American defence firm Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract modification to a previously awarded advanced acquisition contract for the procurement of 129 F-35 aircraft in Lot 15.
The US Navy has conducted the sea phase of exercise Garuda Shield 2022 in the Natuna Sea with the Indonesian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
American defence company General Dynamics Electric Boat has been awarded a contract modification for engineering, technical, design agent, and planning yard support for US Navy’s operational strategic and attack submarines.
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.
