General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded the Sustainment of Meteorology, Oceanographic and Geospatial Information and Services Programs, Systems and Information Systems contract from the US Navy. The contract is worth around $52 million over a five-year period. General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, will provide cybersecurity, IT ...
With her sea trials in full flow, HMS Queen Elizabeth has met up with some US counterparts off the coast of Scotland. The Nimitz-class US carrier, USS George HW Bush, and her carrier strike group has more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines on board, working closely with the ...
The Office of Naval Research has announced that the Navy’s electromagnetic railgun is ready for field demonstrations. Initial rep-rate fires (repetition rate of fires) of multi-shot salvos already have been successfully conducted at low muzzle energy. The next test sequence requires safely increasing launch energy, firing rates and salvo size. Instead of using ...
ViaSat has confirmed a follow-on contract has been put in place for its datalink communications system for the US Navy. Working through Lockheed Martin, on the integration and test phase of the US Navy’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program, ViaSat is providing Weapon Data Link (WDL) L-Band Units (LBU) to ...