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HII to perform additional fabrication for third Ford-class carrier
Feb 02, 2017 (UPI)
Huntington Ingalls Industries received a $25.5 million contract modification to continue advance fabrication work for the Ford-class Enterprise aircraft carrier...
Keel laid for future USS Lyndon B. Johnson
Jan 31, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy held a keel laying and authentication ceremony for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer. The keel laying ceremo...
General Atomics to manufacture EMALS for USS Enterprise
Jan 30, 2017 (UPI)
General Atomics has received a $532.6 million contract modification to manufacture an additional Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System for the U.S. Navy. The m...
Nammo, Navy form private-public partnership
Jan 27, 2017 (UPI)
A Public Private Partnership Agreement has been signed by the U.S. Navy for supply of solid rocket motors, propulsion, tactical warheads. The partnership was si...
Rolls-Royce engines to power Italian navy's high-speed vessels
Jan 26, 2017 (UPI)
Rolls-Royce has been selected to provide engines and water jets to power two of the Italian navy's Intermarine-made high-speed vessels. The company announced th...
Poland inks deal with France's DCNS to build subs
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
Poland's state-owned defence consortium PGZ on Wednesday said it had signed a partnership agreement with French naval shipbuilder DCNS, notably to build submari...
Huntington Ingalls uses superlift to construct Ford-class carrier
Jan 24, 2017 (UPI)
Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is using a unique superlift to construct the U.S. Navy's second Ford-class aircraft carr...
German navy set for additional corvettes
Jan 24, 2017 (UPI)
The German navy is to procure additional K130-class corvettes, which it has used on missions in the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean and the Horn of Africa. The ne...
Rolls-Royce to provide search-and-rescue vessel engines for Turkey
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
Rolls-Royce has been contracted to provide MTU diesel engines for the Turkish coast guard's six new search-and-rescue vessels. The ships are being constructed b...
France orders another B2M support ship
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
The French military procurement agency, DGA, has contracted Kership for construction of a fourth Multi-Mission Vessel, or B2M. The ship, the Dumont d'Urville, w...
U.S. Navy to commission USS Sioux City in Annapolis, Md.
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy will commission the future USS Sioux City littoral combat ship in Annapolis, Md., branch officials announced. The announcement was made by U.S. Na...
BAE Systems to perform depot maintenance for USS Roosevelt
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
BAE Systems has received a $51 million contract to perform depot maintenance for the U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. In additi...
French schools join Australia's Future Submarine program
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
Four French graduate engineering schools plan to join Flinders University to conduct research in support of Australia's Future Submarine Program. A Memorandum o...
U.S. Navy notes progress on 2 expeditionary fast transports
Jan 19, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy is one step closer to receiving two new expeditionary fast transport vessels, the branch announced. In a statement on construction progress for th...
Gangs of US Navy Killer Boats Will Roam the Seas
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
What have been appositely referred to as the "military's smartest toys," robot boats have just become a lot smarter, and so has the US Navy. It has taken the US...
General Electric to remanufacture F110 engines
Jan 18, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has awarded General Electric a $98 million contract to remanufacture F110 engines. The F110 is an afterburning turbofan jet en...
Fincantieri contracted to upgrade P61 vessels for Malta
Jan 17, 2017 (UPI)
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has been selected to upgrade P61 offshore patrol vessels for the armed forces of Malta. The contract, financially supported by t...
US delivers two more patrols boats to ally Tunisia
Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)
Tunisia's army on Monday received two American patrol boats as part of a deal concluded with the United States to help battle terrorism and illegal migration. T...
Spain's Felipe meets Saudi king as warship sale mooted
Jan 15, 2017 (AFP)
Spain's King Felipe VI met Sunday with Saudi King Salman, official media said, during a visit coinciding with talks to sell Spanish warships. Felipe, 48, was gu...
U.S. Navy's ALMDS reaches initial operating capability
Jan 13, 2017 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman's AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection System has achieved initial operational capability with the U.S. Navy. The Airborne Laser Mine Detecti...
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