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American Victory Mariners Memorial and Museum Ship

Today’s website is the American Victory Mariners Memorial and Museum Ship. In Tampa, the SS American Victory will be the first restored Victory ship located anywhere other than California. She will be the only museum ship of its type in the southeast U.S. and the only floating maritime museum in Florida. Enjoy.
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This Day in U.S. Naval History

1798 - Congress rescinds treaties with France; Quasi War begins with frigate Delaware capturing French privateer, Croyable.
1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat lands at Monterey and claims California for U.S.
1916 - Thomas A. Edison becomes head of Naval Consulting Board which screens inventions for use by the Navy.
1948 - First six enlisted women sworn into Regular Navy. The Navy WAVES in Naval Reserve, who were the first to transfer to the Regular Navy, were Kay Louise Langdon, Aviation Storekeeper First Class; Wilma Juanita Marchal, Chief Yeoman; Frances Teresa Dovaney, Storekeeper Second Class; Edna Earle Young, Yeoman Second Class; Doris Roberta Robertson, Teleman Second Class; and Ruth Flora, Hospital Corpsman First Class.


Northrop Grumman Wins Navy C4I Interoperability Contract
Source: Northrop Grumman Corp.

SAN DIEGO --- Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a U.S. Navy contract to ensure Navy, joint and coalition command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems share critical warfighting data to enhance situational awareness and improve combat effectiveness.

The five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract includes a two-year base period valued at more than $27 million and a three-year option, which, if exercised, would raise the value to more than $73 million. The contract was awarded by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific, the Navy's center of excellence supporting tactical information systems interoperability.

For more than 30 years, Northrop Grumman has supported the Navy's efforts to ensure warfighting system interoperability. Under the follow-on contract, the company will analyze and test an array of C4I systems used by Navy, joint and coalition warfighters; support fleet engineering services; and operate the Navy Network Design Facility, which supports the design of data link networks. The company will also continue to upgrade and enhance the Multi-Link System Test and Training Tool, which is deployed throughout the world to test data link interoperability.

"We are excited to lead the effort in support of our longtime Navy customer's mission of tactical systems interoperability. This contract will provide the Northrop Grumman team with the ability to continue our 30-year tradition of providing critical C4I systems engineering and technical support services to Navy, joint and allied customers, enhancing the effectiveness of the warfighter and ensuring situational awareness and safety of friendly forces," said Roger Fujii, vice president of Northrop Grumman's Network Communication Systems business unit. "The Navy has been a pioneer in the field of C4I interoperability, and Northrop Grumman, through its legacy companies, has supported those efforts since the beginning."


Alion Awarded $84.7 M Task Order to Support Naval Sea Systems IT Management
Source: Alion Science and Technology

MCLEAN, Va. --- Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions provider, has been awarded an $84.7 million task order to support the Naval Sea Systems (NAVSEA) Command Information Officer (CIO) by consolidating and enhancing key IT systems, including the NAVSEA Intranet.

The Alion team will support and manage the NAVSEA Legacy applications and operations as they transition into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) program or the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Tool. The team will also assist NAVSEA in defining requirements and design standards for its follow-on system, the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN).

In addition, NAVSEA is consolidating all of their external Web sites and migrating to single-point hosting while the internal sites are migrated to a Microsoft SharePoint-based system. Alion is leading the effort and consolidating the sites under an information portal called I-NavSea.

“This contract helps NAVSEA combine a majority of its support services under one contractor, which improves technical efficiency, reduces costs, improves IT security and provides an enhanced integration of all NAVSEA enterprise IT functions and assets,” said Timer Keenan, Alion Senior Vice President and Manager of the Strategic Operations Group. “Our goal is to assist NAVSEA in viewing information technology as a contributor to mission effectiveness versus a simple cost of doing business.”

Alion has been providing IT consultation and services to the NAVSEA CIO since 2000. Under this new task order, which has one base year, an option year, and three Award Term Years, Alion will provide a broad range of operational and technical services, including resource management, enterprise application management, database and software development, and network management.

To support the task order, issued under the NAVSEA SeaPort-E contract, Alion is leading a team that includes General Dynamics IT, Infosoft, Pac Solutions, Information Innovators and Imagine One.


Photo of the Day



The littoral combat ship Independence (LCS 2) underway during builder's trials.

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