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Bath Iron Works awarded contract for fifth DDG 51 destroyer
Dec 26, 2018 (UPI)
The $910 million contract, announced by the Department of Defense ahead of the Christmas holiday, is a modification to a $3.9 billion contract awarded in Septem...
Boston Ship Repair tapped for USNS Leroy Grumman regular overhaul
Dec 20, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, funds a 60-calendar day regular overhaul of the vessel that will start on March 4, 2019 and is e...
Japan to get first post-WWII aircraft carriers
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
The new five-year defence plan calls for the upgrade of two existing helicopter carriers so that they can launch fighters, and is the latest in a series of step...
Virginia-class attack submarine USS Delaware launched
Dec 17, 2018 (UPI)
The launching, announced Monday by HII, took three days and involved an elaborate car system that moved the submarine into a floating dry dock. The floating dry...
Textron to provide construction services for Navy hovercraft
Dec 17, 2018 (UPI)
The Department of Defense on Friday announced the contract award, which covers "procurement of additional long lead time material" for the program, as well as p...
Navy contracts Austal for next two littoral combat ships
Dec 17, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is potentially worth well over $1 billion as each of the vessels has a congressional cost cap of $5...
Brazil launches first of five French-tech attack subs
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
President Michel Temer and his elected successor Jair Bolsonaro attended the hours-long ceremony in a navy base in Itaquai, near Rio de Janeiro, that saw the 72...
GenDyn tapped for U.S., U.K. submarine weapons system services
Dec 14, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, includes training, support equipment and the U.S./UK Shipboard data system. The work is expected ...
Navy to name littoral combat ship USS St. Louis in Wisconsin
Dec 14, 2018 (UPI)
The christening, scheduled for 10 a.m. CST, will feature U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt as the principal speaker and Barbara Taylor, wife of Enterprise Holdings chairman A...
Blackened Canteen ceremony conducted before Pearl Harbor Day
Dec 13, 2018 (UPI)
The ceremony, held on Dec. 6 and announced Thursday by the Pentagon, commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the deaths during the American bombing campaign...
Spain's Navantia to build five frigates for 4.3 bln euros
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
In a statement, it said the cabinet would on Friday give its green light for construction of the F-110 frigates in the industrial city of Ferrol in the northwes...
Lockheed contracted for USS Wichita post-shakedown availability services
Dec 12, 2018 (UPI)
Work on the $16 million contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, follows completion of acceptance trials earlier this year and ahead of the Lit...
General Dynamics to provide research for Virginia-class submarine improvements
Dec 11, 2018 (UPI)
Under the modification to an existing contract, the shipyard will provide research for possible design improvements to the submarine, including the Virginia Pay...
USS Abraham Lincoln completes complex live-fire exercise
Dec 11, 2018 (UPI)
LFWAPs are meant to increase readiness of the Combat Direction Center with coordinated live-fires and training scenarios such as air and missile defense. The ex...
Three companies to vie for construction of the U.K. Type 31e frigate
Dec 11, 2018 (UPI)
The companies included in the deal are BAE Systems, Atlas Electronik U.K. and Babcock, which have been tentatively selected for the $1.6 billion production of t...
USS Billings LCS completes acceptance trials
Dec 10, 2018 (UPI)
The trials are the last step before delivery, christening and potential deployment. It is the eighth Freedom-class variant of the LCS, and is expected to be del...
Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson launched in Maine
Dec 10, 2018 (UPI)
The process involves moving the vessel to a dry dock after construction and slowly pumping water into it before starting final work on the ship. "It's important...
LCS anti-sub package finishes round of testing, Navy says
Dec 05, 2018 (UPI)
The Dual-mode Array Transmitter Mission System and ASW Mission Package will provide the LCS with the anti-submarine equipment necessary for one of the ship's pr...
USS Chosin, USS Vicksburg to receive logistical work by HII
Dec 05, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, primarily goes toward technical support, engineering and logistics. Work on the contract is expect...
Austal tapped for parts, engineering on new Expeditionary Fast Transport
Dec 04, 2018 (UPI)
For work on the contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, Austal has been obligated $20.2 million in Navy 2019 shipbuilding and conversion fundin...
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