Southeast Regional Maintenance Center, Mayport, Florida, has awarded a not-to-exceed $23,2 million undefinitized contract action for continuous maintenance availability to include structural damage and aluminum welding onboard USS Hue City (CG 66) to Earl Industries L.L.C. This effort on USS Hue C
Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, Connecticut has awarded Electric Boat Corp. a $13,2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to the previously awarded contract for procurement of Common Missile Compartment material. The contractor will be purchasing various long lead time
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $20,7 million modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for USS Boxer (LHD 4) fiscal 2014 phased maintenance availability. A phased ma
Forty-five years after the USS Frank E Evans collided with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (II) in the South China Sea, personnel who served on the night have reunited for a memorial service in Sydney. Survivors, friends and families reflected on the 74 American personnel who were killed when
Representatives from Japan, the United States, New Zealand, Britain, the Netherlands and Australia attended a commemorative service at Garden Island, Sydney, last week, to mark the 72nd anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Kuttabul. Assistant Minister of Defence, the Hon Stuart Robert MP and Commodo
UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond attended an international security summit and met HMS Echo’s ship’s company during a visit to Singapore at the weekend. The Defence Secretary attended the 13th International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia security summit in Singapore, which provides a foru
The newest Australian Navy Cadets (ANC) unit, Provisional Training Ship Australia, is responsible for bringing the young adults together, under the guidance of the ANC’s Leadership and Development program. Provisional Training Ship Australia was officially approved by the Chief of Navy, Vice Admir
Royal Oman Navy Receives New Warship BAE Systems yesterday handed over the third of three new warships to the Royal Navy of Oman. Spanish Ambassador to UK Visits EU Navfor Operational HQ The Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Mr Federico Trillo-Figueroa Martínez Conde, yesterda
Visits to 816 and 723 Squadrons, a flight in a Squirrel helicopter, simulator experience in flying a Seahawk and an anti-submarine warfare demonstration were all part of the busy itinerary that Commander Fleet Air Arm, Commodore Vince Di Pietro, recently put together for Air Vice Marshal Mel Hupfeld
The oceanic patrol vessel ‘Relámpago’, currently participating in the European-led counter-piracy operation ‘Atalanta’ in the Indian Ocean, has provided medical assistance to a ‘dhow’-type fishing boat off the coast of Somalia. The ‘Relámpago’ carried out a friendly approach or MSAV (maritime situ
French frigate FS Floréal, which is currently deployed with the EU Naval Force, recently carried out several friendly approaches on dhows and skiffs off Somalia. With the consent of the ships’ masters, direct talks were conducted in order to strengthen mutual understanding and trust between the EU
Personnel from HMAS Tobruk, the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have been awarded Military Civic Action medals by the Philippines Government for their assistance following Typhoon Haiyan in late 2013. Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Philippines, General Emmanuel Trinid
Yesterday afternoon, Bluefin-21 completed its last mission searching the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the Towed Pinger Locator deployed from ADV Ocean Shield, within its depth operating limits. The data collected on yesterday’s mission has been
The UK Royal Navy has seized an £8.5m haul of heroin after a raid on a suspect vessel in the northern Arabian Sea. Nearly 60 kilograms of the drug was seized by sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Somerset, the Plymouth-based Type 23 Frigate, who intercepted the fishing boat in Royal Navy fast boat
