Navy Deal
Rafael Signs $28m Navy Deal
The Israeli Armament Development Authority Rafael signed a contract with the United States Navy to supply then with 67 Typhoon-type naval weapon stations. The deal, a joint enterprise between Rafael and the American company EBA, is set to yield Rafael $28m. The Typhoon-type naval weapon station is designated for medium diameter canons installed on navy ships. The system is also designed to handle terror threats from sea. (Source: Ynetnews)
Unidyne Wins $23M Navy Deal
Unidyne Corp., a subsidiary of the Titan Corp., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $22,914,557 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee with fee adjustment contract for engineering, operation and maintenance services for the Technology Center for Cable and Connectors (TC3) facility. The TC3 will provide the fleet and other customers with cables, components, cable assemblies and engineering services. Work will be performed in Newport, R.I
BIW Wins $76.6m Navy Deal
Bath Iron Works Corporation (a General Dynamics Company), Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $76,613,742 cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2305) to exercise an option for DDG 51 and FFG 7 Class Integrated Planning Yard Services to provide expert design, planning, and material support services for both maintenance and modernization. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine, and is expected to be completed by September 2008
Harris Wins $7.5M Navy Deal
Harris Corp., Government Communications Systems Div., Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $7,509,190 firm-fixed-price contract for non-recurring efforts to establish production of AN/SRQ-4(Ku) field change kits for retrofit ships, complete AN/SRQ-4(Ku) systems for forward fit ships, and AN/ARQ-58 Radio Terminal Sets for MH-60 aircraft. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and is expected to be completed in February 2006. Contract funds in the amount of
ACB Wins $12.8m Navy Deal
Aluminum Chambered Boats, Inc., Bellingham Wash., is being awarded a $12,824,070 firm-fixed-priced order no. M67854-08-F-5038 under GSA contract no. GS-07-F-0133M for 42 bridge erection boats, 42 trailers, 42 technical manuals, and 42 warranties. Work will be performed in Bellingham Wash., and work is expected to be completed Jul. 2009. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competed on GSA
Rite Solutions Wins Navy Deal
Rite Solutions Inc., Pawcatuck, Conn., is being awarded a $14,404,724 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-6258). This contract is a Phase III Small Business Innovative Research topic number N05-149, "Combat System of the Future," to perform research, development, and engineering services. Rite Solutions will apply unique humans systems integration processes leading to command decision modules and supporting infrastructures
Russia Inks Deal To Raise Kursk
Russia signed a deal with Dutch salvage and heavy transport firm Mammoet to raise the wrecked nuclear submarine Kursk, which plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea last year killing all 118 sailors on board. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said the Russian navy, the St Petersburg-based Rubin bureau which designed the submarine and Mammoet had signed a contract to lift the Kursk this summer. He did not give the value of the deal, but has said that the salvage would cost about $70 million
This Day in Naval History - July 23
From the Navy News Service 1947 - First Navy all jet squadron (VF-17A) receives its first aircraft (FH). 1948 - USS Putnum (DD 757) evacuates U.N. team from Haifa, Israel and becomes first U.S. Navy ship to fly the U.N. flag. 1950 - USS Boxer sets record crossing of Pacific to bring aircraft, troops, and supplies to Korea at start of the Conflict. 1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN 571) departs Pearl Harbor for first submerged transit of North Pole.
Kvichak Wins U.S. Navy Deal for 15 Boats
Kvichak Marine, Industries, Inc. was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for fifteen (15) 30’ Rapid Response Skimmers to be delivered to various Navy bases over the next 12 months. The Navy currently owns and operates over 70 Kvichak-built skimmers worldwide as the Navy’s tier one response asset. The rapid-response, shallow-water capable skimmer is ideally suited for use on oil spills in waterways, bays and harbors. The all-aluminum skimmer is 30
General Dynamics Wins $12m Navy Deal
General Dynamics Awarded $12 Million for Virginia-Class Repair Parts General Dynamics Electric Boat has received an $11.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide on-board repair parts for Virginia-class submarines. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The modification was exercised under the $14 billion contract awarded to Electric Boat in December 2008 for the construction of eight Virginia-class submarines
Ingalls Shipbuilding Wins $70m Navy Deal
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) said its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $70m cost-plus-fixed-fee advance procurement contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead materials for LPD 27, the 11th amphibious transport dock of the USS San Antonio (LPD 17) class
Report: Daewoo Shipbuilding Wins U.K. Navy Deal
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering reportedly has won bids to build four 35,000-ton support tankers for the British Royal Navy, an order worth $700m, according to a report on http://english.chosun.com. This is third-largest order ever recorded in Korea's defense-related exports
Daewoo Shipbuilding Signs MOU to Build Ships For Peruvian Navy
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Peru to build ships for the country's navy as part of the South Korean company's plan to raise exports of submarines and other military vessels.
Seaspan Selects IFS Applications to Support $8B Navy Deal
IFS North America said that Seaspan has selected IFS Applications as its Shipbuilding materials requirements planning (MRP) solution. IFS Applications was chosen because it provides a powerful project-based solution (PBS) with the ability to control cost and schedule in real-time
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 16
1885 - CAPT Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College 1891 - Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile. 1940 - 5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada.
Thoma-Sea Wins Navy Deal
Thoma-Sea Shipbuilders of Lockport reportedly won a $7.3m contract to build a Catamaran Hull Hydrographic Survey Vessel for the government of Oman, according to a report on www.brahmand.com. This vessel will be built by Thoma-Sea as a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program
Electric Boat Wins Navy Deal
Electric Boat Corp., , is being awarded a $171,856,353 contract for lead yard services, development studies and design efforts related to Virginia Class submarines. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $880,871,020
This Day in Naval History – July 23
1947 - First Navy all jet squadron (VF-17A) receives its first aircraft (FH). 1948 - USS Putnum (DD-757) evacuates U.N. team from Haifa, Israel and becomes first U.S. Navy ship to fly the U.N. flag. 1950 - USS Boxer sets record crossing of Pacific to bring aircraft, troops
J.M. Martinac Wins Navy Deal for 2 More Tugs
According to a report on www.thenewstribune.com, J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding signed acontract to build two more tugboats for the U.S. Navy, just as the yard was preparing to deliver the last of two Navy tugs of the same design as the new boats
$118m Navy Deal for LM MS2
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors (LM MS2), Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $118,646,449 fixed-price-incentive contract for the production of two multi-mission signal processor equipment sets; three ballistic missile defense 4.0
LRAD Corp. Wins $1.5m Navy Deal
LRAD Corporation (NASDAQ: LRAD) announced a $1.5m in new LRAD orders from the U.S. Navy. The orders, which consist primarily of LRAD 1000X systems and support equipment, are scheduled to ship this quarter. “This is the latest in a series of LRAD orders we’ve received from the U.S
Electric Boat Wins $174m Navy Deal
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $174,486,588 cost-plus-fixed-fee option under existing contract (N00024-10-C-2118) for additional lead-yard services, development studies, and design efforts related to Virginia-class submarines
Interocean Awarded $28m Navy Deal
Interocean American Shipping Corp., Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $28,189,899 firm-fixed-price contract for the operation and maintenance of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform (SBX-1). SBX-1 will be deployed to the Pacific Ocean to provide ballistic missile-tracking information to the
Electric Boat: $21.1m Navy Deal
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $21,133,458 cost-plus, fixed-fee level-of-effort contract for reactor plant planning yard services for nuclear-powered submarines and support yard services for the Navy's moored training ships
SAIC: Deep Sea Ops Navy Deal
Science Applications International Corp., Mclean, Va., is being awarded a $10,647,009 modification to a previously awarded, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N66001-11-C-4116) for the Deep Sea Operations Program to introduce surveillance that operates at extreme ocean depths to detect quiet submarines