Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office to design an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system capable of operating from a moving navy ship at sea.
UK defence company Babcock International has entered into a strategic agreement with US shipbuilding company HII to collaborate on naval and civil nuclear decommissioning and construction opportunities in the UK and the US.
Defence company Thales has secured a contract worth £169 million to build the integrated optronic combat system mast for the Royal Navy’s future nuclear deterrent submarine class – Dreadnought.
Babcock and the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have signed an initial contract for the multi-year refit of the second of the UK’s Vanguard Class nuclear submarines, HMS Victorious.
The US Navy accepted delivery of fleet replenishment oiler, USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), from shipbuilder General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) on 11 July.
The first crew has joined HMS Venturer – the lead vessel of five Type 31 Inspiration-class Royal Navy frigates which will be deployed around the globe by the end of the decade.
Defence company Thales has been awarded a contract by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) to develop a new sonar suite for France’s new nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs).
Larsen & Toubro and Spanish Navantia have signed a Teaming Agreement (TA) for the purpose of submission of a techno-commercial bid for the Indian Navy’s P75 (India) submarine program.
Defence company BAE Systems was awarded a $37 million U.S. Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) contract to design the Next Generation Evolved SeaSparrow Missile Launch System (NGELS).
A minehunting ‘mothership’ and autonomous vessels were trialled together for the first time in a milestone moment for the future of the UK’s mine counter measure operations.
The Dutch Ministry of Defence, Damen and Thales have signed the contract for the design, construction, and delivery of four ASW frigates.
German shipbuilder NVL Group has hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the Bulgarian Navy’s second multipurpose modular patrol vessel (MMPV).
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) to the U.S. Navy.
Sensor solutions provider Hensoldt has been contracted by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to equip submarines of the Ula class with new periscopes and optronic mast systems.
