The guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) is the first of three ships to wear test the Navy’s Improved Flame-Resistant Variant (IFRV) coveralls, beginning this week. The intent of the deployment-length wear test, which includes Carney, the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and the
Pentagon is considering the cancellation of the third next-generation stealth destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson. According to a Defense Department briefing document reported by Bloomberg Business the fate of the Zumwalt-class destroyer will be known in the “next few weeks”. Two officials have confirme
Huntington Ingalls Industries’s AMSEC LLC subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to provide support services to Navy ships on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center. AMSEC was one of three contractors awarded a multiple task order, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-del
Sailors aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) earned their engineering operational certification (EOC) Aug. 20. Engineering Assessment Pacific (EAP) inspected the ship’s capability to conduct evolutions and combat casualties. Inspectors spent two days ensuring each engin
Exercise Dawn Blitz 2015 saw the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps operating closely with Japan, Mexico and New Zealand to successfully conduct amphibious beach landings and tactical air operations. Participating nations have performed a multitude of exercises ashore and off the coast of Southern Cali
Huntington Ingalls Industries received a $12,5 million contract modification to previously awarded contract to provide long lead-time material procurement and planning yard services for CG-47-class cruisers and DD 963-class destroyers. The Company will provide necessary engineering, technical, plann
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Lyme Bay is approaching the final phase of her taking to assist the island of Dominica following Tropical Storm Erika. The British naval vessel has spent six days stationed off Dominica and has achieved much following her short-notice rerouting to the island. The multinat
The Continuing Promise (CP-15) team embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) completed the tenth mission stop in Trujillo, Honduras, in support of CP-15 on Sept. 6. The team began its tenth mission stop in the towns of Trujillo, Puerto Castilla, and Corocito
LE James Joyce Joins Irish Naval Service Fleet LE James Joyce, a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), joined Irish Naval Service fleet during a Commissioning Ceremony, on Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire, on September 1st, 2015. Eighth and Final Patrol Boat Delivered to ABF Cape York, the
After two years at the helm, Rear Adm. Phillip G. Sawyer turned over duties as commander of Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC), and commander of Task Force 134, to Rear Adm. Frederick J. “Fritz” Roegge in a ceremony at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Sept. 3. Having a
The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz has completed the factory acceptance tests and the delivery of twelve sets of navigation radars for the Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigates. The scope of on-board systems covers X-/ and S-Band radars with high-performance detection capab
The Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) and her crew will visit Gloucester, Massachusetts, beginning Sept. 4 to participate in the 31st annual Gloucester Schooner Festival. Fort McHenry Sailors and Marines will take part in festivities in and around the Glouce
The amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) departed San Diego August 31 to participate in Exercise Dawn Blitz 2015. New Orleans joins other Naval and ground forces from the United States, Japan, New Zealand and Mexico in the ten day exercise which will sharpen the troops’ ability to
US Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center’s (MARMC) Production Department completed repairs to Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1653, dry docked in Dynamic (AFDL 6) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Sept. 1. LCU-1653, attached to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2, suffered damage to the aft
