HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has secured a $240 million contract to obtain materials and begin construction efforts for the U.S. Navy’s future LPD-32 amphibious transport dock. LPD-32 will become the third LPD-17 Flight II class ship and the 16th San Antonio-class vessel constructed at the Ingalls Shipbuilding facility, the co...
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...
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...
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 ...
Thomas Greenspon, formerly an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and a U.S. Navy veteran, has been appointed to the board of directors of Dewberry. “While I’ve spent many years in the federal, state/local, and non-profit worlds, I am humbled by the opportunity to contribute my perspective as a member of the...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will produce a hemisphere configuration of an updated electronic warfare system for the U.S. Navy under a $254.4 million contract option. Naval Sea Systems Command exercised the option as part of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 program, which represents the third effort in a series of AN/SLQ-32...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will maintain surface ship undersea warfare systems for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Australia and Japan under a contract worth potentially $291.9 million. The company will install AN/SQQ-89 combat system shipset hardware and perform logistics support work under the contract with an initial value of $24 million, the Depar...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has received a $422.7 million contract modification to produce hardware for a U.S. Navy family of air and missile defense radars. Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate the full amount on the award to cover options for AN/SPY-6(V) production work to be performed by Raytheon Missiles & Defense,...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has been awarded a $99.5 million contract option to manufacture long-range strike missiles for the U.S. Navy’s over-the-horizon ship defense requirement. The company’s missiles and defense business will produce the OTH Weapon System, which includes a launching mechanism and a fire control suite, under th...
The U.S. Navy has selected 18 companies that will compete for task orders under a potential five-year, $346.5 million contract to provide a number of military service organizations with program management, logistics and other support services. The contractors will deliver management integration support to several Naval Air Systems Command program of...
