The Colombian Navy’s frigate ARC “Almirante Padilla”, along with its Bo-105 type helicopter and a detachment of Marine Special Forces, represented Colombia in the 2014 RIMPAC naval exercises alongside 22 other nations. The vessel returned to the Naval ARC “Bolívar” Base in Cartagena on September 1
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $234,2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design agent, planning yard, engineering and technical support for active nuclear submarines. The efforts provide for drawings and related technical data; design change doc
Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) returned to its homeport at U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London from a regularly scheduled deployment on Thursday, Sept. 11. Under the command of Cmdr. Chester T. Parks, Annapolis is returning from the European and Central Command areas
The future amphibious assault ship future USS America (LHA 6) welcomed distinguished visitors from El Salvador aboard the vessel for a key leader engagement (KLE) Sept. 8. The KLE consisted of a tour of the ship, a formal lunch with the ship’s command and a leadership conference. After coming aboa
USS Arlington (LPD 24) Sailors and Marines held a remembrance ceremony honoring the 13th anniversary of September 11th while underway off the Atlantic coast. The morning of September 11, 2001, five hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 forcibly commandeered the controls of the plane and at 9:37
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert spoke Tuesday at the Association of Naval Services Officers (ANSO) Eastern Region Symposium at Fort Belvoir Officers’ Club. “There are exhaustive studies that say if you have a diverse organization, in thought, makeup and gender, you’re the st
DRS Technologies Inc., a Finmeccanica Company, announced that the US Navy has awarded the company access to a $31.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide command and control hardware products for the service’s Ship Self-Defense System Mark 2 (SSDS), used on Navy aircraf
Viktor Lenac Shipyard D.D., Rijeka, Croatia, is being awarded a $21,3 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 179-day Extended Service Life Program, dry docking and ship repair of USS Mount Whitney. The ship’s primary mission is to provide communication, command, and control support to U.S. Navy f
Standing NATO Maritime Group TWO (SNMG2) arrived yesterday, September 10, in Baltimore as part of the Star Spangled Spectacular celebrations taking place here. This port visit is part of a North American deployment for SNMG2, during which the force has completed numerous exercises with allied nati
NAVAIR engineers recently installed new software for the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) system’s control station at the program’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River lab. In early September, the UCLASS team integrated the latest iteration of Common Control
HMCS Athabaskan departed Halifax September 7 to support Operation Caribbe, Canada’s contribution to the multinational campaign against illicit trafficking and organized crime in the Caribbean and on the Pacific coast of Central America. The ship will join allied forces in the area of operations la
Operation Nanook 2014, the premier annual Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operation held in Canada’s North, has now concluded, highlighting the CAF’s ability to exercise sovereignty and support the safety and security of Canadians in the North. This year’s operation, held from August 20-29, involved m
CACI International Inc was awarded a prime contract, with a total value of $44 million if all options are exercised, to provide logistics and acquisition management support to the Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) Program Executive Office Littoral Combat Ship (PEO LCS). This 14-month (eight-mon
Sailors remove chocks and chains from an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 as it prepares to take off from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown is part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and, with the embarked 31st Mar
