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Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 17th, 2016

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Coast Guard Awards GD $126M for Rescue 21 Systems SupportGeneral Dynamics’ [GD] Missions Systems business unit has received a potential three-year $125.6 million follow-on contract to provides 21 program management, system support, and maintenance and sustainment engineering support for the Coast Guard Command, Control, Communications and Engineering Center. Rescue 21 is the Coast Guard’s primary direction-finding system for locating distressed mariners and also enables command and control and communications for search and rescue operations. The contract has a base period…

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