KBR secures $140M task orders for engineering, rapid prototyping efforts for...
KBR has been awarded two recompete task orders totaling $140 million to support engineering and rapid prototyping efforts for the US Navy. The U.S. Air Force Installation Contracting Agency (AFICA)...
View ArticleMQ-8C Fire Scout begins flight tests with AN/ZPY-8 radar
The US Navy, with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation, commenced flight testing of the MQ-8C Fire Scout equipped with the Leonardo AN/ZPY-8 radar. “The AN/ZPY-8 radar significantly increases Fire...
View ArticleVestdavit secures boat handling performance for Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship
Boat launch and recovery systems supplier Vestdavit is bringing new fast craft handling capability to HMS Protector (A173), the only Royal Navy ship dedicated to Antarctic patrol & survey duties....
View ArticleUS Navy awards $3.1B in contracts to Boeing for cruise missile systems
The US Navy has awarded Boeing a combined $3.1 billion in contracts for Harpoon and standoff land attack missile expanded response (SLAM ER) weapon systems in support of Foreign Military Sales (FMS)....
View ArticlePalfinger to provide cranes for Australian Guardian-class patrol boats
Palfinger’s marine business and local sales and service partner Palfinger Australia has been contracted by Austal to supply cranes for new Guardian-class patrol boats. By 2023, a total of 21 PK15500M...
View ArticleUS Navy’s 1st Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer receives deckhouse
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division achieved a substantial milestone on May 20 with the successful lift of the aft deckhouse onto US Navy’s future guided missile...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman builds, tests very lightweight torpedo for US Navy
Northrop Grumman has successfully manufactured and tested the first industry-built very lightweight torpedo (VLWT) for the US Navy. The prototype torpedo is based on the Pennsylvania State University...
View ArticleDutch Navy’s support ship Pelikaan to undergo mid-life electrical refit
Alewijnse Marine is undertaking the assessment for the upcoming electrical refit that will be an important part of the mid-life refit of the Royal Netherlands Navy’s logistic support vessel HNLMS...
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Trinidad & Tobago patrol boats to get BAE Systems RIBs
BAE Systems has sold six Pacific 24 rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) to Australia’s Austal for new Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard ships. The RIBs, built and customised in Portsmouth, UK, are being...
View ArticleExploring potentials of lidar technology: NSWC PHD, NIWC Pacific team up on...
A team from US Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) recently worked with Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific on the first full-ship scan of an LPD-class...
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