The U.S. Navy has awarded the BAE Systems a contract to sustain Air Traffic Control systems that provides air traffic control services at expeditionary airfields and landing sites. According to a company news release, BAE Systems will provide lifecycle, engineering, and sustainment support to ensure precision approaches and further enhance the safety of America’s warfighters. […]

The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet has announced that the LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords returned to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego, January 31. The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) returned to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego following a 17-month rotational deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet and U.S. 4th Fleet […]

The U.S. Navy destroyer is back in the Black Sea for the first time since last year. On Saturday, the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Afric has announced that Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) entered the Black Sea. “The first FDNF [Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Europe] destroyer to visit the Black Sea in 2021, #Donaldcook […]

General Atomics, a defense contractor that manufactures electromagnetic aircraft launch and recovery systems, will receive a contract for the procurement of supplies and services in support of new digital catapult systems of the Ford Class of Carriers.   The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced in a Jan. 14 notice posted to the government’s […]

Wartsila Defense, a U.S. division of Finnish Wartsila which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets, has won a contract valued at as much as $12,2 million for U.S. Navy submarine propeller systems. The contract award from U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center enables the company to make a […]

Raytheon Co., one of the world’s largest defense contractors, was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering and test support services for the AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) currently in development for the Navy EA-18G aircraft.  The AN/ALQ-249 is an advanced electronic attack system that denies, disrupts and degrades enemy technology, including communication […]

GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric and is based in Ohio, was awarded a $111 million contract modification in support of the production of the new heavy-lift helicopter from Sikorsky for the United States Marine Corps. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, covers procure of 20 T408-GE-400 turboshaft engines, peculiar support equipment, […]

The U.S. Navy awarded a $198 million contract modification to Boeing for the integration of a ground control station that provides command and control capability in support of the MQ-25 carrier-based tanker drone. According to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri (99%); and various locations within […]

U.S. Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies has announced that U.S. Navy has awarded the company a five-year, $496 million contract to deliver the next-generation external jamming pod. L3Harris says that the company will deliver prototype tactical jamming pods designed to extend U.S. Air superiority. The Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) is a high-powered, high-capacity airborne […]

The director of the “Kvant-Radiolokatsiya” Research Institute, in an exclusive interview with Defense Express, has reported that Ukraine has shipped a multifunction naval radar system for the U.S. military. “Last year, by the way, we delivered the same Mineral-ME to the United States. They probably need it to evaluate the enemy, since both Russia and China […]