A joint venture between Collins Aerospace and Elbit Systems of America has secured a two-year, $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update a head-worn device that allows fighter pilots to cue aircraft weapons and sensors for target acquisition. Collins Elbit Vision Systems will develop, engineer and test the Improved Joint Helmet Mounted Cue...
Ten companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $400 million U.S. Navy contract to carry out military construction projects for Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Northwest. NAVFAC received 22 proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which includes a five-year option period, the Department...
Eleven small businesses have won spots on a potential $200 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop, integrate and update software platforms for a U.S. Navy program executive office focused on command, control, communications, computers and intelligence. The small business set-aside contract will involve using artificial i...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $91 million task order to update hardware and software for the U.S. Navy’s V-22 aircraft logistics information technology system. The task will cover research, development, test and evaluation support to the LOG-IT product line under Naval Air Systems Command, SAIC said Tuesd...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will continue providing the U.S. Navy with AN/SQQ-89A (V) 15 anti-submarine warfare systems, spares and support services under a $100 million contract modification. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business was contracted for work on Hypervisor Technology Zero AN/SQQ-89A ...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $282.6 million contract to modernize the Rolling Airframe Missile, a ship self-defense capability, for the U.S. Navy and three foreign military customers. The award from Naval Sea Systems Command covers design agent and engineering support to the MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program, the Depa...
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has won a $54.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to manufacture a hydrodynamic shaping material for U.S. Navy submarine applications. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, received two bids for the HYSHMA procurement effort and the service branch will obligate $3...
Frontier Electronic Systems has received a five-year, $94.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide hardware and engineering services for ship data distribution systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will work to meet hardware and support requirements of the AN/SPQ-15(V) DDS progra...
The State Department has cleared a potential $5.9 billion foreign military sale of Boeing-manufactured (NYSE: BA) multimission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft and related equipment to the Canadian government. Canada asked to buy 16 P-8A aircraft and 111 items such as joint tactical radios, GPS navigation systems and guardian laser transm...
The U.S. Navy’s Flank Speed cloud platform was introduced about two years ago, in May 2021, and has reportedly helped bring about a wave of positive technological change for the service branch. A collaboration with Microsoft 365, Flank Speed has seen the transition of over 530,000 users to its common suite of tools and shared digital...
