UK’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon on March 3 announced additional £642 (approx. $907.2M) million of investment for the Successor submarine programme. New parts and facilities, as well as further design work will be funded by the latest investment which will help to progress work on the four new
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded BAE Systems an $11 million contract to develop electronic warfare (EW) technology that will detect, locate, and identify sources of radio frequency signals. Known as the Full-Spectrum Staring Receiver (FSSR), this technology will enable near-instan
U.S. Navy has awarded Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of the American shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, a contract to assist with planning for the refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). The $185.2 million contract option funds the
Norfolk Naval Shipyard completed the engineered refueling overhaul (ERO) on U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine has USS Maryland (SSBN 738) on February 24. EROs are complex, major shipyard availabilities that extend a submarine’s service life. In addition to being refueled, The U.S. N
U.S. Navy’s fifth littoral combat ship, USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), which was towed to port after breaking down, arrived at the BAE Systems shipyard February 19. Milwaukee, left Norfolk February 17, after having completed initial engineering repairs on her propulsion system. An investigation has been ong
British multinational defence company BAE Systems in its preliminary full year report announced it would reduce workforce in Norfolk, Virginia as the U.S. Navy is redeploying ships to the west under its Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025. Under the rebalance which aims to reorient the U.S. foreign policy t
Naval Today recently reported about the U.S. Navy’s fifth Nimitz-class destroyer, USS Abraham Lincoln, performing a “no-load” test firing of one of its aircraft catapults during its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) process. The American shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, whose Newport N
U.S. Navy’s Southwest Regional Maintenance Center has awarded BAE Systems a $52,125,928 contract for modification work on USS Rushmore. This contract is an action modification to a previously awarded contract for fiscal 2016 phased maintenance availability which includes the planning and execution o
American-based technology company Boeing has delivered a fuel cell energy storage system to the U.S. Navy for testing after it spent 16 months on its development. The Navy will now test the cell to determine its ability to support the energy needs of military and commercial customers. According to B
General Dynamics Mission Systems announced February 2 that the U.S. Navy recently awarded a follow-on, omnibus contract that continues work on fire control systems and subsystems aboard U.S. Navy and United Kingdom’s Royal Navy nuclear ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN). According to General Dynami
Kongsberg Maritime announced February 1 that it has been selected by L-3 MAPPS to provide the CCTV system for the Royal Canadian Navy’s new class of Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS). L-3 MAPPS is one of the suppliers to Irving Shipbuilding, a prime contractor delivering the AOPS vessels as a part
U.S. Coast Guard’s newest fast response cutter, the USCGC Joseph Napier, was commissioned January 29 in a ceremony in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cutter Joseph Napier will join the fleet of Coast Guard fast response cutters stationed in San Juan and heighten the Coast Guard’s offshore presence in the Car
Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington has received an order of around $2.5 billion to deliver another 20 aircraft to the U.S. Navy and the Government of Australia. The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command has awarded the American manufacturer of aircraft, rockets and satellites a $2,469,582,995 modificat
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that the Navy will christen its newest Freedom variant littoral combat ship, USS Sioux City (LCS 11), on Saturday, January 30 at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. The Sioux City, designated LCS 11, honors its namesake city in the state of I
