The US Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his UK counterpart Royal Navy First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Adm. Sir Ben Key at the Pentagon on 15 February to discuss cooperation between the two navies.
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to service electro-optical sensor systems used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
The US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has issued a request for information (RFI) on behalf of the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems Above Water Sensors directorate seeking industry inputs and interest for future development and production phases for future X-band radar (
Infrastructure consulting firm AECOM, has revealed that its joint venture with Michael Baker International has been awarded a contract to provide architecture and engineering services in support of environmental compliance programs with the US Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC).
According to the latest report to US Congress on Gerald R. Ford Carrier Program, the lead ship of the new Ford-class USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to be deployed by fall 2022.
US Navy’s Commander Billie Farrell relieved Commander John Benda as commanding officer of USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, during a change of command ceremony on 21 January.
Following 59 years of dedicated service, the Canadian Coast Guard’s oldest serving vessel, CCGS Hudson, has been decommissioned.
The US Marine Corps has awarded British defense company BAE Systems a contract modification for the second lot of full-rate production of amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs).
Florida-based company Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has revealed the completion of a new aluminum superstructure fabrication and assembly hall at its Nelson Street Shipyard.
USS Kitty Hawk, the US Navy’s last conventional-powered aircraft carrier, has embarked on its final voyage from Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton to a ship-breaking facility in Texas.
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has achieved the Aegis light-off milestone on the US Navy’s first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG125).
UK’s arms, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems has received a $1.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the maintenance and modernization of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57).
US shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has launched the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) for the US Navy.
Underwater explosion (UNDEX) shock testing on the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS), a component of the US Navy’s suite of mine countermeasure technologies, has been conducted, the Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) informed.
