The Navy awarded BAE Systems a $108 million firm-fixed-price contract on Aug. 19 to conduct repair, maintenance and modernization work of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the USS Ross (DDG-71). This work is called a fiscal year 2023 extended dry-docking selected restricted ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy christened the newest Ghost Fleet Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel (OUSV), the Mariner, here at the U.S. Naval Academy on Aug. 23, as it increases unmanned and autonomous vessels used in fleet experimentation. The Overlord vessels, along with the Medium USVs (MUSVs) Sea ...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $13,542,835 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-13-C-5116 for AEGIS combat system engineering agent efforts, which include the design, development, integration, test and ...

The Pentagon is to determine the future supply chain strategy for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. In April, 2019, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) advised the F-35 program to devise such a strategy in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon acquisition chief, and ...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Thursday it delivered to the Navy the 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS) system set to be installed on a destroyer. The HELIOS system is meant to disable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and small boats with the laser ...

The U.S. Navy completed the biennial Pacific Dragon 2022 exercise off the coast of Hawaii this week, which included a Standard Missile (SM-3) intercept test. This multinational air and missile exercise featured naval forces from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea and U.S. Missile ...

Ursa Space Systems and Spire Global [SPIR], two commercial companies that provide remote sensing services to government and other customers, have formalized a partnership to combine their capabilities for detecting illicit maritime activity for the U.S. government. Ursa Space, which is based in ...

CACI Technologies LLC, Chantilly, Virginia, is awarded a $20,820,661 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N0018922C0013) for a six-month base period with one three-month option period valued at $10,506,914 that could result in a total of $31,327,575 if the option is exercised. The contract provides Naval ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week said the agency is now confident the Poland Aegis Ashore site will be operational by next year. “So now we have a very high confidence schedule…now we can say we're very confident where we are in construction, we're ...

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is working with the Army in support of Poland’s pending request with the U.S. government to acquire three more battalions of Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) capabilities, a company official told reporters this week. Bill Lamb, senior ...