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Archives by date > 2009 > October > 22nd

Up to $475M to 6 Firms to Support HME&E Systems on Ships and Subs

Oct 22, 2009 16:34 UTC

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The Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) Naval Surface Warfare Center awarded 6 contracts worth up to $475 million to support the center’s Alterations Installation Team (AIT) in their work upgrading hull, mechanical, electrical, and electronic (HME&E) systems on ships and submarines.

The HME&E systems include a broad range of shipboard equipment, everything from transformers and heating/cooling/ventilation systems to C4ISR, radar, and navigation systems…

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AJACS Load: US Begins (Another) Next-Gen Tactical Transport Effort

Oct 22, 2009 14:04 UTC

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A400M Desert Cargo Drop Concept

A400M: The real target?

From “C-130J Acquisition Program Restructured“:

“[The C-130J Hercules] has since been deployed into theater by the USAF, where its vastly improved performance in “hot and high” environments has come in very handy. Unlike the pending Airbus A400M, however, the C-130J doesn’t solve the sub-survivable 20-ton armored vehicle limit that has stymied multiple US armored vehicle programs from the Stryker IAV to Future Combat Systems. As such, it represents an improvement that fails to address US tactical airlift’s key bottleneck limitation.”

Something called the Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) may – or may not – represent a first step toward addressing that issue. It may also represent a US aerospace effort to avoid a looming future in which the Airbus A400M would be the only available tactical transport for survivable armored personnel carriers. With the light transport JCA made up of entirely foreign designs, the 20-ton transport market beginning to crowd, and the heavy-lift C-17 production line headed toward shutdown, the US aerospace industry risks a slip from a 1980-1990s position of market dominance in the military transport space to a position of fighting for its competitive life by 2020.

So where does ACAA fit in? How is it connected to the Composite Affordability Initiative, and the notional Advanced Joint Air Combat System (AJACS) program?

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$22.7M to GE for CVBS to Inspect Aircraft Engines, Airframes for Damage

Oct 22, 2009 12:30 UTC

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GE Inspection Technologies in Skaneateles, NY won a $22.7 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from the US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) for the procurement of up to 1,600 common video borescope sets (CVBS), including associated technical and logistics data and training.

The CVBS is a portable, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) video system used to inspect interior engine components and airframes for cracks, foreign object damage, and corrosion. The CVBS will replace NAWCAD’s existing inventory of borescopes…

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Cianbro to Repair Drydock 2 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Oct 22, 2009 10:47 UTC

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Cianbro Corp. in Pittsfield, ME won a $19.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to repair the caisson (gate) and the sill at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s Drydock 2 facility.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1 of 4 remaining naval shipyards in the United States, provides the US Navy’s nuclear powered submarine fleet with overhaul, repair, and modernization facilities.

To carry out the repairs, Cianbro will build a temporary cofferdam to allow demolition and reconstruction of the drydock’s sill structure…

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