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Navy's Abraham Lincoln CSG departs for COMPTUEX exercise
Jan 28, 2019 (UPI)
The ABECSG left port on Friday for its composite training unit exercise, or COMPTUEX, a series of operations and scenarios meant to help the seven-vessel group ...
Austal contracted for post-delivery work on USS Cincinnati
Jan 25, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, provides for an approximately 12-week period for engineering, management and production services ...
General Atomics awarded $19.7M for EMALS parts for USS Gerald R. Ford
Jan 24, 2019 (UPI)
The EMALS order, which is based upon a previously issued basic ordering agreement, provides for the manufacture, assembly, inspection, integration, test and del...
Lockheed awarded $77.8M for Navy's undersea warfare system
Jan 18, 2019 (UPI)
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will mainly be conducted in Pennsylvania and Florida, and is expected to be completed by ...
Mexico launches ARM Reformador with Thales mission suite
Jan 17, 2019 (UPI)
The Reformador, which is the first of the Patrullera Oceanica de Largo Alcance, or POLA, class, debuted at the end of last year at ASTIMAR-20 shipyard in Salina...
First advanced weapons elevator completed on USS Gerald R. Ford
Jan 17, 2019 (UPI)
On Dec. 21, the AWE Upper Stage #1 was turned over to the ship after testing and certification by engineers at Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipb...
Lockheed tapped for next Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Jan 16, 2019 (UPI)
The award was announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, though the amount of the contract award was not released as the Navy said it is source-selective c...
USS Gravely becomes flagship of NATO maritime forces group
Jan 15, 2019 (UPI)
The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer left its homeport Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 28 for the Mediterranean Sea to join SNMG 1. The vessel i...
Navy plans to deploy three littoral combat ships by this fall
Jan 14, 2019 (UPI)
Vice Adm. Richard Brown, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, told reporters Friday that "we're deploying LCS this year, it's happening." He said the USS Mont...
Navy to commission future USS Wichita on Saturday
Jan 10, 2019 (UPI)
The ceremony to mark the latest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship's entry into active service will be held at 10 a.m., the Navy said in a news release Wednes...
China 'needs three aircraft carriers': naval expert
Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)
"Our country has an 18,000-kilometre (11,000-mile) long coastline. Also, our economy is outward looking and our interests abroad are growing," said Commodore Zh...
GenDyn contracted for maintenance, upgrades on USS George H.W. Bush
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, funds the 2019 dry-docking planned incremental availability of the vessel, which includes "depot-le...
Coffin Turbo Pump tapped for feed pumps on Wasp-class vessels
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is for up to 33 turbine driven main feed pumps for the LHD-1 class, named for the first in class USS Wa...
New Navy destroyer named to honor former Sen. Ted Stevens
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
The USS Ted Stevens will be an Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided-missile destroyer, one of six to be built in a $5.25 billion contract awarded to Huntington...
Navy tests two-ship littoral combat group with South America deployment
Jan 04, 2019 (UPI)
The Navy last month deployed a new ship pairing of a destroyer and an amphibious transport dock to test a new concept that could serve as a formation in future ...
Navy gives go-ahead for block buy of two Ford-class aircraft carriers
Jan 02, 2019 (UPI)
The vessels will be the third and fourth Ford-class carriers in the Navy's fleet and are expected to come in at a cost of roughly $26 billion, based on the firs...
BAE awarded $78.8M by Navy to modernize USS Shoup
Jan 02, 2019 (UPI)
Work to modernize the Shoup, an Arleigh Burke-class, or DDG, guided missile destroyer, will take place at BAE's facilities in San Diego. The Pentagon had in ear...
Huntington Ingalls awarded contract for additional work on carrier USS Enterprise
Dec 28, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced on Thursday, gives Huntington Ingalls' Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. division a longer lead time in support of previously announced wor...
USS Gravely deploys for NATO maritime operations
Dec 28, 2018 (UPI)
The vessel will conduct maritime operations as the flagship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, It will be in serve in t...
BIW, Raytheon receive $43M for Zumwalt support, weapons
Dec 27, 2018 (UPI)
Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, was awarded a $26.4 million contract for engineering, technical, planning and other types of support for the ...
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