A US Navy team led by NUWC Division Newport staff demonstrated an end-to-end intelligence preparation of the operational environment (IPOE) mission with the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility on 21 July.
American shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has informed that its Newport News Shipbuilding division achieved a significant milestone in the construction of Virginia-class submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798).
The US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) departed Naval Station Norfolk for deployment on 8 August.
The US Navy has hired six defense companies for continued studies of a large unmanned surface vessel (USV) design.
A “first-of-its-kind” detect and avoidance system called Guardian has proved it will make defense aviation’s manned/unmanned teaming safer during its first flight test at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) headquarters on 28 July.
The US Navy has decommissioned USS Vella Gulf (CG 72), a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, after 29 years of service.
The world’s largest international maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 concluded on 4 August following more than a month of realistic, relevant combined operations training conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.
General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, has received $1.4 billion in US Navy contract modifications for the construction of a sixth expeditionary sea base ship (ESB 8) and two additional John Lewis-class fleet oilers (T-AO 211 and 212).
US Navy’s lead Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has completed the combat systems operational readiness exercise (CSORE).
US-based shipbuilder Bollinger Shipyards has delivered a new fast response cutter, USCGC William Chadwick, to the US Coast Guard.
The US Navy has delivered the first of three Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) CN-235 military transport aircraft converted to a maritime patrol platform.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $220 million to provide propulsion valves, pumps and advanced instrumentation and control systems for the US Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers.
Royal Australian Navy’s lead Canberra-class landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra has sailed the waters around Hawaii conducting docking operations with US Marine Corps’ (USMC) MV-22B Osprey aircraft.
Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 2 and the US Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) augmented by Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) conducted joint maritime and air defence exercises on July 24 while operating in the Mediterranean Sea.
