Posts Tagged ‘systems’
Defense Electronics Supplier API Doubles in Size with Kuchera Acquisition
API Technologies, a Ronkonkoma, NY-based defense supplier of electronic and commmunications components, is doubling in size with its recent $24 million acquisition of the Kuchera Group of Companies (KGC) , including Kuchera Defense Systems. The combined company will have revenues of $120 million. Kuchera supplies printed circuit boards, robotic [...]
Elbit to Supply TVDL Systems for USMC AH-1W Helicopter
AH-1W, hard left (click to view full) Elbit Systems of America, a Fort Worth, TX-based subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems, received a $15.6 million contract from US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to supply Tactical Video Data Link (TVDL) systems for the US Marine Corps’ AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter. The TVDL will provide [...]
Sea Systems Command Recruits Wounded Warriors
Due to advances in modern medicine, many wounded servicemembers are returning to the fight or transitioning their experience to civilian employment. Naval Sea Systems Command wants them on board. Read the original: Sea Systems Command Recruits Wounded Warriors
Up to $140.4M to 6 Firms for Submarine Maintenance at Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base (click to view larger) The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Pearl Harbor, HI awarded 6 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple-award contracts worth up to a combined $140.4 million to provide maintenance, repair and modernization of submarines homeported or transient through [...]
3-star to head NavAir
Vice Adm. David Architzel has been appointed to head the Naval Air Systems Command at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.Architzel has been one of the Navy’s key speakers on Capitol Hill in recent years in his position as principal deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (research, development and acquisition) at the Pentagon.Secretary of [...]
VSD to Provide Patrol Boat Training Systems to Iraqi Navy
Swiftships’ 35-meter coastal patrol boat (click to view larger) VSD, a Virginia Beach, VA-based subsidiary of QED Systems, received a $23 million contract from prime contractor Swiftships Shipbuilders to provide the Iraqi Navy with training and training systems. Swiftships Shipbuilders received the prime contract (N61339-09-C-0034) on Oct. [...]
BAE Systems to Supply 1,203 Night Vision Goggles to US Army
BAE’s LTLM Night Goggles BAE Systems’ Electronic Solutions division in Nashua, NH won a $42 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 1,203 night vision goggles, known as laser target locator modules (LTLMs), to the US Army. The LTLMs are handheld goggles that enable soldiers to identify target locations while on foot, in daylight or [...]
Up to $141.4M to Lockheed Martin for Trident Navigation System Support
Avoid this. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in Mitchel Field, NY received a $62.9 million cost-plus incentive fee/ cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide navigation subsystem engineering support services to the US and UK fleet of Trident II (D5) ballistic missiles. The contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring its [...]
ITT Provides Support to USAF Missile Ranges
WGS-2 Launches from Cape Canaveral (click to view full) ITT Corp.’s Systems Division in Cape Canaveral, FL received a $7 million task order to support the US Air Force’s Eastern and Western missile ranges. The task order was issued as part of a 10-year, $1.3 billion contract awarded to ITT by the USAF. The contract calls for ITT to [...]
Unmanned Aircraft Crews Strive to Support Warfighters
As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for warfighters, the Air Force's first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly. Read more from the original source: Unmanned Aircraft Crews Strive [...]
