The Brazilian Navy Niterói-class training frigate BS Brasil (U27) arrived at Naval Station Mayport during its midshipmen training course. The frigate has approximately 450 personnel onboard and 200 are midshipmen from the Brasilian Naval and Merchant Marine Academies. They embarked on a Midshipmen T
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $36.7 million contract for the repair and maintenance of the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18). BAE Systems said New Orleans would be the first ship to be repaired in the company’s new drydock in San Diego. The contract includes options t
U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN 778) returned to its homeport at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, from a regularly scheduled deployment. Under the command of Cmdr. Jesse Weed, New Hampshire carried out a deployment to the U.S. European C
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded American defense company Leidos a $8.5 million contract modification to continue supporting the tests of the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program. Under the contract, Leidos will deliver i
The U.S. Navy’s newest Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Montgomery has managed to reach her new homeport after encountering a string of obstacles en route. The obstacles manifested themselves in engineering failures and collisions. USS Montgomery started her journey to her designated home
The U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus named the DGG 121 destroyer after the first African-American Marine Corps general officer Frank E. Petersen Jr. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named during a Nov. 9 ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. In 1950, two years
The new U.S. stealth jet, F-35B Lightning II, completed a new milestone during its third and final developmental test phase (DT-III) aboard USS America (LHA 6) by completing the first power module and engine swap at sea in the ship’s hangar bay. Mark Schroeder, the maintenance and logistics departme
Secretary of the U.S. Navy Ray Mabus announced November 9 that the name of the next America-class amphibious assault ship will be USS Bougainville (LHA 8). LHA-8 will be the second ship to be named after Bougainville, an island in the northern Solomons, which was the location of a World War II campa
Six ships from four navies arrived at Garden Island, Sydney in early November, creating a buzz on the harbour. The visits came ahead of the Royal New Zealand International Naval Review, which will take place in Auckland later this month. Indonesian Navy ship KRI Banda Aceh, a Makassar class landing
A Mark VI patrol boat from the Coastal Riverine Squadron (CRS) 3 joined USS Carl Vinson’s (CVN 70) composite unit training exercise (COMPTUEX) on November 4, marking a first for the patrol boat. Operating off the California coast, the MK VI crew assisted with the COMPTUEX, which aligned with the squ
The U.S. Marines Corps announced that sailors and marines would soon receive updated flame resistant uniforms, making them less susceptible to severe burns. The Enhanced Fire Resistant Combat Ensemble is the latest upgrade to the Corps’ flame resistant combat ensemble inventory. The update includes
Pacific partnership staff and partner nation representatives met in Singapore, November 8-10, for a planning conference to finalize details for the upcoming mission, slated for the spring of 2017. In its 12th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and di
Having spent last Antarctic summer celebrating the deeds of one British polar hero, the crew of Royal Navy icebreaker HMS Protector have opened the 2016-17 survey season honouring his rival. A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia in a makeshift lifeboat – th
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems a $21.3 million contract modification exercising an option for the production of Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (A-RCI) Technical Insertion – 16 (TI-16) systems and pre-cable kits and production support. T
