Defence companies Babcock and HII have combined forces in Australia, working together to support critical capability requirements for the once-in-a-generation AUKUS nuclear submarine program.
Defence company Thales has been awarded an in-service support contract for the Canadian Navy’s minor warships and auxiliary vessels.
Austal USA has been awarded a $91 million fixed-price incentive and firm-fixed-price type contract for the construction of three Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1700 class craft.
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), the 11th ship of its class, was decommissioned after more than 35 years of naval service during a ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, on 1 September.
Irving Shipbuilding has delivered HMCS William Hall, Canadian Navy’s fourth Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) in the new DeWolf class.
The US Navy has christen the Navajo-class towing, salvage, and rescue ship, the future USNS Navajo (T-ATS 6).
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a $154.8 million contract modification for the modernization of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000).
The U.S. Navy awarded Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), a $2.7 billion contract to build and deliver 35 additional CH-53K helicopters, the largest procurement to date for this multi-mission aircraft.
Davit provider Vestdavit has been awarded a major contract to supply davits for six US Navy’s oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO.
The official keel laying of the sixth Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the future HMCS Robert Hampton Gray, took place at Halifax shipyard on 21 August.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the US Navy’s third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128).
Irving Shipbuilding has cut steel for the seventh Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the first of two for the Canadian Coast Guard’s fleet.
The keel for the future USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO 209), the Navy’s 5th John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler, was laid at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company’s (GD NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego, on 8 August. A keel laying is the recognition of the start of a ship’s construction
US Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced today that a future Navajo-class towing, salvage, and rescue (T-ATS) ship will be named in honor of Solomon Atkinson, a pioneering Navy SEAL.
