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Navy Adds Companies To CANES Mix, Awards Contracts

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Thursday, January 8th, 2015

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Navy Adds Companies To CANES Mix, Awards Contracts

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy identified two more companies on Thursday that are now eligible to compete for the production of its ship-based information technology system known as CANES, and awarded each, CGI Federal and DRS Laurel Technologies, a contract that allows them to provide at least one system.The two companies will join Northrop Grumman [NOC], General Dynamics [GD], BAE Systems, Global Technical Systems and Serco, the five companies originally awarded contracts in August for the full production of the Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System. Proposals by CGI and…

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