Defense Systems

Virtual Perimeter Monitoring System support contract awarded

3e Technologies International Inc. will provide surveillance and physical detection technology to the Navy and the Transportation Security Administration the contract.

Defense Systems

Navy outsources training center support

General Dynamics Corp. will support training programs designed for the Navy and other DOD agencies, which are overseen by the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.

Defense Systems

Navy, Alion team to develop helicopter training technology

Alion will assist the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., in developing Mission Rehearsal Tactical Team Trainer technologies for the Navy’s SH-60B and SH-60F helicopters.

Defense Systems

Unified DOD messaging system closer

The entire Defense Department is now close to having a single solution for DMS communications, following a recent award by SPAWAR.

Defense Systems

Navy awards contract for Tactical Data Link Systems

SAIC will support the Navy’s Tactical Data Link Systems, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Command and Control Processor Subsystem, the Tactical Digital Data Information Link and the Common Data Link Management System.

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Navy to compete Distributed Common Ground System–Navy contract

Navy officials said they are planning a limited competition, based on security restrictions, for the DCGS-N Prime Mission Product contract.

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MIDS-JTRS enters aircraft testing and integration phase

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has placed a $9.8 million order for pre-production sets of the next generation of aircraft radio terminals, based on the Joint Tactical Radio System software-defined radio and its waveforms.

Defense Systems

Navy awards continuing contract for CNI support

Under the contract, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will continue to provide engineering, design and integrated logistics services in support of the Common Network Interface program.

Defense Systems

Navy seeks white papers, proposals for C4ISR

White papers and full proposals detailing research and prototype development as it relates to net-centric command operations are due by Sept. 16, 2009.

Defense Systems

Navy awards training contract to Raytheon

The contract calls for Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC to assist the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.

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Navy helicopter data link system to be built by Harris

The $53 million award calls for Harris to build the Ku-band Common Data Link Hawklink system for the Navy’s Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System helicopter.

Defense Systems

Navy unveils NGEN requirements

Navy holds industry day to issue NMCI NGEN Requirements.

Defense Systems

Navy details NMCI follow-on plan

The documents, totaling about 700 pages, describe how the Navy would like to see NMCI evolve after the original contract expires in 2010.

Defense Systems

Two win Navy C4ISR systems work

Analex Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. have won three-year contracts to perform command and control life cycle support services for a programs office of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego.

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Navy begins test of tube-launched UAV

A Navy rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle designed to be fired from a sonobuoy launch tube will enter what is planned to be a final phase of testing under a $10.5 million contract award to Lite Machines, of West Lafayette, Ind.

Defense Systems

William Leigher as director of information operations

Rear Adm. William Leigher is being assigned as director of information operations, at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Defense Systems

DOD ups research with Navy supercomputer

The Defense Department has increased its supercomputing capacity with the purchase of an IBM supercomputer for the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Major Shared Resource Center.

Defense Systems

Instant picture

Instead of a visual scan that can take several minutes with a periscope, the camera can provide an instant full view of the surface.

Defense Systems

Drills test NMCI system

The Navy and a contractor hold drills to measure the capability of workers to maintain the continuity of operations of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet

Defense Systems

A virtual plane for Navy techs

The Navy has found a better way to troubleshoot an aircraft. It commissioned American Systems to develop simulators for F/A-18C maintenance training.