An Austal shipbuilding business in Mobile, Alabama, will design and build a 16th Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel for the U.S. Navy, under a $230.5 million contract modification. Austal USA expects to start its construction of EPF 16 later this year and aims to deliver the next Spearhead-class ship sometime in 2025, the company said Tuesday....
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential $593 million contract to develop a passive sensor technology for the U.S. Navy’s shipboard surveillance, detection and cueing operations. The company will initially provide engineering, manufacturing and development services to the branch’s Shipboard Panoramic Electro-Optic/Infrar...
A business segment of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received contract options worth $396.73 million from the U.S. Navy to produce submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The exercised options under a previously awarded contract are for Trident II D5 production and deployed systems support services, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The Navy&#...
The Vertex Company has been awarded a potential seven-year, $850 million contract to help a U.S. Navy aviation component maintain aircraft for the branch’s test and evaluation activities. The company said Monday it will provide organizational-level maintenance services to the Naval Test Wing Atlantic, whose fleet consists of fixed-wing, unmann...
Louisiana-based shipyard operator Bollinger will build a mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy under a potential five-year, $122.9 million contract. Naval Sea Systems Command received three bids through the SAM website for the firm-fixed-price contract, which has an initial value of $13.7 million and includes options that w...
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at an April 20 forum hosted by GovCon Wire Events to share his outlook for service intelligence. Trussler has served as deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and the 68th director of naval intelligence since June 2020. He previously served...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $3.2 billion contract to build a family of radars designed to help the U.S. Navy defend against hostile aircraft and various missile threats. The company said Thursday it will manufacture SPY-6 hardware in solid-state, rotating and fixed-face variants for installation on seven types of Navy s...
Naval Sea Systems Command has issued a $222 million modification on a sonobuoy production contract shared between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO. The two companies will compete for orders and deliver up to 18,000 units of the AN/SSQ-125A series sonobuoy to the U.S. Navy under an exercised contract option, the Department of Defense said...
Amentum has received a non-competitive contract worth $99.94 million to provide maintenance and logistics support services for aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent, Maryland. The company will receive task orders to help maintain the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, EA-18G, MH-60S, E-2C and F-16 platforms through September 2023, the...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $93.55 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue the company’s modernization, conversation and overhaul support for the MK15 close-in weapon system. The company’s missiles and defense unit is helping the service branch update CIWS and associated hardware, the Department ...
