The Navy has awarded five companies eight-year contracts valued at $2.5 billion to install standardized shipboard networks.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command tapped BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Global Technical Systems, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Serco, Inc. for the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts for the Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services.
The CANES program is intended to equip every ship in the fleet with a standards-based network.
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