rafael Peralta Destroyer to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Delivers Future USS Rafael Peralta Destroyer to Navy

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has delivered its first Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy under the service branch’s restarted development program for this ship class. The military branch said Monday the future USS Rafael Peralta underwent a series of at-sea and pier-side trials to check its operational readiness prior to delivery. “As the 65th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System

    A team that includes the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have conducted the first shipboard demonstration of the latest version of a Lockheed-produced  ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Monday the Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) combat system underwent the developmental test onboard the USS John Paul Jones and worked to detect, track and intercept a medium-range ballistic […] More

  • Mikros to Support Production of Maintenance Tool for Navy Radar Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mikros to Support Production of Maintenance Tool for Navy Radar Systems

    Mikros Systems has secured a potential five-year, $35.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support the production of a computer-aided alignment and maintenance tool for air and surface radar systems used on warships. The Defense Department said Monday the Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract also covers data management, engineering, logistics and technical […] More

  • Raytheon's SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test

    A Raytheon defensive missile has completed the first U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency flight test that sought to evaluate its capacity to intercept ballistic missile threats. Raytheon said Saturday the USS John Paul Jones guided missile destroyer launched the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA during the test to intercept a land-launched target. The demonstration sought to evaluate the performance of the SM-3 […] More

  • Raytheon Awarded Navy Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Awarded Navy Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor Support Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $50 million contract to provide hardware and support services to the military branch’s Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor  program. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity hybrid contract covers production, engineering, procurement and in-service engineering agent to support the program executive office for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence ESRP, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems

    The U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center has awarded Eaton a contract to support the modernization of supervisory control and data acquisition systems installed at U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps facilities in San Diego, California. Eaton said Tuesday it will supply equipment and provide project management, labor, engineering, supervision and transportation services to help the Naval […] More

  • Viavi Solutions to Supply Navy With Telecom Test Set - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viavi Solutions to Supply Navy With Telecom Test Set

    Viavi Solutions has received a potential five-year, $26.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide a telecommunication test set to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday that Viavi will perform work in California and Mexico under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract has a three-year base period will run through Feb. 1, 2020, and two one-year options. DLA’s land and […] More

  • Navy Partners With Microsoft, Johns Hopkins APL to Identify Naval Uses for Augmented Reality Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Partners With Microsoft, Johns Hopkins APL to Identify Naval Uses for Augmented Reality Tools

    Representatives from Microsoft and Johns Hopkins University met with members of the disruptive technology laboratory at Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock division in Maryland to tackle augmented reality technology platforms and its potential naval applications, the Navy reported Tuesday. DTL Director Garry Shields said the lab seeks to partner with the Defense Advanced Research Projects […] More

  • Air Force Taps PTC for Supply Chain Mgmt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps PTC for Supply Chain Mgmt Support

    PTC will provide a service parts management platform to the U.S. Air Force in an effort to help the military branch manage supply chain planning and weapon systems support activities at Air Force Sustainment Centers worldwide. The company said Tuesday its PTC Service Parts Management Software-as-a-Service  platform will work to optimize demand forecast accuracy, logistics cost estimation and aircraft availability as well as […] More