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Business/Financial

Navy Releases Aegis PSEA Draft RFP For Combat System Integrator

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Navy last week issued its draft request for proposals (RFP) for the Aegis Platform System Engineering Agent (PSEA) including Advanced Capability Build (ACB) developer support for future development of the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) and Aegis Combat System (ACS). PSEA is the integrator function and a major step in the Navy's combat system open architecture efforts. "This is a huge step," Rear Adm. Terry Benedict, program executive officer integrated weapons systems, told Defense Daily recently. "We…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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