Kollmorgen Corp., Electro-Optical Division, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $16,200,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-6293) to exercise cost-type options for the modification of materials and travel associated with engineering services for the photonics mast program
The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) hosted seven Brazilian and Mexican navy sailors during the Atlantic (LANT) phase of UNITAS 52, April 23. UNITAS 52 LANT is a three-week exercise running from April 15 to May 9 and includes navies from Brazil, United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships arrived in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, after completing the first half of the Atlantic (LANT) phase of UNITAS 52 with ships from Brazil and Mexico, April 26. Guided-missile destroyer Nitze (DDG 94), guided-missile frigates USS Thach (FFG 43), and USS BOONE (FFG 28), and U
The head of the National Security Bureau (NSB) yesterday said China’s first aircraft carrier would likely start training exercises at sea to… By Rich Chang (taipeitimes) [mappress] Source: taipeitimes, April 26, 2011;
On the morning of the 20th April the helicopter from the German frigate NIEDERSACHSEN discovered a Yemeni Dhow with complete engine failure… (eunavfor) [mappress] Source: eunavfor, April 26, 2011;
Following extensive product development and factory and sea trials, Kongsberg Maritime have successfully delivered the first of its new generation of innovative ultra low light cameras to the US Navy, via Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), for use within the existing Kongsberg supplied Helicopter O
More than 2,500 U.S. Navy Sailors, Marines, and Coastguardsmen arrived in Port Everglades, Fla., to participate in the U.S. Navy’s largest community outreach program in South Florida, April 25. Service members from visiting ships USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), USS Ross (DDG 71), USS Normandy (CG 60) and USS
Raytheon Company delivered the first Standard Missile-6 production round to the U.S. Navy. “Five years ago, Raytheon promised the U.S. Navy that SM-6 would be delivered in March 2011, and we delivered on that promise,” said Frank Wyatt, vice president of Raytheon’s Air and Missile Defense Systems pr
With the release of NAVADMIN 142/11, April 22, the Navy has extended the Enlisted Early Transition Program (EETP) to Sept. 30, 2013. Due to the Navy’s unprecedented retention and successful recruitment, Sailors are being offered a voluntary early separation option. “Our end strength and our over-man
Commander Submarines, Allied Naval Forces South, met with the commander of the French navy’s submarine forces April 21, on board Naval Support Activity, Naples. The meeting between Rear Adm. James G. Foggo III and French navy Vice Adm. Georges-Henri Mouton was part of a two-day visit to strengthen t
U.S. Navy investigators are continuing to re-examine the work done by contractors on the amphibious ship San Antonio (LPD 17) in hopes the… By Christopher P (klipinghankam) [mappress] Source: klipinghankam, April 22, 2011;
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead visited Russia to meet with members of the Russian Navy and further improve international maritime relationships, April 13-18. As the first CNO to visit Russia since 1996, Roughead met with his counterpart, Adm. Vladimir Vysotskiy, commander-in-chie
Booz Allen Hamilton announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) with cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration. The multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract in support of
A major maritime exercise recently ended with a bang, when minehunter vessels participating in Exercise Joint Warrior 2011, hosted by the Royal Navy off the northwest coast of Scotland, encountered two pieces of Second World War ordnance. The Mine Counter-Measures (MCM) force, consisting of minehunt