General Dynamics Electric Boat was recently awarded three U.S. Navy contracts totaling $4.6 billion to design and develop the next-generation strategic deterrent submarine, and to continue construction and purchasing of materials for Virginia-class attack submarines. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. Under a five-year, $1.85 billion Ohio Replacement Program contract, Electric [...]
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Huntington Ingalls Industries, its AMSEC LLC subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The contract is in support of design, acquisition, production, integration, testing, installation and configuration management of certified C5ISR capabilities (command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), with a specific [...]
The Iraqi navy and the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command marked the delivery of two 60-meter Offshore Support Vessels (OSV 1/ OSV 2) to the Iraqi navy in a ceremony at the Umm Qasr naval facility, Dec. 20. RiverHawk Fast Sea Frames is the prime contractor for the OSV procurement, with Gulf Island Marine [...]
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, two contracts in support of the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer program. Bath Iron Works is the lead shipyard and design agent for the class. The first contract, valued at $28.3 million, is for lead yard services for [...]
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Raytheon Company’s Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT), which will be installed on more than 300 U.S. Navy ships, subs and shore stations, has successfully completed a Full Rate Production (FRP) review by the Navy. The review included a report that determined NMT was both operationally suitable and operationally effective, and further recommended the continued fleet introduction [...]
Aerospace engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock completed surface ship testing in the subsonic wind tunnel (SWT), Nov. 29, collecting data to improve the aerodynamics of current and future ship designs. When a ship is underway, the above-waterline structure experiences aerodynamic effects due to the wind which impacts the ship’s performance, particularly in [...]
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Huntington Ingalls Industries, its Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been awarded a $54 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for life-cycle engineering and support services on the U.S. Navy’s USS San Antonio (LPD 17) class of amphibious transport docks. This is the third of four annual options associated with a base contract awarded in February 2010. “Our extensive post-delivery [...]
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Huntington Ingalls Industries, its Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has delivered the amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24) to the U.S. Navy. Arlington is the eighth ship in the LPD 17 class of ships that Ingalls has delivered to the Navy. “The delivery of LPD 24 caps an outstanding year in our amphibious shipbuilding programs,” said Ingalls’ [...]
US Senator Susan Collins, a senior member of both the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and a member of the Armed Services Committee, on November 14, announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded Reed and Reed Inc., of Woolwich, a firm-fixed-price contract in the amount of $13,232,500 for structural stabilization and repairs at Berth 1, 2A [...]
A Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Detroit. The event was part of a time-honored keel laying ceremony that took place at the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard in Wisconsin. The Lockheed Martin LCS team is building the futuristic Freedom-variant LCS for [...]
