New Navy Contracts
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems-Marine Systems (NGES-MS), Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $67,687,769 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract to provide for the acquisition of the TRIDENT II (D-5) deployed SSBN and the SSGN Underwater Launcher Systems (ULS), Engineering Refueling Overhaul (ERO) shipyard support, gas generator production, TRIDENT II (D-5) missile tube closure production restart, US and UK launcher trainer support, underwater launcher technology sustainment (ULTS), SSGN Ancillary Hardware, Underwater Launcher System Ancillary Hardware, Launcher Initiation System Ancillary Hardware…
Fast Ferry Modified to Launch Torpedoes
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding’s fast ferry building expertise has taken an unusual turn, with the testing of a new torpedo-launching system for the U.S. Navy. Systems Engineering Associates Corporation (SEA CORP) of Middletown, R.I., chartered Millennium, the 125-ft. Incat-designed high-speed passenger ferry owned by Rhode Island Fast Ferry and built by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard in 1998 in May, to test an experimental surface torpedo launching system under development by NAVSEA.
Gladding-Hearn Modifies Fast Ferry to Launch Torpedoes
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding's fast ferry building expertise has taken an unusual turn, with the testing of a new torpedo-launching system for the U.S. Navy. Systems Engineering Associates Corporation (SEA CORP) of Middletown, R.I., chartered Millennium, the 125-ft. Incat-designed high-speed passenger ferry owned by Rhode Island Fast Ferry and built by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard in 1998 in May, to test an experimental surface torpedo launching system under development by NAVSEA. The catamaran's 37-knot light speed and open third deck were ideally suited to simulate launching from a destroyer or carrier deck. Using their 3-D Finite Element Modeling (FEM) capability…
Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract
Northrop Grumman Corporation Electronic Systems-Marine Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $40.3m contract to provide ongoing support for the TRIDENT II (D5) deployed SSBNs and SSGNs, extended refueling overhaul shipyard support, gas generator production, TRIDENT II (D5) missile tube closure production restart planning, United States and United Kingdom launcher trainer support, underwater launcher technology sustainment, VSG-E mount advance procurement and U.S. and U.K. strategic systems programs alterations and non-cConformance report projects. This contract contains options which, if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of this contract to $139,208,052. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif. (94 percent); Norfolk, Va. (2 percent); Bangor, Wash.
