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SPAWAR Picks Three For Surface Ship Network Systems Sustainment

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Friday, May 28th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Navy has awarded General Dynamics [GD], Lockheed Martin [LMT] and SAIC [SAI] a $408 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract (IDIQ MAC) for Common Afloat Local Area Network Infrastructure (CALI). The CALI contracts are used to procure shipboard network infrastructure and related engineering support services, mainly in the areas of production, engineering, and common computing environment components, according to the award. Presently, the Navy buys many of the variants they use for their networking hardware under the…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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