Department of Defense & Industry Daily News
Advertisement
Defense program acquisition news, budget data, market briefings
  • Contact
    Editorial
    Advertising
    Feedback & Support
    Subscriptions & Reports
  • Subscribe
    Paid Subscription
    in-depth program analysis & data sets
    Free Email Newsletter
    quick daily updates
    Google+ Twitter RSS
  • Log in
    Forgot your password?
    Not yet a subscriber? Find out what you have been missing.
Archives by date > 2009 > December

FLIR to Supply Surveillance Systems to Middle East/North African Customers

Dec 09, 2009 10:01 UTC

ELEC_FLIR_Star_SAFIRE_III_Thermal_Sensor_Image

FLIR Star SAFIRE III
thermal system image
(click to view larger)

FLIR Systems received a $6.7 million contract to supply infrared multi-sensor surveillance systems to unidentified customers in the Middle East and North Africa.

The surveillance systems are based on a commercially-developed/military-qualified (CDMQ) model that provides EO/IR products deployable on airborne, maritime, and land platforms.

FLIR is supplying its Star SAFIRE III and Ultra Series surveillance systems:

Continue Reading… »

Up to $124.9M to LM for US Naval Air Terminal Ground Handling Services in Italy

Dec 08, 2009 16:29 UTC

Advertisement
AIR_P-3C_Orion_At_NAS_Sigonella_Italy.jpg

P-3Cs on the flightline
at Naval Air Station Sigonella

Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, MD won a $14.6 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide air terminal ground handling services at US Naval Support Activity Naples and US Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy.

The contract contains a 7-month base period and 5 one-year options, which, if exercised, bring the total value of the contract to $124.9 million.

Naval Support Activity Naples and the Naval Air Station Sigonella both support the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet.

Continue Reading… »

VSD to Provide Patrol Boat Training Systems to Iraqi Navy

Dec 08, 2009 12:47 UTC

Swiftships 35-Meter Patrol Boat

Swiftships’ 35-meter
coastal patrol boat
(click to view larger)

VSD, a Virginia Beach, VA-based subsidiary of QED Systems, received a $23 million contract from prime contractor Swiftships Shipbuilders to provide the Iraqi Navy with training and training systems.

Continue Reading… »

Up to $18.7M in Military Sealift Command Ship Overhaul Work

Dec 08, 2009 10:00 UTC

MIL_US_MSC_Seal

The mission of the US Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) is to support US forces by delivering supplies and conducting specialized missions across the world’s oceans.

The command operates approximately 110 noncombatant, civilian-crewed ships that replenish Navy ships, conduct specialized missions, preposition combat cargo at sea around the world, and move military cargo and supplies used by deployed US forces and coalition partners.

To keep those ships sailing, the MSC awards contracts for ship overhaul and maintenance on a regular basis. The command recently awarded 2 contracts, worth up to a combined $18.7 million, to overhaul hospital ship USNS Mercy and oil supply ship USNS Guadalupe…

Continue Reading… »

$168M to Sikorsky for H-60 Black Hawk Supplies and Support

Dec 07, 2009 16:53 UTC

UH-60 CMWS Flares

UH-60 fires flares in Iraq

Sikorsky Aircraft, a Stratford, CT-based unit of United Technologies, received a $168.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for H-60 supplies and technical, engineering and logistical support services for a period of 12 months.

The contract is in support of overhaul, repair, and recapitalization of H-60 Black Hawk helicopters at Corpus Christi Army Depot.

First deployed in 1978, the Black Hawk is the Army’s front-line utility helicopter used for air assault, air cavalry, and aeromedical evacuation units.

Continue Reading… »

Sperry Marine to Supply Radar for Virginia-class Block III Subs

Dec 07, 2009 14:40 UTC

SHIP SSN Virginia Block-III Bow Mods

Virginia Block III bow mods

Sperry Marine, a Charlottesville, VA-based unit of Northrop Grumman, received a $20.9 million firm-fixed-price contract (N00024-09-C-5304) to supply AN/BPS-16(v)5 navigation radar systems for 8 US Navy Virginia-class Block III nuclear attack submarines.

The AN/BPS-16(v)5 is an X-band submarine navigation radar and electronic navigation system that provides navigation surface surveillance. The radar includes a naval electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS-N) which runs on Sperry Marine’s voyage management system (VMS) software.

The Virginia-class Block III submarines are being built by General Dynamics Electric Boat and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.

Continue Reading… »

US Army Armor School Move to Fort Benning Generates More Construction Work

Dec 07, 2009 12:18 UTC

MIL_US_Army_Armor_School_Logo'

As part of the transfer of the US Army Armor School from Fort Knox in Kentucky to Fort Benning in Georgia, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded another contract to build vehicle maintenance instruction facilities.

USACE awarded a $15.8 million firm-fixed-price task order to Whiting-Turner Contracting in Baltimore, MD for the design and construction of a vehicle maintenance instruction facility (VMIF) at Fort Benning. The order was issued under a $500 million multiple award task order contract (W912HN-07-D-0055) awarded [pdf] to Whiting-Turning for military construction work in Georgia.

In August 2009, Carothers Construction in Oxford, MS received a $32.5 million contract to build a VMIF at the fort.

Continue Reading… »

$243M to Draper Laboratory for Trident II D5 Guidance System Support

Dec 06, 2009 17:08 UTC

WMD_Trident_II_D-5_Test_Launch.jpg

Trident II D5 Test Launch

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA received 2 contract modifications worth a combined $243 million to provide engineering support and repair services for the Trident II D5 guidance system.

The Trident II D-5, the sixth generation member of the US Navy’s fleet ballistic missile program, is a 3-stage, solid propellant ballistic missile with a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles.

Deployed aboard Ohio Class SSBNs and British Vanguard Class SSBNs, the Trident II uses the Mk6 LE inertial guidance system for navigation.

Continue Reading… »

Flipper Can Find It: US Navy Uses Dolphins to ‘Sniff’ for Mines

Dec 06, 2009 14:22 UTC

NAVY_Dolphin_Mine_Marker.jpg

Dolphin with mine marker
(click to view larger)

Just as the dog’s keen sense of smell makes it well suited to detect land mines, so the US Navy has found that the biological sonar of dolphins, called echolocation, makes them effective at locating and marking sea mines.

To take advantage of these skills, the Navy Marine Mammal Program studies, trains, and deploys dolphins, as well as sea lions, to carry out various underwater tasks for the Navy.

As part of the program, the Fleet’s Marine Mammal Systems (MMS) use dolphins and sea lions to find and mark the location of underwater objects…

Continue Reading… »

Lockheed Martin Gets Order to Retrofit up to 52 USMC LAV-C2 Vehicles

Dec 06, 2009 13:42 UTC

LAND_LAV-25_Desert_Squad.jpg

Marines showin’ some LAV

Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, NY received a firm-fixed-price contract, worth up to $32.3 million, to retrofit 52 Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle Command and Control (LAV-C2) vehicles with improved C2 capabilities.

The contract includes an initial order for the retrofit of 30 vehicles for $19.8 million, with the option of retrofitting 22 additional vehicles for $12.4 million.

This is a follow-on to a 2006 contract awarded to Lockheed Martin for LAV-C2 prototypes…

Continue Reading… »
« Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 Next »
Advertisement
White Papers & Events
Advertisement
December 2009
SMTWTFS
« Nov Jan »
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031 
Advertisement

© 2004-2022 Defense Industry Daily, LLC | About Us | Images on this site | Privacy Policy

Contact us: Editorial | Advertising | Feedback & Support | Subscriptions & Reports

Follow us: Twitter | Google+

Stay Up-to-Date on Defense Programs Developments with Free Newsletter

DID's daily email newsletter keeps you abreast of contract developments, pictures, and data, put in the context of their underlying political, business, and technical drivers.