The U.S. Navy has ordered an additional two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) under a $248.2 million contract modification. Northrop will build the autonomously operated vehicles as part of the program’s lot five low-rate initial production, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The service branch wil...
Austal‘s ship manufacturing business in Mobile, Alabama, will design and build a medium auxiliary floating dry dock for the U.S. Navy under a potential $128.1 million firm-fixed-price contract. Naval Sea Systems Command received two offers for the project via a competitive procurement on SAM.gov, the Department of Defense said Friday. The firm...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $458 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of services that will support ballistic missile submarines over a more than five-year period. The company’s marine systems business will perform shipyard field operations, hardware production, systems engineering, program manageme...
A Fincantieri subsidiary has secured a $536.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to design and build the third ship in the Constellation class of guided-missile frigates. The Department of Defense said Thursday Fincantieri Marinette Marine will also provide digital environment support for the future USS Chesapeake (FFG 64) in addition ...
Craig Faller, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has joined the board of advisers of Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO Matt Jones said in a statement published Thursday that Faller brings to the advisory board his vision for integrating capabilities, operational concepts and technology and provide strategic guidance on the company’s platforms and...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $40.6 million order to conduct a full-scale fatigue test and an effect-of-defect evaluation on the U.S. Navy’s Triton MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system. The company will additionally help the service branch examine system fatigue and damage tolerance of the autonomously operated system through post-test...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential $99 million contract to support infrastructure and cybersecurity operations of two U.S. Navy organizations responsible for the service branch’s information warfare force generation and oceanography program. The company will perform tasks for Naval Information Forces Command and Naval Meteorol...
Rear Adm. Lorin Selby asserts that the U.S. Navy is positioned at a unique moment in history, a crucial turning point where technology is moving at a “breakneck pace” and many sectors, including the military, have arrived at a decisive fulcrum between the analog and the digital. “This is a win or lose decade. If we...
The U.S. Navy is paving new paths toward innovation and getting more creative about how it harnesses new talent while developing and retaining its workforce. Christopher Cleary, principal cyber advisor for the Department of the Navy, said he thinks younger, newer Navy members should be given more responsibility and oversight of long-term initiatives...
Southcoast Welding and Manufacturing has won spots on a pair of multiple-award contracts worth potentially $1.19 billion combined to repair, maintain and update non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious ships that are visiting or stationed at the U.S. Navy’s San Diego base. Naval Sea Systems Command received seven offers for the lots I and ...
