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Navy cancels East Coast IT event, but will attend joint warfighting conference

The Department of the Navy (DON) has canceled its East Coast 2013 information technology conference in Virginia Beach “due to budget and travel restrictions.”

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Navy awards contract for F/A-18 computers to General Dynamics

The Navy has awarded a $19.3 million contract to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems for F/A-18 advanced mission computers.

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Northrop wins Navy contract for six more unmanned Fire Scouts

The Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $71 million contract to produce six additional Fire Scout MQ-8C unmanned helicopters.

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Navy selects Wyle for UAS technical support

The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Wyle a three-year, $24 million contract to furnish testing services, technology support and life-cycle analysis for unmanned aircraft systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance projects and programs.

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SAIC to support Navy maritime intelligence systems

The Navy has awarded a contract to SAIC to furnish technical and engineering support for maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and information operations (ISR/IO) for existing and future command and control systems.

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Navy picks 10 small businesses for cyber operations work

The Navy has awarded task-order contracts to 10 small businesses to furnish integrated cyber operations support services for a variety of programs and functions.

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SAIC to assist Navy with anti-terrorism program software

Science Applications International Corp. has won a contract from the Navy potentially worth as much as $74.3 million to provide software for a program designed to protect U.S. military installations around the globe from terrorist attacks.

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ViaSat records successful test of Ka-band satcom on H-3

ViaSat has successfully demonstrated a high-performance Ka-band satellite communication system that delivers beyond line-of-sight broadband for rotary wing aircraft.

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Navy wants help with extendable mobile ad-hoc network testbed

The Naval Research Laboratory wants assitance from the contracting community with various aspects of its existing extendable mobile ad-hoc network emulator testbed.

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Cubic to develop courseware for Navy's Littoral Combat Ships program

Cubic has won three contracts from the Navy to develop instructor-led and instructor-facilitated self-paced courseware that will enable sailors to get accredited for duty on Littoral Combat Ships.

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Navy wants a new electronic procurement system

The Navy has issued a request for information (RFI) for an electronic procurement system (EPS) to replace the contract writing capabilities of the legacy Defense Department Standard Procurement System.

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DOD builds foundation for future SATCOM

New communications satellite network will boost bandwidth while helping reduce terminal sizes.

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Navy $1.2B contract mod would extend NMCI services for NGEN transition

The Navy on Feb. 20 said it intends to issue a sole-source contract modification that could potentially extend the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Continuity of Services Contract by five months, and increase its cost by $1.2 billion to cover ongoing transition to Next Generation Enterprise Services program.

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SpotterRF demos harbor security radar for Navy

SpotterRF recently completed a demonstration for the Navy in which it showed that its Spotter M600C radar is capable of detecting all vessels coming in and out of a harbor.

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General Dynamics to port next-gen waveforms onto Navy digital radios

General Dynamics C4 Systems has received a $40 million contract modification from the Navy to port the MOUS Waveform and the Integrated Waveform into the AN/USC-61(C) Digital Modular Radio.

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Navy completes first ship-based flight of Boeing Insitu’s RQ-21A small tactical UAS

The Navy completed this week the first flight at sea of its RQ-21A small unmanned aerial system from an ambphibious transport dock ship.

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Mercury to assist Navy with electronic warfare research

Mercury Systems has won a three-year contract with the Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Electronic Warfare Division to assist the division with electronic warfare technology.

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Northrop's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye approved for full-rate production

The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has successfully passed initial operational testing and has been approved for full-rate production, the Naval Air Systems Command.

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Navy 4G LTE network operational on two ships headed to Persian Gulf

The Navy will send the USS Kearsarge and USS San Antonio to the Persian Gulf in late March with its brand new 4G LTE network.

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ViaSat wins Navy MIDS LTV cryptographic module contract

ViaSat has won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to deliver a logical cryptographic module to be integrated into a variety of MIDS LVT hardware variants.