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BAE Wins Potential $118M Navy
Contract for USS Preble Ship
Maintenance Services
BAE Systems’ ship repair business in San Diego has won a potential $117.8M U.S. Navy contract to help the Chief of Naval Opera- tions prepare for a scheduled depot main- tenance of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Preble.
The company-run shipyard will perform re- pair, alteration and upgrade work on the ves- sel as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said in mid August.
Naval Sea Systems Command received two pro- posals for the project, which is expected to conclude in February 2022, and will obligate $103.6M at the time of award.
USS Preble will undergo modernization as part of the branch’s efforts to ensure service life of DDG-51 class ships.
Northrop Tests Aircraft Naviga-
tion System
Northrop Grumman Corp. completed the criti- cal design review of an upgraded navigation system for U.S. military aircraft.
The engineering and design work on the Em- bedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Iner- tial Navigation System (INS)-Modernization, or EGI-M, program was done in Woodland Hills, CA.. The navigation system is for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor and the Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
The critical design review milestone marks the completion of detailed hardware and soft- ware design of the EGI-M product line. The EGI-M uses an open architecture that allows for rapid responses to threats and its modern system integrates new M-Code capable of com- municating with global positioning systems.
Northrop Wins US Air Force’s Contest For Next-gen ICBMs
Northrop Grumman has captured a $13.3 billion award for the Ground Based Stra- tegic Deterrent competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation intercon- tinental ballistic missiles, the service announced Sept. 8.
Beginning in 2029, GBSD will start re- placing the LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs, which were fielded in 1970, Northrop said in a statement.
Northrop’s industry team for the program includes Aerojet Rocketdyne, Bechtel, Clark Construction, Collins Aerospace, General Dy- namics, HDT Global, Honeywell, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, L3 Harris, Lockheed Martin, Textron Systems, and other busi- nesses, the company said in a statement. Its own work on the missiles will predominantly be carried out at Northrop’s facilities in the cities of Roy and Promontory in Utah.
Record 293,000 Robots In Unit-
ed States’ Factories – IFR re-
ports
The new World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) shows a record of about 293,000 industrial robots operat- ing in factories of the United States – an increase of 7%. Sales of new robots remain on a high level with 33,300 units shipped in 2019. This is 17% less compared to 2018, but still the second highest sales volume ever recorded.
“The United States are by far the biggest robot market in the Americas,” says Mil- ton Guerry, president of the International Federation of Robotics. “The annual number of robots sold is highly influenced by the automotive industry, which is the most im- portant customer. In 2019, the US car market was again the second largest car market in the world, following China, with the second largest production volume of cars and light vehicles.”
Boeing Partners with General Atomics, Aerojet Rocketdyne in Homeland Missile Defense Bid
Boeing is teaming with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Aero- jet Rocketdyne in its bid to build the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The NGI is a key element of the MDA’s missile defense system, which is designed to intercept and destroy incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
On Aug. 12, the Boeing-General Atomics- Aerojet Rocketdyne team submitted an NGI of- fering that will improve performance and en- hance the nation’s ability to defend against future threats.
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