The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced today that the Government of Canada has awarded a contract for an Interdepartmental Maritime Integrated Command, Control and Communications (IMIC3) system to Thales Ca
A Freedom-class littoral combat ship — a small warship that is designed to patrol close to shorelines — will be named the USS Detroit in h… (freep) [mappress] Source: freep,March 21, 2011;
About 1,000 sailors and aircraft that are part of an aircraft carrier wing based in Japan have started moving to Andersen Air Force Base, th… (guampdn) [mappress] Source: guampdn,March 21, 2011;
The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems a £22.5m, seven-year contract to support the Royal Navy’s Submarine and Mine Warfare Command… By James Thompson (independend) [mappress] Source: independend,March 21, 2011;
France on Sunday sent its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to Libya to bolster the West’s air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces… (indiatimes) [mappress] Source: indiatimes,March 20, 2011;
On Wednesday 9 March 2011 HMAS Toowomba (Commander Andrew Quinn) successfully completed Work Up Progress Evaluation or WUPE (Pronounced WUPPIE). It sounds innocuous enough but it is actually a very detailed assessment of the ship’s capabilities. The assessment is part of the preparedness training an
The Department of the Navy announced that it is now in a position to support Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NGC) spin-off of its shipbuilding business. The Navy finds Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) responsible for award of amphibious transport dock ship LPD 26 and guided missile destroyer
The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way home. And so are the destroyers USS Momsen and the USS Shoup… By Gale Fiege (heraldnet) [mappress] Source: heraldnet, March 18, 2011;
Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker hijacked in November after payment of a ransom of $2m, Tunisia’s transport ministry announced… (news24) [mappress] Source: news24,March 17, 2011
Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions company, has been awarded a $200 million delivery order to provide prof… (alionscience) [mappress] Source: alionscience,March 17, 2011
ACI Technologies, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., is being awarded $29,270,383 increased funding to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee task order #0003 under existing contract (N00014-06-D-0090) to develop an open architecture radar that meets the Navy’s current Littoral Combat Ship requirement for a l
