http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/ California Tech News Updated Daily! Defense West en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:20:02 -0700 1000 http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45167.html 2008-09-05 Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) has been awarded a indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus fixed fee contract by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SSC-SD) for C4ISR Systems Lifecycle Support Services. The period of performance is a three-year base period worth up to $59 million. Two... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45156.html 2008-09-05 Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $50 million contract to perform biological resources management services for the U.S. Navy. The work will be performed primarily at locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic’s area of responsibility, which includes the continental United... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45151.html 2008-09-04 The Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) -Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Javelin Joint Venture received a $111.6 million U.S. Army Global War on Terror supplemental contract to produce additional Javelin missiles and command launch units. Javelin is the world's first man-portable fire-and-forget medium-range missile system. The compact, lightweight missile is designed for one-soldier operations... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45144.html 2008-09-04 Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE:SAI) today announced it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Acquisition Center -- Natick Contracting Division. This multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC). The contract has a one year base period... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45138.html 2008-09-04 BAE Systems has received an order from the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) for 1,320 Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems (HEADS), a sensor system placed inside helmets that will help scientists analyze and understand the forces that Marines sustain during impact and blast events that could lead to brain injury. Data... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45137.html 2008-09-04 Navistar International Corporation NYSE:NAV) The U.S. Marine Corps today awarded Navistar Defense, LLC., a contract worth more than $752 million to produce a lighter, smaller and more mobile variant of its International MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) family of vehicles. The MaxxPro Dash maintains the survivability system used on all... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45134.html 2008-09-04 General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Afghanistan Engineer District (AED) to provide Information Technology Management Services in Afghanistan to support USACE-AED reconstruction and infrastructure development programs. The contract has a total... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45099.html 2008-09-03 Digital Angel (NASDAQ: DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced today that its SARBE division has signed a contract valued at $9 million with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (UK MoD) to supply latest generation SARBE Personal Locator Beacons and... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45085.html 2008-09-02 General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded a $41 million contract modification from the U.S. Marine Corps System Command for the production of nine capability set II Combat Operations Centers and 18 common modules. The capability sets and modules combine to become nine operations centers used by Marine Corps... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45081.html 2008-09-02 L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) today announced that its Integrated Systems Group has been awarded a $60.6 million contract to produce new outer wings for U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft. Under the program, L-3 will produce four sets of new wings for the U.S. Navy, which will extend the life of its critical... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45076.html 2008-09-02 CACI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) announced today that it has been awarded a prime $150 million task order by the U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to modernize maintenance applications used at shipyards and maintenance centers through information technology (IT) upgrades and software development. The five-year contract was awarded... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45075.html 2008-09-02 Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) announced today that it has been awarded a $97 million contract for the design, development, integration, and test of the Multi-Stage Supersonic Target (MSST) by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland. With incentives, the value of the contract announced today could reach $103 million.... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45068.html 2008-09-02 Ultralife Corporation (NASDAQ: ULBI) has received an order valued at approximately $4.8 million from the U.S. Defense Department for Ultralife’s SmartCircuit® lithium ion rechargeable batteries and chargers from its Land Warrior product suite. Deliveries of Ultralife’s UBBL06 and UBBL08 lithium ion rechargeable batteries and its CH0006 3-postion military vehicle-based... http://www.freshnews.com/news/defense-west/article_45067.html 2008-09-02 iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced it has been awarded a $200 million ceiling priced Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office in Warren, MI. Under the terms of the...