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15 Dec 2021

Navy Provides Realistic, Operationally-relevant Test Environment for Technology

Shoreside: Team members collaborate to track and engage a high speed boat straying into an exclusion area. Photo credit: Dave Gentile, Ion

“Synergy” is an overused word. But in the case of the “Advanced Naval Technology Exercises” that are held around the country, ANTX is truly a sum greater than its parts.ANTXs are conducted by the Naval Research & Development Establishment (NR&DE) and hosted at the various Naval Warfare Centers to demonstrate emerging technologies and innovations aimed at solving Navy and Marine Corps problems and addressing mission priorities and gaps. They are not so much exercises, which usually denotes training, but more like technology demonstrations.

21 Jan 2021

Greensea Receives US Navy Award

“The long range standoff command and control of ROVs is the single best solution to keep the warfighter safe by getting them as far as possible from a subsea threat,” said Ben Kinnaman, CEO of Greensea.

Greensea's open architecture technology on Remotely Operated Vehicles furthered by Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grantGreensea Systems, Inc. creator of OPENSEA, an open architecture robotics platform for the marine industry, won a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ASAP grant totaling $1,100,000, with option for additional funding, for the continued development of Standoff Command and Control of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division…

03 Feb 2020

BAE Systems Wins Navy Contract

British multinational BAE Systems was awarded a pair of contracts worth $300 million that will support the Navy in digital endeavors.The first is a $212 million contract from the Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to integrate and sustain critical communications systems. As per contract, BAE will design, acquire, integrate and test radio systems for new guided missile destroyers specifically, as well as other unspecified Navy and Coast Guard ships.Additionally, the company was awarded a separate $104.7 million contract by NAWCAD to provide engineering and technical services to support production, lifetime-support, and in-service engineering for the radio communications C5ISR (command…

02 Jul 2009

General Atomics Receives Naval Grant

General Atomics, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $573,000,000 ceiling priced, undefinitized contract action for the production of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) CVN 78 Shipset. EMALS is the catapult launch system on CVN-78 class aircraft carriers, replacing the steam catapults used on prior generations of aircraft carriers. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., (49 percent); Tupelo, Miss., (19 percent); Mankato, Minn., (12 percent); Waltham, Mass., (4 percent); and various locations across the United States (16 percent), and work is expected to be completed in September 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 602-1.

11 Dec 2008

New Navy Contracts

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Newport News, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $12,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2100) for emergent and supplemental work for the accomplishment of the fiscal year 2008 Extended Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (EDSRA) of USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The CVN 65 FY08 EDSRA is a ship depot availability of approximately 16-month duration. EDSRAs are similar to overhauls in that they restore the ship, including all subsystems that affect combat capability and safety, to established performance standards. Additionally, an EDSRA provides an opportunity to perform hull inspections and recoating, and other maintenance related evolutions below the waterline that cannot be accomplished while the ship is waterborne.

05 Dec 2008

New Navy Contracts

Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, New Orleans, La., is being awarded a $16,801,209 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-2217) for Life Cycle Engineering and Support services on the LPD 17 Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship Program. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss. (60 percent) and New Orleans, La. (40 percent), and work is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $10,737,434 modification to a previously awarded cost plus fixed fee contract (N00421-06-C-0003) to exercise an option for technical…

28 Oct 2008

Navy Contracts Awarded

This effort will continue to provide for advanced planning, shipchecks, design, documentation, engineering, procurement, fabrication and preliminary shipyard or support facility work to prepare for and make ready for the refueling, overhaul, modernization and routine work. Work will be performed in Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, , is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-2117). Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., , is being awarded an $8,475,973 modification to a previously awarded cost plus fixed fee contract (N00421-05-C-0002) to exercise an option for engineering and logistics services in support of the Light Airborne Multi-purpose System MKIII AN/SRQ-4 data link.

18 Sep 2003

BAE Systems Awarded Contract Modification

communication, computers and intelligence (C4I) architecture of surface combatants. The estimated level of effort for this option is 223,000 man-hours. performed in California, Md. (80%); St. Inigoes, Md. Pascagoula, Miss. (5%), and is expected to be completed in September 2008. funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Center Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.

10 Jan 2002

Science Applications Gets Navy Contract

Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $46,022,062 contract for the development, demonstration and technology transition of a miniaturized communications terminal and several phased array antennas compatible with the Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability System. Work will be performed in Kauai, Hawaii and Arlington, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2004. Contract funds in the amount of $300,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under the Sensor Integration and Communication Technologies broad agency announcement. There were 23 proposals solicited, and 32 offers were received.

19 Jun 2002

BAE Systems Awarded Contract

BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $7,490,962 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee term contract to exercise an option for technical and engineering services for the integration and testing of radio communications systems for shipboard installation. Work will be performed in California, Md. (80 percent); St. Inigoes, Md. (10 percent); Bath, Maine (five percent); and Pascagoula, Miss. (five percent), and is to be completed by June 2003. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

26 Apr 2005

Integrated Systems Awarded Navy Contract

$64,073,299 ceiling-priced cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for research and development services to increase the government’s understanding of Lighter Than Air platforms and their usage for sensor technologies. Services to be provided include experimenting with outfitting commercial blimps with sensors and a tactical data link, equipping an airship with Electro Optics /Infrared /Hyperspectral cameras to provide all-weather, day-night surveillance, the use of an Advanced Airship Flying Laboratory to provide a flying laboratory for testing sensors, the use of high altitude airship surveillance, the creation of Hybrid Ultra Large Aircraft , and training of Test Pilots to fly airships.

01 Oct 2007

Sarnoff Awarded $11.3m Navy Contract

Sarnoff Corp., Princeton, N.J., is being awarded an $11,294,243 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering tasks for the design, manufacture, installation and repair of Navy Special Projects Systems associated with the Electro-Optic and Special Mission Sensors Program. This effort will include focus on the research, development, analysis, and prototyping of a family of systems that result in a C4ISR system architecture. Work will be performed in Princeton, N.J. and is expected to be completed in September 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured using a Broad Agency Announcement and seven offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J. is the contracting activity.

22 Oct 2007

Raytheon Missile Systems Awarded $8.3M Contract

Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $8,315,500 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for 100 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Command Launch Computer (CLC) systems in support of F/A-18E/F and EA-18G platforms. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in September 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

14 Aug 2007

Navy Contracts Awarded

Lockheed Martin, Maritime Systems & Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $23,119,281 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the operation and maintenance of a limited in-service support program for the Royal Norwegian Navy new frigate (NNF) F310 CL program.These efforts include software baseline development/maintenance, software maintenance management, engineering support, configuration management, logistics repair, spares support and diminishing manufacturing sources/material shortages. This contract supports the Government of Norway under the Foreign Military Sales program. The effort described herein provides limited in-service…

23 Dec 2002

BAE Systems Signs Navy Deal

combatants. 378,938 man-hours. Work will be performed in California, Md. (80%); St. Inigoes, Md. Miss. (5%), and is expected to be completed in December 2007. year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.