The Department of the Navy announced today the award of $10.8 million to scientists and engineers at 18 academic institutions as part of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2011 Young Investigator Program (YIP). “The Young Investigator Program is an important part of the Department of the Navy’s scie
The Office of Naval Research has been working away on a suite of futuristic weapons, but it’s hard to think of anything that could out-gun i… By Evan Ackerman (dvice) [mappress] Source: dvice, March 29, 2011;
The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity training and technical support services contract. The contract, which includes a $90,000 initial task order, has a $57 million ceiling value. Working closely with the Coast Guard, Lockheed Martin wil
A year after an explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton Cheonan warship, killing 46 sailors and horrifying Seoul and its allies, the sinking st… (sudanvisiondaily) [mappress] Source: sudanvisiondaily,March 28, 2011; A year after an explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton Cheonan warship, killing 46 sailor
CAE today announced it has been awarded a series of military contracts in more than 10 countries and valued at approximately C$100 million, including: a contract with the United States Navy to build P-3C training devices for the Taiwan Navy; a contract with the United States Navy to perform a major
Lockheed Martin recently delivered the 8,000th AN/UYQ-70 combat console suite to the U.S. Navy, marking a key milestone for a system that is currently installed on 90 percent of the Navy’s commissioned ships. The milestone Q-70 System will be installed on the USS Minnesota (SSN 783) Virginia-class s
Modus Operandi, a leading software and information integration technology company, has been selected to provide the U.S. Navy with an innovative intelligence analysis system that fuses human intelligence with several other types of intelligence and video, dramatically reducing analyst workload and i
The Department of the Navy announced that it is now in a position to support Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NGC) spin-off of its shipbuilding business. The Navy finds Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) responsible for award of amphibious transport dock ship LPD 26 and guided missile destroyer
ACI Technologies, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., is being awarded $29,270,383 increased funding to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee task order #0003 under existing contract (N00014-06-D-0090) to develop an open architecture radar that meets the Navy’s current Littoral Combat Ship requirement for a l
As of 9 am (local time), radiation background was normal, no deviations were detected. Natural background in Sakhalin is 17 micro-roentgens per… (rusnavy) [mappress] Source: rusnavy,March 16, 2011;
The Dutch navy says it has discovered the sunken wreck of a German World War I submarine off the island of Terschelling and will designate… (star-telegram) [mappress] Source: star-telegram,March 16, 2011;
Turkey’s Ares Shipyard intends to launch naval ship-building in Azerbaijan, Kerim Kalafatoglu, CEO, Ares Shipyard told APA… (enp.apa) [mappress] Source: enp.apa,March 14, 2011;
A 300ft long warship, believed to be of World War II era, was today discovered in the Bay of Bengal near Chandrabhaga beach here by a scuba… (indiatimes) [mappress] Source: indiatimes,March 13, 2011;
The Navy and Coast Guard need to prepare for more missions in the Arctic, and plan for potential damage to bases from rising sea levels, as… By Randolph E. Schmid (news.yahoo) [mappress] Source: news.yahoo,March 11, 2011;
