The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin an initial $148.9 million contract for full rate production of the surface electronic warfare improvement program (SEWIP) Block 2 systems to upgrade the fleet’s electronic warfare capabilities. Under this full-rate production contract, which has four additio
The UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Ships Operating Centre has awarded Frazer-Nash a contract for support on the delivery of ‘Safe to Operate’ Royal Navy equipment and platforms to the MOD. Frazer-Nash will be supported by BMT Cadence, BMT DSL and Survivability Consulting Limited on the unde
Sweden’s Saab and Polish defense company MESKO, a member of Polish Armament Group (PGZ), have entered a teaming agreement for long-term maintenance and support of the Polish Navy’s RBS15 Mk3 surface-to-surface missile system. Contracted in 2006, the RBS15 Mk3 is in service on-board the Polish Navy’s
British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon attended the steel cutting ceremony for the first Successor submarine yesterday at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness site. The event marked the official start of the production of four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines which will replace Royal Navy’s
U.S. Navy’s Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group joined two guided-missile destroyers from the Pacific Surface Action Group (PAC SAG) for a series of interoperability drills in international waters of the South China Sea on October 3 and 4. The BHR ESG employed the capabilities of USS Spruanc
Singapore-hosted exercise Bersama Lima 2016 (BL16) was officially opened today at Changi Naval Base, Singapore. The combined joint military exercise runs until October 21 and involves the military forces from Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom operating together under
Navy vessels from Finland and Estonia are set to take part in a mine countermeasure exercise that will take place in the Archipelago Sea and in the Gulf of Finland between October 10 and 14. The exercise is called Baltic Shield 2016 and will include firing and mine counter-measures exercises. Accord
Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA Naval Systems) has contracted Kongsberg Defence Systems to upgrade parts of the main weapon system of the Norwegian ULA-class submarines. Kongsberg is to carry out the work over the next four years under a contract that has a value of 220 million Norwegian Kro
Swedish defense and security company Saab announced it would take part in the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise with an anti-submarine warfare training system and a waterborne anti-IED vehicle. Unmanned Warrior is a multinational event, held in Scotland and Wales between October 10 and 21, whic
Atlas Elektronik Finland has completed work on the Finnish Navy’s minelayer Pansio and delivered the vessel to the navy on October 3. Atlas Elektronik said the mid-life upgrade had been carried out together with Uki Workboat Oy (Uudenkaupungin Työvene Oy) as a subcontractor. According to the company
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) returned to Norfolk after completing tailored ship’s training availability/final evaluation problem (TSTA/FEP), October 3. TSTA/FEP is designed to train the crew in preparation for deployment, as well as integrate ship’s company with Carrier
The Royal Australian Navy is preparing to update its Navy Information Management System (NIMS) and is looking for partners on the five-year undertaking. NIMS is a suite of applications developed by the navy to help it gather and manipulate a range of classified and sensitive business intelligence an
The U.S. Navy has sent three warships off the coast of Yemen after a UAE Navy-operated vessel was hit by missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi fighters in the Bab al-Mandab strait on Saturday. According to a report by Fox News, guided-missile destroyers USS Mason and USS Nitze were dispatched together wi
Work on upgrades to the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth-based Type 23 frigate, HMS Westminster, have been completed at Portsmouth Naval Base, UK. The multi-million pound refit on the 24-year-old Duke Class frigate has followed several busy years of deployments across the globe and includes upgrades to weapo
