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BAE Systems awarded $24.6M for post-shakedown availability for Freedom-class ship
Feb 14, 2020 (UPI)
A post-shakedown availability takes place in a period of about 16 weeks between the transfer of a ship to the Navy and the shipbuilding conversion date. Freedom...
Navy receives USS St. Louis at shipyard ceremony in Wisconsin
Feb 07, 2020 (UPI)
The St. Louis is the 10th Freedom-variant littoral combat ship designed and built by an industry team at FMM, led by Lockheed Martin, which delivered the vessel...
Lockheed, Fincantieri deliver USS St. Louis LCS to U.S. Navy
Feb 06, 2020 (UPI)
St. Louis is the 10th Freedom-class ship, and the 19th littoral combat ship of 34 planned by the Navy. Independence-class LCS vessels are also underway. "With L...
USS Little Rock departs on maiden voyage to Central America
Feb 06, 2020 (UPI)
The Freedom-variant ship will operate in support of Campaign Martillo, launched in 2012, which targets illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along Centra...
Leidos nabs $7.7 billion deal to provide network support to Navy
Feb 05, 2020 (UPI)
According to the contract announcement, Leidos will provide base network services that that are currently under the Next Generation Enterprise Networks Contract...
40 companies net up to $982.1 million for Navy's drone vessel program
Feb 05, 2020 (UPI)
Unmanned surface vehicles are boats that operate on the surface of the water without a crew. Historically USVs have been used for minesweeping applications and ...
USS Ford completes 16-day compatibility testing exercise
Feb 05, 2020 (UPI)
During the compatibility test, which began Jan. 16 and lasted 16 days, the crew launched and recovered 211 aircraft, according to the Navy. "There are so many f...
Audit finds unaddressed training deficiencies on Burke-class destroyers
Feb 04, 2020 (UPI)
According to the Department of Defense Inspector General, investigators -- who examined Navy readiness assessments and ships' waivers from readiness requirement...
Northrop Grumman to integrate sonar system onto L3Harris unmanned undersea vehicle
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
The uSAS is a Low-SWaP (size, weight and power), high-performance interferometric synthetic aperture sonar that enables longer sorties and higher area coverage ...
USS Fitzgerald returns to sea for testing after 2017 collision
Feb 03, 2020 (UPI)
The guided-missile destroyer departed the Pascagoula, Miss., repair facilities of Huntington Ingalls Industries early Monday for a demonstration of its capabili...
BAE Systems nets two C5ISR contracts with US Navy
Feb 03, 2020 (UPI)
Both contracts are with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division of the Naval Air Systems Command, which supports research, development, test, evaluation,...
Lockheed nabs $185M and Northrup Grumman $15M for Navy's SEWIP program
Jan 29, 2020 (UPI)
The contract funds a one-year period but includes options that could extend the contract four additional years, for a potential cumulative value of $812 million...
Northrup Grumman awarded $15.8M for SEWIP support
Jan 29, 2020 (UPI)
The deal modifies an earlier contract, originally issued in 2015, to support SEWIP Block 3 system units. The total value of the contract, if all options are exe...
Huntington Ingalls awarded ISR contract for up to $954M
Jan 24, 2020 (UPI)
The task order, which has a base period of one year with four option years, has a potential value of $954 million, according to Huntington Ingalls. "Critical re...
Norfolk Naval Shipyard breaks ground on $200M dry dock renovation
Jan 24, 2020 (UPI)
The renovation is expected to cost $200 million and span nearly three years, the branch said in a press release. It's intended to meet the Navy's needs for subm...
First woman enters Japan's submarine academy
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
Saki Takenouchi, 26, entered the academy in a western region of Hiroshima along with about 20 other men, after the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force overturned ...
Re-enlistment numbers down in 2019, but not by much, Navy says
Jan 21, 2020 (UPI)
Overall retention of eligible sailors was 74 percent in Fiscal Year 2019, a dip from 78 percent from Fiscal Year 2018. The Navy's numbers are broken up by zones...
Navy names future aircraft carrier after Doris Miller at MLK Day ceremony
Jan 21, 2020 (UPI)
The Monday ceremony took place at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, where on the morning of the 1941 attack that propelled the United States to enter World War II, a third...
German firms contest Dutch group's warship contract
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
The 5.3-billion-euro ($5.9-billion) deal to build at least four multi-purpose MKS 180 combat ships is the biggest contract in German naval history. "We have ser...
Navy to name Ford-class aircraft carrier in honor of black Pearl Harbor hero
Jan 19, 2020 (UPI)
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser broke the news Friday that the branch was expected to announce the vessel's name at a Monday ceremony in honor of Martin Luther Kin...
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