General Dynamics NASSCO has been awarded a $3.5 million design contract for the U.S. Navy's Mobile Landing Ship program. Under the contract, NASSCO will develop a preliminary ship design based on Navy requirements.
CSC will provide training, technical engineering and documentation services to the U.S. Army's Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology office under a subcontract with Savi Technology Incorporated, a Lockheed Martin company.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the U.S. Army to provide simulation and training products to U.S. and coalition forces. The Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Omnibus Contract II is a multiple-award contract with a ceiling value of $17.5 billion over 10 years.
Horus Vision LLC is being awarded a not-to-exceed ceiling $49 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the U.S. Navy for the procurement, delivery, maintenance and logistical support of the Scout Sniper Observation Telescope.
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a contract for research, development and operation of information fusion as it relates to the Information Fusion Center established by the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division to support U.S. Navy, U.S. Defense Department and U.S. Department of Homeland Security operations.
The contract has a maximum potential value of $95.2 million.
Harris Corporation has received an $18 million order from the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's Battlefield Air Operations office for the Harris Falcon III AN/PRC-117G wideband tactical radio system. The Air Force is acquiring the AN/PRC-117G to expand the use of high-bandwidth data applications.
Alion Science and Technology is providing simulation tools to the U.S. Army and serving as an integrator between the Generating and Operational Forces under a one-year $1.1 million contract through the Army's Joint Training Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Operations Integration Center. The focus of Alion's work is to train warfighters in counter IED techniques.
BAE Systems has been awarded a $21 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop an advanced Electromagnetic Railgun for the U.S. Navy. The 30-month contract is for the detailed design and delivery of an Innovative Naval Prototype Railgun.
Raytheon Company has been awarded a single-source, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth up to $180 million from the U.S. Navy to procure, deliver, maintain and provide logistical support to the Medium Range Thermal Bi-Ocular program.
The United States has yet to strike a balance between being dominant in regular warfare and being able to fight an irregular war, according to the deputy commander of the Joint Forces Command. Vice Adm. Robert Harward, USN, offered that the United States even might be losing the war in cyberspace.