US maritime autonomy company Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas, as the future home of Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard backed by an investment of more than $3 billion that is designed to expand US shipbuilding capacity and accelerate the production of autonomous maritime systems.
OSI Maritime Systems (OSI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with German shipbuilding major TKMS to explore opportunities in systems integration and maritime capability development for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).
American tech company Castellion has been awarded a contract from the US Navy for the production and delivery of 50 Blackbeard early operational capability pre-production prototypes and associated storage and shipping containers.
German naval shipbuilder TKMS has awarded Valbruna ASW an initial order for approximately 70 tonnes of non-magnetic submarine steel as part of efforts to support the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).
Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy KSS-III submarine, known as Dosan Ahn Changho, has arrived at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt, just outside of Victoria, British Columbia.
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works has marked the start of fabrication for the future USS J. William Middendorf (DDG 138), the latest US Navy Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the company’s Maine shipyard.
Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a contract from the Office of Naval Research to further develop advanced radar software for next-generation naval radars.
Nearly 4,500 sailors aboard the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), returned to Naval Station Norfolk on May 16 after an 11-month deployment across the US 4th, 5th, and 6th Fleets.
HII, in partnership with MetalCraft Marine, has delivered and sea-tested two unmanned surface vessels (USVs) awarded under a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract for smaller-form-factor autonomous boat prototypes for the US Marine Corps.
The US Navy’s oldest active aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz (CVN-68), has completed one of its final major overseas deployments after taking part in multinational naval exercises under the Southern Seas 2026 mission.
The Canadian Coast Guard has welcomed Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Naalak Nappaaluk to its fleet at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
The US Navy is steadily moving shipboard laser weapons from experimental programs into fleet operations, as the service establishes a dedicated training pipeline for sailors at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)’s Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory (DESIL).
Canada, Finland and the United States have advanced cooperation under the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE Pact), reinforcing efforts to expand Arctic and polar icebreaker production capacity.
The Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) has departed HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division en route to its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia, ahead of its future commissioning in Whittier, Alaska.
