Vessels

Davie secures $11.3B contract for Canada's six icebreakers

Keel laid for Brazilian Navy’s fourth Tamandaré-class frigate

MCWL accepts first Ancillary Surface Craft prototype

Trump opens doors to foreign navy shipbuilding, seeks return to steam catapults on carriers

Canadian Coast Guard adds new search and rescue lifeboat to its fleet

USS John F. Kennedy starts acceptance sea trials

BAE Systems nets $150M contract for USS Boxer modernization

HII’s Watcher USV completes US Marine Corps test program

HII has completed a US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) prototype program for the Watcher small unmanned surface vessel (sUSV), demonstrating the...

Saronic puts first Marauder MUSV through testing at Port of Gulfport

Saronic has expanded its operations to Gulfport, Mississippi, establishing a new site at the Port of Gulfport to test and commission its Marauder...

CBO: US Navy’s Trump-class battleship program could cost $275B

The US Navy’s planned fleet of nuclear-powered guided missile battleships could cost about $275 billion through 2056, according to a new...

Blue Water Autonomy wins spot on US Navy’s $40M ocean mapping contract

Boston-based technology and shipbuilding company Blue Water Autonomy has been selected for a multiple-award contract by the US Naval...

US Navy's newest guided missile destroyer christened

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) has christened the future USS William Charette (DDG 130), the US Navy's newest guided missile destroyer...

US Navy expands Saildrone Voyager missions following major cocaine seizure

The US Navy has expanded the deployment of Saildrone's Voyager unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) after the platforms helped enable the...

US Navy to convert 19 Virginia-class submarines into guided-missile SSGNs

The US Navy has decided that 19 future Virginia-class submarines equipped with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) will be reclassified as...