The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3
A 45-foot Response Boat – Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Cape May, the US, medevaced a 37-year-old engineer from a tanker ship approximately 23 miles east of Cape May Monday. Personnel aboard the Angistri, a 600-foot tanker, contacted Coast Guard watchstanders at approximately 8:15 p.m. Monday
The Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous began escorting the Carnival Triumph cruise ship Monday night after tugs began towing it toward Mobile, Ala., which is approximately 270 miles north. The Triumph reported a fire in the aft engine room Sunday morning, which was extinguished by the ships fire control sy
Colonna’s Shipyard Inc., a full service ship repair facility located in the Port of Norfolk, Virginia, is being awarded a $17.9 million fixed-price contract by US Navy for a dry-docking phased maintenance availability on the USS Monsoon (PC 4) for the accomplishment of miscellaneous structural, elec
Al Seer Marine, LLC and 5G International Inc. announce new unmanned surface vessels (USVs). Russell Bartlett, Al Seer Operations Manager and Robert Murphy, CEO of 5G International Inc. have formed a strategic alliance for the production of an integrated fleet of new marine robots. Eclipse Class vess
Drydocks World, the leading maritime service provider, will showcase its extensive portfolio of services and capabilities for the Defence sector at NAVDEX, the dedicated Naval Defense and Maritime Security area at IDEX, the region’s leading Defence Exhibition organised at ADNEC, Abu Dhabi, during Fe
The following video shows the capabilities of the Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit System REMUS 600 AUV, designed through funding from the Office of Naval Research to support the US Navy’s growing need for operations requiring extended endurance, increased payload capacity, and greater operating
The Engineering Department aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) is preparing for an Afloat Training Group (ATG) light off assessment (LOA) for its two main boilers scheduled to take place at the end of April 2013. ATG will assess both propulsion plants, checking everything from fuel q
Deploying for the first time, guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) departed Feb. 11 for the U.S. 6th Fleet Area of Responsibility to participate in Ballistic Missile Defense escort operations. Not only is this the ship’s maiden deployment, it is also the first deployment for a large number
Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) is hosting exercise Iron Fist 2013 (IF13) from Feb. 4-15 with elements from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) while underway off the coast of California. During exercise IF13, a combined total of more
After a 550-mile journey from the south coast, the forward island of HMS Queen Elizabeth has safely arrived in Rosyth to join the rest of the carrier. The iconic 700-tonne structure passed beneath the Forth Rail Bridge at mid-day yesterday and is now in the dockyard, where it will be raised on to th
The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group (JCSCSG) got underway Feb. 5, following a four-day port visit to Jebel Ali, Dubai. During the port visit, Sailors experienced the local culture by participating in a variety of tours sponsored by Stennis’ Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) division. In add
The US Coast Guard is maintaining communication with a cruise ship that has lost main propulsion and is dead in the water approximately 136 miles north of Merida, Mexico Sunday. The Carnival cruise ship Triumph reported a fire in the aft engine room. Cruise ship personnel isolated and extinguished t
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (B&W NOG) has received two U.S. Naval Reactors Program contracts totaling approximately $36 million. The larger of the two awards, valued at approximately $32 million, is for the as
