The U.S. Navy is working to drive the expansion of the service’s cloud environment to the tactical edge, according to Navy chief information officer Aaron Weis. Weis, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said edge computing capabilities top the Navy’s list of priorities as the service pushes modernization initiatives, and especially in the ...
The Department of Defense has selected Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) to complete application development work for a 5G-based warehouse project at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. An assessment team for the NBC 5G Smart Warehouse project evaluated applications from Vectrus and two other companies as part of a down-select process during the initial phase and...
American Systems has received a $42.1 million contract to develop technology for the evaluation of U.S. Navy combat systems in training environments. The Naval Air Warfare Center’s training systems division sought a Combat Systems Integrated Product to help service personnel carry out weapon assessments and predict a system’s ability to ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue providing services in support of U.S. Navy and Australian MQ-4C Tritons and the unmanned aerial system’s mission control and operator training platforms under a $97.3 million contract modification. The award covers maintenance, logistics and sustainment services as well as test, technical and reach-ba...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 63 companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.7 million contract to provide rapid development and prototyping and systems integration support to help the military branch meet new and emerging requirements and advance the growth of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s services portfolio at Webster O...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $166.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide, install and configure 22 F-35 aircraft training devices. The contractor will deliver interactive courseware, a multispectral database and full-mission simulators to the service branch as part of the contract action, the Department of Defens...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $3.69 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy deploy portable radios and ancillary parts. The service branch is procuring handheld, manpack, vehicle-mounted and base-mounted devices that have been approved by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Department of Defense sai...
A Fincantieri subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $78.7 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships. Fincantieri Marine Systems North America will assign technicians and provide program management support to the service branch’s planned corrective and maintenance efforts for MCM-1 vessels,...
Steve Landau, a long-time official of the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Strategic Systems Program, has been appointed chief engineer and director for naval undersea systems at Systems Planning and Analysis. In his new role, Landau will manage SPA’s portfolio of products and services designed to support naval undersea missions and national nuclea...
DLT Solutions has received a five-year, $167.5 million contract to provide the Department of the Navy a turnkey system to procure Red Hat‘s information technology products and services. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps can gain access to open source software platforms and hybrid cloud service offerings through DLT’s Enterprise Agreement Pl...
